Agriculture, Food & Forestry

Experts in farming, food production, and forestry, contributing to sustainable agriculture, food security, and environmental conservation

Amy Galvin

Amy Galvin

Amy Galvin is a dedicated leader committed to bringing farm to table to patients. Amy has been in healthcare for 5 years. During this time she has worked to reduce food waste across retail, catering, and patient services for the BILH hospital system consisting of 14 hospitals. Amy was the recipient of the Jane Matlaw Environmental Champion Award in 2022.

Amy Galvin is a dedicated leader committed to bringing farm to table to patients. Amy has been in healthcare for 5 years. During this time she has worked to reduce food waste across retail, catering, and patient services for the BILH hospital system ... Show more

Cody Menefee

Cody Menefee

I am cody

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Chetanaya Aggarwal

Chetanaya Aggarwal

A Full Stack Lead Data Scientist based in Pune, India, with over 6 years of experience in data science, machine learning, and statistical modeling. I currently work at John Deere India, where I specialize in building enterprise-grade solutions that drive measurable business impact across diverse industries.

My expertise spans predictive modeling, causal inference, data pipelines, and advanced data visualization. In recent years, I’ve been deeply involved in Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Agentic AI workflows. I enjoy leveraging techniques like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), multimodal systems, and knowledge graph reasoning to develop intelligent, autonomous solutions that help solve complex challenges.

A Full Stack Lead Data Scientist based in Pune, India, with over 6 years of experience in data science, machine learning, and statistical modeling. I currently work at John Deere India, where I specialize in building enterprise-grade solutions that d... Show more

Tea Stojanovic

Tea Stojanovic

An IT consultant at Info Support B.V. and a lead in Google Developers Group NL, passionate about everything data related. As a graduate of Wageningen University and Research - active in agriculture, food, retail and logistics sectors.

Interested in successful implementation of IT in the company, assessing the company needs and providing them with tailored solutions through my background in change management and data analytics.

An IT consultant at Info Support B.V. and a lead in Google Developers Group NL, passionate about everything data related. As a graduate of Wageningen University and Research - active in agriculture, food, retail and logistics sectors. Interested i... Show more

Marjorie Mudi Gege

Marjorie Mudi Gege

Gege Marjorie is a trained Agronomist, with over 6 years of active volunteering experience on Environmental and Human rights advocacy with Greenpeace Africa in Cameroon. Her journey in the Internet Governance (IG) space began with her volunteering during the 17th session of the IGF in Addis Ababa-Ethiopia, after which she got integrated into the Cameroon IGF team, serving as a Youth IGF coordinator and as a member of the national executive secretariat. The School of Internet Governance (SIG) by PRIDA and the Internet Society’s (ISOC) E-learning course on IG through the Young Ambassadors Program (YAP), brought a new light of inspiration to Marjorie, as she intends to promote youth engagement for sustainable development, through her new local NGO; Emerge Africa and her start-up; Sabgena. Being mindful of the importance of IG to global economic sustainability, Marjorie joined the ISOC Cybersecurity Special Interest Group (SIG) for knowledge increase on security issues linked to digitalization and is an Instructional Facilitator for the Pan African Youth Ambassadors for Internet Governance.

Marjorie believes nothing is impossible when the right actions are taken towards the right direction.

Gege Marjorie is a trained Agronomist, with over 6 years of active volunteering experience on Environmental and Human rights advocacy with Greenpeace Africa in Cameroon. Her journey in the Internet Governance (IG) space began with her volunteering du... Show more

Gwendoline Karoui

Gwendoline Karoui

Gwendoline has a bachelor's in animal biology and ecology from Paris XI University (France). She graduated from a Master in animal and human behavior (Rennes I University, France).
She began to work in farm animal welfare during this Master. She worked on aggressiveness in young sows (French Institute of Agronomy Research, INRAE) and the mother-young relationship in dairy cows (Aarhus University, Denmark).
She is now a PhD. candidate in animal sciences at University Laval (Quebec city, Canada). She works on emotional welfare in piglets.

Gwendoline has a bachelor's in animal biology and ecology from Paris XI University (France). She graduated from a Master in animal and human behavior (Rennes I University, France). She began to work in farm animal welfare during this Master. She wo... Show more

Abdoulaye Diallo

Abdoulaye Diallo

Passionate about international development & community empowerment. Co-founder of FreeLocalMappers in Guinea, promoting OpenStreetMap & sustainable initiatives for societal growth. Volunteer Support Coordinator for the US Peace Corps Guinea supporting projects in health, agriculture & education.

