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    VedaBio to Revolutionize Molecular Detection after Tenure as LabSimply at EnterpriseWorks

    VedaBio, a biotechnology company leading a paradigm-shift in molecular detection, launched on October 17, 2023, with initial funding of over $40 million. This company has roots at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign and Research Park: VedaBio was formerly known as LabSimply and operated out of EnterpriseWorks from 2021 to 2022. CEO and Co-Founder Anrup Ganguli, PhD, developed multiple research platforms during his time at university in the lab of Professor Rashid Bashir, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering and current Dean of the Grainger College of Engineering. VedaBio is revolutionizing molecular biology with its breakthrough platform for near-instant molecular detection of multiplexed analytes, delivering best-in-class accuracy without the need for target amplification. Their CRISPR Cascade™ platform is poised to emerge as a new gold standard tool to empower decision-making across multiple industries. In the official press release, Ganguli explains that the CRISPR Cascade reaction provides “a platform that delivers near-instant molecular detection of highly multiplexed analytes with best-in-class accuracy, all without the need for target amplification.” He has high hopes for VedaBio, believing “it is poised to emerge as a future gold standard for molecular detection, empowering major advances across multiple applications including research and industrial tools, diagnostics and therapeutics.”  To learn more about VedaBio, read the official press release on the VedaBio website.

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    Boston Bioprocess Helping Nourish Ingredients Make a More Realistic Meat Substitute

    Have you ever bitten into a meat substitute product and find yourself longing for the real deal? The aroma, the flavor, the texture, and the taste of… meat? You’re not alone. EnterpriseWork’s very own Boston Bioprocess is teaming up with Nourish Ingredients to create just that– utilizing wild fungi and yeast strains to trick even the biggest meat lovers into thinking they are consuming a meat product. The secret ingredient? To effectively scale and replicate the most potent fat molecules, the ones responsible for making that irresistible, animalistic aroma that makes your mouth water. In a Food Navigator USA article, it was explained that Boston Bioprocess is not only assisting Nourish Ingredients in developing a more realistic-tasting product but ensuring that the product will meet regulatory requirements as well. The partnership between Boston Bioprocess and Nourish Ingredients is coming after a significant drop in the plant-based protein market. Nourish Ingredients CEO James Petrie hopes to change the downward market trajectory. “In one way [it’s] been healthy for [the industry] in the sense that… there’s a bit of pressure on the plant-based industry at the moment and it’s forcing us to take a collective look at the quality of products,” said Petrie. Boston Bioprocess works to provide their clients with the equipment and expertise they need to improve yield, decrease costs, and access product for commercial testing. Visit their tenant directory to learn more about the company. Read the full Food Navigator feature.

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    HabiTerre to collaborate on Carbon Breakthrough in Agriculture with Arable and Shell

    EnterpriseWorks startup HabiTerre is playing a critical role in an important collaboration between industry leaders Arable and Shell to create a breakthrough in carbon management. The startup helps financial institutes, public agencies, and individual producers to quantify, manage, and reduce financial risks in the farming-related business. By commercializing technology made on campus, the green initiative aims to make an impact on mitigating the effects of climate change by enhancing carbon monitoring in agriculture. Together, the two companies are pooling university resources to develop technologies that will track and measure the carbon footprint of agricultural production, enabling farmers to reduce their emissions while improving their yields. HabiTerre CEO Nick Reinke says that the company “is proud to support this innovative project, which holds the exciting potential to advance sustainability worldwide.”   The company’s unique ecosystem of metering instruments, cloud-based analytics, and crop models are essential in creating a comprehensive understanding of the overall carbon cycle of agricultural production.  Habiterre’s tools allow Arable and Shell to more accurately measure and analyze the effects of changes to carbon models, such as composting, cover crops, irrigation, and fertilization, to determine how to best reduce emissions. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggests that up to 10 gigatons of CO2 need to be removed from the atmosphere annually in order to reach global emissions reduction targets, up to half of which could be captured by leveraging agriculture. HabiTerre’s technology plays a key role in this approach, enabling Arable and Shell to pursue their ambitious carbon reduction initiative and foster the unlocking of potential benefits across the global agricultural industry.  Read the full article on the Arable website. 

