Showcase Highlights & Trends to Watch
Wednesday, September 13th 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
AT&T Auditorium
Key members of the Ag Innovation Showcase reflect on insights from this year’s
2017 Showcase and highlight current trends in food and agriculture and predict
what to expect for next year’s 2018 Showcase. Disruptive Dialogue
HAN CHEN
CEO, ZeaKal, Inc.
JACQUELINE HEARD
Venture Partner, Anterra Capita
RON MEEUSEN, PH. D.
Managing Director of Cultivian Sandbox
and Co-Founder and Managing Partner
of Cultivian Ventures
VONNIE ESTES
Independent Consultant
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REALIZING THE
POTENTIAL OF
AGRICULTURE
Dow AgroSciences is one of the world’s leading
agricultural companies. We are passionate
about developing sustainable chemical and
biotechnology solutions that minimize risk and help
growers get the most out of every acre or hectare.
In partnership with our customers, we focus on
increasing crop productivity through improved
plant genetics and pest management solutions.
dowagro.com
® Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company
(“Dow”) or an affiliated company of Dow
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3Bar Biologics Inc. Agribody
Technologies, Inc.
3Bar Biologics Inc. is dedicated to
improving yield, profitability, and
sustainability for farms with novel ATI will apply a proven solution to
microbial inoculants. 3Bar’s patented food-sourcing problems due to ever-
microbial inoculant delivery system is growing population, extreme weather
activated on-farm to deliver the freshest and decreasing farmland availability by
and most viable biologic product in significantly increasing crop yields. Our
the world. This novel approach opens patented genetic modification (GM)
up the potential for commercialization or genome editing (GE) technology
of numerous beneficial microbes also delays onset of plant senescence, Showcase Companies
proven in research but never before while increasing resistance to diseases
available in a viable state commercially. and sublethal stresses such as drought,
Their first product Bio-YIELD utilizes heat, cold, salt, low nutrients and
®
unique microbial strains licensed from crowding in many key crop plants.
The Ohio State University and is now Two years of replicated field trial data
entering its fourth growing season with in alfalfa (4th largest US crop) showed
customers in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and unprecedented 20–45% yield increases
Michigan. in an elite commercial variety with no
loss of quality. Several licenses and
PRESENTER: co-development projects are underway.
Bruce Caldwell
CEO CONTACT:
[email protected] Jerald S. Feitelson, Ph.D.
(614) 271-9388 CEO
3barbiologics.com [email protected]
(858) 349-3603
agribodytech.com
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AmebaGone Inc. Aspire Food
Showcase Companies
Amebagone Inc. (AG) develops/ Aspire Food Group is the 2013 recipient
produces natural biocontrol agents of the prestigious US $1mm Hult Prize
of bacterial pathogens of plants and presented by former President Bill
animals. Our first targets are Erwinia Clinton. We use robotics, IoT, and
amylovora (Ea) the cause of FireBlight automation to farm insects that have
in pome fruits and Clavibacter a similar protein quality to meat with
michiganensis, causing blight in the environmental footprint of plants.
tomatoes, potatoes, etc. Our novel, Our fully-automated and modular
proprietary technology controls invasive technology can be scaled to any size
and destructive bacterial diseases in in any geography. We target markets
agricultural naturally, without spraying that utilize insects for food (sustainable
antibiotics or copper, which have limited protein), and utilize insect by-products
effectiveness and can be toxic to crops. including frass and chitin derivatives.
In agriculture, concerns about bacterial As a social enterprise, we also proudly
resistance to antibiotics resulted in empower smallholder farmers in
2014 legislation to ban antibiotic developing countries to raise insects
use in organic orchards, creating an to rise out of poverty and nutrition
immediate market opportunity. Our insecurity.