Passionate about international development & community empowerment. Co-founder of FreeLocalMappers in Guinea, promoting OpenStreetMap & sustainable initiatives for societal growth. Volunteer Support Coordinator for the US Peace Corps Guinea supportin... Show more

Dale Spoonemore

Dale Spoonemore

Dale Spoonemore is the creator of From Seed to Spoon, an iOS & Android mobile app that helps people grow food and manage pests in their garden. He's a member of the Surgical Care Affiliates software development team and lives in Oklahoma City with his wife and 4 children.

Dale Spoonemore is the creator of From Seed to Spoon, an iOS & Android mobile app that helps people grow food and manage pests in their garden. He's a member of the Surgical Care Affiliates software development team and lives in Oklahoma City with hi... Show more

David Drever

David Drever

David is an Associate Director with Protiviti Canada and a 10-time Microsoft 365 & Security MVP with 25 years of experience working within information technology. For 20 years, David has assisted organizations to collaborate efficiently and effectively within SharePoint and Microsoft 365. David assists companies to understand their compliance needs and how to protect their data. He has helped organizations build data protection programs to safeguard their most sensitive information while ensuring the business can collaborate and work with their content. Over the past 25 years, David has built a great deal of experience in a wide variety of areas in IT, ranging from Desktop\Server support to development in C++ and .NET technologies. He has added value to many clients in several sectors, including utilities, government, banking, and agriculture.

David is a knowledgeable and sought-after international speaker within IT circles and is consulted regularly by companies formulating their digital workplace strategies and compliance platforms.

David blogs at http://daviddrever.com

David is an Associate Director with Protiviti Canada and a 10-time Microsoft 365 & Security MVP with 25 years of experience working within information technology. For 20 years, David has assisted organizations to collaborate efficiently and effective... Show more

Valerie Junk

Valerie Junk

Hi there. I am Valerie Junk.
I am passionate about creating insights from data and designing dashboards using Power BI. With my expertise in data analytics and visualization, I support companies in developing effective data-driven strategies that yield results and take the business to the next level.
Microsoft Data Platform MVP

Hi there. I am Valerie Junk. I am passionate about creating insights from data and designing dashboards using Power BI. With my expertise in data analytics and visualization, I support companies in developing effective data-driven strategies that y... Show more

Daniel Ward

Daniel Ward

Daniel is a Microsoft .NET MVP and software consultant at Lean TECHniques. He helps teams deliver high-quality software while adopting modern practices such as effective CI/CD, automated testing, AI usage, and product management. With experience spanning multiple industries, including finance, retail, and agriculture, he has served as a technical coach, agile coach, and tech lead, with a primary background as a software developer. Outside of work, he enjoys playing piano and guitar, swing dancing, and game development.

Daniel is a Microsoft .NET MVP and software consultant at Lean TECHniques. He helps teams deliver high-quality software while adopting modern practices such as effective CI/CD, automated testing, AI usage, and product management. With experience span... Show more

Joinal Ahmed

Joinal Ahmed

Joinal is an experienced Data Science professional with a interest on building solutions with quick prototypes, community engagements and influencing technology adoption. Brings strong technical understanding, experienced in managing cross functional teams of data scientists, data engineers, backend developers and SRE delivering end-to-end ML projects, recruiting and mentoring engineers across levels, streamlining ML & Data workflows for high performing teams, setting up best practices, and developing highly performant and reliable MLOps & Data platforms supporting end to end ml projects and analytics usecases.

Joinal is an experienced Data Science professional with a interest on building solutions with quick prototypes, community engagements and influencing technology adoption. Brings strong technical understanding, experienced in managing cross functional... Show more

Maik van der Gaag

Maik van der Gaag

Maik van der Gaag is the CTO of 3fifty, an experienced consultancy company with a strong focus on the Microsoft Cloud. He has over 15 years of experience providing architecture, development, training, and design expertise. During this, he has worked in various projects ranging from Cloud Transformations to DevOps implementations.

He loves to share knowledge, is a public speaker, writes blogs, and organizes events. Microsoft has recognized him as a Microsoft Azure MVP.

If you want to learn more about him or his expertise, check out his blog (https://msftplayground.com).