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    2023 Research Park AgTech Summit Attracts Global Audience, Speakers

    Research Park welcomed more than 600 registered participants from 200 companies for the 2023 AgTech Summit. Attendees hailed from across the Midwest and around the globe.  The agenda featured panels on hot topics including sustainability in agriculture, carbon strategy, opportunities in alternative proteins, the future of the agtech workforce, and the intelligent farm. The event concluded with a panel of growers and producers from across Central Illinois sharing their perspective on many of those topics addressed in earlier discussions. The moderators and panelists represented a range of the actors in agtech, including startups, investors, academics, industry, media, growers, government, and non-profit. The AgTech Summit is a free event that is open to the public, true to the land-grant mission of its host institution. Thanks to the 2023 AgTech Summit sponsors who made the event possible:  John Deere, World Business Chicago, Bayer, Corteva, Cargill, GDM, Sikich, and Kin + Carta. The AgTech Summit is hosted by University of Illinois Research Park with support from the University of Illinois, the College of ACES, and the Office of Corporate Relations. The AgTech Summit is the flagship event for Champaign-Urbana AgTech Week. 2023 was the fourth annual C-U AgTech Week. Save the date for next year’s AgTech Summit on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. NEWS BITES: March 7, WCIA: U of I kicks off AgTech Week March 6, WCIA: AgTech Week back for fourth year See below for the 2023 agenda.  7:30 AM REGISTRATION OPENS  8:00 AM WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS  Laura Appenzeller | Executive Director, University of Illinois Research Park  8:05 AM CHAMPAIGN-URBANA WELCOME WEEK PROCLAMATION Deborah Frank Feinen | Mayor, City of Champaign Diane Wolfe Marlin | Mayor, City of Urbana 8:15 AM THE JOURNEY OF SUSTAINABILITY Brad Arnold | SVP, General Manager Precision, AGCO Corporation Paul Hunter | Global Sustainability Manager, Kin + Carta Emily Heaton | Regenerative Ag Stakeholder Coordinator, UIUC College of ACES Moderator: Kim Kidwell | Associate Chancellor for Strategic Partnerships and Initiatives, University of Illinois Urbana – Champaign 9:15 AM OPPORTUNITIES IN ALTERNATIVE PROTEINS Michelle Ruiz | CEO & Co-founder,  Hyfe Sean Madison | Director of North American Business Development, Innovafeed Michael Tai | Co-founder & CEO, Boston Bioprocess Moderator: Jack Marck | Managing Director, Illinois AgTech Accelerator 10:15 AM BREAK 10:30 AM CARBON STRATEGY IN AGTECH Dennis Beard | Managing Partner, Serra Ventures Nick Reinke | CEO, HabiTerre  Ross Bricklemyer | Modeling Strategy Lead, Bayer Crop Science Moderator: Lisa Ainsworth | Research Leader, USDA ARS 11:30 AM GLEN “GB” BRANDT PRIZE FOR AG ENTREPRENEURISM  11:45 AM LUNCH 12:30 PM THE FUTURE OF THE AGTECH WORKFORCE Laura Gerstner | Director of Precision Tech Enterprise Program Management, CNHI Maggie Brickerman | Partner,  gener8tor  Jen Quinlan | Food & Agtech Innovation Program Lead, Cargill Amy Funk | Director, Jackie Joyner Kersee Foundation, Agriculture and Nutrition Innovation Center Moderator: Amy Fruehling | Sr. Director Corporate Relations, UIUC College of ACES 1:30 PM MOORE INNOVATION PRIZE AND STARTUP PRESENTATION  1:45 PM BREAK 2:00 PM THE INTELLIGENT FARM Brian Sutton | Founder and President, AirScout Mark Moran | Tech Innovation Leader, John Deere Connie Bowen | Co-Founder, Farmhand Ventures Jeff Klock | North America Digital Strategy Leader, Cargill Moderator: Germán Bollero, Interim Dean, UIUC College of ACES 3:00 PM PERSPECTIVE OF GROWERS & PRODUCERS Mark Scholl | President, J and M Scholl, Inc. Lena Head | Co-Owner & External Relations Manager, Head Bros. Land and Cattle LLC Matt Riggs | President, Riggs Beer Company Moderator: Sarah Michaels | Agriculture Reporter, WEEK 25 4:00 AGTECH SHOWCASE & NETWORKING RECEPTION  You’re invited to join us for the AgTech Showcase & Networking event immediately following the Summit at the Illinois Conference Center. The AgTech Showcase is an opportunity to connect with other attendees and see what innovations companies are working on. Snacks and beverages will be provided.  

