If you haven’t been able to make it to any AgTech events in person, there's an online event for you: The Vertical Farming Summit.
Here’s what you’ll learn during the summit:
- A methodology for developing your vertical farming business and planning for success.
- Lessons on building a mission driven, venture backed startup around fresh food.
- Creative new forms of distribution for gourmet plants and mushrooms.
- How to use crop data to unlock higher profits.
- How to turn waste into opportunity and using organics in hydroponic systems
- The Power of a Plant: A Teacher's Odyssey to Grow Healthy Minds and Schools
- How to turn your positive environmental impact into a competitive advantage in the new economy.
- How to build your network and land exciting new opportunities in urban agriculture.
- Farm Marketing -- How to boost sales and profits using automation and customer research.
- The 12 steps to becoming an urban or vertical farmer.
- Legal considerations when setting up a farm / agtech business.
- Why sunlight isn’t free and other insights from AeroFarms.
- Closed loop technology and how to start growing your own food at home.
- AVA, Urban futurism and the impacts of digitization on agriculture.
- Insights from successful agricultural businesses.
- Projects that you should be paying attention to and following.
- Top resources and recommendations for learning about urban agriculture and vertical farming.
- How to pitch your vertical farming business to investors.
- How to start small and scale up intentionally.
- … and many more sessions to be announced.
The summit will be streamed for free from June 16-25th to reach as many people as possible.
If you can’t make all the sessions you can grab an All-Access Pass.
Chris Powers is an entrepreneur and urban agriculture advocate who is using digital marketing to share knowledge about emerging technologies in food. Sign up for his virtual summit and his blog to learn more.