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Angela Ichwan Senior Director Technical Lead, The Annex by Ardent Mills

Angela Ichwan is the Sr. Director Technical Lead of The Annex, the specialty business unit of Ardent Mills. She joined Ardent Mills in July 2014 and led a team of R&D, Culinary and Technical Services professionals through major changes with the formation of a joint venture, where Angela sustained business growth and integrated two cultures…

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Candace Laing Vice President, Sustainability and Stakeholder Relations, Nutrien

Candace Laing is the Vice President of Sustainability and Stakeholder Relations at Nutrien, the world’s largest provider of crop inputs, services and solutions. Her career has spanned both private and public-sector organizations – with a focus on strategic business initiatives that create long-term value and high-performance cultures. Candace has a Bachelor of Commerce and a…

Daphne Taber Customer Experience Practice Area Lead, Slalom Consulting

Daphne Taber is the Practice Area Lead for Slalom’s Denver Customer Engagement & Digital Strategy practice.  She helps start-ups to Fortune 500 companies drive business value by becoming customer-centric organizations.  She uses data driven insights, human centered design principles and storytelling to educate business leaders and cultivate customer centric organizations.  Her 25+ years of experience…

Quentin Tyler

Dr. Quentin R. Tyler Associate Dean and Director, Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University

Dr. Quentin R. Tyler currently serves as the Associate Dean and Director for the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) at Michigan State University (MSU). As Associate Dean and Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ADDEI), Dr. Tyler provides leadership for infusing diversity, equity and inclusion…

Robert Fraley

Dr. Robert Fraley Former Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Monsanto Company

Dr. Robert Fraley was Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Monsanto Company until his retirement in 2018, where he led a team of agricultural scientists dedicated to developing seeds and solutions that help farmers around the world yield a more abundant, affordable, and sustainable food supply. In this role, he oversaw teams of…

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Erin Fitzgerald Chief Executive Officer, U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance

Erin Fitzgerald (@fitzisit) serves as CEO of the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance® (USFRA®), a farmer and rancher led organization committed to encouraging stakeholder and consumer dialogue about how food is grown and raised. She leads the organization’s strategic direction of the organization. Fitzgerald’s thought leadership in the sustainability space convenes food and agriculture stakeholders…

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Florian Schattenmann Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Innovation and Research & Development, Cargill

Florian Schattenmann is Cargill’s Chief Technology Officer and Vice President for Innovation and Research & Development (R&D). He oversees a global team that is driven by the vision of relentlessly creating value for Cargill and its customers via research, application and product development, and technical service support across agriculture, food, animal feed and bio-industrial. Prior…

Jasmine Dillon

Jasmine Dillon Assistant Professor of Beef & Dairy Agroecosystems, College of Agricultural Sciences, CSU

Prior to working at CSU, Jasmine earned a Ph.D. in Animal Science at Penn State University, and an M.S. in Animal Breeding and B.S. in Animal Science at Texas A&M University. As a professor, she works to (1) help animal science students develop systems thinking skills and holistic perspectives on the agricultural systems they will…

Jodi Benson

Jodi Benson Chief Innovation, Technology and Quality Officer, General Mills

As Chief Innovation, Technology and Quality Officer, Jodi Benson is responsible for the invention and commercialization of new food products and technologies which provide increasingly higher levels of well-being, ease and joy to meet consumers evolving food values. Most recently, Benson served as leader for our integrated ITQ Centers of Excellence, focused on the broad…

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Kate Greenberg Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture

Kate Greenberg was appointed to serve as Colorado’s Commissioner of Agriculture by Governor Jared Polis in December 2018. She leads a staff of 300 employees across the department’s eight divisions of Animal Health, Brand Inspection, Colorado State Fair, Conservation Services, Inspection and Consumer Services, Laboratory Services, Markets and Plant Industry. As Commissioner, Greenberg’s key initiatives…

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Kristin Kirkpatrick Executive Director for Together We Grow, CSU’s Center for an Enhanced Workforce in Agribusiness

Kristin Kirkpatrick is the Executive Director for Together We Grow and CSU’s Center for an Enhanced Workforce in Agribusiness.  In this role, Kristin works alongside a consortium of industry, NGO, higher ed, and government institutions to create a more skilled, diverse and inclusive workforce within the American Ag industry. Kristin has always had a passion…

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Krysta Harden Executive Vice President of Global Environmental Strategy, Dairy Management Inc.

Krysta Harden serves as Executive Vice President of Global Environmental Strategy for Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), which manages the national dairy checkoff on behalf of nearly 40,000 U.S. dairy farmers. Leveraging a strong background within agriculture, sustainability and food policy, Harden plays a key leadership role in defining the vision, strategy and plan forward for…

Martha Montoya

Martha Montoya Founder and CEO, Ag Tools

Martha Montoya is the founder and CEO of www.ag.tools, a web – SaaS solution allowing farmers and everyone on the food supply chain to make better decisions, increase profits, avoid waste and impact climate change. Martha has a keen insight on the challenges of both the farmer as well as the retailer.  Agtools is a…

Philomena Morrissey Satre

Philomena Morrissey Satre Director of Diversity and Inclusion and External Strategic Partnerships, Land O'Lakes, Inc.

Philomena serves as Director of Diversity & Inclusion and External Strategic Partnerships.  She joined Land O’Lakes in June 2017, bringing more than 30 years of human resource experience in diversity and inclusion, community relations, work life and wellbeing. Before joining Land O’Lakes, she worked at Wells Fargo & Company.   Her previous roles included VP of…

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Polly Ruhland Chief Executive Officer, United Soybean Board

As the Chief Executive Officer of United Soybean Board, Polly Ruhland (@pollypencilplow) works on behalf of U.S. farmer investors to advance agriculture’s sustainability through research, education and promotion programs. Prior to joining USB, Ruhland served as Chief Executive Officer at the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board. She served as a senior vice president at…

Heather Bohnenkamp

Sarah Bohnenkamp Sustainability and Leadership Communication Consultant & Coach

Sarah J. Bohnenkamp is a Business & Leadership Coach • Keynote Speaker • Workshop & Retreat Facilitator • and Communication Consultant. She believes communication is code for leadership and challenges those she works with to strive for anti-average to drive true change. Sarah works out of the Denver area with clients around the world specializing…

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Saswati Bora Head of Food Systems Innovation, World Economic Forum

Saswati is the Head of Food Systems Innovation at the World Economic Forum (WEF) where she heads WEF’s global initiative on leveraging technology and innovations to address food systems challenges as well as the agriculture work in India. As part of this work, she is responsible for content development, partnership facilitation and program development on…

Tom Vilsack CEO and President of the U.S. Dairy Export Council; former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture; CSU Strategic Adviser of Food & Water Initiatives at the National Western Center

As president and CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC), Tom Vilsack provides strategic leadership and oversight of USDEC’s global promotional and research activities, regulatory affairs and trade policy initiatives. This includes working with industry leaders to develop a long-term vision for growth and consumer trust in U.S. dairy. Vilsack joined USDEC in January…

 

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