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Grow Different: AgTech and Urban Farming Now Open
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Community Engagement Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
Presently Chavis is engaged in coordinating innovative and dynamic initiatives around the topics of urban agriculture and food security in a culturally relevant way. Chavis has served as a Clean Air Ambassador on behalf of Earthjustice and the Hip Hop Caucus. He is an alumni of Leadership...
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Speakers
CEO & Co-founder, Edenworks
Jason Green is CEO + Cofounder at Edenworks, a Brooklyn-based indoor agriculture company. Jason has spent his career at the nexus of hardware, software, and biology. Prior to Edenworks, Jason developed virtual reality-based neurorehabilitation technologies and served as a Howard Hughes...
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Head of Product & Marketing, Plenty
Christine Keller brings twenty years of consumer packaged goods expertise to Plenty, having worked with some of the largest food and produce companies in the world including Albertsons/Safeway, Chiquita, and Dole. Christine has also directed innovation projects for global brands such...
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President, April Philips Design Works
April Philips, FASLA, is a landscape architect, thought leader, artist, and author. She is founder of April Philips Design Works, an award winning landscape architecture firm whose work focuses on a fusion of nature, art, and technology. April is a national leader in both research...
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Co-founder, Beanstalk Farms LLC
Jack started Beanstalk with his brother, Michael, to create a sustainable abundance of food through technological innovations. He graduated from UVA’s engineering school in 2017 and is working on building a fully automated indoor farm, capable of growing pesticide free, non-GMO...
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