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    2022 AgTech Summit has Successful In-Person Return

    The 2022 Agriculture Technology Innovation Summit was a success yet again, bringing together the biggest agriculture companies and brightest minds in agtech for the seventh year in a row; this time returning to an in-person convention and garnering local media attention.  This year, Research Park held its AgTech Student Career Mixer prior to the AgTech Innovation Summit on Tuesday, March 8. This event allowed agtech professionals to connect with University of Illinois students, and engage in meaningful discussion and networking with one another on the night before the summit.  This year’s event included remarks from university and industry leaders including Chancellor Robert Jones, who delivered the opening remarks. In his speech, Chancellor Jones emphasized that “whatever the future of agricultural innovation and development may lead this world, the path of that future is going to be running right through the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and East Central Illinois.”  The 2022 panels included discussions on the agriculture supply chain, the ag sector’s role in carbon markets,  investment, and RIPE project updates. In addition to the unique mix of panel discussions, key individuals participated in fireside chats, where they could give brief presentations on their company, their technology, and their plans for the future.  The AgTech Summit is a collaboration between the University of Illinois Research Park, the University of Illinois College of ACES, and the Office of Corporate Relations. Thank you to all those from the local agriculture community as well as others from across the country that attended the event. Another thank you to the moderators and panelists for sharing your time and talents. Last but not least, thanks to the AgTech 2022 sponsors who made this year’s event possible:  John Deere, World Business Chicago, the Illinois Center for Digital Agriculture, Granular, Corteva, Bayer, ADM, AGCO, Sikich, and Cargill.  This year’s event garnered lots of local news attention: March 9, WCIA: AgTech Innovation Summit March 9, Brownfield: Vertical Integration has farmer/brewer less concerned about inflation February 23, Speaker RFD Profit Watch  For this year’s agenda, look below. And don’t forget to save the date for next year’s Agriculture Innovation Technology Summit on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. AGTECH 2022 AGENDA  7:30 AM REGISTRATION OPENS  8:00 AM WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS  Laura Appenzeller | Executive Director, University of Illinois Research Park  Chancellor Robert Jones | Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  8:15 AM OPENING REMARKS FROM ACES  Germán Bollero | Interim Dean, University of Illinois College of ACES  8:30 AM THE AG SECTOR’S ROLE IN CARBON MARKETS  Chris Harbourt | Chief Strategy Officer, Indigo Ag  Moderator: Jed Taylor | Executive Director, Technology Entrepreneur Center  9:00 AM MORNING FIRESIDE CHAT  Tami Craig Schilling | North America Knowledge Transfer Lead, Bayer  Moderator: Laura Appenzeller | Executive Director, University of Illinois Research Park  9:30 AM CARBON NEUTRAL FLOUR BUSINESS  James Scher | Director of Sales, Specialty Solutions, ADM  Maneephan Keeratiurai | Director, Food Science and Wholesome Nutrition. ADM  Moderator: Katheryne Rehberg | Director Of Business Development,  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  10:00 AM REALIZING INCREASED PHOTOSYNTHETIC EFFICIENCY (RIPE) UPDATE  Stephen Long | Director, Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE)  10:15 AM BREAK  10:30 FIRESIDE CHAT  Tim Hassinger | CEO & President, IntelinAir  Moderator: Kim Kidwell | Associate Chancellor for Strategic Partnerships and Initiatives, University of Illinois  11:00 AM GLEN “GB” BRANDT PRIZE FOR AG ENTREPRENEURISM  11:15 AM NAVIGATING THE AGRICULTURE SUPPLY CHAIN  Martha Montoya | CEO, AgTools  Moderator: Jack Marck | Managing Director, Illinois AgTech Accelerator  11:45 AM NAVIGATING THE AGRICULTURE SUPPLY CHAIN  Patrick McEniry | Vice President-Crops, Commodities & Ingredients, Treehouse Foods  Moderator:  Germán Bollero | Interim Dean, University of Illinois College of ACES  12:15 PM LUNCH  12:45 PM TECH STRATEGY TO DRIVE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE  Mark Theuerkauf | Director, Strategy and Transformation, AGCO  Moderator: Susan Martinis | Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation, University of Illinois  1:15 PM AFTERNOON FIRESIDE CHAT  Bill Hamer | Carbon Strategy and Operations Manager, Corteva  Moderator: Gene Robinson | Director, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology , University of Illinois  1:45 PM MOORE INNOVATION PRIZE AND STARTUP PRESENTATION  2:00 PM BREAK  2:15 PM LIGHTNING CHAT  Girish Chowdhary | Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, EarthSense  2:30 PM AFTERNOON FIRESIDE CHAT  Matt Hancher | Engineering Lead, Google Earth and Earth Engine, Google  Moderator:  Brendan McGinty | Director of Industry, National Center for Supercomputing Applications  3:00 PM INVESTMENT IN AGTECH  Dennis Beard | Partner, Serra Ventures  Moderator: Carly McCrory-McKay | Executive Director, Champaign County Economic Development Corporation  3:30  PM INVESTMENT IN AGTECH  Aaron Rudberg | Managing Director and COO, S2G Ventures  Moderator: Tom Parkinson | Senior Director, Illinois Ventures  4:00 – 5:30 PM AGTECH SHOWCASE & NETWORKING RECEPTION 

