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Investir em startups agrotech e climate tech no Brasil oferece grandes oportunidades e desafios, com foco em inovação, sustentabilidade e governança. Henrique Galvani e Janny Castro explicam como a Arara Seed está democratizando o acesso a esses investimentos, trazendo soluções tecnológicas para o agronegócio. O futuro do setor agrobrasileiro é promissor, com a tecnologia sendo essencial para torná-lo mais resiliente e sustentável.Links citados no episódio: araraseed.com.br e https://www.instagram.com/henriquemgalvani.Participantes:Henrique Martins Galvani, CEO, Arara Seed.Host(s):Juliana Cavani, Apresentadora, Tracto.Janny Castro, Diretora de Financial Services, Forvis Mazars.
Heston grew up ranching and training horses with his family but he went to college unsure what he wanted to do with his life. He fell back into rodeoing and riding some outside horses in college and then had an opportunity to go work for a guy that was building a horse program and that job allowed him to also day work and ride other outside horses. Heston was living the dream doing this but he realized it wasn't sustainable. He started keeping an eye out for other opportunities and of course he found one. It came in the form of running a feed store with the intention of ownership one day. Although it didn't work out like that. Unemployment found him seeking opportunities again and if course he found one in buying another Ag business. They've been able to grow Agrotech since taking the reins and he's been able to get back into some ranching and riding horses again. Diversified Payments:https://www.diversifiedpayments.com/wealthycowboyThe Wealthy Cowboy Mastermind:https://www.skool.com/the-wealthy-cowboy-mastermind-1608/about
La quinta jornada celebrada en el Espacio Xplora de IberCaja trata sobre la digitalización del sector agrarario. Una mesa redonda moderada por Carlos Espatolero, Director de ¨De puertas Al Campo¨ de Aragón Radio y en la que participa Javier García Ramos, Catedrático de Universidad en el Área de Ingeniería Agroforestal, adscrito a la Escuela Politécnica Superior de Huesca; José Ramón Acín, Ingeniero Técnico en Explotaciones Forestales por la Universidad de Lérida. Gerente de Agrarium y de Finca Bizcarra; Jorge Andrés, Profesor de Formación Profesional de la Familia Agraria en el Centro Público Integrado de Formación Profesional Movera; Xavi Bifet, Analista y Consultor de Procesos de la Empresa y Transformación Digital; Yolanda Ferrer, Ingeniera Agrónoma. Especialista en Agricultura Digital y Agrotech y José Antonio Dominguez, Desarrollo de Negocio microempresas, Comercio y Autónomos Ibercaja.
La quinta jornada celebrada en el Espacio Xplora de IberCaja trata sobre la digitalización del sector agrarario. Una mesa redonda moderada por Carlos Espatolero, Director de ¨De puertas Al Campo¨ de Aragón Radio y en la que participa Javier García Ramos, Catedrático de Universidad en el Área de Ingeniería Agroforestal, adscrito a la Escuela Politécnica Superior de Huesca; José Ramón Acín, Ingeniero Técnico en Explotaciones Forestales por la Universidad de Lérida. Gerente de Agrarium y de Finca Bizcarra; Jorge Andrés, Profesor de Formación Profesional de la Familia Agraria en el Centro Público Integrado de Formación Profesional Movera; Xavi Bifet, Analista y Consultor de Procesos de la Empresa y Transformación Digital; Yolanda Ferrer, Ingeniera Agrónoma. Especialista en Agricultura Digital y Agrotech y José Antonio Dominguez, Desarrollo de Negocio microempresas, Comercio y Autónomos Ibercaja.
Nesse episódio trouxemos as notícias e novidades do mundo da programação que nos chamaram atenção dos dias 07/12 a 13/12.
Nesse episódio trouxemos as notícias e novidades do mundo da programação que nos chamaram atenção dos dias 07/12 a 13/12.
Big tech knows no bounds and LA-based company Agrotech wants to bring tech to the fruit industry. The company's integration of AI, software and hardware into its process for creating juicy berries has earned them a $1B valuation. So how did they get here? Plus: Tesla stock climbs and would you buy air from Lake Como? Join our hosts Jon Weigell and Juliet Bennett as they take you through our most interesting stories of the day. Follow us on social media: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thehustle.co Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehustledaily/ Thank You For Listening to The Hustle Daily Show. Don't forget to hit Subscribe or Follow us on Apple Podcasts so you never miss an episode! If you want this news delivered to your inbox, join millions of others and sign up for The Hustle Daily newsletter, here: https://thehustle.co/email/ Plus! Your engagement matters to us. If you are a fan of the show, be sure to leave us a 5-Star Review on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hustle-daily-show/id1606449047 (and share your favorite episodes with your friends, clients, and colleagues).
In this episode of The Intentional Agribusiness Leader, host Mark Jewell sits down with James Paterson, VP of Sales and co-founder of Agrotech USA, to discuss the essence of intentional leadership and culture-building in agribusiness. James, a former professional rugby player, shares how lessons from the world-renowned All Blacks rugby team, such as "sweeping the sheds" (the idea that no one is too important to do the small tasks), have shaped his approach to leadership and team culture at Agrotech.Key Takeaways:Intentionality Starts Small: James reflects on how the humility to “sweep the sheds” influences a company's culture, teaching that every team member, from leaders to new hires, contributes to larger goals through small, intentional actions.Adapting to Industry Shifts: With fewer farmers and more digital resources, James emphasizes the importance of hiring sales team members who are adaptable and tech-savvy, as today's clients often make independent buying decisions based on online information.Empowering Through Vulnerability: By fostering an open culture where team members are encouraged to discuss both wins and losses, James highlights how shared experiences and open communication build trust and resilience within the team.Building on Strengths, Not Fixating on Weaknesses: Drawing from both sports and business experience, James explains why focusing on team members' strengths leads to more productivity and satisfaction, rather than fixating on areas of improvement.Sustainable Motivation Through Physical and Mental Well-being: For James, daily exercise provides a constant amidst the uncertainty of a startup. He underscores the importance of finding a personal practice that brings clarity, whether it's exercise, mindfulness, or other routines.Notable Quotes:"Nobody's too big to do the small things that need to be done." – James Patterson"Sustainable culture is built when people can share their losses, learn together, and celebrate wins collectively." – James Patterson"The best coaches empower their players to lead and learn from each other, rather than dictating every move." – James Patterson"In our team, it's about focusing on strengths, not weaknesses. We ride what each person does best to achieve collective success." – James Patterson"For me, exercise is that one constant I control. It sets the tone for clarity, focus, and showing up fully every day." – James PattersonIf you're interested in leadership, building resilient team culture, and learning how small, intentional actions contribute to big results, this episode is for you.
Tema: Negócios e Missões Negócios e missões caminham juntos? Qual é a visão bíblica para os empreendedores? De que forma a inovação e tecnologia podem gerar desenvolvimento e lucro para ser revertido em ação missionária? Essas e outras questões foram abordadas na entrevista com Eduardo Silva, presidente do Conselho do TELA - Rede de Empreendedores Cristãos. Confira! Entrevistado: Eduardo Silva - CEO da E-Crown Group, investidor em Startups de I.A., Edtech e AgroTech, MBA em Data Scientist pela PUC-RS e Master em Conselheiro de Tecnologia pela GoNew (em curso) e Presidente do Conselho do Instituto TELA (Rede de Empreendedorismo Cristão) Apresentação: Ricardo Santos Produção: Michelle Gomes e Stefanie CerqueiraEdição: Thiago Lisa, Luiz Felipe, Pedro Campos e Luan Teixeira See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
BIST Bülten, yeni bölümüyle yayında! Bugünkü bültenimizin menüsünde; TUİK tarafından yapılan açıklamaya göre enflasyona yönelik güncel rakamlar, BofA'nın BIST'te geçtiğimiz hafta en çok alım-satım yaptığı hisseler, Agrotech'in tanıttığı yeni elektrikli otomobili ve yerel piyasalara yönelik güncel haber yer alıyor. Midas uygulamasını indir: https://app.getmidas.com/gmih/mie6gpeu Midas'ın Kulakları: https://www.getmidas.com/midasin-kulaklari Twitter: https://twitter.com/getmidas Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/get_midas/ Not: Bu içerik, içeriğin yayınlandığı günkü veriler ve haberler baz alınarak hazırlanmıştır. Eğer varsa içerikte geçen hedef fiyat tahminleri, uzman ve analist yorumları bu içeriğin yayınlandığı tarihte geçerlidir. Bu tahmin ve yorumlar zaman içinde değişkenlik gösterebilmektedir. Bu podcast'te yer alan haberler ve haberlerin içerdiği şirketler hakkındaki bilgiler yatırım danışmanlığı kapsamında değildir. Bahsi geçen hisselerdeki; hisse adı, fiyatı ve grafikleri de dahil temsilidir, yatırım tavsiyesi değildir.
BIST Bülten, yeni bölümüyle yayında! Bugünkü bültenimizin menüsünde; Yeo Teknoloji'den yeni iş anlaşması, Agrotech'in yeni iş birliği, Pegasus'un büyüme adımları ve yerel piyasalara yönelik güncel haberler yer alıyor. Midas uygulamasını indir: https://app.getmidas.com/gmih/mie6gpeu Midas'ın Kulakları: https://www.getmidas.com/midasin-kulaklari Twitter: https://twitter.com/getmidas Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/get_midas/ Not: Bu içerik, içeriğin yayınlandığı günkü veriler ve haberler baz alınarak hazırlanmıştır. Eğer varsa içerikte geçen hedef fiyat tahminleri, uzman ve analist yorumları bu içeriğin yayınlandığı tarihte geçerlidir. Bu tahmin ve yorumlar zaman içinde değişkenlik gösterebilmektedir. Bu podcast'te yer alan haberler ve haberlerin içerdiği şirketler hakkındaki bilgiler yatırım danışmanlığı kapsamında değildir. Bahsi geçen hisselerdeki; hisse adı, fiyatı ve grafikleri de dahil temsilidir, yatırım tavsiyesi değildir.
BIST Bülten, yeni bölümüyle yayında! Tekfen Holding'in hisse geri alımı, Agrotech'in yeni şirket kurma kararı, Tofaş'ın bilanço tarihi, Norveç Varlık Fonu'nu Türkiye'deki şirketlere yaptığı yatırımlar ve yerel piyasalara yönelik güncel haberler yer alıyor. İyi dinlemeler. Midas uygulamasını indir: https://app.getmidas.com/gmih/mie6gpeu Midas'ın Kulakları: https://www.getmidas.com/midasin-kulaklari Twitter: https://twitter.com/getmidas Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/get_midas/ Not: Bu içerik, içeriğin yayınlandığı günkü veriler ve haberler baz alınarak hazırlanmıştır. Eğer varsa içerikte geçen hedef fiyat tahminleri, uzman ve analist yorumları bu içeriğin yayınlandığı tarihte geçerlidir. Bu tahmin ve yorumlar zaman içinde değişkenlik gösterebilmektedir. Bu podcast'te yer alan haberler ve haberlerin içerdiği şirketler hakkındaki bilgiler yatırım danışmanlığı kapsamında değildir. Bahsi geçen hisselerdeki; hisse adı, fiyatı ve grafikleri de dahil temsilidir, yatırım tavsiyesi değildir.
BIST Bülten, yeni bölümüyle yayında! Bugünkü bültenimizin menüsünde; mağaza sayısını yükselten Reeder Teknoloji, Agrotech'in büyüme hedefi, Moody's kararına yönelik olası senaryolar ve yerel piyasalara yönelik güncel haberler yer alıyor. İyi dinlemeler. Midas uygulamasını indir: https://app.getmidas.com/gmih/mie6gpeu Midas'ın Kulakları: https://www.getmidas.com/midasin-kulaklari Twitter: https://twitter.com/getmidas Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/get_midas/ Not: Bu içerik, içeriğin yayınlandığı günkü veriler ve haberler baz alınarak hazırlanmıştır. Eğer varsa içerikte geçen hedef fiyat tahminleri, uzman ve analist yorumları bu içeriğin yayınlandığı tarihte geçerlidir. Bu tahmin ve yorumlar zaman içinde değişkenlik gösterebilmektedir. Bu podcast'te yer alan haberler ve haberlerin içerdiği şirketler hakkındaki bilgiler yatırım danışmanlığı kapsamında değildir. Bahsi geçen hisselerdeki; hisse adı, fiyatı ve grafikleri de dahil temsilidir, yatırım tavsiyesi değildir.
Overview: Today, we're going to explore AFEX, the African commodities exchange. We'll discuss the story across the following areas: African Agriculture context AFEX's launch & early history Product & monetization strategy Competitive positioning & potential exit options Overall outlook. This episode was recorded on Dec 24, 2023 Companies discussed: AFEX, EAX (East African Commodity Exchange), Tony Elumelu Foundation, Heirs Holdings, Apollo Agriculture, NCX, Cargill, Louis Dreyfuss, 50 Ventures & Berggruen Charitable Trust Business concepts discussed: Agriculture technology (AgTech, AgriTech or AgroTech), Agribusiness marketplaces, farming financing, Farmer market access opportunities, Agriculture insurance strategy, Commodity trading & Internal Entrepreneurship (Incubated company strategy). Conversation highlights: (01:10) - What Afex is and why we're talking about it (08:36) - Context of agriculture in Africa (21:49) - AFEX Founding story (33:28) - Fundraising (39:56) - Growth, geographical expansion and partnerships (49:42) - Product strategy, monetization and growth (59:14) - Cost structure, revenue and margins (1:10:00) - Business and user metrics (1:13:14) - Competition and options for exit (1:21:02) - Bankole's overall thoughts and outlook (1:34:25) - Olumide's overall thoughts and outlook (1:47:45) - Recommendations and small wins Olumide's recommendations & small wins: Interested in investing in Africa Tech with Olumide: Read about Adamantium fund & contact me at olumide@afrobility.com. Founders looking for funding: If you're a B2B founder working on Education, Health, Finance or food, please contact me for funding at olumide@afrobility.com Checkout my FIREDOM book = FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) + Freedom = personal finance and financial independence book. Website, Read: Substack Newsletter & Buy: Print, eBook or Audiobook) Recommendation: I went back and re-read some of my classic books: How I found freedom in an Unfree world (Harry Browne), Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and It's All Small Stuff (Richard Carlson) & A Guide to the Good Life - The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy (William B. Irvine) Small win: Hiking with new friends in St Thomas. Cool Bankole's recommendations & small wins: Recommendation: FiveBooks.Com - FiveBooks.com shares lists of the best five books on many topics, chosen by experts in that area Recommendation: Jeff Bezos on Lex Fridman Podcast. A rare Jeff Bezos long form interview. Small win: Running while listening to Big 7 - Burna Boy Fact check: Tony Elumelu narrates How He Went from Second Class Lower Degree to Nigeria's Billionaire Other content: FT ranking: Africa's Fastest Growing Companies 2023 & AFEX Nigeria loses maize worth N85m to 'police raid' Listeners: We'd love to hear from you. Email info@afrobility.com with feedback! Founders & Operators: We'd love to hear about what you're working on, email us at info@afrobility.com Investors: It would be great to link up with you. Contact us at info@afrobility.com Join our insider mailing list where we get feedback on new episodes & find all episodes on Afrobility.com
Guest: Muhammad Rais Ul Awal, Director, Krishibid Group, Expert in Agrotech In this enlightening episode, we sit down with Muhammad Rais Ul Awal, the Director of Krishibid Group and an expert in the field of Agrotech. We delve into the fascinating world of agriculture in Bangladesh, exploring how technology is revolutionizing this vital sector. Muhammad shares his deep insights on the latest advancements in agricultural technology and how these innovations are changing the way farming is done in Bangladesh. We also discuss the crucial role of the youth in this agricultural transformation. Muhammad provides valuable advice and perspectives on how young people in Bangladesh can get involved in agriculture, turning it into a vibrant, tech-savvy, and profitable sector. He emphasizes the importance of embracing technology to not only increase productivity but also to make agriculture an attractive career choice for the younger generation. Whether you're interested in the technological evolution of agriculture, or looking for ways to be a part of this exciting sector, this episode is a treasure trove of information. Join us to understand how agriculture in Bangladesh is moving forward and how you, especially if you're a young individual, can be a part of this change.
