Todd Stucke is an industry veteran with more than 33 years of experience in both equipment and agriculture. Stucke was recently promoted to lead Sales and Marketing for Kubota North America, in tandem with his role as Senior Vice President of Marketing, Product Support and Strategic Projects for Kubota Tractor Corporation’s U.S. operations. Prior to his current positions, Stucke led the Ag & Turf Division for Kubota as Vice President from 2013-2015. Under his leadership, Kubota introduced its first line of Kubota-branded Hay Tools to U.S. customers and debuted its highest horsepower tractors to-date, the M7 and M8 Series. These milestone product introductions gave Kubota a strong foothold as it entered the commercial livestock and row crop production markets, a segment where the company had never before competed. As Senior Vice President of Marketing, Product Support and Strategic Projects at Kubota Tractor Corporation, Stucke is ultimately responsible for ensuring that Kubota’s marketing, dealer development, and product support strategies collectively achieve a 360° approach to customer experience excellence. Stucke is currently serving his second term as the Chair of Ag sector board for the Association of Equipment Manufacturers and has previously served two terms as treasurer of the AEM Board of Directors, as well as Ag Sector Board Vice Chair in 2020.

Coffey is responsible for the strategy and execution of all Case IH North America commercial functions, overseeing the execution of a customer centric go-to-market approach in North America. Coffey was previously global head of Case IH brand marketing and communication, and North America Case IH commercial marketing and communications leader since 2019. Previously, he was the North American VP of Parts & Service for CNH Industrial from 2016-19.

Coffey holds a bachelor’s degree in agricultural business from Illinois State University. He remains actively involved in his family’s grain-farming operation in central Illinois, bringing a customer-centric collection of agriculture industry experiences to his role.

Deanna Kovar is the Vice President of Production and Precision Ag Production Systems at John Deere. With expertise in agronomy, economics, products, and technology, she leads a global team focused on identifying opportunities to unlock sustainable value for global corn, soy, small grains, cotton, and sugar customers. During more than 20 years with Deere, she has held many roles in sales, marketing, and customer support, and is very knowledgeable about bringing precision ag technology to market. Deanna earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural business management from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a master’s in business administration from Loyola University in Chicago.

A lifetime entrepreneur, recognized in 2021 as one of Canada’s Top 50 Most Influential Agriculture Leaders, Robert has been sought for his expertise from the likes of Bill Gates, Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture, The International Fertilizer Association and most recently the UN_FAO Committee on World Food Security. A sought after keynote and author of “FOOD 5.0 How We Feed The Future”, Robert has leveraged his passion for innovation to found and lead many organizations in the areas of farming, ag retail, fertilizer manufacturing and distribution, consulting, precision agriculture, data management, and robotics. As Founder of Agri-Trend/Agri-Data (now Trimble) and as CEO of DOT Technology Corp (now Raven), Robert has a unique ability to identify and address “white space” he sees in the agricultural sector. Now, as Founder & CEO of AGvisorPRO, his team is creating a global connectivity channel to increase agriculture sustainability, farm profitability and enhance global food security.

Lars Dyrud has founded three companies. He enjoys advising engineers and scientists on innovation and entrepreneurism.

Lars received a BA in Physics from Augsburg College conducting research on ultra-low frequency geomagnetic pulsations. He was a Fulbright Scholar in space and plasma physics at the University of Oslo and received a Ph.D. from Boston University conducting doctoral research on plasma turbulence using theory and super-computer simulations and observations.

Prior to EarthOptics, Lars founded, developed and led OmniEarth to a successful exit through acquisition by EagleView Technologies where he most recently served as the Senior Vice President of Business Development. OmniEarth developed and provided machine-learning based imagery analytics tools to the insurance, public utility and land management industries. Lars has served as PI on R&D grants and contracts from NSF, DOE, NASA, AFOSR, Air Force SMC and Industry and is involved in basic and applied research in plasma physics, applications and techniques of tomography, software radio, GPS, inertial navigation and radar. He is the founder of the APL Center for Public/Private Partnerships and has led space-related missions and projects as head of the Earth and Space Science group at Draper Laboratory and previously as senior scientist and section lead at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in the areas of space physics, GPS tomography, Novel Earth observation missions and mobile applications.

Kyle Welborn is a Managing Director at the Yield Lab North America and serves as a Senior Advisor to the Yield Lab Latin America. He is the board chair at NanoGuard Technologies, and a board member at Eiwa Ag and Ascribe Bioscience. He is also a board observer representing the firm’s investments in Notch Ordering and Hydrosat. Prior portfolio board service includes Label Insight which was sold to NielsenIQ in 2021. Kyle is a co-founder of Cultivation Capital, a venture capital firm with over $200M under management. He is also a contributor to CropLife.com where he writes about investments in AgTech startups.

Passionate about innovation & entrepreneurship towards sustainability, Ingrid is the COO at Naio Technologies. After graduating as a mechanical engineer from one of the top engineering schools in France and the University of Auckland, Ingrid started her career as a R&D engineer in the automotive industry working on cutting edge technologies for electric & hybrid vehicles. She then joined a major management consulting firm to develop their innovation management activity before joining a VC firm. She decided to recently join Naio Technologies convinced that bringing autonomy and accuracy to any farmers in the world is the solution to have a global, secure, and sustainable food production system.

Patrick Sanders is Director of Enterprise Solutions at Proagrica, responsible for positioning B2B, enterprise workflow, analytics, and custom geospatial solutions with large agribusinesses. The enterprise solutions team focuses on increasing agricultural profitability via increased efficiency and productivity, by developing and implementing digital solutions across the agricultural supply chain.
Patrick has extensive agricultural experience, having grown up on a family farm and worked for agricultural consultants, as well as various roles at SST from 2001. Starting in 2009, Patrick has successfully worked with large agribusinesses to develop geospatial solutions, including the big four seed/chemical manufacturers: Bayer, BASF, Syngenta, Corteva.

Today, Patrick continues to work with large manufacturers, ag retailers, and food processors. He is dedicated to developing innovative digital solutions in the agricultural space, which ultimately benefit the grower through increased profitability.

Allison is the current AgMission Program Director of the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research. She is the past Vice President, Science & Research, at Field to Market. Previously she was at a research institute at the University of Maryland where she conducted research and managed science programs for federal government clients. She has 15 years of experience in research on agricultural systems and their interactions with energy systems and the environment. Her work has included participation in field campaigns to simulation modeling at farm to national and global scales. She has written or contributed to more than 50 peer-reviewed publications, and held leadership positions with several national and international scientific programs. Allison holds a B.A. from Carleton College and a Masters of Environmental Management from Duke University.