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    Common Ground Research Networks Signs Publishers Compact on the UN Sustainable Development Goals

    Champaign, Illinois – Common Ground Research Networks (Not-for-Profit) is proud to be a signatory to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Publishers Compact.  Launched in collaboration with the International Publishers Association, the compact “features 10 action points that publishers, publishing associations, and others can commit to undertaking in order to accelerate progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Signatories aspire to develop sustainable practices and act as champions of the SDGs, publishing books and journals that will help inform, develop and inspire action in that direction.” Hugo Setzer, President, International Publishers Association: “Publishers can play such an important role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through the books we publish but we must also look at our business practices and contribute in our own right. This compact gives publishers theopportunity to mark their commitment with clear targets for them to aim for.” Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, United Nations: “With the Decade of Action now underway, we are looking to build a coalition of partners to help us identify and accelerate sustainable solutions to the world’s biggest challenges. That’s why we at the United Nations are excited to know that the publishing industry is becoming part of this global movement. This Compact is a welcome initiative and one we hope will showcase innovative ideas from a sector that has a critical role to play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.” Phillip Kalantzis Cope, Chief Social Scientist, Common Ground Research Networks: “We believe that scholarly communication is a critical infrastructure on which society depends. We are committed to aligning our agenda to the Sustainable Development Goals, to frame our approach to designing digital and in-person architectures of communication, social interaction, and formal knowledge-making that are resilient, democratic, equitable, and sustainable. For this, we believe there is no time to wait.”

