2025 Speakers

Erica Campbell

Adam Kotin

John-Lloyd Butler

Nick Betts

Franco Costantini

Leah Wolfe

LaRhea Pepper

Brandon Welsh

Mary Purdy

Sarah Murphy

Peter Byck

Graham Tabor

Ryan Smith

Sarah Day Levesque

Jonathan Sullivan

Leigh Cooper

Robert Reed

Brad Keith

Anastasia Volkova

Anastasia Volkova, PhD, is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and engineer committed to developing technology that empowers the agriculture industry to help solve the global climate crisis. She is CEO and Co-Founder of Regrow Ag, an award-winning SaaS provider that enables organizations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across their agricultural supply chains and build climate change resilience by incentivizing the adoption of regenerative farming practices.

Since Regrow’s launch in early 2021, Dr. Volkova and her team have raised $55M in Series A and B funding, and have nurtured Regrow into a global company trusted by some of the world’s leading CPGs, food companies, and ecosystem market developers, including General Mills, Cargill, Kellogg’s, PepsiCo, and South Pole. Regrow delivers environmental data that makes it possible for organizations to analyze scope 3 sourcing regions, report emissions, and plan sustainability investments, and supports the execution of producer incentive programs that reduce on-field emissions. It pioneered the development of digital MRV (Measurement, Reporting, and Verification) software for agriculture, bringing transparency and credibility to agriculture-based carbon reductions and removals. Regrow’s best-in-class MRV was honored as a Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Idea.                                          

A 2022 Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst and Forbes Technology Council member, Dr. Volkova is a respected thought leader and innovator in regenerative agriculture and sustainable food sourcing. She has been recognized as one of The Australian’s Top 100 Innovators, MIT’s “35 Under 35” Innovators (2020), and BBC’s “Top 100 Women” (2020).

Michelle Stearn

Alison Ward

Alison Ward has over 30 years of international experience in sustainability and corporate affairs. Alison is the CEO of CottonConnect, where she leads a team of over 80 employees, impacting the lives of over 560,000 cotton farmers in India, China, Pakistan and Bangladesh.  Under Alison’s leadership the organization: drives supply chain transparency connecting sustainable fibres from farm to store; focuses on the rights and skills of women in supply chains through pioneering gender programmes; and continues to develop innovations at a farm level. She leads cotton strategies and programmes for global brands and retailers.

Previously Alison worked with Mondelez International and Kraft Foods and was the Global Head of Corporate Responsibility in Cadbury.

With a mission to drive scalable change, Alison serves as a Member of the Sustainable Cotton Steering Committee for Textile Exchange.  She also sat on the Sustainability Advisory Committee for the London Olympic Games and has been a Coach and Mentor to commercial teams at WWF and the Ethical Trade Initiative.

Paul Cornette

Cali Noland

Callie Eideberg

Jennifer Simpson