World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit 2024 | ReThink Events | 19 March 2024 | San Francisco Marriott Marquis, 780 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

This event in San Francisco unites more than 2500 global leaders and pioneering businesses dedicated to advancing and investing in technologies to build a stronger, more resilient agri-food supply chain.

With a focus on harnessing nature-based solutions to meet climate commitments, and successful paths for commercializing biological inputs, next-generation breeding, AI and automation, an outstanding speaking faculty uncovers the innovations and investment propelling new value creation in this sector.

Celebrating its 12th year, this flagship event will transform the Marriott Marquis on March 19-20, 2024 into the epicenter of the agri-food industry for two days of high-level discussion, powerful networking, and deal-making.

Building on the success of our Start-Up Arena, this year’s summit will feature even more founder showcases, interactive breakout sessions and intimate roundtables, alongside a dedicated 1-1 meeting room. Our curated networking environment is designed to ignite inspiration, foster knowledge exchange, and facilitate the critical partnerships essential for future business prosperity.

Program themes for 2024:
• Future-Proofing Food Systems: Agricultural Innovation for Food Security
• Decarbonization: Aligning Climate Commitments Throughout the Value Chain
• Real-Time Decision Agility: Equipment, Engineering and Data Insights
• GenAI-Powered Agriculture: Ethics, Impact, and Challenges
• Unlocking Regenerative Agriculture: Aligning CPGs, Growers and Agribusiness
• Scaling Ag Investment: The Future of VC, PE, and Institutional Funding
• Biologicals in Action: Innovating in Line with Environmental Ambitions
• CRISPR Cultivation: Transforming Agriculture for Climate Resilience
• Embracing Automation: Robotics and the Future of Labor in Fresh Produce
• Supply Chain Impact: Generating Real-Time Insights into the Food System
• Digital Financing in Agriculture: Sustainable Ag’s Solution or a New Conundrum?
• A Blueprint for Impact: Embedding Sustainability into R&D Strategy

2024 Speakers

ADVISORY BOARD:

Adam Anders
Managing Partner, Anterra Capital

Anuj Maheshwari
Managing Director and Head of Agri-Food, Temasek

Bob Reiter
Head of R&D, Bayer Crop Science

Caitlin Walsh
Managing Director, Growth Equity, CPPIB

Cristina Rohr
Managing Director, S2G Ventures

David Babson
Executive Director, Climate Grand Challenges, MIT

Elizabeth Fastiggi
Head of Worldwide Agriculture, Amazon Web Services

Elliott Grant
CEO, Mineral

Ertharin Cousin
Founder & CEO, Food Systems for the Future

Howard-Yana Shapiro
Distinguished Senior Fellow, CIFOR-ICRAFI

Jack A Bobo
Director Food Systems Institute, University of Nottingham

Jess Newman
Senior Director of Ag & Sustainability, McCain

Kiersten Stead
Managing Partner, DCVC Bio

Kim Nicholson
VP Ag Technology & Innovation, The Mosaic Company

Lila Preston
Co-Head, Growth Equity, Generation Investment Management

Mark Brooks
Managing Director, FMC Ventures

Mathias Muller
Director and Biotechnology Strategy Leader, Corteva Agriscience

Matt Marshall
VP, Sustainable Ag & Retail Strategy, Nutrien Ag Solutions

Megan Rock
Chief Sustainability Officer, VP Sustainability & Innovation, CHS

Nolan Paul
Partner, Global AgTech Lead, Yamaha Motor Ventures

Peter Eckes
President of R&D and Regulatory, BASF

Ponsi Trivisvavet
CEO, Inari

Ranveer Chandra
Managing Director, Research for Industry & CTO, Agri-Food, Microsoft

Renée Vassilos
Director of Agriculture Innovation, The Nature Conservancy

Rikin Gandhi
CEO, Digital Green

Sam Smith-Eppsteiner
Partner, Innovation Endeavors

Sarah Nolet
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Tenacious Ventures

