• 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.

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• Location: Altoona Room

• Organizer: Andres Ferreyra

• Location: Skinner A

• Description: Semantic resources are an increasing important component of many AgGateway working groups and digital resources. This workshop will focus on addressing some of the top priorities and requirements to support other efforts within the organization.

• 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.

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• Location: Altoona Room

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

• Organizer: Joe Tevis, Ben Craker

• Description: AgGateway working groups have developed a string of resources laying the foundational building blocks to enable traceability of agricultural commodities. This session will review what exists today, what use cases are supported and what new projects are needed.

• 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.

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• 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: Jeremy Wilson

• Description: The 2025 North America Steering Committee will meet.

• Location: Polk

• Organizer: Brent Kemp

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description: The International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 347 on Data Driven Agrifood Systems had it’s first in-person plenary meeting in March. This session will review the outcome of that meeting, current work happening withing the technical committee, and the relation to AgGateway projects and resources.

• Location: Skinner A

• 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. Open to all member organizations, not just Ag Retailers. Come join the discussion!

• 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.

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• 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

We are pleased to announce that Prairie Meadows will once again be hosting 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: Ben Craker

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description: The group will present the use cases, data requirements and update on other organizations active in the space. Discussion will then shift to what topics if any membership would like to work on next in this area.

• Location: Skinner A

• 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 B

• 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 2025. 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

• Organizer: Brent Kemp

• Description: The 2025 Board of Directors will meet.

• Location: Polk

• Organizer: Ben Craker, Conny Graumans

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description: The Closed Loop Spray working group developed a model and requirements for exchanging a recommendation for a crop protection application, through to a work order and finally to a work record. This proposed working group will use that work to gap check the ADAPT Standard to propose changes and/or develop additional documentation to support the use case.

• Location: Skinner A

• Organizer: Paul Schrimpf

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description: Review first half communications activities and build out plan for the remainder of 2025, including promotion of Annual Conference.

• Location: Skinner B

• Presenters: Chris Crutchfield

• Location: Skinner C

• Description: 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. 

• AgGateway Business Update

  • Brent Kemp, President and CEO

• Keynote Presentation: Beyond Standards – Building the Integration Ecosystem Agriculture Actually Needs

• Presenter: Matt Waits, Strategy Lead and co-founder of TwelveFive, a data consulting firm helping agribusinesses solve complex data challenges.

• Description: Despite years of progress in ag data standards, true integration remains elusive. In this session, Matt Waits explores what’s holding the industry back and what it might take to build a practical, scalable integration ecosystem that actually delivers on the promise of interoperability.

• About Matt Waits: Prior to launching TwelveFive, Waits worked for more than two decades at the forefront of agricultural technology – most notably as CEO of SST Software, where he led the development of one of the industry’s first large-scale precision agronomy platforms. Following SST's acquisition by RELX Group, Matt continued as a key executive within Proagrica, working globally on data standardization, interoperability, and analytics strategies across agriculture.

  His work has focused on building systems that improve the way agricultural data is collected, aligned, and leveraged—helping organizations make smarter, faster decisions. Matt is a graduate of Oklahoma State University, a licensed pilot, and a proud husband and father of three.

Location: Bishop B

• Organizer: Andres Ferreyra

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description: The weather data API team will provide an update on their work to-date and discuss next steps. If your organization manages weather data connections to one or more providers, this session will be of interest.

• Location: Skinner A

• Organizer: Jeremy Wilson

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description: Please join this open session to discuss ongoing challenges faced within the Crop Nutrition industry and explore the possibility of developing or improving the digital connectivity resources necessary to meet those challenges.

• Location: Skinner B

• Organizer: Curt Blades

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description:

  AEM Joint Technology Leadership Group (combined ag and construction) discusses its work on a common language for data layers, cyber security, and autonomy in non-road equipment.

• Location: Skinner C

• Organizer: Stuart Rhea

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description: Having completes the GNSS Accuracy work by propositioning additions to the ADAPT Standard, the discussion will provide an update on the status with ADAPT, a discussion on driving adoption, and determining what aspect of field boundaries members would like to address next.

• Location: Skinner A

• Organizer: Phil Kubesh

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description: Please join this open session to discuss ongoing challenges faced within the Feed and Grain industry and explore the possibility of developing or improving the digital connectivity resources necessary to meet those challenges.

• 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.

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• Location: Altoona Room

Organizer: Sven Nowak

Description: Storing your data in secure clouds and using cyber-approved devices does not automatically guarantee the security of your integrated systems. This session will explore effective methods to mitigate cyber risks at a system-wide level.

Location: Skinner C

• Organizer: Ben Craker

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description: The team will present an update on the v2 Plant Tissue Methods list, a broader update on all things Modus. The seission will end with a discussion on what method list to address next as well as determining next steps for a v2 schema proposal.

• Location: Skinner A

• Organizer: Theresa Fitzsimmons

• Slides/Handouts:

• 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.

• Location: Skinner B

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

Location: Photo Finish Lounge

• Organizer: Stuart Rhea

• Slides/Handouts: Whitepaper

• Description: We will review any feedback on the Data Ethics whitepaper from the broader organization and discuss plans for publication.

• Location: Skinner A

• Organizer: Kelly Nelson

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description: Please join this open session to discuss ongoing challenges faced by allied providers and explore what AgGateway resources might help address issues, and what changes to existing resources or new development could help address any issues identified.

• Location: Skinner B

• Organizer: Ben Craker

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description: Discussion on the status and any needs for updates or new work relating to Mix Ticket, Scale Ticket, scale head interfaces, contract, settlement sheet and other existing or previously discussed resources used between retail ERP and other systems.

• Location: Skinner A

• Organizer: Chris Crutchfield

• Slides/Handouts:

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

• Location: Skinner B

• Organizer: Kelly Nelson, Stuart Rhea, Dan Danford

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description: All things ADAPT, a brief update on the ADAPT Framework with the bulk of the session focused on the current status and activities related to the ADAPT Standard.

• Location: Skinner A

• Organizer: Member Services Team

• Slides/Handouts:

• Description: In this interactive session, attendees will learn how to publish their organization’s eConnectivity capabilities to the AgGateway Wiki. Attendees will also learn how to search the connectivity capabilities of their trading partners. We encourage everyone to bring their laptops and follow along with the instruction to add or update their organization's eConnectivity capabilities. It is highly recommended that attendees have an AgGateway Wiki account. If one is needed, please contact Member.Services@AgGateway.org.

• Location: Skinner C