“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.  Event homepage:  https://digitalagriculture.cornell.edu/10-31-2022/

There will be four sessions and a lunchtime keynote featuring speakers from academia, industry, non-profits, and diverse private sector enterprises:

9:15am-10:45am – 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

11:00am-12:30pm – 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

12:45pm- 1:30pm – Lunch Keynote:

Speaker: David Lobell, Gloria and Richard Kushel Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment; Professor, Earth System Science, Stanford University

1:45pm-3:15pm – 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

3:30pm-5:00pm – 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