Photo courtesy of CEA Summit East
Indoor Ag-Con and the Virginia Tech-Institute for Advanced Learning and Research Controlled Environment Agriculture Innovation Center are working together to bring growers the third annual Controlled Environment Agriculture Summit East Oct. 1-2, 2024.
The conference will be held at the IALR Institute Conference Center, 150 Slayton Ave., Danville, Virginia.
CEA Summit East is a conference featuring speakers highlighting different aspects of the CEA industry, including greenhouse, vertical farming and indoor agriculture, in keynotes, panels and showcase sessions.
A standard pass includes access to the following:
- All keynote and conference sessions
- Networking event with tabletop exhibits
- All-day coffee/snacks
- Lunch on days one and two
- Day one evening refreshments
- Tour of CEA Innovation Center
The standard pass early bird rate is $495, with the price increasing after Aug. 23. There's also a graduate student pass available for $395.
Here's what we know about the agenda:
Production track sessions
- Ensuring safe harvests: A primer on food safety in CEA
- Branching out: Crop selection and diversification for CEA
- Effective insect pest and plant pathogen management in CEA
- Aquaponics deep dive
Business track sessions
- Understanding the economics of CEA
- Strategies for cost-effective energy management in CEA
- Bridging innovation in CEA: Collaborative research & development between academia & industry
- Building international partnerships in CEA
Education, training and workforce
- Charting the course: Identifying education and training needs in CEA
- Collaborative pathways: Industry, university and state partnerships in workforce training in CEA
- Cultivating leadership: Training the future leaders of CEA
- Onboarding new employees: Company training programs for success
The conference will also have tabletop exhibits, showcasing the latest CEA technology and practices.
Attendees will have the opportunity to tour the Virginia Tech-IALR CEA Innovation Center research facility.
For more information, visit ceasummit.com. For information on attending or exhibiting, call 404-991-5186 or email hello@indoor.ag.
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