Why Join Us?
The opening event of'Farm491's - AgTech Season',
2020 Sustainable Agriculture & Tech seminar @RAU is finally here!
Join us as we venture through exciting approaches and dialogue on the role of technology in sustainable agriculture!
Some of the key themes we will be addressing are:
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SUSTAINABLE AGRI-TECH: Technology as an accelerator of sustainable agriculture.
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KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION: The use of technology in knowledge transfer and not only a solution in its own right.
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SCALABILITY OF AGTECH: The need to scale to create impact vs. locality and context-based solutions.
Take advantage of forward-thinking keynote speakers, networking with entrepreneurs, and much more!
Mona McCord
Director of Agricultural Innovation at Grameen Foundation
Grameen Foundation is a global non-profit dedicated to enabling the poor, especially women, to create a world without poverty and hunger.
They use expertise and partnerships to connect poor rural women to essential financial, health and agricultural products and services while building empowering ecosystems that support breakthroughs.
Registration
8:30 am
Doors open and registration begins.
Opening Remarks
9:30 am
RAU students will introduce you to the days' planned activities and will give a brief description of their insights as students in the future role of Agritech in agriculture.
Sarah Carr, Farm491 & Ian Wilkinson FarmED
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Sarah Carr from Farm491 and Ian Wilkinson from FarmED will begin the days discussions. There will be time allocated at the end of each presentation for questions from the audience.
Tea & Coffee break
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Tirion Keatinge, reNature; Sava Riaskoff & Stefano Petroni; Professor James Lowenberg-DeBoer
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The next section of the day will discuss the alternative opinions and the varying roles of agri-tech in a sustainable future for agriculture.
Lunch
1:00 pm
Lunch can be purchased and served in our dining room along with the opportunity to network with seminarists and other guests. Guests are also encouraged to submit questions for the afternoon debate session.
Alex Cherry, Groundswell
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Alex Cherry will discuss the work they do at the Groundswell event in promoting sustainable agriculture practices.
Keynote Speaker - Mona McCord, Grameen Foundation
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Mona McCord, Director of Agriculture innovations at Grameen Foundation will give the keynote speech of the day. She will share with us some of the work that Grameen is doing in connecting farmers to markets and the role that agritech plays in this.
There will be time for a 15 minute Q&A session at the end of the presentation.
Break
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15 minutes to refresh and submit final questions for the panel discussion.
Panel Debate
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Speakers from the day will participate in a panel discussion debating questions submitted from the audience during the lunch break.
Closing Remarks
4:30 pm
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Networking
5:00 pm
Bathurst Wing.
This is an opportunity to meet and mingle/network with the IRD conference speakers and guests.
Location
Boutflour Hall, Royal Agricultural University
Stroud Rd, Cirencester GL7 6JS, United Kingdom
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