PROGRAM
Thursday, November 17, 2022
12:30 - 1:00
Registration
1:00 - 1:20
Welcome, Introduction, & Overview
Dr. John Konarski
Chief Executive Officer
American Geographical Society
Dr. Christopher Tucker
Chairman
American Geographical Society
Dr. Marie Price
President
American Geographical Society
”Why Geography and Food?”
Dr. Antoinette WinklerPrins
Lecturer
Johns Hopkins University
1:20 - 1:50
Keynote: Advancing Climate Change and Food System Solutions: Radical Collaboration Required
Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig
Climatologist
Columbia University
1:50 - 2:20
Special Presentation: Agriculture & Today’s Climate Challenge
Mr. James Arbib
Co-Founder
RethinkX
2:20 - 2:40
Spotlight Session: Past is Prologue: What Soylent Green Got Wrong
Dr. Andrew Maynard
Professor in the School of the Future for Innovation in Society
Arizona State University
2:40 - 3:15
Panel Presentations: How Precision, Regenerative, and Indoor Agricultures will Shape the Future
Moderator:
Dr. Antoinette WinklerPrins
Dr. Bob Quinn
President
Quinn Farm and Ranch
Ms. Nona Yehia
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Vertical Harvest
Speakers:
3:15 - 3:45
A Conversation on the Frontline: How Family Farms are Looking to the Future
Ms. Kate Heller O’Reilly
AGS Councilor
Facilitator:
Mr. Karlan Koehn
Member
Marshall Farms VC
Discussant:
3:45 - 4:15
Break/Caucus
4:15 - 4:45
Keynote: Food Insecurity as a National Security Issue
VADM Frank Whitworth
Director
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
4:45 - 5:30
Panel Presentations: Sustaining Rural Systems
Dr. Dee Jordan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Harvard Medical School
Moderator:
Dr. Andres Guhl
Associate Professor
Universidad de los Andes
Ms. Rini Indrayanti
Platform Manager of Sustainable Palm Oil Initiatives
United Nations Development Program
Dr. Moses Kansanga
Assistant Professor
The George Washington University
Speakers:
5:30 - 6:10
Lightning Talks
Dr. Wesley Reisser
Deputy Director for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
U.S. Department of State
Moderator:
Presenters:
“Developing a Regional Food Assistance Information Sharing Framework: Lessons Learned From the Metropolitan Washington Region”
Ms. Amanda Byrd and Ms. Hanna Rush
Dewberry
“Narrowing Future Food, Obesity, and Health Disparities”
Dr. Mariah Ehmke
Uniited States Department of Agriculture
“Systems, Impact, and Response: Exploring Food and Water Security and Climate Change in Madagascar”
Mr. Amin Elamin
University of Maryland
“Water. The Enabling and Limiting Factor Underlying Global Food Security”
Dr. Michael Ferrari
Climate Alpha
“Space-Based Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Agriculture - Insights Into the Unseen”
Mr. Skip Maselli
Pixxel Space Technologies
“Works According to Design: Imaginging Radically Different Food Systems”
Dr. Catarina Passidomo
The University of Mississippi
“Community Food Resilience in the Time of Covid”
Dr. Kathleen Schroeder
Appalachian State University
“The Future of Food: What’s Missing”
Dr. Lewis Ziska
Columbia University Climate School
6:10 - 6:12
Review of the Day/Planning for Day Two
6:12- 7:30
Welcome Reception
Friday, November 18, 2022
8:00 - 8:30
Registration and Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30
Panel Presentations: The Future of Meat and Meatlessness
Mr. Dean Wise
Principal
Dean Wise LLC
Facilitator:
Dr. Patrick Brown
Founder
Impossible Foods
Dr. Michael Rich
Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health
Mr. Daniel Russek
Chief Executive Officer
Atarraya, Inc.
