SEEDS OF OUR FUTURE

Technology has undoubtedly reinvented agriculture in recent decades, greatly increasing the efficiency of farmland and allowing growers to provide food at a low cost to billions. AgTech as we know it uses the farm as the starting point and iterates from there. However, emerging companies are calling for a reinvention of our food systems, with sustainability at its core: local, regenerative, and healthy for both people and planet.

But can sustainability scale? Which avenue will lead to the long-term sustainability of our planet? What does the earth need from growers in order to survive? Do we continue reiterating current systems to increase efficiency, or develop this new way of thinking about the sources of our food? Which one of these two is the way forward to feed 10 billion people while promoting sustainability?

The 2020 Seeds of Our Future summit and immersion program is a platform for thinking about the future of AgTech – and the role that technology will play in building agricultural systems that will help the planet survive.

Program topics will include:

• AgTech, reinvented: Big Ag’s New Focus on Sustainability

• Hyperlocalized solutions – and what they might look like at scale

• Cell (lab-grown) meat: What is the timeline to widespread market adoption?

• Are technologists building AgTech for efficiency or sustainability?

• Indoor farming: what (or who) is the right target for the solution it offers?