BIST Bülten, yeni bölümüyle yayında! Bugünkü bültenimizin menüsünde; #KARSN'ın aldığı yeni siparişler, #ASELS'in yeni girişimi, TÜİK'in açıkladığı kasım ayı enflasyon rakamları ve piyasalara yönelik güncel haberler yer alıyor. İyi dinlemeler. Midas uygulamasını indir: https://app.getmidas.com/gmih/mie6gpeu Midas'ın Kulakları: https://www.getmidas.com/midasin-kulaklari Twitter: https://twitter.com/getmidas Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/get_midas/ Not: Bu içerik, içeriğin yayınlandığı günkü veriler ve haberler baz alınarak hazırlanmıştır. Eğer varsa içerikte geçen hedef fiyat tahminleri, uzman ve analist yorumları bu içeriğin yayınlandığı tarihte geçerlidir. Bu tahmin ve yorumlar zaman içinde değişkenlik gösterebilmektedir. Bu podcast'te yer alan haberler ve haberlerin içerdiği şirketler hakkındaki bilgiler yatırım danışmanlığı kapsamında değildir. Bahsi geçen hisselerdeki; hisse adı, fiyatı ve grafikleri de dahil temsilidir, yatırım tavsiyesi değildir.
My guest on the show today is Filip Erhardt, Founder and CEO of ESGFIRE. I was introduced to Filip by Paul Andreola from Small Cap Discoveries (thank you, Paul) a few months ago, and we had a phenomenal conversation about his ESG strategy and his approach to investing in environmentally-friendly companies. In the Summer 2023 issue of the Planet MicroCap Review, Filip contributed an article titled, "ESG Investing 101," documenting his investing process, and invited him on the podcast to dive deeper into ESG, Cleantech, Agrotech and why ESG is still a megatrend that investors shouldn't ignore. For more information about ESGFIRE, please visit: https://esgfire.com/en/ Today's episode is sponsored by: Stream by AlphaSense, an expert interview transcript library that integrates AI-generated call summaries and NLP search technology so their clients can quickly pinpoint the most critical insights. Start your FREE trial on their website: https://streamrg.co/PMC Planet MicroCap Podcast is on YouTube! All archived episodes and each new episode will be posted on the SNN Network YouTube channel. I've provided the link in the description if you'd like to subscribe. You'll also get the chance to watch all our Video Interviews with management teams, educational panels from the conference, as well as expert commentary from some familiar guests on the podcast. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1Q5Yfym Click here to rate and review the Planet MicroCap Podcast The Planet MicroCap Podcast is brought to you by SNN Incorporated, The Official MicroCap News Source, and the Planet MicroCap Review Magazine, the leading magazine in the MicroCap market. You can Follow the Planet MicroCap Podcast on Twitter @BobbyKKraft
Hablamos con Adriana Molano, líder de la estrategia Colombia PotencIA Digital del Ministerio TIC, quien nos compartió su visión para convertir a Colombia en un país digitalmente competitivo. La estrategia se basa en la alineación de capacidades disponibles, necesidades de los ecosistemas y los intereses de los mercados globales. Se utilizarán ocho aceleradores y se creará el Fondo Potencia Digital para financiar proyectos innovadores. La Inteligencia Artificial (IA) juega un papel crucial en esta estrategia. Además, nos contó sobre AgroTECH, una iniciativa para digitalizar el campo y aumentar la eficiencia, productividad y sostenibilidad de la agricultura en Colombia. Si quieres conocer más sobre todo lo que el minTIC tiene para nuestro futuro, no te pierdas este episodio. Narración por Fernanda Sandoval. Montaje y edición por Juan Diego Caballero. Diseño de imagen por Juan Carlos Acosta. Con el apoyo especial de Juan David Franco, periodista MinTIC. Bandas Sonoras de Pixabay: Chill Abstract (Intention)de Coma-Media, Abstract World de AlexiAction, This Minimal Technology (Pure) de Coma-Media | Todos los derechos reservados Galvis Ramírez & Cia S.A. Bucaramanga - Colombia. Noviembre de 2023. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/conversacionestic/message
¡Prepárate para sembrar ideas innovadoras en el campo de la transformación digital agrícola!
Expertos de la industria tecnológica, junto con otros líderes, compartirán sus ideas sobre la transformación digital y la adopción de la Industria 4.0 en Latinoamérica, en el evento online "Manufactura y Agro Day", organizado por TOTVS, este 25 de octubre, en busca de fomentar una cultura de innovación y colaboración entre los participantes.
Plants by nature are designed to interact with light. Satellites can measure the light reflected by plants to detect grapevine diseases before they are visible to the human eye. Katie Gold, Assistant Professor of Grape Pathology, Susan Eckert Lynch Faculty Fellow, School of Integrative Plant Science Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section of Cornell AgriTech is trailblazing remote disease detection with imaging spectroscopy also known as hyperspectral imaging. Imaging spectroscopy was developed by NASA to tell us what Mars was made out of. By turning satellites back on Earth, Katie and a team of scientists are learning how to use the light reflected back to manage grapevine viral and foliar diseases. Listen in to the end to get Katie's number one piece of advice on the importance of data management. Resources: Alyssa K. 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Since 1994, Vineyard Team has been your resource for workshops and field demonstrations, research, and events dedicated to the stewardship of our natural resources. Learn more at www.vineyardteam.org. Transcript Craig Macmillan 0:00 With us today is Katie Gold, Assistant Professor of Grape Pathology at Cornell AgraTech campus of the Cornell University. Thanks for being on the show. Katie Gold 0:08 Well, thanks for having me. Craig Macmillan 0:09 Today, we're going to talk about some really cool technology. I've been interested in it for a long time, and I can't wait to get an update on what all is happening. There's some really exciting work being done on using remote sensing for the detection of plant diseases. Can you tell us a little bit about what that research is about what's going on in that field? Katie Gold 0:25 Sure, what isn't going on in this field, it's a really exciting time to be here. So I guess to put into context, we're really at this precipice of an unprecedented era of agricultural monitoring. And this comes from the intersection of you know, hardware becoming accessible, the data analytics becoming accessible, but also investment, you know, a lot of talk of ag tech being the next big thing. And with that comes this interest in using these cool and novel data streams for disease detection. So my group specializes in plant disease sensing, it's our bread and butter to what we entirely focus on. And we specialize in a technology called imaging spectroscopy for disease detection. So this is also known as hyperspectral imaging. Imaging spectroscopy is the technical term. And this is a type of remote sensing that it differs from, you know, radio wave remote sensing, and it focuses on light in the visible to shortwave infrared range. Craig Macmillan 1:13 Talk a little bit more about that. So when we talk about hyperspectral, we're looking outside of the range of radiation, essentially, that's not just light. Katie Gold 1:24 So yes, and no. So hyperspectral is a word that describes how the light is being measured, kind of colloquially, we assigned to it more meaning that it actually has. That's why I often like to differentiate between it for explanation sake, what hyperspectral imaging is, when we talk about using it in the full vSphere range, these are all types of light, you know, it's all aspects of the electromagnetic radiation scale. But this spectrum of light that ranges from the visible to the shortwave infrared, this spans a range of about 2100 wavelengths. So to put that into context, we see visible light only. And this spans a range of wavelengths, that's about 300 nanometers, and went from about 450 to 750. So if you think about all the richness of radiation, the subtlety in differences in color that you see in everyday light, all of that comes from those subtle interactions of, you know, specific wavelengths of light hitting that stuff and bouncing back into our eye. So now imagine having seven times more wavelengths than that, you know, we have 2100, different wavelengths that we measure. And those wavelengths that are beyond the range that we can see the reason why we don't see them as they're less abundant, they're less emitted by our sun, but they're still present, and they still interact with the world. In particular, they interact very strongly with chemistry, such as environmental chemistry. So imaging spectroscopy was developed by NASA to tell us what Mars was made out of, then one day, they're like, let's turn this baby around and pointed at the Earth. And we discovered that it's quite applicable for vegetative spectroscopy. So telling us what vegetation is made of what the composition of the Earth is. And because plant disease impacts chemistry, so dramatically, plant physiology, chemistry, morphology, such a dramatic chaotic impact. It's a really excellent technology to use for early detection. So those subtle little changes that occur within a plant before it becomes diseased to the human eye, but it's undergoing that process of disease. Craig Macmillan 3:12 Can you expand on that point? Exactly how does this work in terms of the changes in the plant that are being picked up by viewing certain wavelengths? What's the connection there? Katie Gold 3:23 Consider the leaf, right. So plants are an amazing thing to remotely sense because they're designed by nature to interact with light. Now that's in contrast to skin right that's designed to keep light out plants are designed to have light go in and out, etcetera. So light will enter our atmosphere from the sun, and it will do one of three things when it encounters a plant, it'll be reflected back, it will be absorbed for photosynthesis, or it will be transmitted through the plant. And the wealth of that light is actually reflected back. And that reflected light can be detected by something as distantly placed as a satellite in orbit. And how that light is reflecting off a plant is determined by the health status of a plant. So a healthy leaf, right? It's going to be photosynthesizing. This means that it's going to be absorbing red and blue light for photosynthesis, it's going to have a lot of chlorophyll, it's going to be nice, bright and green, it's going to reflect back a lot of green light. And then it's going to reflect back near infrared light, because that is the sort of light that corresponds really well to the cellular structure of a leaf, right, so a nice healthy leaf is going to bounce back near infrared light. Now an unhealthy plant, it's not going to be photosynthesizing properly. So it's going to be absorbing less red and blue light. Therefore, it will be reflecting more of that red light back, it's not going to have a lot of chlorophyll. So it's going to reflect back less green light, and it's not as healthy. It's not as robust, so it will reflect back less near infrared light. So by looking at those subtle differences, and this is where we get back to that idea of hyperspectral. Right. hyperspectral is a word about how a sensor is measuring light. And hyperspectral means that a sensor is measuring light at such narrow intervals, that it's a near continuous data product. And this is in contrast to a multispectral sensor something Like NDVI that measures light in big chunks. The power is when you have continuous data, right? You could do more complex analyses you just have more to work with. And when you have discrete data, this is what makes hyperspectral sensors more powerful. It's how they're measuring the light, and often, that they're measuring more light that our eyes can see. But that's not necessarily a given hyperspectral sensors do not need to measure beyond the visible range, they can solely be focused on the visual visible range. Because once again, hyperspectral is a word about how the light is being measured. But we oftentimes kind of colloquially, so assign more value to it. But let's take that in combination, right. So you have a hyperspectral sensor that's measuring light and very, very narrow intervals near continuous data product, you're measuring seven times more wavelengths than the eye can see, combined together. That's how this works, right? So those subtle differences and those wavebands how they're reflecting both direct interactions with plant chemistry, you know, some certain wavelengths of light will hit nitrogen bonds go wackadoo and bounce back, all crazy. Otherwise, we're making indirect inferences, right, you know, plant disease as a chaotic impact of plant health that impacts lots of areas of the spectrum. So we're not directly measuring the chemical impact, right? We're not saying okay, well, nitrogen is down two sugars are up three starch XYZ, we're measuring that indirect impact. Craig Macmillan 6:19 That's pretty amazing. And so... Katie Gold 6:21 I think it's cool, right? Yeah. Craig Macmillan 6:24 The idea here is that there are changes in the leaf that can be picked up and these other wave lengths that we wouldn't see until it's too late. Katie Gold 6:34 Exactly. Craig Macmillan 6:35 Okay. So it's a warning sign. That gives us a chance to change management. Katie Gold 6:40 Ideally, so. Right, so it depends on with the scale at which you're operating. So now here comes another level, right. So if you're considering just that one individual plant, it's different from when you're considering the whole scale of a vineyard, right, you want your sensing to be right size to the intervention that you're going to take. So my group works with two types of diseases primarily, we work with grape vine viral diseases, as well as grape vine foliar diseases, for example, a grape vine downy mildew, which is an Erysiphe caused by a Erysiphe pathogen, and grapevine powdery mildew, which is caused by a fungal pathogen. Now the sort of intervention that you would take for those two diseases is very different, right? With a viral disease, the only treatment that you have is removal, there's no cure for being infected with the virus. Now, with a fungal pathogen or an Erysiphe pathogen like grape downy mildew. If you detect that early, there are fungicides you can use with kickback action. Or otherwise, you might change the sort of what sort of choice you might make a fungicide right. If you know there's an actual risk in this location, you might put your most heavy hitting fungicides there than in areas where there is no disease detected, or the risk is incredibly low, you might feel more comfortable relying on a biological, thereby reducing the impact. So given the sort of intervention, you would take, we want to right size, our sensing approach for it. So with grapevine viral diseases, when the intervention is so has such a vast financial impact, right removal, we want to be incredibly sure of our data. So we focused on high spectral resolution data products for that ones, where we have lots of wavelengths being measured with the most precise accuracy so that we can have high confidence in that result, right? We want to give that to someone and say, Hey, we are very confident this is undergoing asymptomatic infection. Now, on the other hand, with these foliar diseases, they change at such a rapid timescale that you're more benefited by having an early warning that may be less accurate, right? So you're saying, hey, this area of your vineyard is undergoing rapid change it might be due to disease might be because your kid drove a golf cart through the vineyard, however, we're warning you regardless, to send