2024 Speakers

Founder + Operations Manager / CEO

Better Fresh Farms / 4fungi’s

Manager of Research and Innovation

Bushel Boy Farms

Plant Specialist

Philips LED Lighting

Director of Operations

Planted Detroit

President / Co-Founder

Ellijay Mushrooms

Paul Brentlinger

CEO

CropKing Inc.

Plant Specialist

Philips Horticulture LED Lighting

Business Development Manager: Southeastern US

Priva

Sierra Biological

Technical Lead

Research Consultant, Plant Technologies

Viscon

Vice President of Global

Tower Garden

Founder & Farmer

Piedmont Microgreens

Chief Commercial Officer

BIG Incentive Group

Horticulture & Technical Service

CropKing Inc.

Owner

Extreme Green Farms

Plant Physiologist

PP Systems

Michael R. Evans

Professor of Controlled Environment Agriculture and Co-Director Controlled Environment Agriculture Innovation Center

Virginia Tech

Beth Pugh Farrell

Agricultural Program Development Coordinator

North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

Market Segment Manager CEA

Jiffy Group

Technical Services Manager

BioWorks

Sales Manager for the US Market

Sollum Technologies

Henry Gordon-Smith

Founder & CEO

Agritecture

Dr. Sanjun Gu Ph.D

Extension Specialist/Associate Professor – Horticulture and Southern Region SARE Coordinator

Virginia State University

Scientific Program Officer Foundation

Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR)

CEA Sales Representative

SEEDWAY

Ricardo Hernández

Associate Professor

NC State CEA Coalition

Co-Owner and Systems Integration Specialist

Ceres Greenhouse Solutions

CEA Specialist

JR Peters Inc

Associate Professor

Ohio Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (OHCEAC) - The Ohio State University

Founder

USDAConnect

Chief Executive Officer

The Chef’s Garden, Inc.

Interim Head and Professor, Biosystems Engineering Department and Director, Controlled Environment Agriculture Center

The University of Arizona

Christian Kanlian

Lead Food Systems Consultant

Agritecture

Researcher

Konjoian's Horticulture Education Services Inc.

Project Manager Industry 4.0 Advanced Manufacturing

Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership (GaMEP) at Georgia Tech

Dr. Melanie Lewis Ivey

Associate Professor

Ohio Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (OHCEAC) - The Ohio State University 

Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry

Commonwealth of Virginia

Head of Food Safety and Lead Biologist

Better Day Farms

Co-Founder and Operations Director

Better Day Farms

Project Manager, Department of Horticulture

Auburn University

Andrew Montgomery

President

Indoor Farm Foundation

Co-Owner and President

Green Box Mushrooms

Eshwar Ravishankar

Assistant Professor - Department of Plant Science

CalPoly Pomona

Area Agent – Horticulture Commercial Fruits and Vegetables

NC Cooperative Extension

Dr. Nadia Sabeh

President and Founder

Dr. Greenhouse

Gretchen Schimelpfenig

Senior Energy Engineer

Energy Resources Integration

Founder and CEO

Retaaza

Director - Raleigh Regional Office

USDA Risk Management Agency

Risk Management Specialist

USDA Risk Management Agency

Executive Director

Aquaponics Association

Sales Director – Southern USA

Berger

Executive Director

Controlled Environment Agriculture Alliance

Kevin Strickland

Sales Manager

BioTherm

Heather Tunstall

Corporate Content Director Brand Media and Engagement

Meister Media Worldwide

Dr. Simone Valle de Souza

Assistant Professor, Department of Horticulture

Michigan State University

Terry Vandercook

Sales Development Coordinator

Legacy Labor

Jennifer Waxman

Founder & Managing Partner

Mastermind Mushrooms™ Seed2Source™

CEO and Founder

Recovery Park

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Seed2Source

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