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Education / Training

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4:00pm

Registration Desk Open

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4:00pm

Member Services Live

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10:00am

Reserved for Quick Connect Meetings

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  • Description: Quick Connect is a unique opportunity to meet with some of your most important trading partners to determine how to better connect electronically - from booking and delivery to invoicing and inventory management. These sessions allow trading partners to discuss one-on-one what they need to do and what connections they need to build. Participants often come away from these meetings with an execution timetable and a clearer understanding of how to utilize AgGateway electronic messages and resources for a successful implementation.

  • SignUp Link Here

  • Location: Altoona Room

connectCenter Training

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  • Organizer: Jim Wilson

  • Slides/Handouts: This will be a hands-on workshop requiring a laptop internet-connected laptop for the best experience.

  • Description: connectCenter is the future of data model development in AgGateway. Participants in this session will have the opportunity to follow along using their own connectCenter account in a guided tour of its main features.

  • Location: Skinner C

10:00am

10:30am

Refreshment Break

10:30am

12:00pm

Weather Data API Working Group

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  • Organizer: Andres Ferreyra

  • Slides/Handouts: Session Slides

  • Description: The group will review the drivers for the working group and recap the semantic, syntax, API and related concerns. This will include an overview of current progress, the path forward with CSV and JSON mock-ups, as well as a discussion on utilizing GeoParquet.

  • Location: Skinner B

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  • Description: Quick Connect is a unique opportunity to meet with some of your most important trading partners to determine how to better connect electronically - from booking and delivery to invoicing and inventory management. These sessions allow trading partners to discuss one-on-one what they need to do and what connections they need to build. Participants often come away from these meetings with an execution timetable and a clearer understanding of how to utilize AgGateway electronic messages and resources for a successful implementation.

  • SignUp Link Here

  • Location: Altoona Room

Microsoft Copilot Training with Real World Results

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  • Organizer: Scott Meredith

  • Session delivered by Jack Sproul, Microsoft Cloud Solutions Architect, TD Synnex

  • Slides/Handouts:

  • Description: Organizations are working to identify how Copilot can improve productivity in their organizations. Through guided adoption, participants will be walked through the business benefits of Copilot for Microsoft 365 through persona-based ROI scenarios.

  • Location: Skinner C

North America Steering Committee
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  • Organizer: Jeremy Wilson

  • Location: Polk

12:00pm

1:00pm

First Time Attendees Luncheon

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Are you new to AgGateway, or a first-time attendee at the Mid-Year Meeting? This luncheon will provide you with information and contacts you need to make your first AgGateway meeting a high-value experience.

Location: Salon 2/3

Sponsored by our Silver Sponsors: Rosen’s and SSI

12:00pm

1:00pm

Lunch - On Your Own

1:00pm

2:00pm

Reserved for Quick Connect Meetings

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  • Description: Quick Connect is a unique opportunity to meet with some of your most important trading partners to determine how to better connect electronically - from booking and delivery to invoicing and inventory management. These sessions allow trading partners to discuss one-on-one what they need to do and what connections they need to build. Participants often come away from these meetings with an execution timetable and a clearer understanding of how to utilize AgGateway electronic messages and resources for a successful implementation.

  • SignUp Link Here

  • Location: Altoona Room

AgGateway Essentials

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  • Presenter: Nikki Marshall

  • Slides/Handouts:

  • Description: Recommended for new members and first-time attendees, but all are welcome to attend! This session will provide an introduction to AgGateway activities and how we operate.

  • Location: Skinner C

Sponsored by our Silver Sponsors: Rosen’s and SSI

Portfolio Management Center Team
(Invitation Only)

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  • Organizer: Ben Craker

  • Slides/Handouts: Slides

  • Description: Description: This will be the first meeting of the Portfolio Team to discuss the plan for working groups through the end of the year. The team will review relationships between projects and identify and prioritize gaps and other future topics.

  • Location: Polk

2:00pm

3:00pm

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  • Description: Quick Connect is a unique opportunity to meet with some of your most important trading partners to determine how to better connect electronically - from booking and delivery to invoicing and inventory management. These sessions allow trading partners to discuss one-on-one what they need to do and what connections they need to build. Participants often come away from these meetings with an execution timetable and a clearer understanding of how to utilize AgGateway electronic messages and resources for a successful implementation.

  • SignUp Link Here

  • Location: Altoona Room

How We Collaborate at AgGateway:
Wiki 101 / MyAgGateway 101

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  • Presenters: Nikki Marshall and Leslie Hedges

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  • Description: Your contributions to the AgGateway mission will be easier and less stressful when you understand how we use the two key tools of collaboration: the AgGateway Wiki and MyAgGateway. The Wiki houses all of the key organizational resources, and in the first half of this session you will learn how to find what you are looking for. This will include learning how to create meeting agendas, add meeting minutes, copy pages, view page history, import documents, link to documents, add dynamic content, and more. The second half of this session will focus on AgGateway’s member portal MyAgGateway. Topics covered will include how to access the member directory, how to update your profile, how to review and pay an open invoice, and much more.

  • Location: Skinner C

Sponsored by our Silver Sponsors: Rosen’s and SSI

3:00pm

4:00pm

Dairy Feed Data Working Group

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  • Organizer: Ben Craker

  • Slides/Handouts: Slides

  • Description: The group will provide a brief summary of the goals and deliverables of the project and the status to date. The team will then review the problems identified, potential follow-up projects by reviewing the main process diagram that was developed. The session will conclude by cleaning up documentation on any remaining use cases.

  • Location: Skinner B

Communications Committee

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  • Organizer: Paul Schrimpf

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  • Description: Review first half communications activities and build out plan for the remainder of 2024, including promotion of Annual Conference.

