Tuesday at the Sustainable Produce Summit

Keynote Speaker: Emilio Tenuta (Ecolab)

Tenuta will be giving a talk titled Planting the seeds: How smart water and climate practices foster resilience and growth.

Emilio Tenuta’s 36-year tenure at Ecolab includes 25 years of technical and marketing management experience in various industries, including food and beverage, pharmaceutical, lodging, healthcare, and automotive. In the past 11 years, Tenuta has led Ecolab’s strategic sustainability journey focused on corporate responsibility, internal environmental stewardship and helping customers operate more sustainably.

Research Panel: Growers Seizing the Sustainability Moment:

Scott Caine, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Aimpoint Research;

Alison Edwards, director and facilitator at the Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops;

Amy Duda Kinder, vice president of food safety and sustainability at Duda Farm Fresh Foods;

Louis DeMaso, sustainability and operations analyst at Lipman Family Farms; and

Jessica Vieira, director of sustainability at Apeel Sciences.

Industry Leaders Panel: The Future of Sustainable Agribusiness

Shyam Kamath, dean at California State University-Monterey Bay;

Rod Braga, president and CEO of Braga Ranch;

Bruce Taylor, director of organics at Taylor Farms;

David Rosenberg, co-founder and CEO of AeroFarms; and

Kevin Murphy, former CEO of Driscoll's Inc.  

Case Study: Pursuing and Prioritizing Sustainability

Speakers: John Chamberlain and Edgar Gutierrez (Limoneira)

Chamberlain, vice president of marketing at Limoneira Co., a 126-year old California-based global agribusiness and real estate development company, has more than 30 years of marketing, brand development and communications experience with global multinationals. He is the former head of ABB Asea Brown Boveri’s external communications department.

Edgar Gutierrez is vice president of agricultural operations at Limoneira. Previously, he was research and development director for Wonderful Citrus' Mexican division and oversaw 14,000 acres of land under production. He has extensive experience in the produce supply chain, and citrus experience in Mexico and Central America.