The AgLanta Conference 2018: Smart Ag for Smart Cities

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27 MAR Tue 2018

8:00 AM

28 MAR Wed 2018

6:00 PM

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Hosted by

Agritecture Consulting

The AgLanta Conference is a premier urban agriculture conference, organized by Agritecture and hosted by the City of Atlanta’s Office of Resilience, to showcase urban and controlled environment agriculture (CEA) innovation, foster community engagement, and generate economic development.

AgLanta 2018 will challenge this dominant notion of Smart Cities by asking,

Can a city really be “smart” without agriculture?

Presentations, Workshops, and Panel discussions will range from automation as a means to reduce waste, to big data as a key component of maximizing energy efficiency—all focusing on how smarter agriculture will be an integral part of future smart cities.

The 7 AgLanta Smart Ag for Smart Cities 2018 topics:

Aglanta 2018 Topics

Who should attend?

City Officials and Policy Experts
Controlled Environment Agriculture Operators
Urban Farmers
Urban Planners, Developers, & Architects
Technology Providers in AgTech
Smart City Technology Providers
Entrepreneurs
Investors
Students and Educators

Join 350+ urban agriculturalists, smart city innovators, and policymakers for the 2nd Annual AgLanta Conference on March 27 & 28, 2018 at the Georgia Railroad Freight Depot in Atlanta, Georgia!

Regular passes are available at the early bird rate of $379 through February 20, 2018, a 25% discount to the standard rate of $499.

Conference Host: City of Atlanta's Office of Resilience

Conference Organizer: AGRITECTURE

Keynote & Panelists (More to come!)

Day 1 Keynote: Otis Rolley, Regional Director of North America, 100 Resilient Cities

Otis' entire career has been dedicated toward resilience and urban development in the private, non-profit and public sectors. He has worked in housing, community economic development, strategic planning, performance management, municipal administration, urban, regional and transportation planning. Prior to joining 100RC, Otis served as CEO of Newark, NJ’s economic development corporation. He was a senior manager at a national public-sector management consultant firm leading their strategic planning, change and performance management work in municipalities and large urban school districts. His extensive public sector experience includes serving in various leadership positions with five different mayors in three large US cities. He has been a chief of staff managing a $2 billion budget; city planning director for the America’s largest independent city; and he has served as 1st deputy housing commissioner for the 5th largest public housing and community development agency in the US. An honors graduate, Otis earned his BA from Rutgers University and a masters from M.I.T

Day 2 Keynote: Vonnie Estes, Rosalind Franklin Award for Biotechnology 2017 Winner

Vonnie’s career has been driven by a passion for agriculture, technology and sustainability. Currently a consultant in Ag innovation, she has held leadership roles at prominent companies including DuPont, Monsanto, and Syngenta along with start-ups and venture funds to identify revolutionary science and bring products to market. She has built a number of agricultural and bio-industrial start-ups with successful exits. Serving on company, advisory, industry, and government boards, she is a known voice in the industry with frequent publications and speaking engagements. She has a vision to commercialize new technologies creating revolutionary products that are good for people and the planet. Vonnie is one of the leading female executives in the biofuels industry and winner of the 2017 Rosalind Franklin Award for Biotechnology. Vonnie will be speaking about the role of Big Data in agriculture and emerging biotechnologies as they apply to urban agriculture. Read some of Vonnie's articles on AgFunder here.

Panelists:

Smart Resources Management

Featured Talk by Darryn Keiller, CEO, Autogrow

Mark Horler, The Soya Project (Moderator)
Tinia Pina, Founder & CEO, Re-Nuble
Jeff Bisberg, CEO, Illumitex
Allison Kopf, Founder & CEO, Agrilyst

Smart Operations

Betsy McKay, Senior Writer, The Wall Street Journal (Moderator)
Mark Korzilius, Founder, Farmers Cut GmbH
Sam Schatz, Managing Director, AeroFarms
Ron Reynolds, Chairmain & Co-Founder, Green Collar Foods

Smart Urban Development

Featured Talks by James Coffman (Director, Tower Farms) & Jan Westra (Strategic Business Developer, Priva)

Mario Camberdella, Director of Urban Agriculture, City of Atlanta's Office of Resilience (Moderator)
Jason Chmura, Senior Associate, KSS Architects
Michael Grove, Principal, Sasaki

Smart Distribution

Robyn Metcalfe, Director, Food+City (Moderator)
Laura Seach, Founder & Product Lead, Foodshed.io
Tyler Mulvhill, Director, ConsenSys (Viant.io)

Smart Education

Featured Talk by Christine Gould, Founder & CEO, Thought for Food

Myriam Dormer, Urban Conservation Director, The Nature Conservancy in Georgia (Moderator)
Joyce Hunter, Former Deputy CIO, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Gene Giacomelli, Professor Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering; Director CEAC; University of Arizona
Jonathan Tescher, Program Manager of CREATE, Clark Atlanta University

Smart Retail

Chris Manning, Assistant Director, Produce Grower (Moderator)
Jeffrey Dorfman, Professor, Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Georgia
Judith Winfrey, President, PeachDish
Andrew Carter, CEO & Co-Founder, Smallhold