work is extensible to treating bacterial
pathogens of animals/humans. PRESENTER:
Mohammed Ashour
PRESENTER: Co-Founder & CEO
Cheryl Vickroy, MBA [email protected]
President/CEO (512) 524-0037
[email protected]
(608) 575-2378
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Beeflow Bee Vectoring
Technologies
Beeflow is a science-based company
that applies biotechnology while International
providing pollination services to farmers
with one main objective: increase crop BVT is developing a disruptive crop
yields while reducing bee population production tool that helps farmers
decline. increase yields and improve the
marketability of their crops in a
Our team has developed for more than
5 years different technologies that sustainable and responsible way. The
enhance bees' immune system and company is combining the benefits of Showcase Companies
reduce by about 70% bee population biological crop protection products,
decline within a beehive after winter. which in recent years have emerged as
Also, we apply technologies that alternatives to chemicals, with delivery
teach bees to be more efficient while to crops using bees which will become
pollinating specific target crops (15-20% a viable application alternative to
average crop yield increase). spraying. This unique and proprietary
process enables a targeted delivery
of crop controls to replace traditional
PRESENTER:
crop spraying, resulting in better yields,
Matias Viel superior quality and less impact on the
CEO environment without the use of water or
[email protected] disruptions to labor.
549 113 150 6490
www.beeflows.com PRESENTER:
Ashish Malik
President & CEO
[email protected]
(916) 307-6879
Biotechnology applied to crop pollinaaon
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Bonumose Bugeater Foods
Showcase Companies
Bonumose develops beneficial food Bugeater Foods is making insects a
ingredients. Its first product is tagatose, sustainable, scalable form of protein
a naturally-occurring monosaccharide. for human consumption. We are not
Unlike traditional sugars, tagatose just a product company but an idea
does not increase blood sugar levels, company looking to solve the world
does not cause tooth decay, and is hunger problem through insect
low calorie. Beyond being benign, research, awareness, investing and end
tagatose is beneficial. Like dietary fiber, product development. Our mission is
tagatose is a prebiotic, contributes to to create brands with products that will
a feeling of satiety, and is clinically- engage the needs of consumers today
proven to reduce blood sugar levels in and especially the future. Bugeaters
diabetics. It is nearly indistinguishable Foods' core objectives are to develop
from sucrose in sweetness, taste and end products using insect protein and
food functionality. Tagatose currently is invest back into the infrastructure of the
available from other producers, but it is cricket/insect industry.
expensive. Bonumose’s patent-pending
process slashes costs by 80%, making PRESENTER:
tagatose affordable for widespread Kelly Sturek
adoption in foods. Co-founder & CEO
[email protected]
PRESENTER: (702) 403-5033
Ed Rogers
Chief Executive Officer
[email protected]
(276) 206-7337
bonumose.com
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Climate Forecast Compact Membrane
Applications Systems
Network
Compact Membrane Systems (CMS)
is an advanced materials company
Droughts, floods, hurricanes, severe that helps industrial customers
storms, heat waves and freezes achieve high-performance chemical
pose serious challenges to farmers separations in harsh environments. CMS
and agribusiness. Climate Forecast technologies enable large, capital-
Applications Network’s innovative intensive operations to reduce risk,
weather and climate tools are leading increase yield, lower costs, and operate
the way in forecasting for critical in a greener, cleaner, and more efficient Showcase Companies
weather and climate applications. way. Modular membrane systems are
CFAN’s new line of forecast products – compatible with large legacy operations
AgriCast – creates value by integrating and are cost-effective for use in small,
meteorological forecast information, new, biobased, and other applications,
crop specific forecasts, yield/ enabling their productivity, economics,
development models and web-based adoption, and growth. CMS' newest
interactive decision tools. AgriCast has technology enables producers to
the potential to change the current separate and concentrate olefins,
dynamics of the agricultural sector the building blocks of the chemicals
through reducing yield loss and disaster industry, and achieve significant ROI by
payouts, reducing on-farm resource removing bottlenecks, eliminating waste,
use, stabilizing food and input prices, and creating new value from existing
making commodities trading more streams, all while capturing energy
profitable and supporting long-term savings and reducing carbon footprint.
investment strategies. Ultimately, Optiperm membranes
TM
stand to disrupt and replace legacy
PRESENTER:
distillation with a more cost effective
Judith Curry solution. Designed and manufactured
President in the US, CMS products are built on
[email protected] a proprietary membrane platform
(404) 803-2012 that underpins the company's other
cfanclimate.com profitable lines of business.
