1:30 PM – Symposium
4:30 PM – AgFintech Showcase
5:00 PM – Reception
Faculty
Schedule
1:30 PM – Symposium
4:30 PM – AgFintech Showcase
5:00 PM – Reception
Agenda
1:30 Intro
1:35 Creating efficient financing on-ramps for Sustainable Investments
Vince Molinari - FINTECH.TV
Lawrence Johnson - Morningstar
1:40 The Case for a More Sustainable Future in Agriculture
Dave Donnan - Northwestern University
2:00 New Frontiers in AgTech - a VC Perspective
Tripp Wall – Trailhead Capital
2:20 Investing in AgTech: Can you dig it?
Brian Chiappinelli - Cambridge Associates
Mark McCall – iSelect Fund
Renée Vassilos - The Nature Conservancy
2:50 Carbon Credit / Offsets Market
Debbie Gordon - RSM LLP
Matt Shanahan - Marathon Capital
Dana C. Jackson - RSM LLP
3:20 BREAK
3:30 Sustainability and financial services: how we can accelerate low carbon transition for corporates
Matthieu Soulé - BNP Paribas C.Lab Americas
Tim Mohin - Persefoni
Gabriel Presler - Morningstar
4:00 Building an AgFintech Platform
Shane Stiles - Gate 39 Media
Alex Baldassano - Climavision
Fernando Adler - Farmers Business Network (FBN)
Michael Iseman - AcreTrader
4:30 AgTech through the Investor’s Lens: Opportunities and Risk
Vincenzina (Enza) Rosi - Morningstar
Laura Lutton – Sustainalytics
Adam Fleck - Morningstar
5:00 Emerging AgFintechs Showcase
Michelle Shi – Plug and Play
Melissa Carmichael - Bremer Bank
Rebekah Carlson - Nori
Jake Joraanstad - Bushel
5:30 Reception AGFintech Showcase
AcreTrader
Combyne Ag
Ethic
Nori
Showcase
AcreTrader empowers its customers to buy and sell land smarter through advanced technology, data, and expertise. The AcreTrader platform allows accredited investors the ability to make investments in operating farms to diversify their portfolios in just minutes online, and provides new avenues to access capital for growing farm operators. Since its founding in 2018, AcreTrader has broadened access to buy, sell, and invest in land for thousands of investors, farmers, and landowners across the U.S.
Combyne Ag provides of a grain selling marketplace designed to make the cash trade of agricultural commodities easier in the digital age. The company's farmer-centric crop marketing hub increases market reach, offers full-time access, eliminates middlemen and over-the-phone haggling, reduces brokerage fees, provides improved recordkeeping, decision making, and value optimization when marketing physical grain, and oilseed commodities, enabling buyers and sellers to list, negotiate and finalize grain deals.
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