2020 virtual summit on agtech
Year of growth
The 2020 Virtual Summit on AgTech was the largest conference in Tuck history, with over 900 attendees. In the week following the official end of VSAT, over 1,000 attendees had registered, demonstrating the accessibility the conference achieved and interest generated in agtech. VSAT 2020 was planned and took place during the COVID-19 pandemic and many panels discussed the intersection of the pandemic and the way that humans currently consume food.
933
Total attendees
registered
47
Countries
represented
$9,000
Raised for Feeding America & NYFC
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2020 tuck Virtual Summit on Agtech speakers
2020
team
Alberto Ariztía Tagle
MBA 2020 - Tuck
James Feuille
Executive Director, CPEVC at Tuck
Partner, Crosslink Capital
Jessica Williams
Program Manager, CPEVC at Tuck
Shiv Bery
MBA 2021 - Tuck
Brandon Koone
MBA 2021 - Tuck
Ted Giletti
MBA 2021 - Tuck
Tobin Krieg
MBA 2021 - Tuck
Elizabeth Lenczowski Holmes
MBA 2021 - Tuck
Kristin Ng
MBA 2021 - Tuck
Omika Jikaria
MBA 2021 - Tuck
Robert Sewell
MBA 2021 - Tuck
Maria King
MBA 2021 - Tuck
Avinash Upadhyaya
MBA 2020 - Tuck
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
The Next Generation Ag and Food Economy
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
12:20 pm - 1:00 pm
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3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
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6:45 pm - 7:15 pm
Opening Remarks by Tuck Food and Ag Club Leadership (Slides)
Keynote: Ag's Future for Food and Materials (Slides)
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Tom Chi (Founding Partner, At One Ventures)
Panel: AgTech Investing for the Future
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Phil Boyer (Principal, Crosslink Capital)
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Dan Phillips (Managing Director, Cultivian Sandbox Ventures)
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Brett Brohl (Managing Director, Techstars Farm to Fork)
Topic Intro: Alternative Proteins Market Map (Slides)
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Counterfactual Ventures (Huw Thomas, Co-Founder)
Panel: Sustainability of Protein: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat: Part 1
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Benjamina Bollag (Co-Founder & CEO, Higher Steaks)
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Krijn de Nood (Co-Founder & CEO, Meatable)
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Christie Lagally (Founder & CEO, Rebellyous Foods)
Panel: Breakthroughs in Proteins
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Dr. Matthew Zhao (Food Scientist, Big Idea Ventures)
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Dr. Dalal AlGhawas (Program Director, Big Idea Ventures)
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Dr. Zafer Bashi (ACRE Specialist, McKinsey)
Panel: Sustainability of Protein: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat: Part 2
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Phäedra Anestassia Randolph (Founder & CEO, Spero Foods)
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Dan Riegler (Co-Founder, Karana)
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Sunny Kumar (Founder, Black Sheep Foods)
Company Pitches: Sustainability and Protein: The Future of Food 1
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Kula Bio (Bill Brady, Founding CEO & Director)
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New Age Meats (Brian Spears, Founder & CEO)
Company Pitches: Sustainability and Protein: The Future of Food 2
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Patch Organics (Patricia Trongone, Founder & President)
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Misfit Foods (Phil Wong, Co-Founder)
Keynote Speaker: Where AgTech Meets FinTech
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Maurits Lancee (Associate, Rabo Frontier Ventures)
Company Pitches: FinTech for AgTech
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Agryo (Isaque Eberhardt, Co-Founder & CEO) (Slides)
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ProducePay (Ben Dusastre, Co-Founder & President)
Company Pitches: AgTech Data in LatAm
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auravant (Leandro Sabignoso, Founder & CEO)
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IZagro (Murilo Bettarello, Founder)
Company Pitches: Sustainability and Protein: The Future of Food 3
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Revolution Gelato (Jared Olkin, Founder)
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GrainBridge (Faith Larson, Chief Strategy Officer)
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Innovations in Agriculture
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
1:15 pm - 2:00 pm
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
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4:45 pm - 5:15 pm
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Keynote: Harvesting Nature’s Intelligence
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Sofia Elizondo (Co-Founder & COO, Brightseed)
Panel: Innovative CPG: Plant-Based Products for a Healthier World
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Natalie Cira T'17 (Director of The Garden Incubator, Purple Carrot)
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Cessna Mac (Investor, Powerplant Ventures)
