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PROGRAM
Welcome to the First Annual Wharton Undergraduate Agribusiness Forum - Trailblazers in AgriBusiness. We are excited to bring together a world-class program of some of the top leaders and change makers in the Agribusiness World. Join us to learn more about macro level trends, the latest technology, and the increasing importance of sustainability in the world of Agribusiness.
12:30-1:20pm ET
AgriBusiness in the World Today
We will be hearing from top policy makers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and financiers in the world of agribusiness as they discuss the top macroeconomic trends affecting the agribusiness industry today
Panelists
Ron Hovsepian
CEO & Board Director
Indigo Ag
Moderator
Athanasios Tsaftaris
Former Greek Minister of Agriculture
Roland Fumasi
North American Regional Head of RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness
Rabobank
Aaron Rudberg
Managing Director & COO
S2G Ventures
Witold Henisz
Deloitte & Touche Professor of Management
The Wharton School
1:20-2:00pm ET
Founding the Agriculture Skies
We bring the top Agri-tech CEOs and Founders to discuss one of the fastest growing areas in agri-tech - Drone enhanced agriculture. Hear as each of these founders talk about this rapidly growing space and how their companies are contributing to the future of agri-tech.
Panelists
Michael Ott
CEO & Founder
Rantizo
Moderator
Nathan Moses
CEO & Founder
M3 Agriculture
Matt Koball
CEO & Founder
Dropcopter
Natalie Carlson
Assistant Professor of Management
The Wharton School
2:15-3:00pm ET
Keynote - Stacy Kimmel
We are welcoming one of the world's top leaders in AgTech R&D who is leading one of the world's most successful aeroponics companies through the next technological era. We will be hearing her journey to AeroFarms and she will be sharing her unique perspective on the role of AgriBusiness and aeroponics in solving some of the world's biggest problems
Moderator
Stacy Kimmel, PhD
VP of R&D
AeroFarms
Jim Pantaleo
Indoor Vertical Farm Operator / Advisor
3:00-3:50pm ET
From the Field to the Table
This phenomenal panel brings together key entrepreneurs from each part of the agriculture supply chain, from those improving the lives and efficiency or farmers and growers, to those optimizing the supply chain and distribution process, to those making the food we eat better and more healthy. It will be an insightful conversation from perspectives up and down the supply chain.
Panelists
Christopher Belnap
CEO
Resilient Biotics
Moderator
Anastasia Volkova
CEO
Regrow
Tom Adams
CEO
Pairwise
Kavaneet Dhami
CEO
KDHI Agriculture
Awesome Moderator
Coming Soon
SPEAKERS
Meet our trailblazers.
We are proud to welcome some of the world's top executives, founders, leaders, thinkers and visionaries who are actively shaping the future of AgriBusiness.
COMPANIES
The vehicles of our trailblazers.
Learn more and network about some of the most innovative, most trending and most impactful companies in the world.
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