About Ag Innovation Showcase
Ag Showcase provides an intimate venue for industry leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs to form relationships and engage in substantive discussions that will enable innovative solutions coming to market for consumer, social, commercial, and environmental benefit. We invite speakers, sponsors, early-stage companies, and other stakeholders in food and agriculture innovation to network with each other to address today’s questions and develop tomorrow’s solutions for feeding the planet.
The common theme across the 10-year span of AIS since 2008 has been to explore global and national issues related to soil health, food production, food sustainability, food waste and food security. AIS has been at the forefront of bringing thought leaders and influencers in the field of agriculture and related industry to initiate dialogue and drive collaborations domestically and internationally.
In 2021, we will seek to identify the concerns uncovered during the world’s year of crisis, in order to describe the contours of recovery. We will double down on the continued evolution of regeneration as an organizing principle for agriculture and food production. We will describe the arc of reimagining the changed and rapidly evolving landscape of agriculture and food.
The 2021 Showcase will curate these and related issues, leading up to the UN Food Summit planned for November 2021, and further mark and stimulate the agenda for the 2022 Showcase.
The 13th annual Ag Innovation Showcase will be held virtually and live-in person on September 13 - 14, 2021.
94% of presenters introduced to new partnership opportunities
89% of presenters found new investor leads
PAST EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
Sept. 10-12, 2018
Our Keynote, Dr. Mehmood Khan from PepsiCo, addressed showcase attendees on, “The Modern Consumer’s Reverse-Commute Across the Value Chain.” In addition, this year we had had robust conversations in a new format we deemed as the ‘Talk Shows’ on our Ag Showcase stage, our panelists discussed impressive topics such as “Precise Plant Nutrition” and moving across the value chain from “Farm to Plate.”
Our 2018 AIS was the largest attendance yet of Ag industry stakeholders and we hope that you will continue to grow with us as we move to new territory in Minneapolis for 2019.
Themes: From Farm to Plate
Innovative approaches and solutions to ensure nutrition across the entire food value chain
Soil Health and plant nutrition
Food waste and food security
Changing consumer demands
Themes:
Ingredients and new sources for healthy ingredients
Decontamination and disease detection for food safety
Inputs of genetics, “beneficials” and biologics
Climate forecasting
Recovery and recycling of inputs for waste reduction across production chains.
Sept. 11-13, 2017
The 2017 Showcase was sold out for the third year.
With the backdrop of mergers and consolidation going on in the agriculture industry, our keynote speaker, Adrian Percy shared an expansive view of the state of the art, the science and the challenges from the perspective of Bayer Crop Strategies.
We convened a “disruptive dialogue” to explore innovations that address soil health. For the View from the Farm we turned to next generation family farmers.
Sept. 12-14, 2016
The 2016 Showcase sold out for the second year.
We continued our exploration of global agriculture and food production issues, which included innovative solutions to food waste, and the build-up of consumer trust and social license for emerging technologies like gene editing.
We expanded the View from the Farm to include perspectives from large contract growers, California fresh produce growers, and indoor growers regarding the technical, environmental, and reputation issues that farmers are facing.
Themes:
Precision Ag and Automation: from data collection to analytics, from artificial intelligence to integration of various innovations, aimed at better operational decisions and forecasts for financial and economic outcomes.
Agriculture inputs, diagnostic tools, and breeding: increasing sustainability and lowering costs for farmers and ranchers including sustainable animal production, animal vaccines, plant disease detection, and bio-based inputs for improved plant health and crop yields.
Alternative Systems for food and feed-stocks
Themes:
GMOs and new ways to address the issues they present
Food supply chains: increasing safety and sustainability
Data tools and application in more adaptive ag systems.
Sept. 14-16, 2015
The 2015 Showcase was a sold out event featuring presenting companies from 12 countries, attendees from across the globe, and dialogues on Ag’s most pressing topics.
Four of the presenting companies were women owned business, eight brought biological solutions to the market, and several jumped industry lines with their concepts.
Sept. 8-11, 2014
The 2014 Showcase set another record and ascended to world-class status, discussing major issues facing Ag from the profile of the new modern farmer to the role of biotechnology beyond GMs.
After 6 years, the Showcase proved to be not just a conference but a community with new faces joining the ones who have attended since its inception in 2009.
Sept. 9-10, 2013
In 2013, the Showcase covered a diverse set of topics including sustainability and re-use, food security, precision agriculture, and the use of data in farm management. Through lively discussion, the Showcase was able to bring all of these elements together into what closing keynote speaker, Jim Budzynski, called “Ag 3.0.”
Sept. 10-12, 2012
Crossing Borders: Advancing Ag
in Emerging Economies
In 2012, the Showcase attracted a record number of 11 countries, including China, India, and South Africa.
Discussions focused on the unique challenges and unprecedented opportunities for Ag in emerging markets, as well as how to drive funding in the food and agriculture industries.
May 23-24, 2011
New Frontiers in Ag Research:
Tools to Drive Discovery
In 2011, the Showcase sought to explore the unique challenges faced by members of the Agriculture industry as they continue to drive the industry forward. Discussions focused on how to develop new tools to drive innovation, challenges to Ag entrepreneurs, and how to increase investment in Ag related research.
May 24-25, 2010
Is Agriculture
the Next Clean-tech?
In 2010, the Showcase focused on the intersection between energy and agriculture. Speakers and panels discussed the myriad of ways agriculture is both affected by energy issues and how it plays a role in developing new energy alternatives.
May 18-19, 2009
Spurring Ag Innovation Through
Public-Private Partnerships
In its inaugural year, the Ag Innovation Showcase brought together key influencers across various sectors of the agriculture industry in order to highlight, discuss, and bring new solutions to the top issues and concerns facing the industry. We were ahead of the curve and anticipated the nexus of agriculture & data, “precision agriculture.”
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