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    Synchrony: “You Have to Go Where the Talent is”

    Synchrony’s efforts targeting University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students to fulfill its needs to recruit tech talent was featured in the Wall Street Journal on May 6 (subscription required). The article cited Synchrony’s partnership with the Datathon at Illinois, a competitive event that exposes students to real-world problem solving in analytics, as one of the creative ways it engages talent. Synchrony has been a lead sponsor for the event and an active host since the event’s inception, engaging with the statistics department and its very active student organization. “You have to go to where the talent is,” said Carol Juel, executive vice president and chief information officer at Synchrony Financial, in the Wall Street Journal’s article, “Companies Get Creative in Hunt for AI Talent”. The partnership came about thanks to Synchrony’s highly engaged Research Park innovation center, where the company  has hired dozens of students. The Synchrony Emerging Technology Center opened at Research Park in 2018. In 2019, it doubled its physical space and intern team, pulling from students from a variety of disciplines, including computer science, math, statistics, business, information sciences, and more. See more about the 2020 Datathon here. 

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    2020 Research Park Year in Review

    In 2020, Research Park accomplished several milestones despite the numerous adaptions. Research Park offered several programming opportunities for small businesses, launched Illinois Reboot, and received a FAST Center grant to aid the impacts of the pandemic. Here is a glimpse of the 2020 Year in Review:  In a virtual environment, Cargill Innovation Lab, Genective, and the Verizon 5G Innovation Hub expanded into the Research Park community. The I-Hotel and Conference Center expansion, the greenhouse for the RIPE project, and the mixed-use building on 1907 S. Fourth St. completed construction during the fall as well.  After the initial lockdown of COVID-19 in March, Research Park offered over 59 hours of programming engaging 243 companies ranging from EnterpriseWorks graduates to current tenants.  In August, Research Park launched the COVID-19 Technology Acceleration Program. This program offered technical assistance, EDA Cares Act funding, and business development assistance. The EDA University Center received over $300,000 from the EDA CARES Act Recovery Assistance program to assist companies impacted by the effects of COVID-19.  Several startups including EarthSense and Serionix transformed their technology to suit the consequences of COVID-19 such as beginning to create high-tech face masks.  Overall, Research Park reached several milestones in 2020 including securing the Illinois FAST Center grant from the U.S. SBA and the addition of two new staff members. Click to view: 2020 Year in Review View previous Year in Reviews: 2018 Year in Review 2019 Year in Review

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    2021 Virtual AgTech Innovation Summit a Success

