Moderator: Neil Mattson, Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science Horticulture Section, Cornell University
Guest Speakers: Serdar Mizrakci, CEO, Element Farms; Dave Nichols, Chief Strategy Officer, AppHarvest; Melanie Yelton, Director of Plant Sciences, Plenty; Tessa Pocock, CSO, Soli Organics
This CEA focused panel provides experts across the industry to
discuss their vision toward sustainability. We will touch on topics including
energy use, reduced transportation, and water and fertilizer use efficiency.
Each company will have a chance to discuss their approach to increasing
sustainability and food system resiliency as well as their use of sensors and
big data analytics. The discussion will round out with the challenges (current
and future) in the space of CEA.
Thought for food...
Our global agriculture and food systems require a radical transformation relying on expertise in multiple areas and research collaborations across disciplines that include agriculture, food safety, engineering, information and computer science, biology, business and the social sciences.
More than 100 faculty from across Cornell’s colleges – Agriculture and Life Sciences, Engineering, Computing and Information Science, Arts and Sciences, Veterinary Medicine and Business – have come together to develop a robust research agenda for CIDA, weaving unmatched excellence into holistic solutions for food and agriculture. CIDA’s mission is to inspire learning, catalyze innovation, and integrate fundamental discoveries to achieve new levels of sustainability in agri-food systems and new food for thought.