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

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

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

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

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

Chef, Activist & Author

Founder of Windowfarms.org

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

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

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

Academic Author, Advisor, Global Trend-Watcher & Lecturer at Harvard University

Atmospheric Researcher

Executive Director of Honor the Earth

Technology Futurist, Business Strategist & Hall of Fame Speaker

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

Senior Vice President of Food & Markets at WWF