Maik van der Gaag is the CTO of 3fifty, an experienced consultancy company with a strong focus on the Microsoft Cloud. He has over 15 years of experience providing architecture, development, training, and design expertise. During this, he has worked ... Show more

Brian Odhiambo

Brian Odhiambo

Building intuitive products

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Shannon Mullins

Shannon Mullins

Shannon Mullins is the CEO and founder of a BC Consulting Group and a Microsoft MVP of Business Applications. She has over 20 years' experience across a wide variety of disciplines and products,
including accounting, information technology, professional services, insurance, healthcare, mortgage
lending, distribution, manufacturing, project management and deployment and implementation of CRM and ERP systems. Shannon has a deep understanding of the functional aspects of projects, process automation and system design, and the reporting needs and requirements for complex ERP systems. Shannon is a former controller and accountant and holds a master's degree in Accountancy.

She currently resides in Nashville, TN and is an experienced international speaker and teacher.

Shannon Mullins is the CEO and founder of a BC Consulting Group and a Microsoft MVP of Business Applications. She has over 20 years' experience across a wide variety of disciplines and products, including accounting, information technology, professi... Show more

Aamiruddin Syed

Aamiruddin Syed

Aamiruddin Syed is a Cybersecurity Professional with over a decade of experience specializing in DevSecOps, Shift-Left Security, Cloud Security, and Internal Penetration Testing. He is the OWASP Agentic AI Supply Chain Project Co-Lead and active contributor to the CSA Agentic AI initiative.
He authored Supply Chain Software Security – AI, IoT, Application Security (Apress/Springer) and has deep expertise in automating security in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and cloud hardening. He routinely conducts internal security assessments of critical systems and is known for bridging the gap between security and engineering teams to embed security directly into products.
As recognized advocate for secure development, he is a frequent speaker , delivered workshops and chair sessions at leading industry conferences including RSA Conference, DEFCON, and Black Hat.

Aamiruddin Syed is a Cybersecurity Professional with over a decade of experience specializing in DevSecOps, Shift-Left Security, Cloud Security, and Internal Penetration Testing. He is the OWASP Agentic AI Supply Chain Project Co-Lead and active cont... Show more

Collin Newberry

Collin Newberry

Collin Newberry, Director of DevSecOps at Yahara Software and author of The DevOps Problem, has been in the technology field for nearly two decades.

As a Sergeant operating under 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) in the U.S. Army Mr. Newberry’s experience encompassed the installation, maintenance, management and security of networking systems and satellite communications on a global scale.

Since joining the private sector Mr. Newberry’s experience has expanded to the management of international security and compliance initiatives for Fortune 500 companies, designing and securing DevSecOps pipelines and the modernization of traditional infrastructure to adopt cutting edge tactics and technologies leading to his current role where he oversees DevSecOps and IT strategy.

Collin Newberry, Director of DevSecOps at Yahara Software and author of The DevOps Problem, has been in the technology field for nearly two decades. As a Sergeant operating under 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) in the U.S. Army Mr. Newberry’... Show more

Mihai Tataran

Mihai Tataran

Mihai Tataran is the General Manager of Avaelgo, he is also a Microsoft MVP on AI and Microsoft Regional Director.

Mihai is a Software Engineer by education and trade, and started his company Avaelgo immediately after graduating in 2006. He started doing training and consulting on Microsoft technologies, becoming a Microsoft MVP in 2009 because of his involvement in the Microsoft Communities. During the last years Mihai has been working on building Avaelgo's Cloud and AI business, now being an award-winning Microsoft SD and Advanced Specializations Partner. His main focus is designing products and services on top of the Cloud and AI, helping the Sales processes and also working as a consultant on enterprise projects.

Mihai is regular speaker at international conferences: ESPC, DevReach in Bulgaria, Codecamp Macedonia, Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft Summit; he is also involved in organizing ITCamp Romania.

Mihai Tataran is the General Manager of Avaelgo, he is also a Microsoft MVP on AI and Microsoft Regional Director. Mihai is a Software Engineer by education and trade, and started his company Avaelgo immediately after graduating in 2006. He starte... Show more

Robin Finnell

Robin Finnell

Robin Finnell is a Functional Consultant who's passionate about the power of change management. She has over 17 years of experience in the Microsoft space, in both D365BC and D365FO and is a Prosci certified Advanced Change Practitioner/Trainer.

