Join us to hear from one of the biggest influencers in the Agtech space. We’re excited to have Walt DuFlock join us to discuss the following key points that you won’t want to miss:

• Getting ready for a discovery call
• Defining and building your MVP
• So you think you’re ready for a field trial?
• Improve working with growers and improve at
  convincing investors they should write you a check
  

Keynote Speaker: Walt DuFlock
Walt Duflock is the Vice President of Innovation at Western Growers focused on helping AgTech startups scale faster and work with growers beter. WG Innovation is focused on solving some of agriculture’s biggest challenges related to labor, water, and food safety.

The WG Innovation team is leading global initiatives around harvest (Global Harvest Automation Initiative) and educating the next generation of agriculture workers (Next Gen Ag Worker Initiative) that will be part engineer, biologist, agronomist, computer scientist, and entomologist and will help all the needed innovation get implemented successfully into specialty crop farming operations.

Walt is also a 5th-generation family farmer from Monterey County that operates catle, specialty crops, and wine grapes. Walt has over 25 years of experience in Silicon Valley startups, including eBay, MerchantCircle (acquired by Reply), and APTARE (acquired by Veritas). Prior to Western Growers, Walt helped SVG-THRIVE build the top AgriFoodTech Accelerator.