Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP recently issued the following announcement.
BCLP has key involvement at AgTech NEXT 2021, one of the industry’s most prestigious innovation conferences, hosted by the St. Louis-based Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. BCLP is a principal sponsor and Partner Powell Carman, co-leader of the firm’s internationally ranked Food & Agribusiness Sector, served on the summit’s External Advisory Board (EAB), which advised on development of the agenda and speakers.
Carman was chosen for the AgTech NEXT External Advisory Board owing to his deep understanding of the issues facing the agtech sector. His legal practice at BCLP, built over 20 years, focuses largely on clients in the agribusiness and agtech industries. Carman's transactional experience includes substantial acquisitions and divestitures, as well as strategic investments, for national and international agtech and agribusiness companies, and he has been included in Best Lawyers in America for Corporate Law for a number of years. He has always been involved in production agriculture and continues to manage his family grain farm in northeast Missouri.
The AgTech NEXT conference agenda focuses on economic, environmental and social factors influencing the agricultural sector. This year’s summit will examine climate change and with a focus upon “seeing things differently.” The three-part event, taking place in September, October and November, will cover topics relevant to climate change such as carbon and environmental markets, geospatial and location sciences, and food security.
The summit kicked off on Sept. 1 with the first in a series of afternoon sessions, where attendees heard from CEOs, leaders, farmers, investors and others as they discussed carbon and environmental markets. The Oct. 6 session will cover synergies between agtech and geospatial technology and include a panel discussion. The final session, on Nov. 18, will discuss climate change and food security over a full afternoon of programming, as well as a capstone networking reception also sponsored by BCLP. All sessions are available in virtual format, and the Oct. 6 and Nov. 18 sessions have options for in-person attendance.
Date: October 6, 2021
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