PRESENTER:
Hannah Murnen
VP Business Development
(302) 999-7996
[email protected]
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Farmin IVACHE
Showcase Companies
Technologies LLC
Our company provides its customers
– farmers of dairy and beef cattle – a
FarmIn Technologies LLC is an herd management software application,
Argentine start-up company devoted iCownect, that is a collaborative
to develop and deploy IoT (Internet solution, distributed in SaaS mode and
of Things) and Sensing solutions to based on a cloud computing model.
help agriculture and cattle farmers to With iCownect, the farmer can also
make decisions with better information, assess his technical and economic
real-time. FarmIn Technologies LLC efficiency thanks to a real-time
was born in 2016, and has obtained benchmarking comparison system. Its
seed capital support to develop its first broad spectrum features allow farmers
prototypes. to learn from the past and from other
farmer's experience, to make the best
FarmIn has developed a mesh of low-
cost energy autonomous nodes that decisions today and finally to ensure
capture information from sensors in their sustainability for a long time.
open fields and communicate among Moreover, iCownect allows traceability
themselves to transmit that information, that is key to keeping consumers’
regardless of any other type of confidence tomorrow.
communication. PRESENTERS:
PRESENTER: Régis Rupert
Associate Director, Founder
Ignacio Albornoz [email protected]
CEO
[email protected] 33 2 44 10 19 69
549 113 268 8866
farmintech.com
Twitter: @farmin_tech
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NanoGuard New West Genetics
Technologies
New West Genetics is the engine
enabling the rapid development of
NanoGuard Technologies is developing scalable, diverse and sought after
a new non-thermal pasteurization products for the industrial hemp and
technology for grain, fresh produce, cannabis industries. By conducting
spices and other food articles to foundational research that combines
reduce losses and improve the safety, traditional breeding and modern
wholesomeness and security of our genomics, NWG ensures stable
food. The Food and Agriculture genetics, optimizes desirable traits,
Organization (FAO) reports that 1 billion and leads the industry as the first
metric tons or approximately 25% of commercial organization to adapt Showcase Companies
what is harvested annually is lost due to cannabis for sustainable and large-
spoilage and mycotoxin contamination. scale production in the U.S.
NanoGuard’s technology can reduce
these losses without compromising the PRESENTER:
flavor, taste, or texture of the treated
products. Dr. John McKay
NWG's Director of Genetics
PRESENTERS: [email protected]
(970) 682-0837
Mark A. Hochwalt
COO
[email protected]
(314) 607-0563
John L. “Larry” Clarke
CEO
[email protected]
(314) 258-0192
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Novabind PowerPollen, LLC
Showcase Companies
NovoBind Livestock Therapeutics is PowerPollen , LLC is transforming
TM
an agri-biotech company developing how plants cross-pollinate. Cross-
cost-effective feed additives that pollination is the enabler for the
function as alternatives to antibiotics. production of hybrid crops, which are
Our products specifically target and many-fold times more productive than
neutralize specific pathogens like non-hybrid crops. However, ensuring
Salmonella, from livestock. cross-pollination is very expensive and
in many crops it is cost-prohibitive.
The global loss to the food and poultry Two years of field testing in corn has
industry due to Salmonella, Necrotic resulted in an unprecedented scaled
Enteritis (Clostridium Perfringens) and pollen handling and preservation
Coccidiosis (Eimeria) is estimated to be technology that decreases the cost of
as high as $15B a year. producing hybrid seed and increases
yield. Commercialization in corn will
Our multidisciplinary team of generate significant revenues in 2018.
biochemists, microbiologists, and PowerPollen technology will enable
TM
veterinary pathologists work closely hybridity in crops like wheat, which is
with our experienced management a key to ensuring future global food
team and extended advisory security and improving farmer profits.
committees to execute a global
strategy. PRESENTER:
Our vision is to become the global Todd Krone
leader in targeted antimicrobials using CEO
next generation antibody fragments. (515) 229-0961
powerpollen.com
PRESENTER: (website not active yet)
Hamlet Abnousi
Co-founder & CEO
[email protected]
(604) 218-4594
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Renix Sencrop
Delivering excellence in Ion Exchange, Today, agricultural decisions rely more
Renix provides innovative and and more on data analysis. At Sencrop,
integrated solutions for agricultural and we are a passionate team dedicated
industrial liquid purification and value to making a real impact in agriculture.
