Agriculture Speakers

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

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

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"

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

Eco-Entrepreneur; Director of Sustainability for the City of Orlando

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

Chef, Activist & Author

Co-Founder & CEO of Beyond Meat; Vegan & Sustainability Advocate

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

Founder of Windowfarms.org

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

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

Businessman, Philanthropist & Elder Son of Warren Buffet

Founder and Former President of The Land Institute

Technology Futurist, Business Strategist & Hall of Fame Speaker

Senior Vice President of 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"