Robin Finnell is a Functional Consultant who's passionate about the power of change management. She has over 17 years of experience in the Microsoft space, in both D365BC and D365FO and is a Prosci certified Advanced Change Practitioner/Trainer. Show more

Segundo Morales Rubio

Segundo Morales Rubio

Ingeniero de sistemas y TI con más de 9 años de experiencia en implementación de solución tecnologicas, ERP's, modelado de procesos, análisis de datos, gestión de proyectos.

Con un máster en BPM For Transformation Digital, por la Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (UNIR).

Conferencista nacional e internacional en temas de Business Intelligence, Analítica, Process Mining, SAP Business One, RPA.

Reconocido por Microsofr como MVP Data Platform.

Ingeniero de sistemas y TI con más de 9 años de experiencia en implementación de solución tecnologicas, ERP's, modelado de procesos, análisis de datos, gestión de proyectos. Con un máster en BPM For Transformation Digital, por la Universidad Inter... Show more

Johnny Xmas

Johnny Xmas

Johnny Xmas, a prominent figure in the Information Security community since 2002, is a board member of both Chicago's famous BurbSec community, as well as its BSides312 conference. He's most notably recognized for his pivotal role in exposing the American TSA Master Key leaks (2014-2018), uncovering Venmo stalking vulnerabilities (2018), and being an overall nuisance.

Past experience includes being: Director of Cyber Training at security research firm GRIMM, defending against the automated abuse of web infrastructure with Kasada, and as the Lead Researcher on Uptake's Industrial Cybersecurity Platform. Before this, he spent many years in the field as a penetration tester, security engineer for a global Fortune 500 retail corporation, and Mainframe auditor and Systems Engineer for several IT asset recovery firms.

Today, Johnny continues to shape and elevate the Information Security landscape with his expertise and contributions as the President of the Burbsec Information Security Network and the Head of Offensive Security for a massive, global manufacturing and agriculture corporation.

Johnny Xmas, a prominent figure in the Information Security community since 2002, is a board member of both Chicago's famous BurbSec community, as well as its BSides312 conference. He's most notably recognized for his pivotal role in exposing the Ame... Show more

Andrew Wingate

Andrew Wingate

I am passionate about using technology to understand and solve real business problems. I love sharing knowledge, discussing ideas and finding out how others solve problems. My Dynamics journey started with NAV in 2015 as an end-user, I moved to the Microsoft partner channel in 2022 where I've focused on Business Central, AL Coding, Power Platform and more recently AI prompt engineering.

I am passionate about using technology to understand and solve real business problems. I love sharing knowledge, discussing ideas and finding out how others solve problems. My Dynamics journey started with NAV in 2015 as an end-user, I moved to the M... Show more

Grishma Jena

Grishma Jena

Grishma Jena is a Data Scientist with the Product Excellence Office at IBM in San Francisco. As the only Data Scientist in the org, she supports 100+ user researchers and designers and uses data to understand user struggles and opportunities to enhance product experiences. She has received the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (Major), one of the most prestigious company-wide awards, as recognition of her work.

She earned her Masters in Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests are in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. She has delivered 50+ talks and workshops across 10 countries including at PyCon US (largest Python conference in the world), QCon and LeadDev. She has also taught Python at the San Francisco Public Library and frequently guides school and university students.

Grishma is extremely passionate about encouraging, mentoring, and empowering people, especially women and students, in the world of technology. She has been recognized by the Python Software Foundation as a Fellow for her extraordinary efforts and impact upon Python, the community, and the broader Python ecosystem. She won the Silver Stevie Award for Changemaker of the Year (Gender) and was selected as one of Women Impact Tech honorees. She serves on the AI/ML Advisory Board for DevNetwork. She is also an ambassador for the Women in Data Science initiative, as well as a part of the leadership team for Society of Women Engineers - Golden Gate Section. In 2023, she was recognized by Women Who Code as one of 100 Technologists To Watch for her excellence, innovation, and leadership, and was also a finalist for Venture Beat's Women in AI mentorship award.

In her free time, she likes to write, cook, and explore new places.

Grishma Jena is a Data Scientist with the Product Excellence Office at IBM in San Francisco. As the only Data Scientist in the org, she supports 100+ user researchers and designers and uses data to understand user struggles and opportunities to enhan... Show more

Pavan Mani Deep Yaragani

Pavan Mani Deep Yaragani

I am Pavan Mani Deep with over 10 plus years of experience working on Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure.

