World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit 2020 | ReThink Events | 17 March 2020 | San Francisco Marriott Marquis, 780 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

The World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit focuses on the most disruptive technologies transforming the global food system. 1500+ of the brightest minds in global agriculture meet to find new partnership opportunities and identify the right business models and investment strategies to fast-track innovation to the field. The summit series meets each year in San Francisco, São Paulo and London.

2020 Speakers

Jerome Konecsni
Director General, Abazyne Bioscience

Dani Harari
SVP Strategy & Resources, ADAMA

Louisa Burwood-Taylor
Head of Media & Research for AgFunder and Chief Editor of AgFunderNews

Tim Close
President and CEO, AGI

Taranjeet Singh Bhamra
CEO and Founder, AgNext Technologies

Kevin Helash
CEO, AGRINOS

Stephane Corgie
Founder, Agrynex

Andre Maltz Turkienicz
Partner at AgTrace, Brazil

Adam Anders
Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Anterra Capital

Matthew Plavan
President, Chief Executive Officer and board member of Arcadia Biosciences

Iddo Geltner
CEO and co-founder, Arugga AI Farming

George Varvarelis
Founder & CEO, Augmenta

Paul Rea
Senior Vice President, Agricultural Solutions

Tobias Menne
Global Digital Unit, BASF

Juergen Huff
Senior Vice President Research and Development Crop Protection

Mike Stern
Executive Leadership Team and as Head of Digital Farming/Climate Corporation for the Crop Science division of Bayer

Matthias Berninger
Senior Vice President, Global Head, Public Affairs & Sustainability, Bayer AG

Vipula Shukla
Research & Development team, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Patrice Selles
Ag and Food Tech Industry

Joseph Zhou
Managing Partner, Bits x Bites

Jorge Heraud
Co-Founder and CEO, Blue River Technology

Jamie Bacher
Cofounder and CEO, Boost Biomes

Jason Keith
Director of Sales, Commercial Vehicle and Off-Highway for Bosch North America

Shara Ticku
CEO and co-founder, C16 Biosciences

Niall Mottram
Leads Cambridge Consultants

James Hallinan
Head Bio Innovation Europe, Cambridge Consultants, UK

Bruno Meireles de Sousa
Cargill

Chris Abbott
CGC Ventures

Pat Christie
Conservis

Frederick Dorey
Cooley

Neal Gutterson
Chief Technology Officer, Corteva Agriscience

Andy Ziolkowski
Managing Director, Cultivian Sandbox and Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Cultivian Ventures

Amanda Donahue-Hansen
Investor and Vice President, Cultivian Sandbox Ventures

Kiersten Stead
Managing Partner, DCVC Bio

Rémi Schmaltz
Decisive Farming

Elizabeth Warham
Lead - Agri-Tech, UK Department for International Trade

Rikin Gandhi
CEO, Digital Green

Howard Chao
Principal, Doon Capital

Robert Saik
CEO, DOT Ready Retail

Soren Bjorn
President, Driscolls, USA

Fayaz Khazi
Chief Executive Officer, Elo Life Systems

Gil Shalev
Senior Roles, Vilmorin & Cie

Rob Dongoski
Lead, EY

Larkin Martin
Chairman, Farm Foundation

Andrew Coppin
Executive Chairman and Managing Director, Farmbot Monitoring Solutions

Charles Baron
Co-Founder & VP of Product, Farmers Business Network

Arama Kukutai
Co-founder and Partner, Finistere Ventures

Kathleen Shelton
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, FMC Corporation

Meredith Ellis
G BAR C RANCH

Brook Porter
Founding Partner, G2VP

Kevin O’Donnell
Sustainability Director for Worldwide Sourcing, General Mills, Inc.

Lila Preston
Partner and Co-Head of the Growth Equity strategy, Generation Investment Management

Jon Entine
Executive Director, Genetic Literacy Project

Patrick Henry
CEO, GroGuru

Steve Kyryk
HTI

Rachel Konrad
CCO, Impossible Foods

Randy Barker
Co-founder & CEO, IN10T

Sara Ahmed Holman
Leads Growth & Partnerships for Innovation Endeavors' Palo Alto office

Al Eisaian
Co-Founder & CEO, Intelinair

Anil Jain
Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Jain Irrigation, USA

