Agriculture Speakers

Scientist, Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of California - Davis; Expert in the Challenges of Farming

Pioneer in the Urban Farming Movement, Author, Founder of Growing Power

Football Player Who Left the NFL to Farm and Harvest Food for the Hungry

Former Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Monsanto

Known as "The Business Humorist" and "Agriculture's Professional Funny Man"

Chef, Activist & Author

Principal Research Scientist at MIT Media Lab; Founder & Director of the Open Agriculture Initiative

Founder and CEO of Food+Tech Connect; Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Alpha Food Labs

Founder of Windowfarms.org

Futurist, Economist & Former Dean, Emeritus of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at New Mexico State University

Founder and Former President of The Land Institute

Former NASA Astronaut & Engineer; Former Candidate for U.S. Congress; Author

Journalist & Best-selling Author of "Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer"

Nutrition Explorer, Integrative Physician, & Author

Businessman, Philanthropist & Elder Son of Warren Buffet

Food & Agriculture Expert, Advisor on Sustainability

Senior Vice President, Food & Markets at WWF

Executive Director of Honor the Earth

Professor of Medicine and Engineering at the University of Southern California, Co-Founder of Navigenics & Author of "The End of Illness"

Expert on Global Climate Change; Former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change