{"id":6709,"date":"2020-11-12T09:11:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T16:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=6709"},"modified":"2020-11-12T09:11:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T16:11:48","slug":"register-today-cascadia-innovation-corridor-virtual-forum-sustainable-agri-foods-and-agri-tech-in-cascadia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-6709","title":{"rendered":"Register Today! | Cascadia Innovation Corridor Virtual Forum: Sustainable Agri-foods and Agri-tech in Cascadia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Cascadia Innovation Corridor Virtual Forum:
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Good Afternoon,<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Join us on Friday, November 20th for the Cascadia Innovation Corridor’s next virtual forum, Sustainable Agri-foods and Agri-tech in Cascadia.<\/strong>\u00a0The forum will explore COVID-19’s impact on\u00a0supply chains for local producers, buyers, and our emergency food system, as well as\u00a0how the growing agri-tech sector is expanding opportunities for local farmers.<\/div>\n
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The session will be hosted by the Co-chairs of the Cascadia Innovation Corridor sub-committee on sustainable agriculture,\u00a0Dr. Rickey Yada, Dean of UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Chad Kruger, Director, Western Washington College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resources Sciences.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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When<\/b><\/div>\n
Friday, November 20, 2020<\/div>\n
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10:00am – 11:30am<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Online via\u00a0Microsoft Teams<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Speakers include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Parm Bains,<\/strong>\u00a0President and CEO, Westberry Farms Ltd.<\/div>\n
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Meeru Dhalwala<\/strong>, Author, Chef and Co-owner, Vij’s and Rangoli Restaurants<\/div>\n
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Steve Mantle,\u00a0<\/strong>Founder and CEO, innov8.ag<\/div>\n
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Kirti Rajagopalan,<\/strong>\u00a0Assistant Professor, Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University<\/div>\n
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Derek Sandison<\/strong>, Director, Washington State Department of Agriculture<\/div>\n
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Chad Kruger,<\/strong>\u00a0Director, Western Washington College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences, Washington State University and Co-chair, Cascadia Innovation Corridor Sustainable Agriculture Sub-committee<\/div>\n
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Dr. Rickey Yada<\/strong>,\u00a0Dean, UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems and Co-chair, Cascadia Innovation Corridor Sustainable Agriculture Sub-committee<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Please register as soon as possible as space is limited. We look forward to seeing you.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sincerely,<\/b><\/div>\n
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Chris Gregoire<\/strong>, CEO, Challenge Seattle<\/div>\n
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Greg D’Avignon<\/strong>, President and CEO, Business Council of British Columbia<\/div>\n
Co-chairs, Cascadia Innovation Corridor Steering Committee<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Cascadia Innovation Corridor Virtual Forum: Sustainable Agri-foods and Agri-tech in Cascadia Good Afternoon, Join us on Friday, November 20th for the Cascadia Innovation Corridor’s next virtual forum, Sustainable Agri-foods and Agri-tech in Cascadia.\u00a0The forum will explore COVID-19’s impact on\u00a0supply chains for local producers, buyers, and our emergency food system, as well as\u00a0how the growing agri-tech…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6710,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions\/6710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}