7 Jan 2016 Sustainable Ag Innovation & Investor Forum, Salinas, CA

Mark your calendar for 7 January 2016 event in Salinas, CA:

Cutting-edge Solutions for Sustainable Food, Water & Energy

ABOUT: This event will present several major innovation themes and investment opportunities at the nexus of water, agriculture, and energy then open the floor for feedback and discussion on these and other relevant issues.

WHO ATTENDS:  Growers, Investors, AgTech Innovators, asset managers, gatekeepers, professional service providers and others

The first investor forum of the year will focus on sustainable agriculture and renewable energy technology innovation and investing opportunities, co hosted by Renewable Energy Investor Forum, Ag Tech Insight and In3 Group.

Here’s our lineup for the 7th of January:

1. Water for Agriculture via Solar Power & Distillation
   
   • Bruce Marlow, Director, WaterFX & HydroRevolution
      
2. Modular Hydroponic “Micro-Farms” – Next Gen Urban Farming
   • Nick Halmos JD, CEO of CityBlooms
3. Advanced Renewable Fuels from Surprising Source
   • Kevin Weiss PE, CEO of Byogy Renewables

View PDF of agenda and speaker biographies. Or contact In3 staff with questions.

Register to attend. Pre-registration is required as space is limited.  There is no cost.

Why this session?

Few would disagree that Sustainable Agriculture and Clean Technology are a match made in heaven.  Bringing that down to earth, and into the soil, raises question of what technologies are best suited for the task, namely the challenges of long-term food security, globally, with an expanding urban population, the need for inclusive economies, social equity and sensible development.

According to Tech Crunch (“The New Queen of Green,” April 2015), the momentum shift leading up to the phase-transition [of] 2013 can be traced to a confluence of three underlying trends:

1. a groundswell of macro economic trends that tipped the balance between supply and demand in agriculture

2. shifting consumer tastes, and

3. a confluence of new hardware technologies that freed computation from the desktop and automated multivariate collection of big data.

Perhaps.  But what’s driving the shift in consumer tastes, and why are the capital markets clamoring to make AgTech/CleanTech the next darling of the 2016 economy?

Let’s focus on “consumer tastes” for a moment.  Why are they shifting?  Recent evidence shows that Impact Investing has become important to roughly one third of the US high-net-worth individuals, up from single digits just a few years ago.  Core values and governing principles are shifting, and people vote with their purchase dollars.

1/7/16 Program Agenda & Location | Speaker Biographies | Event Details
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