Speaking & media

Talks, panels, and podcasts.

Selected appearances. For booking inquiries — keynotes, panels, moderation — get in touch.

Talks & keynotes
  • Gates Foundation Global Convening
    AI-based farming advisory for smallholders
    Advisor
    Abu Dhabi
    Dec 2025
  • World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit
    AI in agriculture — with Microsoft and Bayer Crop Science
    Keynote
    San Francisco
    Mar 2025
  • Plug and Play AgTech Expo
    Is AgTech even relevant in 2025?
    Keynote
    Sunnyvale
    Jun 2025
  • Fresno State F3 R&D Day
    Feeding the future: the innovation ecosystem of agriculture
    Keynote
    Fresno
    Aug 2025
  • Harvard Kennedy School — PAPSAC
    Private and Public Food Policy Group, career panel
    Speaker
    Cambridge
    Oct 2025
  • Tech Hub Live
    AI in AgTech
    Moderator
    Des Moines
    Jul 2025
Podcasts
  • Guest host
    Future of Agriculture
    w/ Tim Hammerich
    Multiple episodes hosted, including conversations with Walt Duflock & Sachi Desai (AgTech Alchemy), Christine Moseley (Full Harvest), Jeff Schreiner (Cultura Tech), Brad Fruth (Beck's Hybrids), Alex Wimbush (Lavoro Agro).
  • Co-host
    History of Agriculture
    w/ Tim Hammerich
    Co-hosted episodes on the history of the Green Revolution (Norman Borlaug, "The Wizard and the Prophet") and early tractors ("Tractor Wars" by Neil Dahlstrom).
  • Guest
    The Business of Agriculture
    w/ Damian Mason
    On venture funding looking for problems to solve. With Walt Duflock, May 2025.
  • Guest
    SoFISHticated (NFI Media)
    What seafood can learn about AI from legacy industries. December 2024.