• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Organizer: Jeremy Wilson

• Location: Polk

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Presenters: Nikki Marshall and Leslie Hedges

• Slides/Handouts:

• 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

• 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

• Organizer: Paul Schrimpf

• Slides/Handouts:

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

• Location: Polk

• Presenters: Chris Crutchfield

• Slides/Handouts:

• 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

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

• Organizer: Kelly Nelson, Stuart Rhea

• Slides/Handouts: Session Slides

• Description: The first half of the session will focus on a status update for both ADAPT Framework and ADAPT Standard, including a walk-through of an example using the ADAPT Standard, QGIS visualization and implementation principles. The second half will focus on feedback and a discussion of next steps and prioritization for growing the ADAPT Standard.

• Location: Skinner B

• Organizer: Ann Vande Lune

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description: Hear the latest about Seed Connectivity messages and implementation successes. This is also a designated time to hear pain points related to seed and discuss what would be most helpful in the next 18 months to further connectivity and make processes more efficient related to seed. Come and bring your connectivity questions and your pain points!

• Location: Skinner A

• Organizer: Brent Kemp

• Description: The 2024 Board of Directors will meet.

• Location: Polk

• Organizer: Ben Craker

• Slides/Handouts: Session Slides

• Description: Discuss upcoming working groups that may be of interest to the segment as well as open discussion on pain points and other topics membership may be interested in addressing

• Location: Skinner A

• AgGateway Business Update

  • Brent Kemp, President and CEO

• Keynote Presentation: Mastering The Economics of Data and Analytics

  • Presenter: Bill Schmarzo, Customer AI and Data Innovation Strategist, Dell Technologies

Data is widely considered the most valuable asset in the world; that data is no longer just the exhaust of the business, but more and more is becoming the business. If data is the new oil in driving the economic growth of the 21st century, then how effective is your organization at leveraging data and analytics to derive and drive new sources of business and operational value?

Presentation Points:

• Mastering the Economics of Data and Analytics

• Creating a Value-thru-Data Culture

• AI and the critical role of the AI Utility Function

• AI & Data Literacy: Empowering Citizens of Data Science

• Exploiting the Economies of Learning

• Learn how organizations can identify and validate the use cases that enable smart agriculture

About Bill Schmarzo: Bill is currently part of Dell Technology’s SPEAR AI leadership, where he is responsible for working with customers to help build the cross-organizational alignment in developing their business-centric AI and data strategies.

Bill is the former Chief Innovation Officer at Hitachi Vantara where he was responsible for driving Hitachi Vantara’s Data Science and “co-creation” efforts. He was selected for Hitachi Limited’s 2020 Solution Innovation Award for his ground-breaking work in data science and Automated Machine Learning.

Bill also has served as CTO at Dell EMC where he formulated the company’s Big Data Practice strategy, identified target markets, developed solution frameworks, and led Analytics client engagements with his Vision Workshop, a methodology that links an organization’s strategic business initiatives with supporting data and analytics. As the VP of Analytics at Yahoo, Bill delivered the analytics tools and applications that optimized customers’ online marketing spend.

Known the technology industry as the “Dean of Big Data,” Schmarzo has taught extensively at the college level, including currently as an Adjunct Professor at Iowa State University

Location: Bishop C

• Organizer: Ben Craker, Nancy Bohl Bormann

• Slides/Handouts: GitHub, Slides

• Description: Changes to the Modus 2.0 soil methods list since the annual meeting will be recapped followed by debut of the 2.0 manure methods list. The team is also planning to have a first draft of the V2 schema for review as well. There will also be a review of the benefits realized from implementing Modus from the lab perspective.

• Location: Skinner B

• Organizer: Joe Gifford

• Slides/Handouts: Session Slides

• Description: Please join this open session to discuss ongoing challenges faced within the Crop Protection industry and explore the possibility of developing or improving the digital connectivity resources necessary to meet those challenges. The session will also include a discussion on progress and challenges involved with the launch of Crop Protection AGIIS Product Identifiers and the Product Catalog message. Hope to see you there!

• Location: Skinner A

• Organizer: Andres Ferreyra, Samantha Murray

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description: Ensuring that both parties exchanging agricultural data understand them to mean the same thing is an increasingly important aspect of interoperability. This session will start with a quick overview of semantic use cases, current resources, and their value within AgGateway and pivot toward a discussion on what infrastructure (databases, registry APIs, etc.) would enable better use and management of semantic resources going forward.

• Location: Skinner B

• Organizer: Julie Mathey

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description: Join this interactive group to brainstorm what challenges Ag Retail faces today and help drive what we want to start working on tomorrow. Discussion topics will include seed return message and stock transfer message and whether there is interest in a working group; an update on the progress of Entity Identification Rules (WG27); Unified Contract Message; and an update on mix ticket. Open to all member organizations, not just Ag Retailers. Come join the discussion!

• Location: Skinner A

• Organizer: Brent Kemp

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description: Unique identifiers have been used by input manufacturers, distributors and retailers for decades to identify the businesses, individuals, and locations associated with growers. The schemes and repositories for these entities have changed over the years, but the rules on how grower entities are identified and managed have not received as much attention. This session will review use cases and start to lay the foundation for improved rules and recommendations for managing entity identification.

• Location: Skinner A

• Organizer: Zach Leiser

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description: The team will present the proposed data model for exchanging accurate field boundary information for feedback. This will include a potential implementation via the ADAPT Standard. The session will conclude by planning and prioritizing subsequent efforts related to field boundaries including obstacles and other attributes as well as field identifiers.

• Location: Skinner B

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to network with other members, vendors, customers, and staff!

Location: Photo Finish Lounge

• Organizer: Brent Kemp

• Slides/Handouts:

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

• Location: Skinner B

• 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

• Organizer: Stuart Rhea

• Slides/Handouts:

• 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

• Organizer: Jim Wilson

• Slides/Handouts:

• 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

• Organizer: Scott Nieman, Joe Tevis

• Slides/Handouts:

• 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

• Organizer: Chris Crutchfield

• Slides/Handouts:

• 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

• Organizer: Leslie Hedges

• Slides/Handouts:

• 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

Come and network with others while enjoying lunch!

Location: Bishop B

• 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

• Organizer: Phil Kubesh, Brent Kemp

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description:

• Location: Skinner A

• 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

• Organizer: Beth Graham

• Slides/Handouts:

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

• Location: Skinner A

• Organizer: Charles Hillyer and Jim Wilson

• Agenda

• 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

• Organizer: Scott Meredith

• Slides/Handouts:

• 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