someone out there and take a look and make a decision as to what you might do. Ideally, we would have a high spectral resolution regardless, right? Because more spectrum or better, but the realities of the physics and the actual logistics of doing the sensing is that we don't get to do that we have to do a trade off with spectral spatial and temporal resolution. So if we want rapid return, high degrees of monitoring, and we want that high spatial resolution suitable for a vineyard, we lose our spectral resolution, so we lose our confidence in that result. But our hope is that by saying, Hey, this is a high area of change, and giving you that information very quickly, you can still make an intervention that will be yield successful response, right? You'll go out there and you're like, Oh, yep, that's downy mildew. Otherwise, like, I'm going to take my kid keys like he's out here, my vineyard again. Right? So it's, it's kind of work balancing, right. So we have the logistics of the real world to contend with in terms of using sensing to make to inform management intervention. Craig Macmillan 9:36 This technology can be used or applied at a variety of distances if I understand everything from proximal like driving through a vineyard to satellite. Katie Gold 9:48 Oh, yeah. And we've worked with everything. Craig Macmillan 9:50 Yeah, yeah. And everything in between. I mean, could you fly over is a lot of companies that do NDVIs with flyover. Katie Gold 9:55 You can use robots like we do. We can use robots, there's all kinds of things we can do. Or what is a what is NDVI for the audience, even though that's not what we're talking about. You and I keep using it. So NDVI stands for Normalized Difference vegetative index. It's a normalized difference between near infrared light reflecting and red light. And it is probably the most accurate measurement we have of how green something is. And it's quite a powerful tool. As you you know, we've been using NDVI for well over 50 years to measure how green the earth is from space. That's powerful. But the power of NDVI is also its downside. And that because it is so effective at telling you how green something is, it cannot tell you why something is green. Or it cannot tell you why something is not green, it's going to pick up on a whole range of subtle things that impact plant health. Craig Macmillan 10:40 And whereas the kind of work that you're doing differs from that in that it's looking at different frequencies, and a higher resolution of frequencies. Katie Gold 10:51 Exactly. So for the most part, we do use NDVI. But we use it more as a stepping stone, a filtering step rather than the kind of end all be all. Additionally to we use an index that's a cousin to NDVI called EDI, that is adjusted for blue light reflectance, which is very helpful in the vineyard because it helps you deal with the shadow effects. Given the trellising system Iin the vineyard. But yes, exactly. We, for the most part are looking at more narrow intervals of light than NDVI and ranges beyond what NDVI is measuring. Craig Macmillan 11:22 What's the resolution from space? Katie Gold 11:24 That's a great question. Craig Macmillan 11:25 What's the pixel size? Katie Gold 11:27 One of the commercial satellite products we work with has half a meter resolution from space. Craig Macmillan 11:32 Wow. Katie Gold 11:33 Yeah, 50 centimeters, which is amazing. Yeah, that was exactly my reaction. When I heard about it, it was like I didn't get my hands on this. But as I mentioned before, right, you know, if that resolution, we trade off the spectral resolution. So actually, that imagery only has four bands, that effectively is quite similar to an NDVI sensor, that we do have a little more flexibility, we can calculate different indices with it. So we use that data product, 50 centimeters, we use three meter data products from commercial sources. And then we're also looking towards the future, a lot of my lab is funded by NASA, in support of a future satellite that's going to be launched at the end of the decade, called surface biology and geology. And this is going to put a full range Hyperspectral Imager into space that will yield global coverage for the first time. So this satellite will have 30 meter resolution. And it will have that amazing spectral resolution about 10 day return. And that 30 meter spatial size. So again, kind of mixing and matching, you don't get to optimize all three resolutions at once. Unfortunately, maybe sometime in my career, I'll get to the point where I get to optimize exactly what I want, but I'm not there yet. Craig Macmillan 12:41 And I hadn't thought about that. So there's also a there's a time lag between when the data comes in and when it can be used. Katie Gold 12:48 Yes. Craig Macmillan 12:48 What are those lags like? Katie Gold 12:50 It depends. So with some of the NASA data that we work with, it can be quite lagged, because it's not designed for rapid response. It's designed for research grade, right? So it's assuming that you have time, and it's going through a processing stage, it's going through corrections, etc. And this process is not designed to be rapid, because it's not for rapid response. Otherwise, sometimes when we're working with commercial imagery that can be available. If we task it, it can be available to us within 24 hours. So that's if I say, Hey, make me an acquisition. And they do and then within 24 hours, I get my imagery in hand. Otherwise to there's a there's delays up to seven days. But for the most part, you can access commercial satellite imagery of a scene of your choosing, generally within 24 hours of about three meter resolution to half a meter resolution. That is if you're willing to pay not available from the space agencies. Craig Macmillan 13:42 I want to go back to that space agency thing first or in a second. What talk to me about satellite, we've got all kinds of satellites flying around out there. Oh, we do. All kinds of who's doing what and where and how and what are they? And how long are they up there. And... Katie Gold 13:58 Well, I'll talk a little bit about the satellites that my program is most obsessed with. We'll call it that. I'll first start with the commercial satellite imagery that we use. This comes from Planet Labs. They're a commercial provider, they're quite committed to supporting research usages, but we've been using their data for three years now. Both they're tasked imagery, which is half a meter resolution, as well as their planet scope data, which is three meter resolution. And we've been looking at this for grapevine downy mildew. Planet Labs, their whole thing is that they have constellation architecture of cube sets. So one of the reasons why satellites are the big thing right now they are what everyone's talking about, is because we're at this point of accessibility to satellite data that's facilitated by these advances in hardware design. So one the design of satellites you know, we now have little satellites called CubeSats that are the size of footballs maybe a little bit bigger. Craig Macmillan 14:48 Oh, really? Katie Gold 14:48 Yeah, yeah, they're cool. They're cute. You can actually like kids science fair projects can design a CubeSat now, fancy kid school projects, at least not not where I was. As well as constellation architecture. So this is instead of having one big satellite, the size of a bus, you have something like 10, CubeSat, that are all talking to each other and working together to generate your imagery. So that's how you're able to have far more rapid returns, instead of one thing circling around the planet, you have 10 of them circling a little bit off. So you're able to get imagery far more frequently at higher spatial resolution. And this is now you know, trickled down to agriculture. Of course, you know, what did the Department of Defense have X years ago, they've, I'm excited to see what will finally be declassified eventually, right. But this is why satellite imagery is such a heyday. But anyway, that's, that's the whole Planet Labs stick, they use CubeSats and constellation design. And that's how they're able to offer such high spatial resolution imagery. Craig Macmillan 15:44 Just real quick, I want to try understand this, you have x units, and they're spaced apart from each other in their orbit. Katie Gold 15:52 That's my understanding. So remember, I'm the plant pathologist here I just usethis stuff. So that's my understanding is that the physicists, you know, and NASA speak, they classify us into three categories. They've got applications, like myself, I use data for something, you have algorithms, which is like I study how to make satellite, talk to the world, right, like, make useful data out of satellite. And then there's hardware people, right, they design the satellite, that's their whole life. And I'm on the other side of the pipeline. So this is my understanding of how this works. But yes, they have slightly different orbits, but they talk to each other very, very like intimately so that the data products are unified. Craig Macmillan 16:33 Got it. But there's also other satellites that you're getting information from data from. Katie Gold 16:37 Yes, yeah. So now kind of going on to the other side of things. So Planet Labs has lesser spectral resolution, they have four to eight, maybe 10 bands is the most that you can get from them. We're looking towards NASA surface biology and geology data. And we use NASA's Avaris instrument suite, the family suite, that includes next generation, as well as brand new Avaris three, and this stands for the Airborne, Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectrometer. Now, this is an aircraft mounted device, but this is the sort of sensor that we'll be going into space. Additionally, we're just starting to play around with data from the new NASA satellite called Emit. Emit is an imaging spectrometer that was initially designed to study dust emission. So like, tell us what the dust is made out of where it's coming from. But they've opened up the mask to allow its collection over other areas. And Emit has outstanding spectral resolution, and about 60 meter spatial resolution. It's based on the International Space. Craig Macmillan 17:32 Station. It's located on the International Space Station? Katie Gold 17:36 Yes, yeah. And that actually impacts how its imagery is collected. So if you take a look at a map of Emit collections, there are these stripes across the world. And that's because it's on the ISS. So it only collects imagery wherever the ISS goes. And that's a little bit different from this idea of constellation architecture, have these free living satellites floating through orbit and talking to each other. Craig Macmillan 17:56 Are there other things like Landsat 7, Landsat 8? Katie Gold 18:02 Oh, we're on Landsat 9 , baby! Craig Macmillan 18:04 Oh, we're on Landsat 9 now. Cool. Katie Gold 18:05 Yeah. Yeah, Landsat 9 was successfully launched. I'm really excited about its data. Craig Macmillan 18:10 And it's coming in? Katie Gold 18:11 Just to my understanding, yes, so we don't use Landsat and Sentinel data as much otherwise, our focus is on that spectral resolution, but Landsat 9 and its its partner from the European Space Agency's Sentinel 2, they're truly the workhorses of the agricultural monitoring industry. Without those two satellites, we would be in a very different place in this world. Craig Macmillan 18:32 Right, exactly. Now, you said that your work is funded partially or all by NASA? Katie Gold 18:37 Yes, partially. Craig Macmillan 18:38 So partially, so what is the relationship there? Katie Gold 18:40 So before I started with Cornell, I was hired by Cornell while I was still a graduate student, and as part of their support for my early career development, they sponsored a short postdoc for me a fellowship, they called it I got to stay with a faculty fellow feel better about myself at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where my graduate co advisor Phil Townsend had a relationship with so I spent nine months fully immersed in JPL. People think of JPL is like, you know, the rocket launchers, which they are, but they also study, you know, like some of those phase out and go out into the world. But some of the things they launched turn around and study the Earth, and they had the carbon and ecosystem cycling group there. So I was able to work with them, as well as the imaging spectroscopy group for nine months. And it completely changed my entire life just opened up the world to me about what was possible with NASA data, what was coming for potential use of NASA data. And it really changed the trajectory of my career. So I made connections, made friends got my first graduate student from JPL, that have truly defined my career path. So I work very closely with NASA, originating from that relationship, as well as I'm the pest and disease risk mitigation lead for the newly established domestic agriculture consortium called NASA Acres. So this is NASA's most recent investment in supporting domestic agriculture. Through this consortium we're funded to continue some of our research myself and my good colleague, Yu Jiang who's an engineer who builds me my robots. It's confounding our work continuously, as well as giving us the opportunity to try to expand our approach to other domains through interactions, one on one, collaborations with other researchers and importantly work with stakeholders. And this consortium, the Acres consortium is led by my colleague, Dr. Alyssa Woodcraft, based at the University of Maryland. Craig Macmillan 20:20 Going back to some of the things that you mentioned earlier, and I think I just didn't ask the question at the time, how often does the satellite travel over any particular point on Earth? Katie Gold 20:32 So it depends on the type of satellite design. Is it the big one satellite sort of design? Or is it constellation? Or the ISS, right? Like they think the ISS orbits every 90 minutes, something like that? So it really depends, but their satellites crossing us overhead every moment. I think at night, if you ever look up into the night sky, and you see a consistent light, just traveling across the world, not blinking. That's a satellite going overhead. Craig Macmillan 20:59 Wow, that's amazing. Actually, are there applications for this technology on other crops? Katie Gold 21:04 Oh, certainly. So yeah. Oh, absolutely. So the use of this technology for understanding vegetative chemistry was really trailblaze by the terrestrial ecologist, in particular, the forest ecologist because it's a, you know, it's how you study things at scale, unlike the vineyards would have nice paths between them for researchers like myself, and you know, us all to walk between forests are incredibly difficult to navigate, especially the ones in more remote locations. So for the past two decades, it really spear spearheaded and trailblaze this use, and then I work with vineyards for the most part, I'm a grape pathologist, I was hired to support the grape industry, they saw the research I was doing, they said, great, keep doing it in garpes. So I'm a reformed potato and vegetable pathologist, I like to say, but there's no reason at all why the work I'm doing isn't applicable to other crops. I just happened to be doing it in grape, and I happen to really adore working with the wine and grape industry. Craig Macmillan 21:54 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. That, it totally makes sense. How is this translating are going to translate for growers into grower practices? Katie Gold 22:02 That's a great question. So the idea is that by trailblazing these functionalities, eventually, we'll be able to partner with commercial industry to bring this to