Silicon Valley Argentina

About This Event

Silicon Valley Forum lands in Argentina this November with their signature AgTech conference ``The Seeds of Our Future”

Connecting and communicate with Silicon Valley’s AgTech ecosystem! In two intensive immersion sessions in the city of Rosario, agricultural producers, technological innovators, start-ups, universities, the government and industry experts in the industry will explore new ideas and innovations in AgTech. The event will also highlight state-of-the-art technology aimed at agricultural production, including automated farms, robotics and drones, Internet of Things, Artificial intelligence and Big Data, among others. It will also show the lines of research and development that will transform the markets and lead to a true technological revolution in the near future, such as the cellular agriculture and the production in controlled environments.

For more than 30 years, Silicon Valley Forum (SVF) has fostered innovation, business spirit and leadership in Silicon Valley. Its community is made up of not only the start-ups community but also of corporations, service suppliers and investors. Committed and global, it has more than 20,000 members worldwide.

Silicon Valley Forum connects people and organizations from all over the world to the knowledge and networks of Silicon Valley.
The strategic alliance between Silicon Valley Forum and Chacra Magazine and CEDEF Foundation aims at establishing that bond with the Argentinean agro-industrial sector.

8:00 a 9:00

Accreditation and breakfast

9:00 a 9:30

Opening of the conference

Governor of Santa Fe Province; Authorities of Rosario Municipality; Federal Council of Investments; Denyse Cardozo, CEO and President of Silicon Valley Forum; Mariana Stegagnini, president of CEDEF Foundation.

9:30 a 10:15

Revolution 4.0 in the agro: trends and challenges.

Lisa Prassack, President of Prassack Advisors & Gabriel Delgado, Director of the Research Center in Political, Economic and Social Sciences (INTA).

10:15 a 11:00

Digital Agronomy: precise information for decision making.

Jessica Bollinger, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships- Arable Lands.

11:00 a 11:45

Public policies for agriculture 4.0 development in Argentina. Impact and challenges.

Production and agro-industry ministers.

11:45 a 12:30

Big Data and food production: the challenge of the avalanche of data for decision making.

Nathan Dorn, CEO- Food Origins & Ami Patel, Director of product- ripe.io Blockchain of food

12:30 a 14:00

Networking lunch.

14:00 a 15:00

Beyond cryptocurrencies: the future of Blockchain in Agro 4.0.

Deborah Magid, Director Software Strategy- IBM Venture Capital Group & Rachel Gabato, Products and Program Managment- Ripe.io Blockchain of food.

15:00 a 15:45

Agrosensors and IoT: maximizing the use of agricultural information in real time.

Naeem Zafar, CO Founder and CEO- TeleSense.

15:45 a 16:15

Break

16:15 a 17:00

Adding neuronal thinking to the agro company: AgroBot and Artificial Intelligence.

Miku Jha, Founder and CEO- AgShift & Georgina Stegmayer, Resarcher. CONICET. UNL.

17:00 a 18:00

Smart Farming - Smart Agriculture and production efficiency.

Jeffrey Orrey- Founder and Chief Science Officer of Geovisual Analytics & Ed Keebler- Co-Founder Living Economy; CEO Renewable Food Group.

9:00 a 9:45

Leveraging technology to promote investment and reduce risk.

Jennifer Place- Investor, Finistere Ventures & Fernando Luciani - CEO, Argentine Securities Market.

9:45 a 10:30

Future food-production systems: vertical farming and controlled-environment agriculture.

Business Development and AgTech consultant.

10:30 a 11:00

Break

11:00 a 12:00

Biotechnology potential: from the seed to the source of health in food.

Diane Wu, CEO and Founder- Trace Genomics & Sergio Feingold - Coordinator of the National Biotechnology Program. INTA.

12:00 a 13:00

Microbiomes - new ways of understanding soil and plant health.

Dragan Macura, Chief Science Officer- AgroThrive & Carlos Becco, Director- Indigo Argentina.

13:00 a 14:30

Networking lunch.

14:30 a 15:15

Plant- meat: new concepts of production and consumption.

Hernán Jaramillo, Vice president, business development- JUST Inc.

15:15 a 16:15

Cellular Agriculture: dialoguing about synthetic meat and its future.

Thomas Bowman – Director of Product Development. Mission Barns & Juan José Grigera Naón- International Bovine Meat Specialist. IPCVA.SRA. Mercosur Meat Forum.