Michael Miille
CEO, Joyn Bio

Olga Polunina
Executive Director, J.P. Morgan Investment Banking

Antoine Drevelle
CEO and co-founder, Kapsera

Joel Wipperfurth
Winfield United Technology Managers

Brook Cunningham
Managing Director in Lazard’s Chicago office

Howard-Yana Shapiro
Mars

Klaas Martens
Martens Farm and Lakeview Organic Grains, USA

Ranveer Chandra
Chief Scientist, Azure Global

Claudia Roessler
Director Agriculture, Microsoft Azure Global Engineering

Hadyn Parry
CEO, Oxitec

Susan Mac Cormac
Corporate Partner, MoFo

William Buckner
President and CEO, Noble Research Institute, LLC

Mark Thompson
Executive Vice President, Chief Corporate Development & Strategy Officer, Nutrien

Chuck Magro
President and Chief Executive Officer, Nutrien

Kawtar Benkhraba
OCP Group

A.G Kawamura
Orange County Produce, Llc

Tom Adams
CEO, Pairwise, USA

John Hjelm
Managing Director, Investment Banking, Piper Sandler

Sarah Bloch
Associate Director Research Strategy, PIVOT BIO, USA

Tom Snipes
COO, Plant Response

Phil Erlanger
Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Pontifax AgTech

Daniel Koppel
Co-Founder and CEO, Prospera

Pedro Coelho
CEO, Provivi

Sanjeev Krishnan
Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director, S2G Ventures

Alun James
CTO, Sagentia

Michael Gilbert
CEO and Founder, Semios

Ervin Tu
Managing Partner, SoftBank Investment Advisers

Jeff Housenbold
Softbank Vision Fund

Rodrigo Iafelice Dos Santos
CEO, Solinftec

Tom Green
CEO, Spearhead International

Richard Counsell
Founder and CEO, Stable

Ertharin Cousin
Stanford University

Gusui Wu
Head of Seeds Research, Syngenta

Brett Brohl
Managing Director, Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator

Dheeraj Mehta
Director, Agribusiness investment team

Karn Manhas
CEO and Founder, Terramera

Geoffrey Carr
Science and Technology Editor of “The Economist”

Kim Nicholson
The Mosaic Company

Renée Vassilos
Ag Innovation Director, The Nature Conservancy

David Friedberg
Founder and CEO, The Production Board, USA

Taryn Goodman
Food & Agriculture Sector Lead, The Rise Fund

Abe Hughes
General Manager, Trimble AG Division

Scott Hutchins
Deputy Under Secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research

Adrian Percy
Chief Technology Officer, UPL

Giuseppe Natale
Valagro

Roberta Vinciguerra
Global Product Management Director, Valagro

Trevor Mecham
Vice President of Global Technology & Strategy, Valley Irrigation

David Mead
CEO and Co-Founder, Varigen Biosciences

Hila Cohen
Head of Business Development, United Nations World Food Programme

Jim Hedges
Vice President of Seed Marketing, Winfield United, USA

Nolan Paul
Partner, Yamaha Motor Ventures

Stefan Furnsinn
Senior Vice President, Digital Farming, Yara International

Zach Serber
Co-founder, Zymergen

2020 Partners and Exhibitors

PLATINUM PARTNERS:
• BASF
• Bayer
• Corteva Agriscience
• IBM
• Microsoft
• Nutrien
• Syngenta
• UPL
• Valagro
• Valley
• WinField United

GOLD PARTNERS:
• Adama
• AGI
• Agrinos
• Arcadia
• Cambridge Consultants
• Cargill
• Conservis
• Cooley
• Decisive
• Elo Life Systems
• Equinom
• FMC
• Hti
• In10t
• Intelinair
• Joyn Bio
• Morrison Foerster
• Mosaic
• Nevonex
• OCP
• Pairwise
• Pivot Bio
• Plant Response
• Pontifa AgTech
• Proagrica
• Prospera
• Provivi
• Semios
• Solinftec
• Temasek
• Trimble
• Yamaha
• Yara
• Zymergen

NETWORKING PARTNERS:
• EY
• FBN
• Hightouch

NETWORKING DRINKS PARTNER:
• Nutrien Ag Solutions

COFFEE BREAK PARTNER:
• Lewis & Clark Agrifood

SILVER PARTNERS:
• Alga Energy
• Biotalys
• Boost Biomes
• Groguru
• Segantia
• SenseFly

COUNTRY PARTNERS:
• Department for International Trade
• City of Saskatoon

EXHIBITORS:
• Chaseman Global
• Hologram
• IOWA
• Mica Sense
• Realm Agriculture
• Water Bit

OFFICIAL MEDIA PARTNER:
• Ag Funder

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• Agro Innovation Lab
• Agro Notizie
• Agricultural Retailers Association
• AgTech Insight
• BitsxBites
• CIO Review
• CLSA
• Fresno State
• Future Food Institute
• Iowa AgriTech
• NXTP
• Phytobiomes Alliances
• Sprout
• Startup City
• Successful Farming
• TechStars
• Innovation Accelerator