growers, right. We want these this utility to be adopted for management intervention. But there's only so much one academic lab alone can do and the my role in the world is to trailblaze the use cases and then to partner with private industry to bring it to the people at scale. But the hope is that, you know, I want every venue manager to be looking at aerial images of their vineyards. Every day, right? I have a vision of interactive dashboards, maps of informed risk. One day, I want to have live risk maps informed by remote sensing. And I want every vineyard manager to be as familiar with their aerial view of their vines as they are with that side view of their vines. Right. And I think we're getting there sooner than you realize we're really at the precipice of this unprecedented era of monitoring or monitoring ability, right? And I'm really excited about what it will hold for management. Craig Macmillan 23:02 And so you must have cooperators I'm guessing. Katie Gold 23:05 Oh, I do. Yes. I've wonderful cooperators. Craig Macmillan 23:08 At this stage. It sounds like we're still kind of in a beta stage. Katie Gold 23:13 Oh, yes, very much in the beta stage. Craig Macmillan 23:15 So I'm guessing that you're looking at imagery and spotting areas that would suggest that there's some kind of a pathology problem, and then you're going on ground truthing it? Katie Gold 23:27 So yes, and no, it's more of a testbed sort of case study. We have nine acres of pathology vineyards here at Cornell, Agrotech, and Geneva, New York. And then we do partner with cooperators. We have wonderful cooperators based out in California, as well as here in New York. But those are for more on testbed sort of thing. So we're not just monitoring vineyards, and like watching them and say, Ooh, the spot appears here. We're doing more of a case studies where we intentionally go out and ground truth, then build those links between the imagery because we're not quite there yet, in terms of having this whole thing automated, we're still building those algorithms building that functionality. Now we've established proof of concept. You know, we know this works. So we're working on the proof of practicality, right? Building robust pipelines, ones that are that are resilient to varying environmental geographic conditions, right, different crop varieties resilient to confounding abiotic stress, that one drives us nuts. So that's the stage that we're at, but our collaborators and our industry stakeholders who partner with us. Without them the sort of work I do just simply would not be possible. And I'm extremely grateful for their part. Craig Macmillan 24:29 So what, what is next, what's next in the world of Katie Gold and in the world of hyperspectral plant pathology? Katie Gold 24:34 What's next for me is in a week, I'm boarding an airplane to go to Europe for a jaunt. I'm giving two international keynotes at plant pathology conferences about methods but what I really see as next for me is I really want to see the tools that technologies the approach that my group is using, percolate through the domain of plant pathology. We're such a small discipline, there's only about 2000 of us Around the world, in plant pathology, and you know, there's not even 10, great pathologist in this country, I can name every single one of them if you wanted me to. And I think I've got their number and my phone, really, I strongly believe we're at the precipice of such an exciting era in plant pathology, due to the availability of these imagery, these data streams, just simply an unprecedented era. And it will be a paradigm shift in how we ask and answer questions about Plant Pathology, because for the first time, we have accessible, accurate imagery that we can use to study plant disease at the scale at which it occurs in the field in real time. So I want to see these ideas percolate through the skill sets adopted, taken up and embraced and it we're seeing that start, you know, we're seeing that start, there's really excitement in plant pathology, about the use of remote sensing about GIS and that skill set in its value to our discipline. But I'd really like to see that expand. I think I am the first ever plant pathologist to receive funding from NASA Earth Science Division. When I started at JPL, they would introduce me as a disease ecologist, because no one had ever heard of plant pathology. And my wonderful colleague at JPL, Brian Pavlik, who's a JPL technologist, when we started working together, he had never once been into a vineyard. He didn't know about Plant Pathology, he was the one that called me a disease ecologist. And recently, I heard him explain the disease triangle to someone, which is, of course, the fundamental theory of plant pathology. And I was just so proud. But it also really represented this real excitement for me this embrace this acknowledgement of the challenges we face in plant pathology in these domains that otherwise have not heard of us, right and beyond the USDA, funding from NASA, just awareness from these other organizations, excitement from engineers, AI experts about solving plant disease problems. It's truly invigorating and exciting to me. That's where I see you going next. And I'm really excited about the future. Craig Macmillan 26:51 There was one thing that you could say to grape growers on this topic, what would it be? Katie Gold 26:58 Oh, that's such a great question. There's so much that I want to say. Craig Macmillan 27:01 One thing, Katie. Katie Gold 27:04 I would say your data is valuable and to be aware of how you keep track of your data, that the keeping track of your data, keeping your data organized, keeping, just having reproducible organized workflows will enable you to make the most out of these forthcoming technologies. It will enable you to calibrate it will enable you to train these technologies to work better for you, but your data is valuable, don't give it away to just anyone and to be aware of it. Craig Macmillan 27:33 I agree wholeheartedly. And I think that applies everything from how much time it takes to leaf an acre of ground. And how much wood you are removing when you prune to when and how much water you're applying. Data is gold. Katie Gold 27:49 Data is gold. Craig Macmillan 27:50 It takes time and energy. Katie Gold 27:52 Institutional knowledge. For example, my field research manager Dave Combs has been doing this job for over 25 years, I inherited him from my predecessor, and he trained our robot how to see disease in its imagery. And the goal of our robots is not to replace the expertise like Dave, but to preserve them right to preserve that 25 years of knowledge into a format that will live beyond any of us. So I see keeping track of your data keeping track of that knowledge you have, you know, you know, in your vineyard where a disease is going to show up first, you know your problem areas, keeping track of that in an organized manner, annotating your datasets. I'm starting to adopt GIS in a way just simply like, here are my field boundaries, even simply just taking notes on your in your data sets that are timed and dated. I think it's incredibly important. Craig Macmillan 28:38 Where can people find out more about you and your work? Katie Gold 28:41 Well, so you can visit my Web website or I've got a public Twitter page where you can see me retweet cool things that I think are cool. I tweet a lot about NASA I tweet a lot about Greek disease. If you want to see pictures of dying grapes come to my Twitter page, as well as Cornell regularly publishes things about me. Craig Macmillan 28:57 Fantastic. Katie Gold 28:58 So be sure to Google Katie Gold Cornell. Cornell that's the key. Yeah, Katie go to Cornell or you might get an unwelcome surprise. Craig Macmillan 29:04 And we have lots of links and stuff on the show page. So listeners you can go there. I want to thank our guest today. Unknown Speaker 29:13 Thank you so much for having me, Craig. This has been wonderful. Craig Macmillan 29:16 Had Katie Gould, Assistant Professor of rape pathology at Cornell agritech campus of Cornell University. Nearly Perfect Transcription by https://otter.ai
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-LIFE AS AN AgroTech Startup Founder | CEO- Meet Rassarin Chinnachodteeranun, CEO of ListenField Inc., in an insightful conversation on the fusion of technology and agriculture. With a Ph.D. in engineering from Japan, Rassarin transformed her research into ListenField – an AgroTech startup revolutionizing farming. Discover the journey from researcher to CEO, bridging the gap between science and agriculture. Explore ListenField's innovative ecosystem of satellite, sensor, and data analytics that empowers sustainable crop development, mitigates weather uncertainties, and quantifies risks. Gain firsthand insights into challenges and rewards of AgroTech entrepreneurship, international business, and AI's future impact. Uncover the story behind ListenField's success, its product offerings, and visionary outlook on the AgroTech landscape. To learn more about Rassarin and her biz, be sure to check her out here: Company Website LinkedIn YouTube FRIENDLY REMINDERS: And hey! Why don't you check out some video highlights of the talk over on YouTube? By liking, commenting or subscribing you'd be helping a ton as far as supporting this program. Subscribe on YouTube here I'd highly appreciate it! -Christopher Follow LIFE AS A.. on your favourite social platforms via these links: Youtube Linkedin: Twitter: Instagram: Facebook:
Overview: Today, we're going to talk about Twiga Foods. We'll explore the story across the following 6 areas Africa Agricultural context Kenya farming & market access context Twiga Foods' early history Twiga Foods' Product & monetization strategy Twiga Foods' Competitive positioning & potential exit options Future outlook. This episode was recorded on May 28, 2023 Companies discussed: Twiga Foods, Apollo Agriculture, Vendease, Kibanda, Kellogg, Tolaram, Multipro, Olam, Dangote, Coca-Cola, Shoprite, Cargill, Nestle, Unilever & Safaricom (M-Pesa) Business concepts discussed: Agriculture technology (AgTech, AgriTech or AgroTech), Agribusiness marketplaces, farming financing, Farmer market access opportunities, SMB Retail, B2B solutions and Agriculture Logistics. Conversation highlights: (01:00) - Twiga Foods context (08:53) - Africa Agriculture context (18:30) - Kenya background and agriculture context (23:34) - Market access context in Africa (31:20) - Market access context at Twiga Foods' founding (40:12) - Founders' background and farming context (56:10) - Fundraising (1:04:10) - Geographical expansion, Partnerships and Hiring (1:15:00) - Metrics (1:20:15) - Product & Monetization strategy, Cost structure (1:32:58) - Competition (1:35:00) - Options for exit (1:45:50) - Olumide's overall thoughts and outlook (1:58:58) - Bankole's overall thoughts and outlook (2:06:31) - Recommendations and small wins Olumide's recommendations & small wins: Recommendation: Berkshire Hathaway story on the Acquired podcast. It has multiple parts and is really good. The Acquired podcast is like the non-African version of Afrobility. They tell stories of companies in developed markets. Alternatively you could say Afrobility is the African version of Acquired. Recommendation: Exxon-Mobil analyses on Business Breakdown podcast. Business Breakdowns is like a more serious suit-and-tie version of Acquired. As you can tell from my recommendations I like podcasts that analyse businesses. Small win: Sao Paulo trip. It was fun. Small win: To physically touch and hold the Firedom (financial independence) book. I and Samon released the paperback and hardcover versions in May and I just received my author copy. It feels magical, the book is beautiful and bright red. Bankole's recommendations & small wins: Recommendation: Article about end of Life Dreams, Hallmarks of Good Product Sense & This Company Will Give You A Free TV In Exchange For Your Data | AdExchanger Small win: The EPL season is over, and the suffering of being a Chelsea fan is on pause… Other content: Winning in Africa's agricultural market, After 18 Months, Your Investment Probably Isn't Getting Marked Up - Angellist & Kellogg purchases 50% of Multipro for $450M Listeners: We'd love to hear from you. Email info@afrobility.com with feedback! Founders & Operators: We'd love to hear about what you're working on, email us at info@afrobility.com Investors: It would be great to link up with you. Contact us at info@afrobility.com Join our insider mailing list where we get feedback on new episodes & find all episodes on Afrobility.com
No Gestão Rural desta semana, Xisto Alves, Fundador da JetBov, prova que gestão não é conversa pra boi dormir! Sua jornada em programação e gestão de negócios o levou a se envolver com a pecuária de forma despretensiosa, resultando no empreendedorismo como solução para o crescimento do setor. Nesta troca de ideia, Xisto também destaca como a pecuária de precisão estimula a tomada de decisões tanto na área zootécnica quanto financeira, com o objetivo de otimizar a rentabilidade. Ouça e descubra os principais indicadores que influenciam essas escolhas. INTERAJA COM O AGRO RESENHAInstagram: www.instagram.com/agroresenhaTwitter: www.twitter.com/agroresenhaFacebook: www.facebook.com/agroresenhaYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/agroresenhaCanal do Telegram: https://t.me/agroresenhaCanal do WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/arp-zap-01 E-MAILSe você tem alguma sugestão de pauta, reclamação ou dúvida envie um e-mail para contato@agroresenha.com.br ACOMPANHE A REDE AGROCASTInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/redeagrocast/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/redeagrocast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/redeagrocast FICHA TÉCNICAApresentação: Paulo OzakiProdução: Agro ResenhaConvidado: Xisto AlvesEdição: Senhor AComunidade Agro de Sucesso: http://www.comunidadeagrodesucesso.com.br/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
