Indoor Ag-Con 2022, Las Vegas, United States

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Indoor Ag-Con 2022, Las Vegas, United States

Team Artechno: Maxim van Zeijl, Julia Erftemeijer and Martin van Zanten

Lars Jensen with Ellepot showed the company’s new product.

Stephen Murch & Luis Truijillo with Hoogendoorn.

Say hi to Jeff Conley & Gary Braze with Conley’s. Last year the company celebrated it’s 75th anniversary, making it one of the dinosaurs in the industry.

Jason Barrett, Paul Cooper & Eric Waterman with Quick Plug. Thanks to the growing market and a growing market share, they’re expanding rapidly.

Blake Lange, Colin Brice & Allison Driskill with Signify

Urban-gro: Barbara Graham and Bradley Natrass are visited by Rob Wiese with PB Tec, second to left.

David Bovell & Derek McLaughlin with Bellpark Horticulture are accompanied by their partners from DryGair: Ziv Shaked & Elad Spiegel.

The team with Surna was present at the show to show their cultivation technologies, both in vegetables, vertical farms and cannabis enterprises.

On the show the Netled team launched a new company identity and new services.

Al Zylstra & Kurt Becker with Dramm, specialists in complete integration of water solutions

Daniel Lee with GE Current is in the booth with Brian Harris & Karla Garcia with Hort Americas.

Edwin Vanlaerhoven & Timo Kleijwegt with Certhon

Andrew Van Geest, Robbert Vandersteen & Isaac Van Geest with Zwart Systems.

Avner Shohet with TAPKIT, Linda Bracha with Green-Tek and Dave Daily with BFG Supply. Only recently Green-Tek & BFG Supply announced to start market the TAPKIT hydroponic solutions: https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9402883/we-will-bring-hydroponically-grown-produce-to-every-corner-in-the-usa/

The team with Harvest Today. You could smell the fresh basil from their growing system meters away!

Daniel Norden with Hydrafiber / Profile Products and Erik de Ruiter with Organic Shapes

Joep van den Bosch and Pascal Piepers with Ridder visited the show.

Arnold de Kievid & Bill Whittaker with Oreon.

Angie Stevenson & Greg Slater with Ketos

Ryan Peters & Jamie Jackson with Percival, offering customized growth chambers.

Will Lammers, Ridder & Bas Duijvestijn, Van Der Hoeven, go a long way back and now are both located on the North American continent.

Justin Leavitt joined the IPM panel debate in the morning and manned the booth together with Davey Rock in the afternoon.

William Taffe with Data Aire showed their environmental control system for indoor growers: gPod.

Adam Pound with Agratech, a greenhouse manufacturing company.

Andrew Bonds, Marc Oosterhuis & Alexander Alesen with Babylon Micro-Farms brought their growing solution to the show, also showing it to the participants of the National Grocers Association.

Hello Indoor Ag-Con 2022!

Shane Maretti with BFG Supply, Avner Shohet with Tapkit, Linda Bracha with Green-Tek and Joe Farinicci & Yvonne Conray with BFG.

Vijay Rapaka, Sharon Warschauer, Brenton Williams & Bill Riffey with Oasis.

Double D for Dalsem! Denis Dullemans & Dennis van Alphen

Back in the US! Ferdi van Elswijk shows the Koppert bumblebees.

Joel Cheney with Thrive Agritech

Kyle Barnett, Daphne Preuss & Eugene Losev with Carbonbook. Read more about their carbon calculation tool here: https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9398196/carbon-calculation-tool-for-indoor-agriculture/

Kayla Waldorff with WayBeyond joined in on the panel discussion about AI in growing in the morning.

Michael Hanan, Jennifer Bassuk & Ron Dekok with Fluence were present on the Indoor Ag-Con 2022.

Curtis Chesler, Luis Ampudia with INNIO Jenbacher are visited by Ferdi van Elswijk, Koppert

Johnathan Mccullar, head grower with Pure Green Farms.

Nona Yehia, co-founder & CEO of Vertical Harvest, consultant Nick Greens, Stephen Ritz (Green Bronx Machine) and Sidsel Robards (NY Sun Works) discussed how to cultivate the future workforce of farmers and farm workers.

Don Willis, Dana Lucas and Mike Cade show the various Jiffy growing solutions

Irrigation! That’s what the Rivulis team talks about.

Randey Ramsey, Kevin Taylor & Jeremy Woznicki with Honeywell

Julien Boymans & Victor Gonzalez with Kekkila / BVB

Alexandra Malone with Compass Development

Oliver Muenz-Winkler and Michael Brooks with Clayco, offering planning, engineering, construction, design & build support in CEA.

Andrew Hyatt & Marvin Miller with ECE, Environmental Compliance Equipment

James Nichols & Jeffrey Kohler with NASA were present to share more on the insights they’ve gained through the years of testing and trialing growing crops in space stations. Growing out of space, growing indoors, what’s the difference anyhow?

