Speakers

Keynote Speakers

David Clifford

Founder
Artarmon AI

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Bio

John Reid

Research Professor and Executive Director
Center for Digital Agriculture
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Bio

Socioeconomics Guest Speakers

John Green

Director
Southern Rural Development Center
Mississippi State University

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Kollin Napier

Director
Mississippi Artificial Intelligence Network

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Jonathan Barlow

Associate Director
Data Science Academic Institute
Mississippi State University

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Autonomous Systems Invited Speaker Session

Christopher Hudson

Research Engineer
Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems
Mississippi State University

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Marcus McGee

Assistant Clinical Professor
Animal and Dairy Sciences
Mississippi State University

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Josh Peeples

Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University

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Ajay Sharda

Professor
Director, FarmsLab
Kansas State University

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Xin Zhang

Assistant Professor
Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Mississippi State University

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Socioeconomic Issues Invited Speaker Session

Allison Chatrchyan

Climate Change Education and Stakeholder Engagement Director
School of Integrative Plant Science
Cornell University

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Jonathan McFadden

Research Economist
USDA Economic Research Service

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Diego Thompson

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Mississippi State University

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Brian Whitacre

Professor
Agricultural Economics
Oklahoma State University

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Industry Expert Panel

Moderator

Ajay Sharda

Professor
Director, FarmsLab
Kansas State University

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Panelist

Craig Baillie

General Manager
Grains Research and Development Corporation

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Panelist

Connie Bowen

Co-Founder
Farmhand Ventures

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Panelist

Andrew Olliver

Chairman, Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation
Digital Product Manager, ISOBUS

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Bob Pitzer

Co-Founder and CTO
Harvest CROO

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Grower Expert Panel

Moderator

Madison Dixon

Associate Director
Agricultural Autonomy Institute
Mississippi State University

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Panelist

Heather Hampton-Knodle

Vice President
Knodle, Ltd.

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Jack Huerkamp

Lampe Partnership

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Jeremy Jack

Silent Shade Planting Company

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Panelist

Marie McGruder

McGruder Farms

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ExtensionBot Workshop

Debbie Brown

Project Manager
ExtensionBot

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David Warren

AI Program Leader, ExtensionBot
Sr. Director Digital Strategies
Oklahoma State University

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Cloud-Based Tools Workshop

Thanos Gentimis

Assistant Professor
Department of Experimental Statistics
Louisiana State University

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Ivan Grijalva

Assistant Professor
Department of Entomology
Louisiana State University

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SAS Workshop

John Gottula

Director of Crop Science
SAS Corporation

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Shelly Hunt

Data Scientist
SAS Corporation

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