Crusonia Conversations Crusonia on the Delta

Agriculture right now is quickly evolving to focus more on data collection and analysis at every step of the supply chain from growing to packing, selling, and shipping. There's a number of data points out there indicating that this trend won't be slowing down anytime soon. From farmers leveraging IoT devices to enhance their precision agriculture practices, to distributors leveraging data to reduce waste and improve food safety, there is a lot that data can tell us about our food every step of the way. As consumers become more interested in food traceability and the origin story behind the food they buy, there will be greater incentives to make this information more available at the point of purchase as well.

Participants

Matthew Colvin
Director of Logistics, Tree Top

Rob Dongoski
Partner, Food & Agribusiness Leader, EY

Dan Maycock
Principal (Data Engineering) & Co-Founder, Loftus Labs

Eric Weaver
CEO, Transparent Path

Moderator: Paul Noglows
Executive Producer, Crusonia

Over the past 18 months, we’ve heard much from the CDC and medical community about the effectiveness of social distancing, vaccines and testing in limiting the spread of COVID-19. At the same time, it’s become common knowledge that pre-existing conditions like obesity amplify the devastating impact of the virus and its variants. Why aren’t we talking about the role of diet, nutrition and other common sense steps in limiting the pandemic and its impact?

FEATURING

Hollie Harris Phillips
President and CEO, Appalachian Regional Healthcare

Dr. Dexter Shurney
SVP/Chief Medical Officer, Adventist Health, past President, American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM)

We are at the starting point of a complex cascade of events with companies starting to lay out how they fit into and help drive the Plant-based Food Revolution, which in turn has the potential to totally transform the Global Food System.

Hear from two of the architects of this transformation — Matt Crisp, CEO & Director of Benson Hill, and David Lee, President of AppHarvest and former CFO, Impossible Foods.

This conversation comes on the heels of Benson Hill’s announcement that they are going public. What is the future of sustainable food technology, and why are plant-based initiatives the intense focus of investment in the agriculture technology sector?

Hopes are high with the new administration and its renewed focus on climate that the myriad Carbon initiatives mushrooming worldwide will get a much-needed boost in terms of meaningful attention and commitment.

But given the complexity of carbon measurement, tracking and markets, are we at the point where we can put a realistic and widely agreed-upon price on Carbon?

And does cracking the code on Carbon represent a long-awaited opportunity for true bipartisan cooperation?

To help answer these questions and others, we are joined by:

James Glueck, former Staff Director at U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Jody Longshore, Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Sustainability, Sentera

Carter Williams, CEO, iSelect Fund

Moderator: Paul Noglows, Executive Producer, Crusonia

This month's Crusonia Conversation centers on what is it going to take for the established medical community, investors and society at large to really embrace proper nutrition as the key to preventing a range of debilitating illnesses from obesity and cardiovascular disease to diabetes and potentially even cancer and Alzheimer’s.

Joining us is Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, Dean of the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and Professor of Medicine at Tufts Medical School, in conversation with Carter Williams, CEO of iSelect Fund, a St. Louis based venture capital firm investing at the nexus of food and health.

Join Erin Fitzgerald, CEO of U.S. Farmers & Ranchers in Action, and Rob Trice, Founding Partner of Better Food Ventures, in a conversation about the recently published USFRA report titled "Transformative Investment in
Climate-Smart Agriculture - Unlocking the potential of our soils to help
the U.S. achieve a net-zero economy."