Minnesota Ag and Food Summit Hosted by AgriGrowth

Welcome to the virtual 2020 Minnesota Ag & Food Summit hosted by AgriGrowth!  While we are going to miss seeing you in person this year, we are excited about our great agenda, speakers, content and more at this year's Summit. We hope that you will participate in all of the social and networking opportunities here in addition to the sessions!

For sponsorship or exhibitor information, please contact events@agrigrowth.org.

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Schedule

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Nov 4

3:00 PM–4:00 PM · AgriGrowth Annual Business Meeting; Members only

4:00 PM–5:00 PM · Happy Hour Networking; Networking and Member Discussion

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Nov 5

8:00 AM–8:45 AM · Coffee and Networking; Grab your breakfast and coffee and start networking!

8:45 AM–9:45 AM · 2021 Macro and Ag Economic Outlook Featuring Tanner Ehmke, Manager, Knowledge Exchange Division, CoBank

9:45 AM–10:00 AM · Stage Setting; Minnesota Agri-Food with Tamara Nelsen, AgriGrowth and Shannon Schlecht, AURI

10:00 AM–11:15 AM · Building Agri-Food Resiliency: Lessons from MBOLD Leaders (organizing partner: MBOLD); Moderator: Rod Hebrink, Compeer Financial; Panelists: Doug Baker, CEO, Ecolab; Tina May, Director, Rural Services, Land O'Lakes; Dimitrios Smyrnios, CEO, Schwan's

11:15 AM–11:30 AM · Networking Break

11:30 AM–11:55 AM · Virtual Exhibit Fair & Issue Networking

12:00 PM–1:00 PM · Luncheon Program; Distinguished Service Award and Guest Speaker Governor Tim Walz

1:00 PM–1:15 PM · Networking Break

1:15 PM–2:30 PM · 2020 Election Panel: Assessing the 2020 Election with Moderator: Blois Olson, Political Strategist, Fluence Media; Panel members TBD

2:30 PM–2:45 PM · Closing Remarks

2:45 PM–3:30 PM · Issues Networking; Visit a session room or the networking page to continue the conversation in small groups or 1 on 1 meet ups!

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