“Climate Change and Readiness for Agriculture: What’s the Role for Digital Agriculture?”
By envisioning new ways of thinking about food, this symposium hopes to inspire new ‘food for thought’ across disciplines including agriculture, food safety, engineering, information and computer science, biology, business and the social sciences.
This year our symposium will address DA as a tool for climate readiness across several smaller topics.
There will be four sessions and a lunchtime keynote featuring speakers from academia, industry, non-profits, and diverse private sector enterprises:
Agtech innovation ecosystems for social impact
Moderator: Steven Wolf, Assoc. Professor, Natural Resources and the Environment, Cornell University and Tapan Parikh, Cornell Tech, Cornell University
Guest Presenters: Pete Nelson, Executive Director, AgLaunch, Sarah Sippel, University of Munster, Germany, Wilson Hago, CEO, Hago Energetics, and Quentin Sannié, Founder, Genesis Soil Health
Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) approaches toward a more resilient food system
Moderator: Neil Mattson, Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science Horticulture Section, Cornell University
Guest Presenters: Tessa Pocock, CSO, Soli Organics, Sidar Mizrakci, CEO, Element Farms, Dave Nichols, Chief Strategy Officer, AppHarvest, and Melanie Yelton, Director – Plant Science, Plenty
Carbon Solutions
Moderator: Dominic Woolf, Senior Research Associate, School of Integrative Plant Science Soil and Crop Sciences Section, Cornell University
Guest Presenters: Emma Fuller, Carbon and Ecosystem Services Global Portfolio Leader, Corteva, Matthew Wallenstein, Chief Soil Scientist, Syngenta Group, Stefan Jirka, Senior Manager, Agriculture Innovation at Verra, and Peter Woodbury, Senior Research Associate, School of Integrative Plant Science Soil and Crop Sciences Section, Cornell University
Smarter food safety through data sharing among food businesses
Moderator: Yu Jiang, Assistant Research Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science Horticulture Section Cornell AgriTech, Cornell University and Katie Gold, Assistant Research Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section Cornell AgriTech, Cornell University
Guest Presenters: Jan Nyrop, Professor, Department of Entomology/Goichman Family Director, Cornell AgriTech, Quirine Ketterings, Professor, Animal Science, Cornell University, Jenny Lemieux, co-Founder/CEO, Vivid Machines Inc., Chris Logue, Director, New York State Agriculture and Markets, Mario Miranda Sazo, Fruit Extension Specialist, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and Robert Brown III, President, Orchard Dale Fruit Co/Browns Berry
All are welcome to join for this virtual event!
Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://cornell.zoom.us/j/96765224825?pwd=amtQOE1mNnFuS1liN3kvdkF5ZGpDdz09
Passcode: 4132 Webinar ID: 967 6522 4825
Our 1st CIDA Symposium was on October 11th, 9:00am-4:30pm EST.
VIEW THE 2021 SYMPOSIUM VIDEOS