Date	Event	Communications Plan/Notes
January 18	KARTA - Kansas Ag Research and Technology Association - Junction City, KS	Jeremy presenting - touching on ADAPT, Core Documents, etc.
Feb 27 - Mar 1	Commodity Classic - Anaheim, CA
February 12-14	Agricultural Equipment Technology Conference - Louisville, KY http://www.asabe.org/meetings-events/2018/02/agricultural-equipment-technology-conference.aspx	Andres attending; some AgGateway activity in ASABE committee meetings - X611 (Andres provides updates); Ben probably also attending
March 8	Meeting of AEF PT9	Jim speaking
March 26-29	AgGateway GODAN Meeting - Singapore	Jim speaking
April	AgGateway Europe Meeting - TBD	Jim speaking
May 1	Sustainability Consortium Summit - Chicago	Andres speaking
May 3	IoT Meeting - Minneapolis https://www.iotfuse.com/	Joe Tevis and Scott Nieman speaking on Traceability POC. Description of session: AgGateway is an agricultural business consortium of more than 200 member organizations, including equipment manufacturers, farmer cooperatives, software vendors, and manufacturers. For the last 5 years AgGateway has conducted several proof-of-concepts ranging from equipment level data capture, IoT for augers and moisture readings, and most recently Bluetooth Low Energy beacons and smart edge devices on the Raspberry Pi3 and Arduino to help publish ‘TransferEvents’ to a Cloud IoT platform. Blockchain has also been evaluated for its applicability. This presentation will recap the efforts to date, enhancements to existing standards, and the future roadmap. This is co-presented by Dr. Joe Tevis of Vis Consulting and Scott Nieman of Land O’Lakes.
May 12-18	Plug Fest (Spring) - Lincoln, NE	Andres possibly attending; Joe Tevis attending; Ben possibly
June 11-14	AgGateway MYM - Altoona, IA
June 24-27	International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) International Conference on Precision Ag - Montreal, Canada https://www.ispag.org/icpa/	Andres attending and submitting papers; if accepted, then will be speaking
July 29 - Aug 1	ASABE Annual International Meeting - Detroit, MI http://www.asabe.org/meetings-events.aspx	Andres attending and submitting papers; if accepted, then will be speaking
July 17-19	InfoAg 2018 - St. Louis, MO https://infoag.org/	Jeremy attending; no speakers designated yet; Andres and Ben may also be attending; check with Susan
August 28-30	Farm Progress Show - Boone, IA https://www.farmprogressshow.com/en/home.html	Jeremy attending
October 3-5	CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture Convention - World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi, Kenya Convention theme: "Decoding the Data Ecosystem" https://bigdata.cgiar.org/event/cgiar-platform-for-big-data-in-agriculture-convention-2018-nairobi-kenya/	Andres attending
October 21-25	ISO TC23/SC18 (Technical Committee 23 / Sub-Committee 18) Plenary Irrigation and drainage equipment and systems Tel Aviv, Israel https://www.iso.org/committee/47148.html#meetings	R. Andres Ferreyra (Unlicensed), Dan Berne (Unlicensed), Charles Hillyer (Unlicensed), and Steven Smith attending
November 5-8	Research Data Alliance (RDA) plenary: Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD), Gaborone, Botswana https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rdas-12th-plenary-meeting-part-international-data-week-2018-gaborone-botswana	Andres exploring the possibility of presenting
November 7-8	Growing Innovations, Las Vegas, NV https://www.growinginnovations.com/	Doug Applegate speaking Jessica Trites Rolle should verify if Doug needs AgGateway materials (Mix Ticket, Traceability, other)
November 12-14	AgGateway Annual Conference - Austin, TX http://www.aggateway.org/Events/2018AnnualConference.aspx
Nov 27-29	ARA - Ag Retailers Association Meeting - Boca Raton, FL https://www.aradc.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=ebef2faa-ee56-4bd4-b9f8-daf701cf9e29&Home=%2fhome
Dec 3-7	Irrigation Association's Irrigation Show 2018, Long Beach, CA http://www.irrigation.org/2018Show	Charles Hillyer (Unlicensed) speaking - will need materials

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