Austin Sneller & Jeffery D Martens with H2O Engineering. The name might reveal it: they offer solutions for water treatment.

Joost Somford with Jasa Packaging visited the show, as the company helps many greenhouse growers & vertical farmers with their packaging solutions.

Of course there were greenhouse lights on the show! Agnetix for example has been an active player in the market for many years.

Steven Wilson & Earl Chipman with Haifa.

Jud McCall with Hydrofarm and Ron James with Link4 Controls

Todd Friedman and Cristopher Block with DAG CEA Facilities ‘The Grow Facility Company’.

Climate Control Systems

Lawrence Macaraeg & Marc Paynter with Argus Controls / Conviron.

Peter Rietveld, Steve Biles and the new addition to the team, Renko Schuil. Such an interesting day to start a new job!

HpNow’s Cord Nunez had some very busy days at the show as their on-site peroxide generation attracted many curious visitors.

The RapidGrowLed booth, a brand by Pangea Technologies

Eric Douw, Thomas van Dusseldorp and Thomas Wennekers are ready to further expand KUBO in North America.

Mark Smallwood & John Weir with Pathosans

Dana Sweidan, Nadia Saber & Marcia Sabeh (Dr Greenhouse) visited Neda Vaseghi with Microclimates.

Hi Glenn! Glenn Behrman promised to drop by the HortiDaily / VerticalFarmDaily office when he’s in Europe again and we are to stick to this promise!

Rob van Diest with Grow Rebates

Showing the Cherry Creek Systems products.

Ken Bylo & Matt Brown with Polyflex

The team with Koppert was busy as bumblebees during the show.

The Origreen Vpot growing solution.

Max Hollington & Jordan Rochon with Cultivatd

The Montel growth racks prove to be a welcome solution for many growers

Nick Fusaro with Voltsever showed their power solution

Karl Kolb with High Sierra and Astrid Goplen & Simon Foshay with Ceres CCI.

Hi team Priva! In the photo Maarten Hartong, Dennis Louwe, Cesar Salaveria and Tyler Sorner.

Modular, scalable & flexible. That’s the slogan of IGS. They also brought software that shows how your indoor farm will look in your building – true to size.

Dan Howland with Array Industries

Suzanne Pruitt with Indoor Ag-Con, looking back on a successful event.

Justin Schoemakers with Infinite Acres and Lasse Gudnitz with Invest in Denmark

Brian Sullivan with Indoor Ag-Con opened the show and was happy to welcome again at the Las Vegas event. Due to the pandemic, the show had to move to Florida last year.

Jim Pantaleo, the networking beast of the CEA industry, hosted the stage.

Steve Platt with BrightFarms was the keynote speaker of day one. He shared how the company partnered with Cox Enterprise to enable rapid upscaling.

Steven Bradley with Cox Enterprise revealed plans to invest a LOT of money in the CEA industry, as they are sure of the possibilities the industry has to offer.

Adam Wright with Florida growing company The Villages Grown, George Grant with Griffin Greenhouse Supplies, Erika Verrier with iUNU and Justin Leavitt with Biobee shared their insights on best practices in IPM.

Daphne Preuss, CEO with CarbonBook. James Eaves with VoltServer, Luis Ampudia with INNIO Jenbacher and Paal Elfstrum with Wheatfiled Gardens discussed energy optimization in indoor agriculture.

How about IoT and sensors in your greenhouse? Steve Brown with USDA-NIFA/NSF AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (AIFS) hosted a debate about the possibilities and the impossibilities of these techniques with Kayla Waldorff (WayBeyond), Adam Greenberg (iUNU) and Bertram Samuel (One Point One).

Jim Pantaleo hosted a talk with Todd Downing, Best Human Capital & Advisory Group, Nadia Sabeh, Dr Greenhouse and Nona Yehia with Vertical Harvest on recruitment, work force & HR.

Let’s talk LEDs! Haley Rylander with the GLASE consortium led the discussion between Ed Stoneham, XtremeLUX, Blake Lange with Signify and Daniel Lee, GE Current.

Second keynote of the Indoor Ag-Con was Jonathan Webb with AppHarvest, who rapidly became one of the most well-known faces in the industry. His mission: to make sure the industry gets seen, because as he clarified, the CEA industry is way to invisible.

Robert Colangelo with Green Sense stepped in on the debate.

Gabe Youtsey with UC ANR hosted a talk with Viraj Puri, Gotham Greens, Matt Lingard, BrightFarms and Austin Webb, Fifth Season on large CEA success.

Adam Wright, The Villages Grown™, Eric Waterman, Quick Plug NA, Daniel Norden, Profile Products and Don Willis Jiffy. 10 points for who can guess what they talked about – the answer is of course substrates!

Water technology was discussed by Aaron Fields, Eden Green Technology, Andrew Hyatt, Environmental Compliance Equipment, Kyle Lisabeth, Silver Bullet Corporation and Jeffrey Martens, H2O Engineering