Dan Dawes AgriNovus Indiana Senior Director of Strategy & Innovation Dan Dawes serves as Senior Director of Strategy and Innovation for AgriNovus Indiana, an initiative focusing on advancing innovation in the food and agriculture industry for the State of Indiana. In this role, he leads the efforts of building an agbiosciences entrepreneurial ecosystem and serves…

Vijay Harrell TradeLanes, Inc Chief Executive Officer Serial entrepreneur. Self-taught software engineer. Software engineering experience at Zynga, KIXEYE, Zipongo, RidePal. At RidePal he designed, developed and launched an On-Demand Transportation API layer in 6 weeks, from scratch. At KIXEYE, built an analytics platform that scaled to processing 8 billion events per day. This automated player…

Kevin Kimle Iowa State University Rastetter Chair of Agricultural Entrepreneurship Kevin Kimle currently serves as the Rastetter Chair of Agricultural Entrepreneurship at Iowa State University, Director of the Agricultural Entrepreneurship Initiative, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics.  Kimle’s work includes development and delivery of entrepreneurship curriculum and programs in the College of Agriculture…

Dean Didato Innova Ag Innovation Fund IV Partner Dean Didato is a partner with Innova Memphis, with primary responsibility of managing the Innova Ag Innovation Fund IV. Didato has consulted with Innova since 2009 on several due diligence projects focused on qualifying new technologies, patents, competition, and market acceptance. Having spent the last eight years…

David Edwards automed Founder / Chief Operation Officer With a 21-year career in product development and commercialization, David has worked with some of the largest and innovative companies in the world. In industries such as aquaculture, rail, mining and manufacturing, David has developed skills in engineering and business, having designed and managed projects in mechanical,…

Billy Rose Crop Pro Insurance Services Chief Operation Officer Mr. Rose has 20 years of experience in the crop insurance industry. His vision and big picture understanding of agriculture, technology, and the crop insurance industry have contributed to a successful career of developing products, services and programs that are beneficial to America’s farmers, the agricultural…

Mark Chenoweth RoboFlight/AgPixel LLC Chief Operation Officer Mark Chenoweth is the leader at RoboFlight/AgPixel LLC, joining the company in late 2014. He spent nearly 30 years with CoorsTek, Inc. starting as an entry level machinist and retiring as their Chief Operating Officer. During his tenure, working in nearly every market segment (10,000 customers), CoorsTek became…

Dr. Fangjia Lu ZeaVaxx Co-Founder / Chief Operation Officer Dr. Fangjia Lu is the co-founder and Chief Operation Officer of ZeaVaxx LLC. ZeaVaxx is a Purdue University based Ag startup that is working on improving current animal vaccines based on a plant-derived nanoparticle adjuvant platform. Adjuvants are the essential materials included in many vaccine formulations…

Tom Field University of Nebraska – Lincoln Director of the Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program and holder of the Engler Chair in Entrepreneurship Tom Field serves the people of Nebraska as the Director of the Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program and holder of the Engler Chair in Entrepreneurship at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. An enthusiastic…