No Gestão Rural desta semana, Xisto Alves, Fundador da JetBov, prova que gestão não é conversa pra boi dormir! Sua jornada em programação e gestão de negócios o levou a se envolver com a pecuária de forma despretensiosa, resultando no empreendedorismo como solução para o crescimento do setor. Nesta troca de ideia, Xisto também destaca como a pecuária de precisão estimula a tomada de decisões tanto na área zootécnica quanto financeira, com o objetivo de otimizar a rentabilidade. Ouça e descubra os principais indicadores que influenciam essas escolhas. INTERAJA COM O AGRO RESENHAInstagram: www.instagram.com/agroresenhaTwitter: www.twitter.com/agroresenhaFacebook: www.facebook.com/agroresenhaYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/agroresenhaCanal do Telegram: https://t.me/agroresenhaCanal do WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/arp-zap-01 E-MAILSe você tem alguma sugestão de pauta, reclamação ou dúvida envie um e-mail para contato@agroresenha.com.br ACOMPANHE A REDE AGROCASTInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/redeagrocast/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/redeagrocast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/redeagrocast FICHA TÉCNICAApresentação: Paulo OzakiProdução: Agro ResenhaConvidado: Xisto AlvesEdição: Senhor AComunidade Agro de Sucesso: http://www.comunidadeagrodesucesso.com.br/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sean Fetcho joins #Clockedin with Jordan Edwards and discusses about how to create an incredible life through Travel and Experiences while Building a Business of His Passion. How to live an intentional life? Sean's shared passion for the evolving healthcare industry and for building early-stage companies prompted him to drive explosive growth for Verséa over the past few years.Prior to Verséa, Sean's roster of early stage and start-up companies includes multiple industries spanning from Agrotech, online consumer magazines and finance.Sean successfully created, launched, and oversaw 8 highly successful print and digital publication that targeted oncology, pain management and cardiology professionals, all of which remain in circulation today. He was then recruited into a Continuing Medical Education (CME) company where Sean developed and executed on new revenue streams that helped structure the business for an exit. Within 3 years, Aventine (PAINWeek) sold to a publicly traded company on the London Stock Exchange.In his earlier years before healthcare, Sean was part of the launch team for Red Bull USA and a co-founder in a revolutionary packaging company that sustains the shelf-life of perishables all while killing off any food borne pathogens while in transit.Sean attended University of Westminster and Towson University with degrees in Economics & Psychology. He participated in Columbia University's School of Business training programs for executives and advanced training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Urgency-Based Selling, Strategic Intuition, Management, Sales, and Business Development.Sean is an avid traveler for both business and pleasure and is thankful to have been to all 50 US states and 90+ countries. In his spare time, he enjoys playing the drums, snowboarding, tennis, basketball and spending time with his fiancé, dog Sir Monte and soon to be son due at the end of 2022.How to learn more about Versea: https://www.versea.com/ To Reach Jordan:Email: Jordan@Edwards.Consulting Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9ejFXH1_BjdnxG4J8u93Zw Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jordan.edwards.7503 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jordanfedwards/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanedwards5/ Hope you find value in this. If so please provide a 5-star and drop a review.Complimentary Edwards Consulting Session: https://calendly.com/jordan-555/intro-call
O Papo Agro de hoje traz pra você um episódio super especial da série Agrotech. Vem com a gente hoje e ouve nosso papo com o Lúcio Jorge, que é pesquisador da Embrapa Instrumentação, sobre a aplicabilidade do drone para o produtor rural dentro das propriedades. O Lúcio trabalha com tecnologias aplicadas à imagem há aproximadamente 35 anos. Nesse episódio você vai aprender a tirar o melhor proveito das tecnologias dentro do campo. Entenda a diferença e a utilidade de alguns drones que temos no mercado. Descubra também como você pode usar essas tecnologias na sua lavoura e quais delas são realmente necessárias para cada produtor. Curtiu? Corre no seu agregador de Podcast favorito, ou no nosso site: www.papoagro.com.br / https://omny.fm/shows/papo-agro-podcast/pa180 Confira o que foi citado neste podcast acessando: email: lucio.jorge@embrapa.com.br Site da Embrapa: www.embrapa.com.br/instrumentacao Quem está por trás do Papo Agro: Apresentação: José Netto @jrnetto, Lorenna Meireles @lorennafmeireles, Vitor Anunciato @vitormanunciato e Pedro Peche @tatudafruta. Pauta, Atendimento e Comercialização, Roteiro: José Netto @jrnetto Produção e Arte de capa: Barbara Góes @barby12bass Edição: Aerolitos Edições Inteligentes @aerolitos_ei Rede de Parceiros: Rede Agrocast:@redeagrocast Academia do Agro:@academiadoagro Agro Resenha:@agroresenha Bendito Agro:@benditoagro Bug Bites:@bugbitespodcast Cachaça, Prosa & Viola:@cpvpodcast Esalqast:@esalqast Mundo Agro Podcast:@mundoagropodcast Notícias do Front:@noticias_do_front RumenCast:@rumencast Dicionário Agro: @dicionario.agro Tatu da Fruta podcast: @Tatudafruta #podcastspotify #podcastbrasil #podcastdoagro #agrotech #tecnologia #tecnologiasdoagro #drones #dronesagricolas #agronomia #papoagro #podcastpapoagro #tech #instrumentacao #robotica #roboticanoagro #nanotecnologia #drone
O Papo Agro de hoje traz pra você um episódio super especial da série Agrotech. Vem com a gente hoje e ouve nosso papo com o Lúcio Jorge, que é pesquisador da Embrapa Instrumentação, sobre a aplicabilidade do drone para o produtor rural dentro das propriedades. O Lúcio trabalha com tecnologias aplicadas à imagem há aproximadamente 35 anos. Nesse episódio você vai aprender a tirar o melhor proveito das tecnologias dentro do campo. Entenda a diferença e a utilidade de alguns drones que temos no mercado. Descubra também como você pode usar essas tecnologias na sua lavoura e quais delas são realmente necessárias para cada produtor. Curtiu? Corre no seu agregador de Podcast favorito, ou no nosso site: www.papoagro.com.br / https://omny.fm/shows/papo-agro-podcast/pa180 Confira o que foi citado neste podcast acessando: email: lucio.jorge@embrapa.com.br Site da Embrapa: www.embrapa.com.br/instrumentacao Quem está por trás do Papo Agro: Apresentação: José Netto @jrnetto, Lorenna Meireles @lorennafmeireles, Vitor Anunciato @vitormanunciato e Pedro Peche @tatudafruta. Pauta, Atendimento e Comercialização, Roteiro: José Netto @jrnetto Produção e Arte de capa: Barbara Góes @barby12bass Edição: Aerolitos Edições Inteligentes @aerolitos_ei Rede de Parceiros: Rede Agrocast:@redeagrocast Academia do Agro:@academiadoagro Agro Resenha:@agroresenha Bendito Agro:@benditoagro Bug Bites:@bugbitespodcast Cachaça, Prosa & Viola:@cpvpodcast Esalqast:@esalqast Mundo Agro Podcast:@mundoagropodcast Notícias do Front:@noticias_do_front RumenCast:@rumencast Dicionário Agro: @dicionario.agro Tatu da Fruta podcast: @Tatudafruta #podcastspotify #podcastbrasil #podcastdoagro #agrotech #tecnologia #tecnologiasdoagro #drones #dronesagricolas #agronomia #papoagro #podcastpapoagro #tech #instrumentacao #robotica #roboticanoagro #nanotecnologia #drone
Bienvenidos a un nuevo episodio de Sin Sucursal. Les recordamos que lanzamos nuestro Newsletter semanal, Minuta Fintech, que es un resumen de lo más relevante de la industria fintech. Suscribite gratis acá:https://www.getrevue.co/profile/sinsucursal. Hablamos con Eduardo Novillo Astrada, CEO y Co - Founder de Agrotoken, la Agrotech que viene a unir los mundos crypto y agropecuario. Hablamos sobre su pasado como polista y cómo llegó a innovar en el mundo financiero apalancado de la tecnología Crypto. Si les gustó el programa, nos pueden ayudar compartiéndolo con sus amigos! También nos pueden seguir en redes: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SinSucursal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sin.sucursal Todos nuestros episodios los encontrás en: https://anchor.fm/sin-sucursal #fintech #podcast #newsletter #pagos #payments #bank #digitalbank
Está no ar o Papo Agro 170. Hoje trazemos mais um episódio da série Agrotech, que nos deixa informados sobre as novas tecnologias utilizadas no agro para ajudar o agricultor a desenvolver cada vez mais a sua lavoura. No programa de hoje recebemos o Alcinei Azevedo, Engenheiro Agrônomo, professor da UFMG e YouTuber. Ele, que é especialista em tecnologias para o agro, conversa com a gente sobre como funciona a visão computacional no campo e como ela pode ajudar a você, agricultor, a levantar dados, tomar as melhores decisões e realizar processos como a colheita de frutas maduras, ou de classificação correta das sementes. Ficou interessado? Ouça este episódio no seu agregador de Podcast favorito, ou no nosso site: www.papoagro.com.br / https://omny.fm/shows/papo-agro-podcast/pa170 Confira o que foi citado neste podcast acessando:Site (ExpStat): https://www.expstat.comInstagram: @estatistica.rYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDGyvLCJnv9RtTY1YMBMVNQ Quem está por trás do Papo Agro: Apresentação: José Netto @jrnetto, Lorenna Meireles @lorennafmeireles, Vitor Anunciato @vitormanunciato e Pedro Peche @tatudafruta.Pauta, Atendimento e Comercialização, Roteiro: José Netto @jrnetto Produção e Arte de capa: Barbara Góes @barby12bassEdição: Aerolitos Edições Inteligentes @aerolitos_eiUm oferecimento Stoller Rede de Parceiros: Rede Agrocast:@redeagrocastAcademia do Agro:@academiadoagroAgro Resenha:@agroresenhaBendito Agro:@benditoagroBug Bites:@bugbitespodcastCachaça, Prosa & Viola:@cpvpodcastEsalqast:@esalqastMundo Agro Podcast:@mundoagropodcastNotícias do Front:@noticias_do_frontRumenCast:@rumencastDicionário Agro: @dicionario.agroTatu da Fruta podcast: @Tatudafruta #podcastspotify #podcastbrasil #podcastdoagro #ufmg #informaçoesdoagro #maquinas #robotica #noticiasdoagro #novidadesdoagro#tecnologiasdoagro #visaocomputacional #agrotech #alcineiazevedo
Está no ar o Papo Agro 170. Hoje trazemos mais um episódio da série Agrotech, que nos deixa informados sobre as novas tecnologias utilizadas no agro para ajudar o agricultor a desenvolver cada vez mais a sua lavoura. No programa de hoje recebemos o Alcinei Azevedo, Engenheiro Agrônomo, professor da UFMG e YouTuber. Ele, que é especialista em tecnologias para o agro, conversa com a gente sobre como funciona a visão computacional no campo e como ela pode ajudar a você, agricultor, a levantar dados, tomar as melhores decisões e realizar processos como a colheita de frutas maduras, ou de classificação correta das sementes. Ficou interessado? Ouça este episódio no seu agregador de Podcast favorito, ou no nosso site: www.papoagro.com.br / https://omny.fm/shows/papo-agro-podcast/pa170 Confira o que foi citado neste podcast acessando:Site (ExpStat): https://www.expstat.comInstagram: @estatistica.rYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDGyvLCJnv9RtTY1YMBMVNQ Quem está por trás do Papo Agro: Apresentação: José Netto @jrnetto, Lorenna Meireles @lorennafmeireles, Vitor Anunciato @vitormanunciato e Pedro Peche @tatudafruta.Pauta, Atendimento e Comercialização, Roteiro: José Netto @jrnetto Produção e Arte de capa: Barbara Góes @barby12bassEdição: Aerolitos Edições Inteligentes @aerolitos_eiUm oferecimento Stoller Rede de Parceiros: Rede Agrocast:@redeagrocastAcademia do Agro:@academiadoagroAgro Resenha:@agroresenhaBendito Agro:@benditoagroBug Bites:@bugbitespodcastCachaça, Prosa & Viola:@cpvpodcastEsalqast:@esalqastMundo Agro Podcast:@mundoagropodcastNotícias do Front:@noticias_do_frontRumenCast:@rumencastDicionário Agro: @dicionario.agroTatu da Fruta podcast: @Tatudafruta #podcastspotify #podcastbrasil #podcastdoagro #ufmg #informaçoesdoagro #maquinas #robotica #noticiasdoagro #novidadesdoagro#tecnologiasdoagro #visaocomputacional #agrotech #alcineiazevedo
Fintech, Agrotech, Edtech... ¿Cómo podemos invertir en empresas sustentables? No te pierdas de este último episodio de Futureamos en donde conversamos con Alfredo Vargas, Fundador de Integra Groupe, y nos dará los mejores tips para buscar capital si eres un emprendedor.
Ricardo Hausmann, the founder and Director of Harvard's Growth Lab and the Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School, talks about Latin America's path to economic recovery. He examines a wide range of subjects, including the pandemic, global inflation, decarbonization and the impact of Russia's invasion of the Ukraine on Latin America.
Agricultura de precisión con Pedro de flydronair. ¿Qué beneficios aporta al sector? ¿Qué tipo de drones y sensores hacen falta? ¿Es eficiente? Esta semana hemos empezado uno de los cursos más demandados: Cómo Actuar ante Agentes de la AUTORIDAD. Tendrás mucha más tranquilidad en tus vuelos y en los posibles encuentros con los agentes de […] La entrada 284. Drones AGRO: Optimización del campo
Está no ar o Papo Agro 156! No programa de hoje vamos dar continuidade ao nosso papo sobre Robótica e Inteligência Artificial de forma aprofundada, com o Dr. Guilherme de Souza, e também Cassiano Decker, do @agrodepende. Descubra neste episódio como um robô identifica as cores das frutas para fazer a colheita, se o nível de inteligência das máquinas se equipara ao do ser humano e que tipo de tecnologia ainda podem surgir nos próximos anos. Tudo isso você pode descobrir junto com a gente! Basta clicar aqui para conferir! Ouça esse programa no seu agregador de Podcast preferido, ou no nosso site: www.papoagro.com.br / https://omny.fm/shows/papo-agro-podcast/pa156 Confira o que foi citado neste podcast acessando: Página do prof. Guilherme: http://vigir.missouri.edu/~gdesouza/ Agrodepende: https://pod.link/agro-depende Quem está por trás do Papo Agro: Apresentação: José Netto @jrnetto, Lorenna Meireles @lorennafmeireles, Kezia Gonçalves @keziasgoncalves, Vitor Anunciato @vitormanunciato e Juliana Budel @jubudel Pauta, Atendimento e Comercialização, Roteiro: José Netto @jrnetto Produção e Arte de capa: : Barbara Góes @barby12bass Edição: Aerolitos Edições Inteligentes @aerolitos_ei Um oferecimento Stoller Rede de Parceiros: Rede Agrocast:@redeagrocast Academia do Agro:@academiadoagro Agro Resenha:@agroresenha Bendito Agro:@benditoagro Bug Bites:@bugbitespodcast Cachaça, Prosa & Viola:@cpvpodcast Esalqast:@esalqast Mundo Agro Podcast:@mundoagropodcast Notícias do Front:@noticias_do_front RumenCast:@rumencast Dicionário Agro: @dicionario.agro Tatu da Fruta podcast: Tatudafruta #papoagropodcast #papoagro #agrotech #novidadesdoagro #podcasts #podcastshow #podcastspotify #podcastbrasil #technology #podcastdoagro #robotica #roboagro #agronegocio
Está no ar o Papo Agro 156! No programa de hoje vamos dar continuidade ao nosso papo sobre Robótica e Inteligência Artificial de forma aprofundada, com o Dr. Guilherme de Souza, e também Cassiano Decker, do @agrodepende. Descubra neste episódio como um robô identifica as cores das frutas para fazer a colheita, se o nível de inteligência das máquinas se equipara ao do ser humano e que tipo de tecnologia ainda podem surgir nos próximos anos. Tudo isso você pode descobrir junto com a gente! Basta clicar aqui para conferir! Ouça esse programa no seu agregador de Podcast preferido, ou no nosso site: www.papoagro.com.br / https://omny.fm/shows/papo-agro-podcast/pa156 Confira o que foi citado neste podcast acessando: Página do prof. Guilherme: http://vigir.missouri.edu/~gdesouza/ Agrodepende: https://pod.link/agro-depende Quem está por trás do Papo Agro: Apresentação: José Netto @jrnetto, Lorenna Meireles @lorennafmeireles, Kezia Gonçalves @keziasgoncalves, Vitor Anunciato @vitormanunciato e Juliana Budel @jubudel Pauta, Atendimento e Comercialização, Roteiro: José Netto @jrnetto Produção e Arte de capa: : Barbara Góes @barby12bass Edição: Aerolitos Edições Inteligentes @aerolitos_ei Um oferecimento Stoller Rede de Parceiros: Rede Agrocast:@redeagrocast Academia do Agro:@academiadoagro Agro Resenha:@agroresenha Bendito Agro:@benditoagro Bug Bites:@bugbitespodcast Cachaça, Prosa & Viola:@cpvpodcast Esalqast:@esalqast Mundo Agro Podcast:@mundoagropodcast Notícias do Front:@noticias_do_front RumenCast:@rumencast Dicionário Agro: @dicionario.agro Tatu da Fruta podcast: Tatudafruta #papoagropodcast #papoagro #agrotech #novidadesdoagro #podcasts #podcastshow #podcastspotify #podcastbrasil #technology #podcastdoagro #robotica #roboagro #agronegocio
De acordo com o Ministério da Agricultura, as exportações cresceram 30% em março e atingiram um valor recorde com faturamento de 14,53 bilhões de dólares, o equivalente a 67,93 bilhões de reais, sendo a maior renda na série histórica para o período. Segundo o Centro de Estudos Avançados em Economia Aplicada da Universidade de São Paulo, o CEPEA-USP, nosso agronegócio representa quase a metade do PIB brasileiro, sendo que nossas maiores exportações são para a China, que representa 37% do consumo, e União Europeia, com 15%. No episódio de hoje convidamos Tiago Fischer, que é CMO da Traive, para falar sobre a transformação digital e iniciativas tecnológicas estão auxiliando no crédito e investimentos no mercado agro, mantendo o compromisso socioambiental dos produtores.