    The 2021 Agriculture Technology Innovation Summit was a success yet again, bringing together the biggest agriculture companies and brightest minds in agtech for the sixth year in a row; this time virtually. This year, Research Park held its first AgTech Networking Night prior to the AgTech Innovation Summit. This event allowed agtech professionals to connect with other conference-goers, hear pitches from agtech startups, and engage in meaningful discussion with one another on the night before the summit. This year’s event included remarks from industry thought leaders including Bayer’s Senior Vice President and Head of Seed Production Innovation Shannon Hauf, who delivered the keynote speech. In her speech, Hauf emphasizes the importance of innovation, diversity, and sustainability for the future of advertising. “If we are to meet the needs of the future, innovation is critical, it is needed. Everyone needs to be at the table to solve the challenges,” says Hauf.  The 2021 panels included discussions on agrifood innovation, regenerative agriculture, the ag sector’s role in carbon markets, AI farms, building the future agtech workforce, investment, and growers & producers. In addition to the unique mix of panel discussions, key individuals participated in fireside chats, where they could give brief presentations on their company, their technology, and their plans for the future. The day concluded with the AgTech Student Career Event, a first for the Summit. This interactive conference offers participants the opportunity to learn and share knowledge about the current state of agtech and looking into the future through dynamic panels, inspiring keynote presentations, and networking opportunities. The AgTech Summit is a collaboration between the University of Illinois Research Park, the University of Illinois, the College of ACES, and the Office of Corporate Relations. Thank you to all those from the local agriculture community as well as others from all over the globe that attended this virtual event. Another thank you to the moderators and panelists for sharing your time and talents. Last but not least, thanks to the AgTech 2021 sponsors who made this year’s event possible:  Bayer, John Deere, Moore & Warner Ag Group, Kin + Carta and Genective. To browse the event’s photo gallery, go here. For this year’s agenda, look below. And don’t forget to save the date for next year’s Agriculture Innovation Technology Summit on March 9, 2022. 2021 Agenda Wednesday March 10, 2021 8:00 AM: WEBINAR OPENS 8:15 AM: WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS Laura Frerichs | Executive Director, University of Illinois Research Park Chancellor Robert Jones | Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 8:45 AM: MORNING KEYNOTE Shannon Hauf |  Senior Vice President and Head of Seed Production Innovation, Bayer Crop Science 9:10 AM: FIRESIDE CHAT: JIM SPRADLIN, GROWMARK Moderator: Dean Kim Kidwell |  Dean, University of Illinois College of ACES Jim Spradlin | CEO, GROWMARK 9:45 AM: AGRIFOOD INNOVATION Moderator: Vijay Singh | Director, University of Illinois IBRL Michael Fassnacht | Interim President & CEO, World Business Chicago  Linda Mallers Porzenheim | CEO & President, FarmLogix Robbert Rietbroek | Senior Vice President and General Manager, Quaker Foods North America Samir Mayekar | Deputy Mayor for Economic and Neighborhood Development, City of Chicago 10:15 AM: BREAK 10:30 AM: REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE Moderator: Adam Davis | Department Head, University of Illinois Dept. of Crop Sciences Matt Duncan | Manager of Digital Agronomy, Nutrien Ag Solutions Tom Rabaey | Sr. R&D Manager, General Mills 11:00 AM: FIRESIDE CHAT: SETH CRAWFORD, AGCO Moderator: Cody Allen | Assistant Professor, UIUC Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering Seth Crawford | SVP, Precision Ag and Digital, AGCO  11:20 AM: GLEN “GB” BRANDT PRIZE FOR AG ENTREPRENEURISM 11:35 AM: THE AG SECTOR’S ROLE IN CARBON MARKETS Moderator: Megan Miller | Business Development Manager, Moore & Warner Ag Group Emma Fuller | Director of Sustainability Science, Granular Chris Harbourt | Global Head of Carbon, Indigo Ag Kaiyu Guan | Blue Waters Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 12:05 PM: FIRESIDE CHAT: JULIAN SANCHEZ, JOHN DEERE Moderator:  Laura Frerichs | Executive Director, University of Illinois Research Park Julian Sanchez | Director of Emerging Technology, John Deere 12:30 PM: EDWIN MOORE FAMILY AGRICULTURE INNOVATION PRIZE 12:45 PM: PAST MOORE INNOVATION PRIZE WINNERS Moderator: Jack Marck | Managing Director, Illinois AgTech Accelerator Angela Green-Miller | Co-Founder and President, TellTail Chinmay Soman | Co-founder and CEO, EarthSense Daphne Preuss | CEO, Aspiring Universe Kaustubh Bhalerao | CEO, Soil Diagnostics 1:15 PM FIRESIDE CHAT: KROGER Moderator:  Brendan McGinty | Director of Industry, National Center for Supercomputing Applications Dan Whitacre, Senior Director of Kroger Labs, Kroger 1:30 PM: FIRESIDE CHAT: SAM EATHINGTON, CORTEVA Moderator: Dean Kim Kidwell |  Dean, University of Illinois College of ACES Sam Eathington | Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Corteva Agriscience 2:00 PM: BREAK 2:15 PM: EMERGING DISRUPTION IN AGRICULTURE What technology or business model will be the next big disruption or game-changing paradigm in agriculture? For this session with Genective President & CEO Linda Jing, we will gather ideas in advance and select contributors to share their vision live during the program. During the AgTech Summit we will use the Zoom polling feature to ask participants to vote on ideas that they think will be most impactful the industry. Submit your idea. If you submit an idea, you will receive the collective input from all contributed ideas in this call for submissions.  The results will be aggregated and not attributed to individual names or companies. We will also share polling results from the event and notes from the overall AgTech Summit. Moderator:  Laura Frerichs | Executive Director, University of Illinois Research Park Linda Jing | President & CEO, Genective 2:40 PM: AI FARMS Moderator:  Germán Bollero | Associate Dean of Research, University of Illinois College of ACES Vikram Adve | Co-Director, Center for Digital Ag Matt Hudson | Co-Director, Center for Digital Ag 3:00 PM: BUILDING THE FUTURE AGTECH WORKFORCE Moderator: Laura Bleill | Director, Communications and External Engagement, University of Illinois Research Park Misha Shah | Site Manager, AGCO April Hoffart | Modeling Capability Manager, ADM Blake Giles | Head of Innovation Center, Bayer 3:30 PM: INVESTMENT IN AGTECH Moderator: Nancy Sullivan | CEO & Managing Director, Illinois Ventures Darren Streiler | Managing Director – ADM Ventures, ADM Dennis Beard | Managing Partner, Serra Ventures Michael Lavin | Founder & Managing Partner, Germin8 Ventures 4:00 PM: GROWERS & PRODUCERS Moderator: Jim Hedges | VP Seed & Services Marketing, Winfield United Mike Haag | Former President, Illinois Pork Producers Association Brady Holst | At Large Director, Illinois Soybean Association John Williams | Farm Manager, Sola Gratia Farm 4:25 PM: CLOSING REMARKS 4:30 – 5:30 PM: AGTECH STUDENT CAREER

