DANVILLE, VA – AeroFarms President and Chief Monetary Officer Man Blanchard will lead a keynote tackle on the 2nd annual version of the Managed Surroundings Agriculture (CEA) Summit East, Sept. 19-20, 2023, on the Institute for Superior Studying and Analysis (IALR) Institute Convention Middle in Danville, VA. Blanchard’s keynote will make clear AeroFarms’ journey in the direction of resiliency, emphasizing the convention’s core mission to unite the CEA enterprise and educational sectors, fostering studying, networking, and collective progress within the face of trade challenges.
Man Blanchard’s keynote is scheduled for Wednesday, September 20, 2023, at 9 a.m.
The CEA Summit East is co-hosted by Indoor Ag-Con, the most important vertical farming | CEA gathering, and the CEA Innovation Middle – a partnership between the IALR and Virginia Tech’s College of Plant and Environmental Sciences and the Virginia Seafood Agricultural Analysis and Extension Middle.
Throughout his keynote, Blanchard will share how AeroFarms is rising stronger within the months following a Chapter 11 submitting, bearing on rising retail partnerships with leaders like Walmart, H-E-B, The Contemporary Market, Complete Meals, Amazon Contemporary, and different initiatives. He may even present updates on AeroFarms’ latest farm in Danville, which continues to scale in response to plan.
Blanchard brings in depth venture finance and company improvement expertise for AeroFarms, a number one clean-technology firm that builds and operates industrial state-of-the-art indoor vertical farms all over the world, serving to rework agriculture. A Licensed B Company, AeroFarms has been acknowledged by Quick Firm as one of many Most Modern Corporations within the World and by Inc. as one of many Prime 25 Disruptive Corporations. Man final served as Senior Vice President, Company Growth, at Amonix, Inc., a concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) solar energy methods gear producer and developer.
Man has additionally served as a Managing Director for Fortress Funding Group’s Drawbridge household of funds, the place he was a principal investor with a give attention to structured investments in long-lived property. Previous to that, Man was Vice President of Company Finance at GATX Capital Company and CFO for JTP Manufacturing. Man holds a bachelor’s diploma and an MBA, each from the College of California, Davis.
“We’re excited to welcome Man Blanchard to our CEA Summit keynote stage. AeroFarms has been a trailblazer within the indoor farming trade, and his tackle will undoubtedly present invaluable insights into the trail ahead for the indoor farming sector because it confronts new challenges, and new alternatives, head-on,” stated Brian Sullivan, CEO, Indoor Ag-Con.
“Having Man Blanchard share his perspective on AeroFarms’ journey by means of current challenges aligns completely with our mission to foster collaboration and innovation inside the CEA neighborhood,” provides Dr. Scott Lowman, Co-Director of the CEA Innovation Middle, and Vice President of Utilized Analysis at IALR.
The CEA Summit East is custom-tailored for brand new and well-seasoned CEA trade members from all through the Japanese US, together with indoor and greenhouse growers, facility homeowners and operators, educators, authorities officers, actual property builders, architects, development specialists, gross sales and advertising groups and others.
Throughout the two-day occasion, trade members can have the chance to listen to from CEOs, researchers, and consultants main keynotes, panels, and breakout periods; discover tabletop reveals presenting the newest CEA improvements and companies; and revel in a bunch of networking alternatives starting from meals and low breaks to a night social occasion.
QUICK FACTS:
WHEN: Tuesday, September 19 – Wednesday, September 20, 2023
WHERE: IALR Institute Convention Middle, 150 Slayton Ave, Danville, VA 24540
INFO: For data on exhibiting or attending go to www.ceasummit.com
ABOUT INDOOR AG-CON
Indoor Ag-Con is the premier international occasion collection targeted on the way forward for indoor farming. Since 2013, the commerce present and convention, the trade’s largest, has been on the forefront of the quickly increasing vertical farming and managed setting agriculture sector, offering a platform for trade leaders, innovators, and researchers to attach, share data, and drive the trade ahead. Extra information- www.indoor.ag
ABOUT THE VIRGINIA TECH-IALR CEA INNOVATION CENTER
The Virginia Tech-IALR Managed Surroundings Agriculture Innovation Middle is a joint venture between IALR and Virginia Tech’s College of Plant and Environmental Sciences and the Virginia Seafood Agricultural Analysis and Extension Middle. By creating strategic partnerships with each trade and academia, the objective of the Innovation Middle is to conduct analysis and academic programming to develop, promote and advance the CEA sector within the U.S. and internationally. Extra data–www.ialr.org/cea