En el episodio de hoy tenemos como invitado a Rodrigo Tissera (Co-Founder y Head of Business Development) y Oscar Pomar (CFO) de Kilimo, una startup que desarrolla tecnologías para maximizar el uso de agua en compañías agroindustriales, generando eficiencias e impactando positivamente en el medio ambiental.EnlacesLinkedIn de Rodrigo TisseraLinkedIn de Oscar PomarPágina web de KilimoTemasTipos de tecnología agrícola (15:37)Desafíos de las empresas agrícolas (18:35)¿El agrotech puede reemplazar a los agricultores? (24:33)Data a recolectar para hacer recomendaciones de riego y foco en el cliente (30:14)Escalabilidad en agritech (34:19)La pregunta de la máquina del tiempo (40:40)¿Te gustó este episodio? Compártelo
Está no ar o Papo Agro 152! Iniciamos a AgroTech, uma série sobre as novas tecnologias que estão surgindo e sendo utilizadas no mundo Agro. Neste primeiro programa, falaremos sobre a importância da robótica na agricultura. Para deixar esse papo melhor ainda, trouxemos o nosso parceiro e podcaster Cassiano Decker (do @agrodepende), e recebemos a visita do dr. Guilherme de Souza, PhD e especialista em robótica, atuante na área de fenotipagem, tecnologia assistiva robótica, modelagem 3d e reconhecimentos de objetos. O episódio de hoje foi tão rico em informações que decidimos dividi-lo em duas partes. Na primeira parte, você descobre de que forma os recursos tecnológicos estão presentes na agricultura, e como eles, mesmo sendo de esferas muito diferentes do trabalho manual, são tão importantes para esta realidade. Confira também como o fator humano é utilizado para a criação de modelos robóticos, e quais as dificuldades da robótica na área da agricultura. Você também vai descobrir a diferença entre robótica e inteligência artificial, e por que elas se completam. Gostou? Então não perde esse papo que tá bom demais! Ouça esse programa no seu agregador de Podcast preferido, ou no nosso site: www.papoagro.com.br / https://omny.fm/shows/papo-agro-podcast/pa152 Confira o que foi citado neste podcast acessando: Página do prof Guilherme: http://vigir.missouri.edu/~gdesouza/ Agrodepende: https://pod.link/agro-depende Quem está por trás do Papo Agro: Apresentação: José Netto @jrnetto, Lorenna Meireles @lorennafmeireles, Kezia Gonçalves @keziasgoncalves, Vitor Anunciato @vitormanunciato e Juliana Budel @jubudel Pauta e produção: Barbara Góes @barby12bass Edição: Aerolitos Edições Inteligentes @aerolitos_ei Arte de capa: José Netto @jrnetto Atendimento e Comercialização: José Netto @jrnetto Um oferecimento Stoller Rede de Parceiros: Rede Agrocast:@redeagrocast Academia do Agro:@academiadoagro Agro Resenha:@agroresenha Bendito Agro:@benditoagro Bug Bites:@bugbitespodcast Cachaça, Prosa & Viola:@cpvpodcast Esalqast:@esalqast Mundo Agro Podcast:@mundoagropodcast Notícias do Front:@noticias_do_front RumenCast:@rumencast Dicionário Agro: @dicionario.agro Tatu da Fruta podcast: @tatudafruta Entre em contato: Instagram: @papoagropodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/papoagro Facebook: https://facebook.com/papoagro/ Email: papoagro@outlook.com #podcastdoagro #agro #papoagropodcast #agronomia #engenharia #engenhariaagronomica #papoagro #agrotech #tecnologia #robotica #automação #agrotecnologia #farming #agriculturafamiliar #agronomo #agricultureworld #agronoseua #noticiasdoagro #novidadesdoagro #informacoesdoagro #informacoesdeagronomia #fruticultura #agroindustria #podcasts #podcastshow #podcastspotify #podcastbrasil #technology #roboagro #agronegocio #soja
Está no ar o Papo Agro 152! Iniciamos a AgroTech, uma série sobre as novas tecnologias que estão surgindo e sendo utilizadas no mundo Agro. Neste primeiro programa, falaremos sobre a importância da robótica na agricultura. Para deixar esse papo melhor ainda, trouxemos o nosso parceiro e podcaster Cassiano Decker (do @agrodepende), e recebemos a visita do dr. Guilherme de Souza, PhD e especialista em robótica, atuante na área de fenotipagem, tecnologia assistiva robótica, modelagem 3d e reconhecimentos de objetos. O episódio de hoje foi tão rico em informações que decidimos dividi-lo em duas partes. Na primeira parte, você descobre de que forma os recursos tecnológicos estão presentes na agricultura, e como eles, mesmo sendo de esferas muito diferentes do trabalho manual, são tão importantes para esta realidade. Confira também como o fator humano é utilizado para a criação de modelos robóticos, e quais as dificuldades da robótica na área da agricultura. Você também vai descobrir a diferença entre robótica e inteligência artificial, e por que elas se completam. Gostou? Então não perde esse papo que tá bom demais! Ouça esse programa no seu agregador de Podcast preferido, ou no nosso site: www.papoagro.com.br / https://omny.fm/shows/papo-agro-podcast/pa152 Confira o que foi citado neste podcast acessando: Página do prof Guilherme: http://vigir.missouri.edu/~gdesouza/ Agrodepende: https://pod.link/agro-depende Quem está por trás do Papo Agro: Apresentação: José Netto @jrnetto, Lorenna Meireles @lorennafmeireles, Kezia Gonçalves @keziasgoncalves, Vitor Anunciato @vitormanunciato e Juliana Budel @jubudel Pauta e produção: Barbara Góes @barby12bass Edição: Aerolitos Edições Inteligentes @aerolitos_ei Arte de capa: José Netto @jrnetto Atendimento e Comercialização: José Netto @jrnetto Um oferecimento Stoller Rede de Parceiros: Rede Agrocast:@redeagrocast Academia do Agro:@academiadoagro Agro Resenha:@agroresenha Bendito Agro:@benditoagro Bug Bites:@bugbitespodcast Cachaça, Prosa & Viola:@cpvpodcast Esalqast:@esalqast Mundo Agro Podcast:@mundoagropodcast Notícias do Front:@noticias_do_front RumenCast:@rumencast Dicionário Agro: @dicionario.agro Tatu da Fruta podcast: @tatudafruta Entre em contato: Instagram: @papoagropodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/papoagro Facebook: https://facebook.com/papoagro/ Email: papoagro@outlook.com #podcastdoagro #agro #papoagropodcast #agronomia #engenharia #engenhariaagronomica #papoagro #agrotech #tecnologia #robotica #automação #agrotecnologia #farming #agriculturafamiliar #agronomo #agricultureworld #agronoseua #noticiasdoagro #novidadesdoagro #informacoesdoagro #informacoesdeagronomia #fruticultura #agroindustria #podcasts #podcastshow #podcastspotify #podcastbrasil #technology #roboagro #agronegocio #soja
Welcome to the fourth episode in Barn2Door's series in partnership with the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund. FTCLDF is a non-profit organization of lawyers supporting Farmers across the country and helping them navigate the unique legal challenges Farmers face. In this episode, we focus on Pork, and how laws vary across the country, and the resources FTCLDF has to help Farmers sell their products direct-to-consumer. Show notes:https://www.farmtoconsumer.org/
Baffour Kyei Frimpong joins us on GLC to talk about food security solutions and what they are doing with their company, Baff Organic Farm & Agrotech, in Ghana. Baffour is of Ghanaian origin (an Ashanti) did most of his schooling in Ghana. He went to America in 1991. He finally moved back home in 2009, and out of food security concerns, he decided to grow what he ate as a hobby and finally look at the potential to convert it into a business. His ultimate dream is to teach people in this part of the world the essence of eating organically and using food as medicine and medicine as food. Baff Organic Farm & Agrotech is a Real estate/Agribusiness startup. They are leading the charge for Urban farming in Africa and aim to create wealth opportunities for the populace through sustainable living and Agritech. Over the years, they have come up with innovative solutions in Ghana's urban and organic farming space. Through research and lots of experience gathered on the job, they have developed quality planting mediums, provided training and guidance to numerous urban farmers, and continued to assist institutions in setting up organic vegetable gardens on their premises With a passion for a healthy lifestyle and sustainable living; they aim to improve and maintain the quality of life of our population. Social media links LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/baff-organics Facebook: facebook.com/bafforganicfarms Instagram: instagram.com/baff_organicfarms/ Address-Tristan High Street, Mariville Homes Spintex Road – Accra WhatsApp - +233 24 690 4201 Links to some Baff Organic Farm & Agrotech projects https://www.instagram.com/p/CXQYLABsKAc/ https://africanaskincare2021.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/making-food-your-medicine/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPraMFmEsR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRT87C3ieOo -- Eco Amet Solutions is looking forward to sharing knowledge and education with the public through this Podcast. At the same time, we support startups, workshops, conferences, and environmental R&D. Visit our website and social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter) for details. Let's build up this community and learn together. Credit Host David Ewusi-Mensah (Eco Amet Solutions) Our fantastic team produced it at Eco Amet Solutions. Theme song by Edem Koffie Setordjie, other sounds from Podcast.co Podcast art by Kamath Cheang Hernandez --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ecoametsolutions/message
In this episode of the Direct Farm Podcast we're excited to welcome, Abby Lundrigan, Certification and Farmer Liason at Real Organic Project. The Real Organic Project is a farmer-led movement created to distinguish soil-grown and pasture-raised products under USDA organic. In response to the lack of enforcement of some vital USDA Organic standards to protect soil health and animal welfare, organic farmers rallied together to fight to protect the integrity of the organic label. Show Notes:https://www.realorganicproject.org/https://www.barn2door.com/resources
On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Glib Buriak, Managing Partner at HIFE VC.HIFE is a venture arm of the Ukrainian investment company Adamant Capital, with 12 years in the market. HIFE searches for local talents or teams to build or develop businesses in areas of MedTech, FinTech, AgroTech, EdTech, and digital transformation. The focus of the investment is guided by the expertise of investors who can facilitate or boost a business through their existing enterprises or business liaison. HIFE's existing pipeline has over 7 projects assembled over 6 months from the launch and is looking for tickets between $200-500K. Glib is a university professor, counselor to the Committee of Economic Development, contributor to Forbes Ukraine, business consultant, and former and future startupper. Glib was born into a family of university professors in Kyiv and lived in that city his whole life. He graduated from Kyiv National University where he majored in International Economic Relations. After graduation in 2005, Glib spent a month full of happiness as an intern in Irvine, California. However, choosing between IB in California and returning to Ukraine, he chose the latter. Glib pursued a career in public office, became a counselor to the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine at the age of 25, but gave up the work and dived into academic work and wrote his Ph.D. thesis on "International Corruption". Since the age of 28, he has combined academic work, business and PR consulting, started a couple of businesses in the areas of data analytics and social research, taught over 2,000 students from around the globe while teaching in 3 different universities, and published 3 diverse books — an academic monograph, a book for children, and a history of Ukrainian IT. Glib advises startups and investors, shares what he thinks will be the biggest change we will see in the world of startup investing in Ukraine, and discusses his investment thesis. You can visit HIFE VC at , and via LinkedIn at . Glib can be contacted via email at , and via LinkedIn at . ______________________________________________________________________ For more episodes from Investor Connect, please visit the site at: Check out our other podcasts here: For Investors check out: For Startups check out: For eGuides check out: For upcoming Events, check out For Feedback please contact info@tencapital.group Please , share, and leave a review. Music courtesy of .
