Date: Thursday, Dec 2, 2021: 9am – 2:30pm PT / 12pm – 5:30pm ET
Conference Agenda
| 9:00am | Welcome / Opening Remarks |
| 9:10am | Organic AgTech: Oxymoron or golden opportunity? |
| Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University | |
| 9:30am | Using AgTech to move organic forward |
| Steven Mirsky, USDA ARS | |
| 9:50am | Can smart technologies advance organic agriculture? |
| Andrew Hammermeister, Dalhousie University | |
| 10:10am | Challenges of AgTech: Making technology support organic agriculture |
| Revathi Kollegala, Regen Foundation | |
| 10:20am | Federal funding for organic AgTech |
| Steven Thomson, USDA-NIFA | |
| 10:30am | Breakout group discussions |
| 10:50am | Summary of break-out discussions |
| 11:00am | How agricultural technologies and data bias reinforce agri-food inequities |
| Sarah Rotz, York University | |
| 11:15am | Radical code: Open source technologies for organic agriculture |
| Gathering for Open Ag Tech Team: | |
| Ankita Raturi, Purdue University | |
| Mike Stenta, FarmOS | |
| Jamie Gaehring, FarmOS | |
| Greg Austic, Our Sci LLC | |
| Juliet Norton, Purdue University | |
| 12:00pm | Political economies of organic and ag tech: tensions and convergences |
| Julie Guthman, University of California Santa Cruz | |
| 12:20pm | Demystifying technology: Helping farmers make appropriate tech choices |
| Heather Darby, University of Vermont | |
| 12:40pm | Synergies and frictions of agroecology and AgTech |
| Summer Sullivan, University of California, Santa Cruz | |
| 1:00pm | Technological priorities for organic farmers |
| Nate Powell-Palm, Cold Spring Organics | |
| Philip LaRocca, LaRocca Vinyards | |
| Earcine Evans, Pure Ciné | |
| Wa Kou Hang, Twin Cities Green Farm | |
| Jon Bansen, Double J Jerseys / Organic Valley | |
| 1:30pm | Smart, IoT, and low-cost systems to bridge the technology gap in agriculture |
| Paula Ramos, North Carolina State University | |
| 1:45pm | OpenTEAM innovations in collaboration, digital equity & data sovereignty |
| Dorn Cox, OpenTEAM/Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment | |
| 2:00pm | Breakout group discussions |
| 2:20pm | Summary discussion |
This work is supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, AFRI project #2020-67021-33116.
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