How to Fuel Food’s Future

October 6, 2022

How digital agriculture can sustainably fuel food’s future.

Our global food system uses significant energy to feed the world, powering everything from essential fertilisers to machinery required for food’s growth and distribution.

Production agriculture has been on an ongoing evolution of optimization towards increased productivity and sustainability. Increasing pressures from climate policy, rising energy prices and inflation have led us to another critical inflection point. While some pressures may alleviate, it’s also now clear that the food system is being dramatically impacted by machines, software and new autonomous tech.

Can this new tech help the food system promote sustainability, while also managing cost pressures? And how can we attract the talent the food system needs to put this tech to work?

Join CityAge and EMILI on October 6 for a look at how digital agriculture can sustainably fuel food’s future.

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SPEAKERS & GUESTS

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Matthew Hudson

Co-Director, Center for Digital Agriculture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Liz Hunt

Head, Sustainable & Responsible Business, Syngenta

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Gary Lewis

President, Bio-Agtive Emissions Farming

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Alex Smith

Senior Food & Agriculture Analyst, The Breakthrough Institute

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Warren Bills

CCCCHead of Marketing & Commercialization, Precision AI Inc.

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Kate Skotheim

Ag Stream Manager, Creative Destruction Lab

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Sebastien Boyer

Co-Founder & CEO, FarmWise

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Steve Liang

Founder & CTO, SensorUp

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Misty Tucker

Global Industry Principal Expert, Agriculture, Planet Labs

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Rose Cooperrider

Senior Enablement Consultant, SkyWatch Space Applications

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Sangeeta Lalli

Public Policy Director, TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods

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Hank Venema

CEO & Senior Engineer, Strategic Systems Engineering Inc

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Zahra Alani

Broadcast Meteorologist & Communications Strategist, CityAge Anchor CityAge

PROGRAM

11:30 am

Anchor Welcome & Introduction

11:35 am

11:35am Opening Presentation: Warren Bills, Head of Marketing & Commercialization,
Precision AI

11:45 am

Panel 1: How to Fuel the Future’s Food System
Soaring energy prices, on top of other input costs, are placing pressure on the agricultural sector globally. As the global population heads for 10 billion and we reduce energy inputs, what tools will be most helpful to build efficiencies?

  • Matthew Hudson, Co-Director, Center for Digital Agriculture, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Sebastien Boyer, Co-Founder and CEO, FarmWise
  • Liz Hunt, Head of Sustainable & Responsible Business, Syngenta
  • Panel Host: Alex Smith, Food & Agriculture Analyst, Breakthrough Institute

12:15 pm

Presentation by: Sangeeta Lalli, Public Policy Director, TELUS Agriculture & Consumer Goods

12:30 pm

Fireside Chat: Gary Lewis, President, Bio-Agtive Emissions Farming

12:45 pm

Presentation by: Kate Skotheim, Ag Stream Manager, Creative Destruction Lab

12:50 pm

Panel 2 : How Geospatial + Data Can Grow More Food

The global food system needs to increase yields at the same time as it decreases resources used as inputs. How can the promise of geospatial, precision agriculture, and related data technologies increase how much food our farmers produce?

  • Steve Liang, Founder & CTO, SensorUp
  • Rose Cooperrider, Senior Enablement Consultant, SkyWatch Space Applications
  • Misty Tucker, Global Industry Principal Expert, Agriculture, Planet Labs
  • Host: Hank Venema, CEO, Strategic Systems Engineering Inc
1:30 pm

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