Qual a relação entre o Banco do Brasil, tecnologia e agronegócio? Como é feito o acompanhamento, desde o apoio ao produtor até os resultados da produção financiada, e como a tecnologia atua nesse monitoramento? Saiba como o Banco do Brasil usa a tecnologia para resolver os problemas de um dos principais motores do nosso país. Participantes: Paulo Silveira, o host que é fã dos problemas complexos que envolvem equipes multidisciplinaresAndré Breves, especialista em tecnologia no Banco do BrasilAlberto Ghesti, PO em soluções de inovação tecnológica no Banco do BrasilAna Barcellos, Scrum Master no Banco do BrasilDaniel de Lima, gerente de TI no Banco do Brasil Links: USGSScikit-learn Produção e conteúdo: Alura Cursos de Tecnologia - https://www.alura.com.br === Caelum Escola de Tecnologia - https://www.caelum.com.br/ Edição e sonorização: Radiofobia Podcast e Multimídia
Today's guest:Sudheesh Narayanan, Founder & CEO (KnowledgeLens)Website: https://www.knowledgelens.com/ You will learn:02:04Background, studies & experience - interest and focus in green field projects & automation03:17KnowledgeLens focus & spark moments - G Lens (Environment and sustainability focus in India) & Industry 4.0 (connected industries and employees)05:44Managing transition from employee to entrepreneur; additional considerations and alternative revenue model09:33Focus on wide spectrum of Industry 4.0; and the challenges which taught the learning while journey13:10Team on the ground and bonding towards the goal and creativeness15:16Funding plan - Initial alternatives and innovative model for consistent fuel internally. Coming out of the Technology role and learning with sales & marketing by adding value to customers. 18:27Business is all about networking in an entrepreneurial journey and being customer focused.21:02First moment of relief and success stories. Convincing regulators and customers for deals & milestones22:29Rolling of national command center for National cleaner program and stable analytics for Indian Government - Proud moment25:27Moment of opportunities and realization during pandemic27:37Scaling the business - Plans and roadmaps in pipelines29:05Instances of young ideas and innovative apps in Agrotech, and potential larger impacts in long term30:26Learnings from the mistakes during early stages and takeaways31:48Work life balance33:23If you are going through failures; learning and opportunities are more - Just learn fastand keep moving ahead.34:13If you are starting your business afresh - You need to have these qualities and finding business model using them.35:14Handling the chaos situation and evolving with maturity36:06Innovation and launching certified hardware and establishing the brand37:00Vision on startups focusing on Industry 4.0 & ecosystem playing major role39:22Rapid fire roundStay tuned! Be motivated! Thank you!!Podcast hosted @ https://indianstartupstories.buzzsprout.com Social Media handles:Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Indian-Startup-Stories-105427574797700LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/indian-startup-stories-b4b385202Twitter:https://twitter.com/IndianStartupS2Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC38w7euU6JpLjyRb4Am7ugwInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/theindianstartupstories/Music credit: The Right Direction by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
Êtes-vous prêt à manger des insectes pour l'apéro ? Aujourd'hui je reçois Antoine Hubert, le CEO et cofondateur d'Ynsect, qui propose des protéines et des huiles pour nourrir les animaux d'élevage et nos animaux de compagnie ? Créée en 2011, Ynsect, présente au Next 40 a levé déjà 425 millions de dollars, et s'apprête à conquérir le monde. Une des plus importantes levées de fonds de la frenchtech Ynsect n'est pas une startup comme une autre, elle a une mission, celle d'aider les populations à se nourrir, et pallier aux manques de ressources alimentaires des générations futures. Dans cet épisode exceptionnel, Antoine Hubert, nous parle : de son enfance, ses études, de son engagement pour la planète, l'environnement, des débuts d'Ynsect et de sa mission du processus d'élevage des insectes
Nos próximos 30 anos, nossa demanda por alimentos no mundo deverá crescer entre 59% e 98%, fortemente puxada pela melhoria do padrão de vida da população nos países em desenvolvimento. Como o aumento de área plantada nesta magnitude não é uma solução viável, a solução para este problema passa necessariamente pela melhoria de produtividade calcada nas evoluções tecnológicas.A convergência de tecnologias que passa pela melhoria da infraestrutura de telecomunicações no campo, a internet da coisas e a popularização dos drones abre um novo mundo de possibilidades para a agricultura de precisão. Além disso, outras soluções como marketplaces e fintechs voltadas para o agro trazem vantagens financeiras e econômicas relevantes para o produtor.Bem-vindo ao Futuro do Agro!--- Para conteúdos exclusivos do A Virada (mini episódios, lives e sorteios), siga o nosso Instagram. Para se aprofundar no assunto e ter acesso aos artigos, matérias e sites das empresas que citamos neste episódio, acesse o nosso Medium. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aviradapodcast/
Some of the highlights of the show include The diplomacy that's required between software engineers and management, and why influence is needed to move projects forward to completion. Driving factors behind Ygrene's Kubernetes migration, which included an infrastructure bottleneck, a need to streamline deployment, and a desire to leverage their internal team of cloud experts. Management's request to ship code faster, and why it was important to the organization. How the company's engineers responded to the request to ship code faster, and overcame disconnects with management. How the team obtained executive buy-in for a Kubernetes migration. Key cultural changes that were required to make the migration to Kubernetes successful. How unexpected challenges forced the team to learn the “depths of Kubernetes,” and how it helped with root cause analysis. Why the transition to Kubernetes was a success, enabling the team to ship code faster, deliver more value, secure more customers, and drive more revenue. Links: HerdX: https://www.herdx.com/ Ygrene: https://ygrene.com/ Austin Twitter: https://twitter.com/_austbot Austin LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/austbot/ Arnold's book on publisher site: https://www.packtpub.com/cloud-networking/the-kubernetes-workshop Arnold's book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Kubernetes-Workshop-Interactive-Approach-Learning/dp/1838820752/ TranscriptAnnouncer: Welcome to The Business of Cloud Native podcast where we explore how end users talk and think about the transition to Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures.Emily: Welcome to The Business of Cloud Native. My name is Emily Omier, and I am here with Austin Adams and Zack Arnold, and we are here to talk about why companies go cloud-native.Austin: So, I'm currently the CTO of a small Agrotech startup called HerdX. And that means I spend my days designing software, designing architecture for how distributed systems talk, and also leading teams of engineers to build proof-of-concepts and then production systems as they take over the projects that I've designed. Emily: And then, what did you do at Ygrene? Austin: I did the exact same thing, except for without the CTO title. And I also had other higher-level engineers working with me at Ygrene. So, we made a lot of technical decisions together. We all migrated to Kubernetes together, and Zack was a chief proponent of that, especially with the culture change. So, I focused on the designing software that teams of implementation engineers could take over and actually build out for the long run. And I think Zack really focused on—oh, I'll let Zack say what he focused on. [laughs].Emily: Go for it, Zach.Zach: Hello. I'm Zack. I also no longer work for Ygrene, although I have a lot of admiration and respect for the people who do. It was a fantastic company. So, Austin called me up a while back and asked me to think about participating in a DevOps engineering role at Ygrene. And he sort of said at the outset, we don't really know what it looks like, and we're pretty sure that we just created a position out of a culture, but would you be willing to embody it? And up until this point, I'd had cloud experience, and I had had software engineering experience, but I didn't really spend a ton of time focused on the actual movement of software from developer's laptops to production with as few hiccups, and as many tests, and as much safety as possible in between. So, I always told people the role felt like it was three parts. It was part IT automation expert, part software engineer, and then part diplomat. And the diplomacy was mostly in between people who are more operations focused. So, support engineers, project managers, and people who were on-call day in and day out, and being a go-between higher levels of management and software engineers themselves because there's this awkward, coordinated motion that has to really happen at a fine-grained level in order to get DevOps to really work at a company. What I mean by that is, essentially, Dev and Ops seem to on the surface have opposing goals, the operation staff, it's job is to maintain stability, and the development side's job is to introduce change, which invariably introduces instability. So, that dichotomy means that being able to simultaneously satisfy both desires is really a goal of DevOps, but it's difficult to achieve at an organizational level without dealing with some pretty critical cultural components. So, what do I spend my day on? The answer to that question is, yes. It really depends on the day. Sometimes it's cloud engineers. Sometimes it's QA folks, sometimes it's management. Sometimes I'm heads-down writing software for integrations in between tools. And every now and again, I get to contribute to open-source. So, a lot of different actual daily tasks take place in my position.Emily: Tell me a little bit more about this diplomacy between software engineers and management.Zach: [laughs]. Well, I'm not sure who's going to be listening in this amazing audience of ours, but I assume, because people are human, that they have capital O-pinions about how things should work, especially as it pertains to either software development lifecycle, the ITIL process of introducing change into a datacenter, into a cloud environment, compliance, security. There's lots of, I'll call them thought frameworks that have a very narrow focus on how we should be doing something with respect to software. So, diplomacy is the—well, I guess in true statecraft, it's being able to work in between countries. But in this particular case, diplomacy is using relational equity or influence, to be able to have every group achieve a common and shared purpose. At the end of the day, in most companies the goal is actually to be able to produce a product that people would want to pay for, and we can do so as quickly and as efficiently as possible. To do that, though, it again requires a lot of people with differing goals to work together towards that shared purpose. So, the diplomacy looks like, aside from just having way too many meetings, it actually looks like being able to communicate other thought frameworks to different stakeholders and being able to synthesize all of the different narrow-focused frameworks into a common shared, overarching process. So, I'll give you a concrete example because it feels like I just spewed a bunch of buzzwords. A concrete example would be, let's say in the common feature that's being delivered for ABC Company, for this feature it requires X number of hours of software development; X number of hours of testing; X number of hours of preparing, either capacity planning, or fleet size recommendations, or some form of operational pre-work; and then the actual deployment, and running, and monitoring. So, in the company that I currently work for, we just described roughly 20 different teams that would have to work together in order to achieve the delivery of this feature as rapidly as possible. So, the process of DevOps and the diplomacy of DevOps, for me looks like—aside from trying to automate as much as humanly possible and to provide what I call interface guarantees, which are basically shared agreements of functionality between two teams. So, the way that the developers will speak to the QA engineers is through Git. They develop new software, and they push it into shared code repositories, the way that the QA engineers will speak to people who are going to be handling the deployments—or at management in this particular case—is going to be through a well-formatted XML test file. So, providing automation around those particular interfaces and then ensuring that everyone's shared goals are met at the particular period of time where they're going to be invoked over the course of the delivery of that feature, is the “subtle art,”—air quotes, you can't see but—to me of DevOps diplomacy. That kind of help?Emily: Yeah, absolutely. Let's take, actually, just a little bit of a step back. Can you talk about what some of the business goals were behind moving to Kubernetes for Ygrene? Who was the champion of this move? Was it business stakeholders saying, “Hey, we really need this to change,” or engineering going to business stakeholders? Who needed a change. I believe that the desire for Kubernetes came from a bottleneck of infrastructure. Not so much around performance, such as the applications weren't performing due to scale. We had projected scale that we were coming to where it would cause a problem potentially, but it was also in the ease of deployment. It had a very operations mindset as Zack was saying, our infrastructure was almost entirely managed—of the core applications set—by outsourcing. And so, we depended on them to innovate, we depended on them to spin up new environments and services. But we also have this internal competing team that always had this cloud background. And so, what we were trying to do was lessen the time between idea to deployment by utilizing platforms that were more scalable, more flexible, and all the things that Docker gives with the Dev/Prod Parity, the ease of packaging your environment together so that small team can ship an entire application. And so, I think our main goal with that was to take that team that already had a lot of cloud experience, and give them more power to drive the innovation and not be bottlenecked just by what the outsourcing team could do. Which, by the way, just for the record, the outsourcing team was an amazing team, but they didn't have the Kubernetes or cloud experience, either. So, in terms of a hero or champion of it, it just started as an idea between me and the new CTO, or CIO that came in, talking about how can we ship code faster? So, one of the things that happened in my career was the desire for a rapid response team which, that sounds like a buzzword or something, but it was this idea that Ygrene was shipping software fairly slow, and we wanted to get faster. So, really the CIO, and one of the development managers, they were the really big champions of, “Hey, let's deliver value to the business faster.” And they had the experience to ask their engineers how to make that happen, and then trust Zack and I through this process of delivering Kubernetes, and Istio, and container security, and all these different things that eventually got implemented.Emily: Why do you think shipping code faster matters?Austin: I think, for this company, why it mattered was the PACE financing industry is relatively new. And while financing has some old established patterns, I feel like there's still always room for innovation. If you hear the early days of the Bridgewater Financial Hedge Fund, they were a source of innovation and they used technology to deliver new types of assets and things like that. And so, our team at Ygrene was excellent because they wanted to try new things. They wanted to try new patterns of PACE financing, or ways of getting in front of the customer, or connections with different analytics so they could understand their customer better. So, it was important to be able to try things, experiment to see what was going to be successful. To get things out into the real world to know, okay, this is actually going to work, or no, this isn't going to work. And then, also, one of the things within financing is—especially newer financing—is there's a lot of speed bumps along the way. Compliance laws can come into effect, as well as working with cities and governments that have specialized rules and specialized things that they need—because everyone's an expert when it comes to legislation, apparently—they decide that they need X, and they give us a time when we have to get it done. And so, we actually have another customer out there, which is the legislative bodies. So, they have to get the software—their features that are needed within the financing system out by certain dates, or we're no longer eligible to operate in those counties. So, one of it was a core business risk, so we needed to be able to deliver faster. The other was how can we grow the business?Emily: Zach, this might be a question for you. Was there anything that was lost in translation as you were explaining what engineering was going to do in order to meet this goal of shipping code faster, of being more agile, when you were talking to C level management? How did they understand, and did anything get lost in translation?Zach: One of the largest disconnects, both on a technical and from a high level speaking to management issue I had was explaining how we were no longer going to be managing application servers as though they were pets. When you come from an on-premise setup, and you've got your VMware ESXi, and you're managing virtual machines, the most important thing that you have is backups because you want to keep those machines exactly as they are, and you install new software on those machines. When Kubernetes says, I'm going to put your pods wherever they fit on the cluster, assuming it conforms with the scheduling pattern, and if a node dies, it's totally fine, I'm going to spin a new one up for you, and move pods around and ensure that the application is exactly as you had stated—as in, it's in its desired state—that kind of thinking from switching from infrastructure as pets to infrastructure as cattle, is difficult to explain to people who have spent their careers in building and maintaining datacenters. And I think a lot—well, it's not guaranteed that this is across the board, but if you want to talk about a generational divide, people that usually occupy the C level office chairs are familiar with—in their heyday of their career—a datacenter-based setup. In a cloud-based consumption model where it really doesn't matter—I can just spin up anything anywhere—when you talk about moving from reasoning about your application as the servers it comprises and instead talking about your application as the workload it comprises, it becomes a place where you have to really, really concretely explain to people exactly how it's going to work that the entire earth will not come crashing down if you lose a server, or if you lose a pod, or if a container hiccups and gets restarted by Kubernetes on that node. I think that was the real key one. And the reason why that actually became incredibly beneficial for us is because once we actually had that executive buy-off when it came to, while I still may not understand, I trust that you know what you're doing and that this infrastructure really is replaceable, it allowed us to get a little bit more aggressive with how we managed our resources. So, now using Horizontal Pod Autoscaling, using the Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler, and leveraging Amazon EC2 Spot Fleets, we were only ever paying for the exact amount of infrastructure that was required to run our business. And I think that is usually the thing that translates the best to management and non-technical leadership. Because when it comes down to if I'm aware that using this tool, and using a cloud-native approach to running my application, I am only ever going to be paying for the computational resource that I need in that exact minute to run my business, then the budget discussions become a lot easier, because everyone is aware that this is your exact run-rate when it comes to technology. Does that make