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FASTCON: Food, Ag & Supply Chain in Tech Conference

8:00am CST

Registration, Coffee & Rolls Lobby

9:00am CST

She Talks Data: Panel Discussion Elements Café (Floor 6)Serena Roberts • Kristine Rennaker • Rebeccah Stay, MS, MBA • Chelsea Ihle, MS • Bonnie Holub, PhD Making Better Business Decisions at Grande Cheese with Public Data Omnitheater (access via Floor 5 or 6)Rob Rowbotham, MS, PhD Addressing Variety and Veracity of Data in Ag Through Partnerships and Modernization of Infrastructure Discovery Hall (Floor 4)Ted Steinmann Food Safety Intelligence Argon Room (Floor 6)Shilpa Yelamaneni, MBA Simulation of Supply Chain for fun and profit Auditorium (Floor 3)Samantha Schumacher, PhD Startup Showcase Xenon Room (Floor 6)Big Wheelbarrow • ConverSight.ai • General Probiotics • ImagoAI • Insight Sensing Corporation • Nexyst 360 • Otrafy • Poultry Patrol • Retail Data Trust • Spoonshot • Spruik Technologies

9:45am CST

10:00am CST

Change Management in a Data Driven World Discovery Hall (Floor 4)Ryan Ambrose Integrated Data and Advanced Analytics Across the Value Chain Auditorium (Floor 3)Gregory Sloyer, PhD • Scott Toborg, PhD Precision Agriculture Argon Room (Floor 6)Karen Hildebrand, PhD • Teresa Vallotton, MS Food Service Bid-Price Optimization Omnitheater (access via Floor 5 or 6)Ian Sherman, MBA • Vineet Tanna, MS

10:30am CST

10:45am CST

Leveraging Machine Learning in Ag Omnitheater (access via Floor 5 or 6)John Murphy MLOps: From Experiment to Production Discovery Hall (Floor 4)Iurii Milovanov (Artificial) Intelligence in High Volume Manufacturing Auditorium (Floor 3)Gary Kunkel, MS, PhD Hive Migration to Databricks Argon Room (Floor 6)Sam Tong

11:15am CST

11:30am CST

CxO Panel Discussion Auditorium (Floor 3)Kerri Miller • Amanda Little, PhD • Don Monk, MS • Marc Carlson, MBA • Lisa Schlosser • Keith Narr Grow: Young Professionals applying Analytics to Agriculture Elements Café (Floor 6)William Eerdmans, MS • Waverly Konynenbelt, MS • Anirudh Narayanan, MS • Daniel McKenzie • Victoria Wenker, MS Extinction or Sustainability: Paleontology, Big Data, and Geospatial Analytics for Conservation Omnitheater (access via Floor 5 or 6)Kristopher Purens, MS, PhD All the things, All the time, Everywhere! with the Operational Database for 21st Century Applications Argon Room (Floor 6)Brian Hess, MA, MSE Food is Ripe for an Upgrade Discovery Hall (Floor 4)Eric Weaver

12:15pm CST

Lunch

1:00pm CST

The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World Auditorium (Floor 3)Amanda Little, PhD Startup Fireside Chat Elements Café (Floor 6)Stephanie Rich, MBA • Brett Brohl, MBA CTL Data Lake Journey Argon Room (Floor 6)John Vylasek • Chris Peterson Grand Farm: Creating the Farm of the Future by 2025 Xenon Room (Floor 6)William Aderholdt, PhD The Opportunity and Challenges of Integrating Dynamic Systems into Established Supply Chains Omnitheater (access via Floor 5 or 6)Jean-Michel Michno, MS, PhD The Science of Successfully Scaling AI and Advanced Analytics Discovery Hall (Floor 4)Kishor Gummaraju, MBA • John Hogue, MS

1:45pm CST

2:00pm CST

MinneMUDAC Student Expo Elements Café (Floor 6)Karen Hildebrand, PhD • Teresa Vallotton, MS • John Hogue, MS Augmented Reality Applications in Agriculture Discovery Hall (Floor 4)Jamie Wang Unleash the Power of Your Data with the Right Data Strategy! Auditorium (Floor 3)Dave Williams Speed Meets Scale: Interactively Analyzing & Visualizing Billions of Rows of Spatiotemporal Data Xenon Room (Floor 6)Aaron Williams Spotting Sustainability from Space: Detecting and Segmenting Agricultural Features in Satellite Imagery Omnitheater (access via Floor 5 or 6)Rich Bellefeuille, MBA • Cort Lunke, MS Supply Chain AI in Action Argon Room (Floor 6)Arthur Mesher

2:45pm CST

3:00pm CST

The Decade to Deliver Argon Room (Floor 6)Jessica Long Get (a whole lot more than) what you pay for: Making the most of public data sources in agriculture Auditorium (Floor 3)Cort Lunke, MS Multi-Satellite Remote Sensing of Land-Atmosphere Interactions: Advanced Data-Driven Methodologies for Passive Microwave Retrievals Discovery Hall (Floor 4)Zeinab Takbiri, MS, PhD Deep Learning for Wheat Harvester Omnitheater (access via Floor 5 or 6)Tim Rosenflanz, MS

3:30pm CST

3:45pm CST

Productionizing AI: Why No One is Doing it Well, and What it Takes to do it Right Auditorium (Floor 3)Collin Mechler, ME Understanding the Nexus of Food-Energy-Water Resources Argon Room (Floor 6)Emre Eftelioglu, PhD Computer Vision for Rapid Evaluation of Deoxynivalenol (DON) Levels in Wheat and Barley Seeds from Different Genetic Lines and for Automated Crop Identification for Weed Control Discovery Hall (Floor 4)Wen-Hao Su, PhD

4:15pm CST

Networking Social Lobby