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Grow your idea

from concept to commercialization

Demand for new products is growing in domestic and overseas markets. Learn more about innovative products – and new uses for existing ones – from a panel of agriculture and agribusiness experts. These presenters from across Canada will discuss what separates successful businesses from the rest. Watch the event's introduction.

Grow your idea in a changing world
David Sparling, Ph.D,
Chair in Agri-Food Innovation at Richard Ivey School of Business

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Panel discussion.

Farm to table: building sustainable partnerships for local, healthy, whole foods
Bill Vanderkooi, CEO, Nutriva Group

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Understanding Today’s Consumers: Between Preferences and Innovation
Sven Anders, PhD
Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta, Department of Rural Economy

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Individual Quick-Freeze Asparagus
Brenda Lammens
Director of Ontario Asparagus Growers Marketing Board and Partner in Spearit Farms

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From our basement to the Oscars of the food world: how innovation contributed to Honibe’s development and successful product launch
John Rowe, Founder and President, Island Abbey Foods

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