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    Verizon Accelerates 5G Research and Development with 5G Innovation Hub at University of Illinois Research Park

    CHAMPAIGN — Verizon Business continues to accelerate the development of real-world 5G use cases with the rollout of its latest 5G Innovation Hub at the University of Illinois Research Park. Students, startups and large corporations will now be able to develop and test 5G-enabled solutions at the Research Park’s headquarters.  The Research Park, a technology innovation hub for startups and corporate R&D operations, is home to more than 120 companies employing students and full-time tech professionals. It is located on campus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband service at the Innovation Hub will drive new research and development around using 5G for machine learning, IoT, robotics, artificial intelligence, guided vehicles, drones, manufacturing process automation, virtual reality, data analytics and more. “Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband’s super-fast speeds, increased bandwidth and low latency can enhance applications for industries ranging from agriculture to manufacturing,” said Tami Erwin, EVP and CEO of Verizon Business. “The Research Park is an ideal location for our latest 5G Innovation Hub serving as an environment that cultivates startups, and inspires collaboration among various corporate partners and students to spur creativity and accelerate the innovation process.” “The importance of 5G innovation and its impact to our campus and private sector partners in the Research Park is immeasurable,” said Dr. Susan Martinis, Vice Chancellor of Research and Innovation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “This will accelerate the ability of our Research Park corporate partners and startups to develop technology that will harness the potential from 5G’s capabilities. We are proud to have the first such innovation hub at a university research park or incubator, and believe it will enhance our technology community and campus as a whole.” This engagement is part of Verizon Business’ broader strategy to partner with enterprises, startups, universities, national labs, and government/military to explore how 5G can disrupt and transform nearly every industry. Verizon is building 5G Ultra Wideband right – 25 times faster than 4G LTE*, super-low latency, and massive bandwidth.  The network will support the technology innovations that will improve how we live, work, and play. Verizon operates six 5G Labs in the U.S. and one in London that specialize in developing uses cases in industries ranging from healthcare to public safety to entertainment.  In addition, Verizon is setting up 5G Innovation Hubs on premise for several customers as part of an ongoing initiative to partner on 5G-related use cases to help customers transform their industries. 5G Ultra Wideband is currently available in parts of 36 cities. Learn more about Verizon 5G technology here. View photos of the grand opening here. Watch the grand opening recap video here.

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