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7:00am PDT

Partnerships & Collaboration for Global Postharvest Loss Prevention Waterloo Room Are We on Track to Feed the World by 2050? Land, Biofuels and Food Systems Sioux City Room Bridging Discovery, Development and Delivery in Our Global Food System Council Bluffs and Davenport RoomsJonathan Wadsworth No Ordinary Matter: A prelude to a Montpellier Panel Report on Enhancing Africa’s Soils Cedar Rapids RoomSir Gordon Conway • Dr. Ruth Oniang’o The Soil Renaissance: Building Knowledge to Sustain Earth’s Most Valuable Asset Dubuque Room

8:00am PDT

Soil Health & The Fertilizer Gap Iowa BallroomDr. Pedro Sanchez • Dr. Xinping Chen • Esin Mete • Kari Niedfeldt-Thomas • Dr. Ruth Oniang’o • Dr. Amit Roy

9:00am PDT

Special Address Iowa BallroomDr. Pamela Anderson

9:30am PDT

Is This The Model to Uplift the African Smallholder? Iowa BallroomDr. Emma Naluyima Mugerwa

10:00am PDT

Keynote Address Iowa BallroomH. E. Ernest Bai Koroma

10:30am PDT

Focus on Africa: Policy and Partnerships Iowa BallroomDr. Lindiwe Majele Sibanda • H. E. Florence Chenoweth • Birtukan Dagnachew • H. E. Gerardine Mukeshimana • Paul Schickler • H. E. Joseph Sam Sesay

11:30am PDT

40 Chances Fellows Award Winners - Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone Iowa BallroomHoward W. Buffett • Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn

12:00pm PDT

Luncheon Address: The View from the AGRA Forum Des Moines RoomStrive Masiyiwa

2:00pm PDT

Water for Agriculture: Trendlines and Gaps Iowa BallroomMargaret Catley-Carlson • Paul Bakus • Dan Bena • Dr. Dilip Kulkarni

2:55pm PDT

The Secretary’s Roundtable Iowa BallroomHon. Tom Vilsack • H. E. Enrique Martinez y Martinez

3:30pm PDT

Applying Innovation and Technology to End Hunger Davenport Room Financing for Agricultural Entrepreneurs Waterloo Room One Agriculture-One Science: A Global Education Consortium Cedar Rapids Room Responding to Africa's Greatest Challenges: Promoting Science and Technology Innovations, Human Resource Capacity and Policy Advocacy Dubuque Room Beyond the Seed: Leveraging Our Collective Best to Build a Zero Hunger World Council Bluffs Room

3:55pm PDT

Precision Agriculture and Big Data: The Next Frontier Iowa BallroomDr. David Muth • Dr. Claudia Garcia • Dr. David Gebhardt • John May • Kerry J. Preete

7:00pm PDT

Laureate Award Ceremony Iowa State Capitol