Scott Komar
Senior VP Global R&D, Driscoll's

Seana Day
Partner, Culterra Capital

Shane Thomas
Agribusiness Analyst, Upstream Ag Insights

Steve Rosenzweig
Agriculture Science Lead, General Mills

Stuart Harrison
Head of R&D Partnerships & Open Innovation, Syngenta Seeds

Taryn Goodman
Partner, Sandbox Sustainability Ventures

Vipula Shukla
Senior Program Officer, Agriculture R&D, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

SPEAKERS:

Vinod Khosla
Founder, Khosla Ventures

Eric Horvitz
Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft

Rejane Souza
SVP Global Innovation, Yara International

Robert Bonnie
Under Secretary for Farm Production & Conservation, USDA

Will Marshall
Co-Founder & CEO, Planet

Patricia Stroup
Chief Procurement Officer, Nestle

Gregory Bohrer
Director – Natural Capital, Walmart

Karen Ross
Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, USDA

David Friedberg
CEO, The Production Board

Jeremy Williams
Head of Climate, Digital Farming and Ecosystems, Bayer Crop Science

Marc Kermisch
Chief Digital Officer, CNHI

Melissa Ho
Senior Vice President, Freshwater & Food, WWF

Sam Eathington
CTO, Corteva Agriscience

Feroz Sheikh
CIO & CDO, Syngenta Group

Livio Tedeschi
President, Agricultural Solutions, BASF

Maribel Ferrer
Chief Strategy and Financial Officer, OCP North America

Matt Hancher
Engineering Director, Google

Dave Puglia
President & CEO, Western Growers

Zak Laffite
President, Wonderful Citrus, The Wonderful Company

Vonnie Estes
VP of Innovation, International Fresh Produce Association

Alison Taylor
Chief Sustainability Officer, ADM

Stefan Caspari
SVP Customer Success & Business Effectiveness, AGCO

Elaine Watson
Global Food Tech Editor, AgFunder News

Pete Nelson
President & Executive Director, AgLaunch

Ron Baruchi
President & CEO, Agmatix

Gloverson Moro
CTO, Agrithority

Jim O’Brien
CEO, Agrograph

Tim Bucher
CEO & Co-Founder, Agtonomy

Brett Sciotto
Funder & CEO, Aimpoint Research

Isabel Vercauteren
CEO, Aphea.bio

Eli Ziskind
Partner, Aqua Capital

Ines Kapphan
VP Data & Cloud Solutions, Digital Farming, Bayer

Ben Johnson
Senior Vice President of Programs, BioSTL

Kevin Helash
CEO, Biotalys

Jake Joraanstad
Co-Founder & CEO, Bushel

Niall Mottram
Head of Industrial & AgriTech, Cambridge Consultants

Brian Kuehl
Head, Crop Protection R&D, CHS

Daniel Ryan
President & CEO, CIBO

Kelly Miller
Director of AgTech, Compeer Financial

Laurie Bauer
Partner, Cooley

Sarah Haley
Advisory Senior Manager, Sustainability, Climate & Equity for Financial Services, Deloitte

Stephanie Regagnon
Executive Director, Innovation Partnerships, Donald Danforth Centre

Lars Dyrud
CEO, Earth Optics

Dave Gebhardt
General Manager, EarthDaily Agro

Jean-François Déchant
CEO & Co-Founder, Elicit Plant

Todd Rands
CEO, Elo Life Systems

Mark Dann
Agriculture Accounts Executive, Natural Resources Team, Esri

Vibhore Arora
CEO, Farmers Edge

Kinneret Shefer
CEO & Founder, Geneneer

Jon Entine
Executive Director, Genetic Literacy Project

Magalie Guilhabert
Vice President, Head of AgBiologicals, Ginkgo Bioworks

Lucy Lu Roberts
Director of Business Development, Greater Sacramento Economic Council

Brendan Bachman
Director of FS Agronomy, Growmark

Robert Kelley
Senior Partner, Headstorm

Hadar Sutovsky
VP Corporate Investments, ICL Group & GM of ICL Planet

David Savage
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Innovative Genomics Institute