Speakers:
9:30 - 10:10
Keynote: The Future of Food
Dr. Molly Jahn
Program Manager
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - Defense Sciences Office
10:10 - 10:40
Break/Caucus
10:40 - 11:20
What If? A Conversation to Imagine a New Future Geography of Food
Moderator:
Dr. Marie Price
Dr. Kathleen Merrigan
Executive Director of the Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems
Arizona State University
(Former Deputy Secretary, US Department of Agriculture)
Discussant:
11:20 - 12:10
Panel Presentations: Geospatial Tech, the 4th Agricultural Revolution, & the Geographic Implications
Mr. Keith Masback
Principal
Plum Run LLC
Moderator:
Ms. Abigail Fitzgibbon
Product Engineer
Esri
Mr. Ian Warner
Construction Systems Architect
Trimble
Mr. Andrew Zolli
Chief Impact Officer
Planet Labs
Presenters:
12:10 - 12:55
Lunch
12:55 - 1:45
Panel Presentations: The Future of Food Security and Sovereignty
Dr. Robert Chen
Director of the Center of International Earth Science Information Network
Columbia University
Moderator:
Ms. Laura Geller
Agricultural Attaché
United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service
Dr. Catherine Nakalembe
Africa Program Director
NASA Harvest
Speakers:
1:45 - 2:15
Presentation: Feeding the Urbanites in 2050
Ms. Kate MacKenzie
Executive Director of the Mayor’s Office of Food Policy
City of New York
2:15 - 2:55
Panel Discussion: Financing and Investing in the Future of Food
Dr. Christopher Tucker
Moderator:
Mr. Brandon Chong
Partner and Chief Financial Officer
Bloom8
Mr. Steve Molino
Principal
Clear Current Capital
Panelists:
2:55 - 3:15
AGS Honors and Awards Ceremony
3:15 - 3:45
Break/Caucus
3:45 - 4:35
Special Panel Presentations & Discussion: The Future of Food: Stories from the Field
Dr. Jill Tiefenthaler
Chief Executive Officer
National Geographic Society
Moderator:
Dr. Victoria Herrmann
Explorer
National Geographic Society
Dr. Maria Fadiman
Explorer
National Geographic Society
Panelists:
4:35 - 5:15
Panel Discussion: Food and Equity
Dr. Pamela Koch
Mary Swartz Rose Associate Professor of Nutrition Education
Columbia University
Moderator:
Dr. Glenn Denning
Professor of Professional Practice
Columbia University
Dr. Dennis Derryck
Founder and President
Corbin Hill Food Project
Panelists:
5:15 - 5:55
Lightning Talks
Dr. Meredith Gore
Associate Professor
University of Maryland
Moderator:
Presenters:
“Mapping the Nutritional Foodscape Using Food Images: Case of Hartford”
Dr. Peter Chen
University of Connecticut
“The Reducetarian Movement: How Changing the Way We Eat Can Improve Our Lives and Save Our Planet”
Mr. Brian Kateman
Reducetarian Foundation
“The Impact of Flooding on Food Security Across Africa”
Mr. Andrew Kruczkiewicz
Columbia University Climate School, and
“Making Data Sense of Global Food Security in a Changing Climate”
Mr. Cameron Kruse
The Earth Genome
“Sensing Urban Foodscapes: Measuring the Perceived Food Space of Residents in Hartford, Connecticut”
Ms. Weixuan Lyu
University of Connecticut
“The Future of Monitoring Agricultural Production using Geospatial Data”
Ms. Katie McGaughey
United States Department of Agriculture
“GeoField Project to Integrate Earth Observation With Impact Evaluations for Climate-Sensitive Agriculture in the Developing World”
Dr. Kunwar Singh
College of William & Mary
“Lychees & The Last Mile: Chinatown’s Evolving Urban Supply Chain”
Ms. Janine Yoong
5:55 - 6:00
Conclusion and Prospectus for the Future
Dr. Christopher Tucker