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Daniel Bernstein (Co-Founder, We Are the New Farmers)
Panel: Traceability: Digitalization of the Food Value Chain
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Michael Pareles (Digital Strategy and Growth Lead, Bayer Crop Science)
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Lasse Köhler (Corporate Venture Capital, Maersk Growth)
Panel: A New Vision for Food Safety
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Yonathan Lapchik (CEO, SUKU)
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Erik Malmstrom (CEO, SafeTraces)
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Devendra Chandani (Co-Founder, Intello Labs)
Panel: The New Farming Economy
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Heather Onstott T'07 (Onstott Financial Consulting, Former CFO of Freight Farms)
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Russell Sprole (CFO, Full Harvest)
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David Farquhar (CEO, Intelligent Growth Solutions)
Panel: Robotics: Harnessing the Power of Technology
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Eric Adamson (Co-Founder & CEO, Tortuga AgTech)
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Sébastien Boyer (Co-Founder & CEO, Farmwise)
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Igino Cafiero (Founder & CEO, Bear Flag Robotics)
Company Pitches: Marketplaces, Analytics
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DeHaat (Shashank Kumar, Founder & CEO)
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FieldIn (Boaz Bachar, Co-Founder & CEO)(Slides)
Company Pitches: Analytics, Robotics
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BURRO (Charles Andersen, CEO)
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Cloud Agronomics (Mark Tracy, CEO)
Company Pitches: Digital Commerce and Data Analytics
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AgVend (Alexander Reichert, Co-Founder & CEO)
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ripe.io (Raja Ramachandran, Founder)
Company Pitches: Traceability
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AgNext (Taranjeet Singh Bhamra, CEO)
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AgTrace (Andre Maltz Turkienicz, Co-Founder & CEO)
Company Pitches: New Cultivations
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Arugga (Iddo Geltner, Co-Founder & CEO)
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Myco Systemics (Gary Costner, Founder & CEO)
Company Pitches: Data Analytics
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Augmenta (George Varvarelis, Founder & CEO)
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Rice Exchange (Stephen Edkins, Founder & CEO)
Company Pitches: Data Analytics & Waste to Value
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Agrosmart (Mariana Vasconcelos, CEO)
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GSR Solutions (Dr. Anju Krivov, Co-Founder)
Thursday, May 7, 2020
International AgTech Developments
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
1:15 pm - 1:45 pm
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2:15 pm - 3:00 pm
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
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Keynote: AgTech Investing in India Versus Developed Economies
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Hemendra Mathur (Venture Partner, Bharat Innovation Fund)
Panel: AgTech Investing for the Future: India
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Mark Kahn (Managing Partner, Omnivore Ventures)
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Ganesh Kaveeshwar (Portfolio Manager, Social Alpha)
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Anurag Agarwal (Co-Founder, New Leaf Dynamic Technologies)
Keynote: AgTech Expansion to International Geographies
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Karsten Neuffer (COO International, Indigo Agriculture)
Fireside Chat: Technology Applications for Developing Nations
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Bill Scott (Senior Technical Advisor, Dexis Consulting Group)
Panel: AgTech Investing for the Future: LatAm
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Louisa Burwood-Taylor (Head of Media and Research, AgFunder)
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Rodrigo Santos (CEO, SOLINFTEC)
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Mariana Vasconcelos (Founder, Agrosmart)
Panel: Disruption in Food Supply Chains in the Asia-Pacific Region
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Rob Hulme (Asia Director, Beanstalk AgTech)
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Stephen Edkins (Founder & CEO, Rice Exchange)
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Siang Hee Tan (Executive Director, CropLife Asia)
Keynote: Empowering Extraordinary Entrepreneurs
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Francisco Jardim (Founding Partner, SP Ventures)
Fireside Chat: Investing and Entrepreneurship in the Wake of COVID-19
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Ed Roman (Managing Director, Hack VC)
Keynote: Food for Thought
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Dana Worth (Vice President of Strategic Sales and Partnerships, Impossible Foods)
2020 Virtual Summit on AgTech Concluding Remarks by Tuck Food and Ag Club Leadership (Slides)
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