I am Pavan Mani Deep with over 10 plus years of experience working on Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure. Show more

Jeremy Nathan

Jeremy Nathan

Jeremy Nathan is the CEO of JN Training, a Chattanooga-based technology training company. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Microsoft Certified Power BI Data Analyst. Jeremy has worked in various industries as a production worker in a factory to an office worker. He founded JN Training to improve people’s skills. He understands the easiest way to deliver training for everyone based on how they learn. He instructs workshops in all levels of technology including Microsoft applications.

Jeremy Nathan is the CEO of JN Training, a Chattanooga-based technology training company. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Microsoft Certified Power BI Data Analyst. Jeremy has worked in various industries as a production worker in a factory t... Show more

Clifford Agius

Clifford Agius

Clifford Agius, Freelance .NET Developer and also blogs from time to time, is currently a three-time Developer Technologies & IoT MVP, specialising in Xamarin/.NET MAUI and IoT. By day, an airline pilot flying Airbus A320 aircraft around Europe and when not doing that, Clifford freelances as a .NET developer. An active member of the .NET community, he is a regular speaker at conferences and meet-ups around the world.

Clifford graduated as an engineer from the Ford Technical Training Centre in 1995. After 11 years as an electrical/mechanical engineer working with Robotics and PLC Programming, he trained to become an Airline Pilot in 2001. Clifford became a Microsoft Valued Professional (MVP) in 2020.

Clifford Agius, Freelance .NET Developer and also blogs from time to time, is currently a three-time Developer Technologies & IoT MVP, specialising in Xamarin/.NET MAUI and IoT. By day, an airline pilot flying Airbus A320 aircraft around Europe and w... Show more

Jose Azevedo

Jose Azevedo

Professional Experience
More than 20 years of experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365
25 years of experience within different ERPs (SAP, Oracle Applications, Sage X3 and Dynamics 365)
University Invited Teacher
Career started in Portugal and moved to London 7 years ago
Different Roles in Consulting (Business Consultant, Functional Consultant, Project Manager, Programme Manager, Engagement Leader, Team Leader, Site Manager, Product Manager and Solution Architect)

Vertical Experience
Fashion, Food and Pharmaceutical (Retail and Manufacturing)
Real Estate

Some Personal
Food, Wine and Gin Lover
Runner (finished 4 marathons), Trekker (finished 10 ways of Camiño to Santiago), Padel and Bodyboarding

Professional Experience More than 20 years of experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 25 years of experience within different ERPs (SAP, Oracle Applications, Sage X3 and Dynamics 365) University Invited Teacher Career started in Portugal and move... Show more

Travis Smith

Travis Smith

Travis Smith is the Director of Engineering at Shift Interactive, a lead engineer on teams that build applications across healthcare, agriculture, insurance, and other industries. Over his 17+ year career, he's worked with organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to startups.

Travis is a passionate advocate for Test-Driven Development and Extreme Programming practices. He speaks regularly at Des Moines-area meetups and conferences, covering topics including DORA metrics implementation, branching strategies, delivering software extremely quickly, DevOps, Claude Code, and automated testing for AI features.

Based in the Des Moines metro, Travis is dedicated to helping engineers grow throughout the Midwest.

Travis Smith is the Director of Engineering at Shift Interactive, a lead engineer on teams that build applications across healthcare, agriculture, insurance, and other industries. Over his 17+ year career, he's worked with organizations ranging from ... Show more

Erik Pronk

Erik Pronk

Erik Pronk is a passionate software engineer that has been working in IT since 2001. During this period he has gained a lot of experience in a variety of technologies, roles, development environments and market segments. His main focus is on implementing enterprise solutions in an agile way. In his spare time, Erik loves to run and experiment with VR and domotics. Erik works at JDriven where he shares his passion and drive with other colleagues.

Erik Pronk is a passionate software engineer that has been working in IT since 2001. During this period he has gained a lot of experience in a variety of technologies, roles, development environments and market segments. His main focus is on implemen... Show more

Henri Werner

Henri Werner

B2B companies in industry and tech have been losing deals for the wrong reason. Henri Werner spent the last 3 years figuring out why.

Across 35+ projects with market leaders in manufacturing, automotive, food production and technology, Henri has helped them rebuild how they position and communicate their value — generating significant contract volumes for clients in the process.

His conclusion: most B2B companies in industry and tech don't have a pricing problem. They have a communication problem they've been calling a pricing problem for years.

B2B companies in industry and tech have been losing deals for the wrong reason. Henri Werner spent the last 3 years figuring out why. Across 35+ projects with market leaders in manufacturing, automotive, food production and technology, Henri has h... Show more

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