TGI Food Security Workshop #1

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tgi GEOSPATIAL INNOVATION FOR FOOD SECURITY CHALLENGE:
co-design workshop #1

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Fireside Chat

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co-design the Geospatial Innovation for Food Security Challenge

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TGI invites you to apply to join this in-person workshop to shape the upcoming Geospatial Innovation for Food Security Challenge. Selected applicants will collaborate with researchers and professionals from diverse organizations and backgrounds to co-design the the Challenge.

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Workshop Information

Participants will explore how current and emergent innovations in geospatial technologies and methods can be leveraged to promote food security, collaborating to identify sets of salient problems, assess their fit with technologies with potential to address them, and evaluate the potential impact of making progress on each problem.

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Location

All three in-person workshops will be held at T-Rex in St. Louis, Missouri, a non-profit innovation and entrepreneur development center dedicated to strengthening the economic vitality of St. Louis. The collaborative working sections of each workshop will be in-person only. Formal presentations and panel discussions during the workshops will be recorded and shared.

Workshop Took place on:

November 13, 2024: Kickoff
Participants joined the TGI team for a kickoff workshop in which participants formed teams and collaborated to identify broad sets of potentially interesting problems where current innovations in geospatial technologies and methods could be leveraged to improve future food security.

keynote speakers

November 13

Tomás Peña

Managing Director
of The Yield Lab LATAM

Tomás Peña is co-founder and General Partner of The Yield Lab LATAM, a leading agtech VC fund with oﬃces in Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Mexico City, Rancagua (Chile), and Miami. Launched in 2018 as an accelerator fund, The Yield Lab LATAM operates a farmer-centric network with a diversiﬁed team of 12 people spread across the region. To date, the fund has made over 25 investments in seven Latam countries. Tomás brings 20 years of experience in banking, with a focus on private banking and innovation, and was also co-founder of S4, a Yield Lab North America portfolio company back in 2011.

Workshop agenda

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Coffee & Registration

8:30 a.m.

Welcome, intro to the Challenge, process overview and warm up

9:00 a.m.

Thinking like a futurist - introducing the method and putting it into action to envision multiple futures and imagine what food security might look like in the years ahead

9:30 a.m.

Lunch

12:00 p.m.

Keynote by Tomás Peña followed by a conversation with Tomás Peña and Nadine Alameh

12:45 p.m.

Tomás Peña

Managing Director
of The Yield Lab LATAM

Nadine Alameh

TGI Executive Director

A rapid tour of enabling technologies and services

1:30 p.m.

Zach Elliot

Specialist Solutions Architect
for Amazon Location

Using a variety of thinking tools, participants will generate a wide array of challenge/problem statements related to different envisioned futures for the food security challenge

1:45 p.m.

Selecting and sorting challenges to identify which, if addressed, would make most progress toward desirable future food systems

3:00 p.m.

Reframing top problems into clear, concise questions; individual selection of top priorities

4:00 p.m.

Practicalities on next steps and a wrap up from the facilitators

4:30 p.m.

Closing comments from the TGI team

4:45 p.m.

Reception and Social Event

5:00 p.m.