Guillermo has served as chief technology officer since the first stage of FRONTEC Technological Development process and validation of its results, and currently leads business development as chief executive officer. He also served as president of the National Technology Industry Institute. Guillermo lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has a mechanical engineering degree with a masters in economics.
With more than 20 years’ experience working in emerging markets, including real-life, in-the-trenches agriculture and business experience, Lisa brings an entirely unique point of view to issues surrounding big data in agriculture. She has seen precision agriculture evolve rapidly both in capability and promise to help farms improve productivity and efficiency and is committed to helping agriculture address the remaining challenges.
Lisa brings an “outsider’s perspective,” having specialized in providing critical market understanding for data-intensive, smart connected solutions in many industries including healthcare, smart buildings, telecommunications, IT, energy, consumer homes, online retail, oil & gas and aerospace. On the ag side, she served as Trimble Agriculture’s Strategic Marketing Director, where she was responsible for the precision farming strategy, planning and M&A, as well as global strategic partnerships with companies including John Deere, Dow AgroSciences, BASF, Land O’Lakes, CHS, AGCO, Monsanto-Climate, and DuPont Pioneer to name a few.
Lisa’s farm roots go back to tying grapes, introducing dairy feed RFID tracking and operations in the global supply chain for dried fruits and vegetables, biofuel production and as the Agrium-Viterra merger PMO. She holds a BS in Computer Science from Penn State University and attended the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Seana’s roles in the food and ag industry include director of strategy and business development at AgTech Insight, Fish 2.0 associate, and managing director at Centerra Capital where she provided agribusiness investment advisory. Previously Seana was a technology investment banker at AGC Partners in London, Ridgecrest Capital Partners in the Bay Area, and Headwaters MB in Denver.
Bruner is on a mission to accelerate the adoption of sustainable agriculture. He is a Forbes 30 under 30, U.S. Harry S. Truman Scholar, and former investment advisor at the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the U.S. Department of Energy. Max received an MPhil in Technology Policy from the University of Cambridge and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Nathan Dorn is the Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Food Origins – a startup focused on precision data collection and analytic services for hand harvested produce. Dorn was previously Director of Knowledge and Innovation for Reiter Affiliated Companies administrating worldwide organizational mechanization programs for fresh berry harvest and non-harvest activities with hundreds of internal clients in 7 districts of 2 countries. Nathan has also worked as the technical manager for Gallo Family Vineyards and was an operations and maintenance engineer for Pepsi Bottling Group. Dorn began his career as a US Navy nuclear mechanic for the submarine fleet. Dorn received his EMBA from Pepperdine Graziadio School of Business Management and his BA from University of Phoenix.
Author of “Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business” and the forthcoming “Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science,” Bill is responsible for setting the strategy and defining the Big Data service offerings and capabilities for EMC Global Services’ Big Data Practice. As the CTO for the Big Data Practice, he is responsible for working with organizations to help them identify where and how to start their big data journeys. He’s written several white papers, is an avid blogger and is a frequent speaker on the use of Big Data and data science to power the organization’s key business initiatives. Bill is a University of San Francisco School of Management (SOM) Executive Fellow where he teaches the “Big Data MBA” course, and is ranked as the #15 Big Data Influencer by Onalytica. He brings more than three decades of experience in data warehousing, BI and analytics to this conference.
Julie has a decade of experience serving the Energy industry where she has become an expert in the integration and application of geospatial technologies throughout the entire oil and gas well lifecycle. She has developed a solid reputation for developing and deploying leading edge solutions, saving Energy companies time and money. Now the Founder and President of Tellus Geospatial, Julie provides consulting and professional services that help clients sensibly integrate geospatial technologies and data.
Dave is responsible for growing the GEOSYS business by establishing new technical and commercial strategic partnerships and collaborations. He grew up on a family farm in southeastern Minnesota where his three brothers are still currently farming. Dave has spent more than 25 years in the agriculture industry in various plant genetics, agronomy, and technology roles with companies such as Coors Brewing Company, DuPont Pioneer, GreenLeaf Genetics, WinField, and FarmLink.
Rich has worked his way through the leadership ranks in IT at Monsanto for more than 15 years. In his current role, Rich is responsible for global customer strategy around digital commerce, including order-to-cash (B2B, B2C, B2B2C), logistics, warehousing, and customer service.
As general manager, Brendan provides innovative, strong leadership and better solutions to North American crop producers. He previously served as general manager at Crop Care Pty Ltd. Brendan attended Rongotai college, Massey University where his emphasis was in applied horticulture and horticultural business services.