recovery challenges. Thanks to a web and mobile-based
platform connected to in-field
Uninterrupted Ion Exchange (UIX) is the sensors we:
world’s only steady state ion exchange
platform. UIX offers cost and operating • Empower ALL farmers to make the
advantages over traditional systems right decisions at the right time to Showcase Companies
using well-recognized IX chemistry improve their yields, and ultimately
for capturing dissolved ions from their way of life
liquids. UIX's cost advantage is driven
by patented technology that turns an • Allow agri-partners (resellers,
inefficient batch process into a steady chemical companies, technical
state process. centers, etc.) to spread their services
with ultra-local information, and get a
UIX creates a sustainable purification closer relationship with the farmers.
technology that uses up to 80%
less water, and 50% less chemicals, PRESENTER:
processed in a smaller footprint. Michael Bruniaux
Co-Founder & CEO
See UIX in action at: www.renix.ca [email protected]
33 661 271 920
PRESENTER:
Christine Haas
President & CEO
[email protected]
(519) 860-4842
renix.ca
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SnapDNA SomaDetect
Showcase Companies
SnapDNA is developing low cost, rapid, SomaDetect is a precision-dairy
high throughput, genetic analysis for company that is creating an in-line
seeds and pathogens. For food safety, system for measuring the two most
SnapDNA can eliminate 3-day test/ critical indicators of dairy-quality:
hold with projected 2-hour total time- somatic cells and fat content. With
to-result pathogen analysis. This can this technology, farmers are better
elevate supply chain transparency and, connected with every cow they milk,
for the first time, provide quantitative, enabling them to identify problems early,
strain specific results for rapid make informed decisions, and produce
identification, isolation, and eradication the best possible milk. The team behind
of pathogen contamination in food SomaDetect has experience in science,
production. agriculture and entrepreneurship, and is
now focused on combining a novel IoT
SnapDNA’s detection inexpensively sensor technology with cutting-edge
analyzes hundreds of DNA per sample machine learning and computer vision
in minutes with unmatched specificity techniques to provide dairy farmers with
and the lowest projected false positives the information they need to optimize
in the industry. Enrichment-free their operations.
processing can reduce total-time-to-
result from days to 2 hours for markets PRESENTER:
including food, ag, clinical diagnostics Bethany Deshpande
and gene therapy. CEO
[email protected]
PRESENTER:
(418) 570-2197
David Medin somadetect.com
CEO
[email protected]
(650) 265-6904
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Visual Farms,LLC WISRAN
Confidence to grow: Visual Farms WISRAN improves 2-5% profits for
improves farm profitability and growers by managing the operation
sustainability by providing independent logistics inefficiencies from planting to
Machine Learning systems to farms. harvesting to storage to distribution.
Our team of Ag industry scientists and The product is software-as-a-service
AI experts have built systems that know (SaaS) that uses sensor data to
what a plant is doing each day of its life. identify logistic inefficiencies and
Trained upon decades of irreplaceable inform growers in real-time where
hybrid performance data, our they can be more efficient during
algorithms match optimal hybrids from operation. For example, WISRAN Showcase Companies
virtually the entire available market to automatically identifies idle equipment
each farm’s growing conditions. Once and coordinates tasks to reduce
tagged to a farm field, they respond wasted time. In one case, WISRAN
to inputs and practices to accurately identified $200,000 additional profits
adjust and predict crop yields so that by identifying logistic inefficiencies.
over time, they’ll become that farm’s WISRAN “gamifies” farm tasks to
own Machine Learning system. improve worker efficiency; workers can
see how their performance compares
PRESENTER: to a target time. Additionally, WISRAN
Margaret Maizel provides customers with financial
President Visual Farms metrics, including the labor and
[email protected] equipment costs of each task.
(970) 407-0506
www.visualfarms.com PRESENTER:
Arsalan Lodhi
Founder & CEO
[email protected]
(845) 401-8027
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THANK YOU TO OUR
Sponsors & Partners
SPONSORS & PARTNERS
• PLATINUM SPONSORS
WILLIAM T. KEMPER
FOUNDATION
• COUNTRY AND REGIONAL PARTNERS
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• SILVER SPONSORS
• UNIVERSITY SHOWCASE PARTNERS Sponsors & Partners
• BRONZE SPONSORS
• ALUMNI PARTNERS
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September 11-13, 2017 #17AIS Notes
WILLIAM T. KEMPER
FOUNDATION
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