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Alan Kriz is Global Strategic Alliance Manager and Crop Science Lead at Bayer LifeHub Boston. He has 30 years of experience in the agbiotech sector with Bayer, Monsanto (including DeKalb Genetics and Renessen LLC), BASF Plant Science, and as a faculty member at the University of Illinois. Kriz?s entire career has focused on the delivery of innovative solutions to agriculture. He holds a BA in biology from Hiram College and a PhD in genetics from Indiana University.

Scalable production of RNA for agriculture
Andrey Zarur, Cofounder & CEO, GreenLight Biosciences
Potassium fertilizer innovation
Philip Wender, Managing Director, Advanced Potash Technologies
Chemiresistive gas sensing for food safety
Merry Smith, Senior Scientist, C2Sense
Novel dehumidifying material for indoor farms
Sorin Grama, Cofounder, Transaera
Probiotics for plants
Michael Miille, CEO, Joyn Bio [Joyn is a JV between Ginkgo Bioworks and Leaps by Bayer]
Coatings to improve shelf life of perishables
Adam Behrens, CEO, Cambridge Crops
Digital financing platform for farmers
Fabricio Pezente, CEO, Traive Finance
First micro weather platform with global coverage
Rei Goffer, Cofounder & Chief Strategy Officer, ClimaCell
Autonomous electric tractor
Bakur Kvezereli, Cofounder & CEO, Ztractor

Caleb Harper is the principal investigator and director of the Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg) at the MIT Media Lab, where he leads a group of engineers, architects, urban planners, economists, and plant scientists in the exploration and development of high performance urban agricultural systems. Under his guidance, this diverse group (which he calls an ?anti-disciplinary group?) is developing an open-source agricultural hardware, software, and data common aiming to create a more agile, transparent, and collaborative food system.