Joel Schroeder
Director, Land Mobile Products, Intelsat

Randy Barker
Co-founder & CEO, Intent

Maya Sripadam
Senior Product Manager, Blue River Technologies, John Deere

Andrew Selck
Partner, Kearney

Cam Turner
VP of Data Science, Kin + Carta

Matt Carstens
President & CEO, Landus

Ruy Cunha
CEO, Lavoro

Aaron Magenheim
COO & Co-Founder, Lighthouse.ag

Thomas Brennan
Partner, McKinsey & Company

Rhishi Pethe
Ag Technology Consultant, Metal Dog Labs

Brent Smith
President, NewLeaf Symbiotics

Lone Baekgaard
VP of Applied Research, Agriculture and Industrial Biosolutions, Novonesis

Christy Toedebusch
Vice President of Product, Ohalo Genetics

Spencer Swayze
Managing Director, Paine Schwartz Partners

Tom Adams
Co-Founder & CEO, Pairwise

Jack Roswell
Co-Founder & COO, Perennial

Carter Ingram
Managing Director, Pollination

Patrick McCullough
CEO, ProducePay

Sidhartha Bhandari
Agriculture & Food Digital Transformation Practice Lead, Publicis Sapient

Ryan Combs
Executive Director, Research Triangle

Shimpei Takeshita
President, Sanatech Seed

John Brubaker
CEO, Smartwyre

David Hayes
Former Special Assistant to the President for Climate Policy at The White House/Lecturer, Stanford Law School

Gusui Wu
Head, Seeds Research, Syngenta

Vineet Durani
Advisor, Tavant

Eduardo Blumwald
Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis

Thomas Schilling
Global Head of Platform Engineering, xarvio Digital Farming Solutions

2024 Partners

PLATINUM PARTNERS:
• AWS
• BASF
• Bayer
• Corteva
• Deloitte
• FMC
• Google Cloud
• Syngenta
• YARA

GOLD PARTNERS:
• AGI
• Agmatix
• Agrithority
• Agrograph
• Agtonomy
• Aimpoint
• Aphea bio
• Biotalys
• Bushel
• Cambridge Consultants
• CGIAR
• ChrysaLabs
• CHS
• CIBO
• Compeer Financial
• Cooley
• Crop.zone
• Earthdaily agro
• Earth Optics
• Elicit Plant
• Elo
• Esri
• Farmers Edge
• Ginkgo Bioworks
• Growmark
• Harpe Bio Herbicide
• Headstorm
• Inari
• Intelsat
• IFPA
• Intent
• Kearney
• Kin+Carta
• McKinsey & Company
• Microsoft
• Morrison Foerster
• Mosaic
• New Leaf
• Novonesis
• OCP
• Ohalo
• Pairwise
• Perennial
• Planet
• Proagrica
• Producepay
• Publicis Sapient
• s2gventures
• smartwyre
• Thrive
• Tavant
• Yamaha

INNOVATION PARTNERS:
• AG Launch
• AgroStart
• Breakthrough Energy
• Grow-NY
• ICL
• Innovation
• NPC
• SparkLabs
• Yara Growth Ventures

REGIONAL PARTNERS:
• LFT
• Flanders
• IOWA
• Greater Sacramento
• Agtech Cluster
• STLmade

SILVER PARTNERS:
• Agriculture Intelligence
• AquaSpy
• azotic
• AGBIOSCOUT
• Doktar
• FFAR
• Ground work
• Guardian Agriculture
• Sonata
• Biome Makers
• Burro
• ceres
• CJB Applied Technologies
• laberry
• Convent Capital
• indi village
• Inscripta
• lavie bio
• Magoya
• Qerthblo
• Sabanto
• Sama
• Seedz
• Swarm
• Soiltech
• Tortuga
• Ucrop.It
• Xxarvio®
• Xfarm
• Zero Gravity

NETWORKING PARTNERS:
• Barclays
• Conti
• Eiwa
• E8
• Lewis & Clark Agrifood
• Georgia