sense? Emily: Absolutely. How important was having that executive buy-in? My understanding is that a lot of companies, they think that they're going to get all these savings from Kubernetes, and it doesn't always materialize. So, I'm just curious, it sounds like it really did for Ygrene.Zach: There was two things that really worked well for us when this transformation was taking place. The first was, Ygrene was still growing, so if the budget grew alongside of the growth of the company, nobody noticed. So, that was one really incredible thing that happened that, I think, now having had different positions in the industry, I don't know if I appreciated that enough because if you're attempting to make a cost-neutral migration to the Cloud, or to adopt cloud-native management principles, you're going to probably move too little, too late. And when that happens, you run the risk of really doing a poor job of adopting cloud-native, and then scrapping that project, because it never materialized the benefit, as you just described, that some people didn't experience. And the other benefit that we had, I think was the fact that because there were enough incredibly senior technical people—and again, I learned everything from these people—working with us, and because we were all, for the most part, on the same page when it came to this migration, it was easy to have a unified front with our management because every engineer saw the value of this new way of running our infrastructure and running our application. In one non—and this obviously helps with our engineers—one non-monetary benefit that helped really get the buy-in was the fact that, with Kubernetes, our on-call SEV-1 pages went down, I want to say, by over 40 percent which was insane because Kubernetes was automatically intervening in the case where servers went down. JVMs run out of memory, exceptions cause strange things, but a simple restart usually fixes the vast majority of them. Well, now Kubernetes was doing this and we didn't need to wake somebody up in order to keep the machine running.Emily: From when you started this transition to when you, I should say, when you probably left the company, but what were some of the surprises, either surprises for you, or surprises for other people in the organization?Austin: The initial surprise was the yes that we got. So, initially I pitched it and started talking about it, and then the culture started changing to where we realized we really needed to change, and bringing Zack on and then getting the yes from management was the initial surprise. And—Emily: Why was that a surprise?Austin: It was just surprising because, when you work as an engineer—I mean, none of us were C suite, or Dev managers, or anything. We were just highly respected engineers working in the HQ. So, it was just a surprise that what we felt was a semi-crazy idea at the time—because Kubernetes was a little bit earlier. I mean, EKS wasn't even a thing from Amazon. We ran our Kubernetes clusters from the hip, which is using kops, which is—kops is a great tool, but obviously it wasn't managed. It was managed by us, mainly by Zach and his team, to be honest. So, that was a surprise that they would trust a billion-dollar financing engine to run on the proposal of two engineers. And then, the next ones were just how much the single-server, vertical scaling, and depending on running on the same server was into our applications. So, as we started to look at the core applications and moving them into a containerized environment, but also into an environment that can be spun up and spun down, looking at the assumptions the application was making around being on the same server; having specific IP addresses, or hostnames; and things like that, where we had to take those assumptions out and make things more flexible. So, we had to remove some stateful assumptions in the applications, that was a surprise. We also had to enforce more of the idea of idempotency, especially when introducing Istio, and [00:21:44 retryable] connections and retryable logic around circuit breaking and service-to-service communication. So, some of those were the bigger surprises, is the paradigm shift between, “Okay, we've got this service that's always going to run on the same machine, and it's always going to have local access to its files,” to, “Now we're on a pod that's got a volume mounted, and there's 50 of them.” And it's just different. So, that was a big—[laughs], that was a big surprise for us.Emily: Was there anything that you'd call a pleasant surprise? Things that went well that you anticipated to be really difficult?Zach: Oh, my gosh, yes. When you read through Kubernetes for the first time, you tend to have this—especially if somebody else told you, “Hey, we're going to do this,” this sinking feeling of, “Oh my god, I don't even know nothing,” because it's so immense in its complexity. It requires a retooling of how you think, but there have been lots of open-source community efforts to improve the cluster lifecycle management of Kubernetes, and one such project that really helped us get going—do you remember this Austin?—was kops.Austin: Yep. Yep, kops is great.Zach: I want to say Justin Santa Barbara was the original creator of that project, and it's still open source, and I think he still maintains it. But to have a production-ready, and we really mean production-ready: it was private, everything was isolated, the CNI was provisioned correctly, everything was in the right place, to have a fully production-ready Kubernetes cluster ready to go within a few hours of us being able to learn about this tool in AWS was huge because then we could start to focus on what we didn't even understand inside of the cluster. Because there were lots of—Kubernetes is—there's two sides of it, and both of them are confusing. There's the infrastructure that participates in the cluster, and there's the actual components inside of the cluster which get orchestrated to make your application possible. So, not having to initially focus on the infrastructure that made up the cluster, so we could just figure out the difference between our butt and the hole in the ground, when it came to our application inside of Kubernetes was immensely helpful to us. I mean, there are a lot of tools these days that do that now: GKE, EKS, AKS, but we got into Kubernetes right after it went GA, and this was huge to help with that.Emily: Can you tell me also a little bit about the cultural changes that had to happen? And what were these cultural changes, and then how did it go?Zach: As Austin said, the notion of—I think a lot—and I don't want to offer this as a sweeping statement—but I think the vast majority of the engineers that we had in Seattle, in San Jose, and in Petaluma where the company was headquartered, I think, even if they didn't understand what the word idempotent meant, they understood more or less how that was going to work. The larger challenge for us was actually in helping our contractors, who actually made up the vast majority of our labor force towards the end of my tenure there, how a lot of these principles worked in software. So, take a perfect example: part of the application is written in Ruby on Rails, and in Ruby on Rails, there's a concept of one-off tasks called rake tasks. When you are running a single server, and you're sending lots of emails that have attachments, those attachments have to be on the file system. And this is the phrase I always said to people, as we refactor the code together, I repeated the statement, “You have to pretend this request is going to start on one server and finish on a different one, and you don't know what either of them are, ahead of time.” And I think using just that simple nugget really helped, culturally, start to reshape this skill of people because when you can't use or depend on something like the file system, or you can't depend on that I'm still on the same server, you begin to break your task into components, and you begin to store those components in either a central database or a central file system like Amazon S3. And adopting those parts of, I would call, cloud-native engineering were critical to the cultural adoption of this tool. I think the other thing was, obviously, lots of training had to take place. And I think a lot of operational handoff had to take place. I remember for, basically, a fairly long stretch of time, I was on-call along with whoever was also on-call because I had the vast majority of the operational knowledge of Kubernetes for that particular team. So, I think there was a good bit of rescaling and mindset shift from the technical side of being able to adopt a cloud-native approach to software building. Does that make sense?Emily: Absolutely. What do you think actually were some of the biggest challenges or the biggest pain points? Zach: So, challenges of cultural shift, or challenges of specifically Kubernetes adoption?Emily: I was thinking challenges of Kubernetes adoption, but I'm also curious about the cultural shift if that's one of the biggest pain points.Zach: It really was for us. I think—because now it wouldn't—if you wanted to take out Kubernetes and replace it with Nomad there? All of the engineers would know what you're talking about. It wouldn't take but whatever the amount of time it would to migrate your Kubernetes manifests to Nomad HCL files. So, I do think the rescaling and the mindset shift, culturally speaking, was probably the thing that helped solidify it from an engineering level. But Kubernetes adoption—or at least problems in Kubernetes adoption, there was a lot of migration horror stories that we encountered. A lot of cluster instability in earlier versions of Kubernetes prevented any form of smooth upgrades. I had to leave—it was with my brother's—it was his wedding, what was it—oh, rehearsal dinner, that's what it was. I had to leave his rehearsal dinner because the production cluster for Ygrene went down, and we needed to get it back up. So, lots of funny stories like that. Or Nordstrom did a really fantastic talk on this in KubeCon in Austin in 2017. But the [00:28:57 unintelligible] split-brain problem where suddenly the consensus in between all of the Kubernetes master nodes began to fail for one reason or another. And because they were serving incorrect information to the controller managers, then the controller managers were acting on incorrect information and causing the schedulers to do really crazy things, like delete entire deployments, or move pods, or kill nodes, or lots of interesting things. I think we unnecessarily bit off a little bit too much when it came to trying to do tricky stuff when it came to infrastructure. We introduced a good bit of instability when it came to Amazon EC2 Spot that I think, all things considered, I would have revised the decision on that. Because we faced a lot of node instability, which translated into application instability, which would cause really, really interesting edge cases to show up basically only in production.Austin: One of the more notable ones—and I think this is the symptom of one of the larger challenges was during testing, one of our project managers that also helped out in the testing side—technical project managers—which we nicknamed the Edge Case Factory, because she was just, anointed, or somehow had this superpower to find the most interesting edge cases, and things that never went wrong for anyone else always went wrong for her, and it really helped us build more robust software for sure, but there's some people out there with mutant powers to catch bugs, and she was one of them. We had two clusters, we had lower environment clusters, and then we had production cluster. The production cluster hosted two namespaces: the staging namespace, which is supposed to be an exact copy of production; and then the production namespace, so that you can smoke-test legitimate production resources, and blah blah blah. So, one time, we started to get some calls that, all of a sudden, people were getting the staging environment underneath the production URL. Zach: Yeah.Austin: And we were like, “Uh… excuse me?” It comes down to—we eventually figured it out. It was something within the networking layer. But it was this thing, as we rolled along, the deeper understanding of, okay, how does this—to use a term that Zack Arnold coined—this benevolent botnet, how does this thing even work, at the most fundamental and most detailed levels? And so, as problems and issues would occur, pre-production or even in production, we had to really learn the depths of Kubernetes. And I think the reason we had to learn it at that stage was because of how new Kubernetes was, all things considered. But I think now with a lot more of the managed systems, I would say it's not necessary, but it's definitely helpful to really know how Kubernetes works down in the depths. So, that was one of the big challenges was, to put it succinctly, when an issue comes up, knowing really what's going on under the hood, really, really helped us as we discovered and learned things about Kubernetes.Zach: And what you're saying, Austin, was really illuminated by the fact that the telemetry that we had in production was not sufficient, in our minds, at least until very recently, to be able to adequately capture all the data necessary to accurately do root cause analyses on particular issues. In early days, there was far too much root cause analysis by, “It was probably this,” and then we moved on. Now having actually taken the time to instrument tracing, to instrument metrics, to instrument logs with correlation, we used, eventually, Datadog, but working our way through the various telemetry tools to achieve this, we really struggled being able to give accurate information to stakeholders about what was really going wrong in production. And I think Austin was probably the first person in the headquarters side of the company—I'm not entirely certain about some of our satellite dev offices—but to really champion a data-driven way of actually running software. Which, it seems trivial now because obviously that's how a lot of these tools work out of the box. But for us, it was really like, “Oh, I guess we really do need to think about the HTTP error rate.” [laughs].Emily: So, taking another step back here, do you think that Ygrene got everything that it expected, or that it wanted out of moving to Kubernetes?Austin: I think we're obviously playing up some of the challenges that we had because it was our day-to-day, but I do believe that trust in the dev team grew, we were able to deploy code during the day, which we could have done that in the beginning, even with vertically scaled infrastructure, we would have done it with downtime, but it really was that as we started to show that Kubernetes and these cloud-native tools like Fluentd, Prometheus, Istio, and other things like that when you set them up properly, they do take a lot of the risk out. It added trust in the development team. It gave more responsibility to the developers to manage their own code in production, which is the DevOps culture, the DevOps mindset. And I think in the end, we were able to ship code faster, we were able to deliver more value, we were able to go into new jurisdictions and markets quicker, to get more customers, and to ultimately increase the amount of revenue that Ygrene had. So, it built a bridge between the data science side of things, the development side of things, the project management side of things, and the compliance side of things. So, I definitely think they got a lot out of trusting us with this migration. I think that were we to continue, probably Zack and I even to this day, we would have been able to implement more, and more, and more. Obviously, I left the company, Zach left the company to pursue other opportunities, but I do believe we left them in a good spot to take this ecosystem that was put in place and run with it. To continue to innovate and do experiments to get more business.Zach: Emily, I'd characterize it with an anecdote. After our Chief Information Officer left the company, our Chief Operating Officer actually took over the management of the Technology Group, and aside from basically giving dev management carte blanche authority to do as they needed to, I think there was so much trust there that we didn't have at the beginning of our journey with technology and Ygrene. And it was characterized in, we had monthly calls with all of the regional account managers, which are basically our out-of-office sales staff. And generally, the project managers from our group would have to sit in those meetings and hear just about how terrible our technology was relative to the competition, either lacking in features, lacking in stability, lacking in design quality, lacking in user interface design, or way overdoing the amount of compliance we had to have. And towards the end of my tenure, those complaints dropped to zero, which I think was really a testament to the fact that we were running things stably, the amount of on-call pages went down tremendously, the amount of user-impacting production outages was dramatically reduced, and I think the overall quality of software increased with every release. And to be able to say that, as a finance company, we were able to deploy 10 times during the day if we needed to, and not because it was an emergency, but because it was genuinely a value-added feature for customers. I think that that really demonstrated that we reached a level of success adopting Kubernetes and cloud-native, that really helped our business win. And we positioned them, basically, now to make experiments that they thought would work from a business sense we implement the technology behind it, and then we find out whether or not we were right.Emily: Let's go ahead and wrap up. We're nearing the top of the hour, but just two questions for both of you. One is, where could listeners find you or connect with you? And the second one is, do you have a can't-live-without engineering tool?Austin: Yeah, so I'll go first. Listeners can find me on Twitter @_austbot, or on LinkedIn. Those are really the only tools I use. And I can't really live without Prometheus and Grafana. I really love being able to see everything that's happening in my applications. I love instrumentation. I'm very data-driven on what's happening inside. So, obviously Kubernetes is there, but it's almost become that Kubernetes is the Cloud. I don't even think about it anymore. It's these other tools that help us monitor and create active monitoring paradigms in our application so we can deploy fast, and know if we broke something. Zach: And if you want to stay in contact with me, I would recommend not using Twitter, I lost my password and I'm not entirely certain how to get it back. I don't have a blue checkmark, so I can't talk to Twitter about that. I probably am on LinkedIn… you know what, you can find me in my house. I'm currently working. The engineering tool that I really can't live without, I think my IDE. I use IntelliJ by JetBrains, and—Austin: Yeah, it's good stuff.Zach: —I think I wouldn't be able to program without it. I fear for my next coding interview because I'll be pretending that there's type ahead completion in a Google Doc, and it just won't work. So, yeah, I think that would be the tool I'd keep forever.Austin: And if any of Zach's managers are listening, he's not planning on doing any coding interviews anytime soon.Zach: [laughs]. Yes, obviously.Emily: Well, thank you so much. Zach: Emily Omier, thank you so much for your time.Austin: Right, thanks.Austin: And don't forget Zack is an author. He and his team worked very hard on that book.Emily: Zack, do you want to give a plug to your book?Zach: Oh, yeah. Some really intelligent people that, for some reason, dragged me along, worked on a book. Basically it started as an introduction to Kubernetes, and it turned into a Master's Course on Kubernetes. It's from Packt Publishing and yeah, you can find it there, amazon.com or steal it on the internet. If you're looking to get started with Kubernetes I cannot recommend the team that worked on this book enough. It was a real honor to be able to work with people I consider to be heavyweights in the industry. It was really fun.Emily: Thank you so much.Announcer: Thank you for listening to The Business of Cloud Native podcast. Keep up with the latest on the podcast at thebusinessofcloudnative.com and subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever fine podcasts are distributed. We'll see you next time.This has been HumblePod production. Stay humble.