We're excited to bring together industry experts, investors, and big name players who are dedicated to advancing the future of ag tech. Check out our program release and join us online as we discuss the latest sector headwinds, technology milestones, and key challenges facing the future of the industry. |
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A small cross section of the dozens of active funds participating in the forum. Put faces to names at the Meet the Investors panel session and hear straight from active venture capital and private equity investors as they lend insight into the current opportunity landscape. |
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Keynote Presentation | Building the Future of Agriculture & Food |
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Omnivore defines itself as a “financial first” impact investor, seeking to deliver market-rate venture capital returns, while impacting the lives of Indian smallholder farmers and rural communities. Every day, Omnivore portfolio companies drive agricultural prosperity and transform food systems across India, making farming more profitable, resilient, and sustainable. |
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Company Showcase Presentations |
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Keynote Presentation | Power of the Network |
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Truly top-grade your network. Once a Higher Education Evangelist at LinkedIn, now the VP of Network at Techstars, John is a firm believer that a network needs love and attention. John’s presentation will outline how you can build a diverse network that can actually help forge your career forward. Whether you’re focused on online or offline connections, his speech highlights valuable tips and tricks that every entrepreneur needs to know when it comes to networking effectively!
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Keynote Presentation | The Price of Tomorrow |
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We live in an extraordinary time. Technological advances are happening at a rate faster than our ability to understand them, and in a world that moves faster than we can imagine, we cannot afford to stand still. Listen in as Jeff Booth, a leading mind and CEO in e-commerce and technology for 20 years, details the technological and economic realities shaping our present and our future, and the choices we face as we go forward—a potentially alarming, but deeply hopeful situation, in his Keynote at the 2020 AGRI Tech Venture Forum. |
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Engaging the Corporate Strategics |
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Connect with these global leaders. Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) is playing an ever increasing role in the venture funding ecosystem. Companies are turning to CVC as an alternative to the traditional venture funding model, and internally, CVC is stepping in to ensure that there is a viable, healthy emerging ag tech ecosystem to feed their corporate parents’ long term needs. |
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Company Showcase Presentations |
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Keynote Presentation | Allison Kopf, Founder, VC, AGRI Tech Maven |
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#ForbesUnder30 Allison Kopf is the Founder & CEO of Artemis, the market-leading Cultivation Management Platform serving the fruit, vegetable, floriculture, cannabis, and hemp industries! At its core, Artemis is a data-driven company that believes in people and is using technology to create a world that sustains itself. Allison is an Investment Partner at XFactor Ventures, serves on Cornell University’s Controlled Environment Agriculture board, and is a mentor for Techstar's Farm to Fork Accelerator.
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Creative Company Formation | AVAC Group & Carrot |
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Rather than invest in existing businesses, Carrot forms and funds new companies to commercialize novel technology. It’s the Third Option for AgTech IP owners, when internal support is lacking, or when inventors don’t want to be an entrepreneur. Carrot is managed by AVAC Group. |
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Canadian Technology Accelerator Program |
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VC's: Tap new deal flow.
AG Tech Company Builders: Expand your reach.
The Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) is a program of Global Affairs Canada’s Trade Commissioner Service. It offers high-intensity programming that helps selected high-growth, high-potential Canadian technology firms scale up by connecting them with export, investment and partnership opportunities in global innovation centres including Boston, New York and San Francisco, with planned expansion to four Asian technology hubs (Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Tokyo) and the global innovation centres of Berlin, London, Mexico City and Delhi. For non-Canadian companies, you will also learn how to leverage the global reach of the Trade Commissioner Service to establish a business-friendly North American beach head to advance your international market access agenda.
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Scaling Up - Market Access, Growth Management &
Leveraging Intangible Assets
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Game changers. These tenacious entrepreneurs have built their brands from scratch and are creating the future. Enough said. |
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Bioenterprise Presentation |
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Bioenterprise is Canada’s Food and AgriTech Engine, bringing more than 15 years of industry experience to help businesses connect, innovate and grow. From expert services and mentorship, public and private funding and investment, to national and global networking, the Bioenterprise Engine will help scale your business to create sector-wide impact. |
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Reserve your seat today for this outstanding program! |
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AVAC Group is a team with industry and venture capital expertise that invests across the continuum of entrepreneurship.
It recently launched Carrot to catalyze the formation of Ag Tech companies by matching agricultural technology with experienced management. Companies formed by Carrot benefit further by having AVAC Group as the lead investor.
If you have an innovative agricultural technology requiring commercialization, or extensive industry and commercialization experience with the time and energy to start and build an innovative Ag Tech company, then AVAC Group would like to form a company with you!
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A Huge Thanks to Our Sponsors! |
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Find out how you can become a participant, sponsor or speaker
at the 2020 AGRI Tech Venture Forum.
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Marc Elrick
Executive Director
Phone: 403-819-0383
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Spencer Coulter
Project Manager
Phone: 587-224-9403
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updates, and announcements.
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