  • Location: Polk

AGIIS 101

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  • Presenters: Chris Crutchfield

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  • Description: This education session will provide an overview of the AGIIS functionality and services provided. We will also discuss any new enhancements and modifications made in 2024. This session is recommended for individuals that are new to Ag Industry Identification System and are looking to increase their knowledge of entity and product identification.

  • Location: Skinner C

Sponsored by our Silver Sponsors: Rosen’s and SSI

4:00pm

7:00pm

Welcome Reception: AgGateway’s Night at the Races!

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We are pleased to announce that for the second year in a row, Prairie Meadows will be presenting live horse racing during the Mid-Year Meeting! Everyone attending the conference will be invited to take part in the food, networking, and fun as we enjoy racing action at AgGateway’s Night at the Races. Don’t miss this opportunity to network with other members, vendors, customers, and staff!

Location: Racetrack Pavilion

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Working Groups

Meetups / Professional Development

Education/Training

Closed / Invitation Only

7:30am

3:00pm

Registration Desk Open

7:30am

8:30am

Grab and Go Breakfast

8:00am

3:00pm

Member Services Live

8:00am

8:30am

ISO/TC 347 and Working Groups

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  • Organizer: Brent Kemp

  • Slides/Handouts:

  • Description: Connecting common threads from Modus, Weather Data API, PAIL, Agrisemantics, ADAPT, and new ISO TC

  • Location: Skinner B

8:30am

9:00am

AGIIS 201 & 301

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  • Presenter: Chris Crutchfield

  • Slides/Handouts:

  • Description: The first part of this session takes attendees on a deeper dive of the AGIIS database, focusing on subscriber profile management, user management, tips and tricks for entity search, adds and updates, and best practices for a successful user experience. The second part of this session will focus on products in the AGIIS Directory. Attendees will learn how AGIIS supports product enumeration, industry visibility and data extraction. We will share best practices for adding and updating products and provide resources to help users maintain their product subset

  • Location: Skinner C

Sponsored by DXC Technology

9:00am

10:00am

Data Privacy/Ethics

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  • Organizer: Stuart Rhea

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  • Description: The team will provide a short update on the scope, goals, and deliverables for the working group. This will be followed by a brief discussion on progress to-date followed reviewing how data ethics by design works and if that is the only way to implement some of the topics or best practices being developed by the working group.

  • Location: Skinner A

Harmonized Contract Meetup

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  • Organizer: Jim Wilson

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  • Description: Several industry segments have identified a need for potential updates to their contract messages. This meetup will review those requirements to gauge the need and also determine if a unified contract could be developed across seed, crop nutrition, crop protection, grain, and other segment use cases.

  • Location: Skinner B

10:00am

10:30am

Refreshment Break

10:30am

11:30am

Traceability API

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  • Organizer: Scott Nieman, Joe Tevis

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  • Description: The first version of the Traceability API will be reviewed working through the sequence diagram that the group created. There will be an update on the paper the group is drafting for the International Conference on Precision Ag followed by discussion on next steps to align the traceability work with ADAPT Standard.

  • Location: Skinner B

Allied Provider Meetup

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  • Organizer: Chris Crutchfield

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  • Description: This session will provide Allied Providers an opportunity to hear about some of the latest AGIIS enhancements and an update on ADAPT.  We will discuss your current challenges as a service provider and look for opportunities to involve AgGateway and/or AGIIS to drive a solution. 

  • Location: Skinner A

Sponsored by AgVantage Software

11:30am

12:00pm

Member Advisory Panel

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  • Organizer: Leslie Hedges

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  • Description: Discussion will focus on AgGateway resources (Wiki, website, MyAgGateway) and how we can improve the user/member experience. All members are encouraged to join this interactive session.

  • Location: Skinner A

12:00pm

1:00pm

Networking Lunch

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Come and network with others while enjoying lunch!

Location: Bishop B

1:00pm

2:00pm

PAIL / ISO 7673

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  • Organizer: Charles Hillyer, Andres Ferreyra

  • Slides/Handouts:

  • Description: The group will provide an update on the status of the Draft International Standard for ISO 7673. This will be followed by an active discussion on implementation goals and questions to help drive adoption with AgGateway membership and the industry as a whole.

  • Location: Skinner B

Feed and Grain Meetup

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  • Organizer: Phil Kubesh, Brent Kemp

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  • Location: Skinner A

2:00pm

3:00pm

Agrisemantics Committee

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  • Organizer: Andres Ferreyra, Samantha Murray

  • Slides/Handouts: TBD

  • Description: This will be the first meeting of the newly formed Agrisemantics Committee. Open to anyone, this group is focused on preserving the meaning of data. We will start the session with a quick recap on the purpose of the committee and its main activities. This will be followed by a review of current AgGateway semantic resources and infrastructure followed by processing some submissions for both updates to existing and new resources.

  • Location: Skinner B

AGIIS Directory Oversight Committee

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  • Organizer: Beth Graham

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  • Description: This is a regular meeting of the Directory Oversight Committee (DOC).

  • Location: Skinner A

3:00pm

3:30pm

Refreshment Break

3:30pm

4:30pm

Standards and Guidelines Committee / Architecture Committee

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  • Organizer: Charles Hillyer and Jim Wilson

  • /wiki/spaces/SGC/pages/4163534849

  • Description: The Architecture Committee will review architecture-related concerns that apply across two or more working group activities. The Standards and Guidelines Committee will process any proposed digital resources. Any remaining time will be spent discussing Standards & Guidelines processes.

  • Location: Skinner B

Conference Committee

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  • Organizer: Scott Meredith

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  • Description: We will discuss plans and next steps for the 2024 Annual Conference in Austin, Texas. All individuals interested in helping to improve our face-to-face meetings, please join us!

  • Location: Altoona Room

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