Day 2 Program

Day 2: Thursday, October 9

Speakers from across Canada and around the world bring expertise to our forum.

Note: sessions and speakers are subject to change.

Download the detailed program overview for both days

Ballrooms are located on the main level.

Meeting rooms are located on the second floor.

Please refer to the floor map for room location.

Program Overview

MORNING SESSIONS

9:30am

Proper Use of Nematodes

Greg Bryant

Beneficial Insectary

10:00am

Quality Control of Beneficials

Suzanne Wainwright-Evans

Buglady Consulting

10:30am

Water management in CEA

Micha van Nieuwkerk

Van der Ende Group

9:30am

What Starting a Vertical Strawberry Farm Taught Me: 5 Lessons You Can’t ChatGPT (Yet)

Ophelia Sarakinis

Gush Farms

10:00am

Optimizing resource use efficiency for vertical farms

Ep Heuvelink

Wageningen University, Horticulture & Product Physiology

10:30am

Lighting and air-circulation strategies to manage tip-burn in indoor farm lettuce

Chieri Kubota

The Ohio State University

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9:30am

Heat capture & reuse with heat pump

Xiuming Hao/Quade Digweed

Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada

9:55am

Turning Waste Heat into a Food Security Solution for Canada: Empowering CEA with Sorption-Based Thermal Technology

Majid Bahrami

Simon Fraser University

10:15am

Colocation of Greenhouses with Data Centers, Organic Waste Management, Agri-Industrial Parks

Thomas Bourgeois

Pace University

10:35am

Heat, Hope & Heartaches "The real truth of going green, and why we're still committed to it!"

Greg Devries

Truly Green

9:30 - 10:15am

Featured Speaker: Joe Miller

Joe Miller from Zengenti will give a detailed demonstration of Ontario’s Crop Protection Hub. He will walk you through the basics as well as new features we’ve just released.

10:15 - 11:30am

Drop-in opportunity

Join us for exciting hands-on learning at our interactive demonstration tables!

Check out this lineup of incredible demonstrations happening:

1. Vineland Research & Innovation Centre - "Zoom in and Decide: Microscope Test-Drive"

2. Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) - "Green Bugs in Vegetable Greenhouses – Which Do You Have?"

3. Anatis – "Mites of Greenhouses: Identification, Biology and Control"

4. GrowLiv – "How to Spot a Healthy Predatory Mite Sachet"

5. Biobee - "Blow ‘Em Out… Keep ‘Em Alive: Best Practices for Biocontrol Application"

6. Zengenti – "Click-Along Demonstration of Ontario’s Crop Protection Hub and Crop IPM"

7. Susanne "The Buglady” Wainwright-Evans - “Easy Quality Control of Biologicals for Growers"

8- Fytobooster – "How to Test Different Growing Media for Microgreen and Hydroponic Production"

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AFTERNOON SESSIONS

2:00pm

Digital Electricity for Greenhouse Tech

Mike Del Ciancio

DC Farms

2:30pm

Fusarium wilt in peppers: early detection, co-infections, & interventions

Michael Lynch

Metagenom Bio Life Science Inc.

Patricia Quadros

Earth Microbial Canada

3:00pm

Making Robotics Work For The Greenhouse Grower

Bill VandenOever

BOLD Robotic Solutions Inc.

Rodney Bierhuizen

Sunrise Greenhouses

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This session will feature breeders providing insights into new varieties for greenhouse vegetables & floriculture.

2:00pm

Presentations on new ornamentals

ThinkPlants

Proven Winners

Ball (Pan American Seed/Ball FloraPlant/Selecta One)

Danziger

Dummen Orange

Syngenta Flowers

Presentations on new greenhouse vegetables

Syngenta (vegetables)

BASF

Enza

Rijk Zwaan

2:00pm

Spider mite complex in agriculture: Emerging species and pesticide resistance status in southeastern Ontario

Mikaelison da Silva Lima

Western University

2:15pm

Past, present & future of ToBRFV in Canada

Jonathan Griffiths

Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada

2:30pm

Big Bios against Thrips parvispinus?

Taro Saito

Vineland Research & Innovation Centre

2:45pm

Using silicon to reduce chilling injury symptoms in postharvest sweet basil

Vivian Ly

University of Guelph

3:00pm

Zinc in GH stormwater - surprises and potential solutions

Jeanine West

Flowers Canada Growers Inc.

3:15pm

Canadian consumers' preferences for lettuce: Is local all that matters?

Tongzhe Li

University of Guelph

3:30pm

Wetland plants as peat alternatives

Poonam Singh

Assiniboine College

2:00pm

Benchmarking strawberry productivity – Impact of cultivar, transplant quality, and crop/environmental management

Cheiri Kubota

The Ohio State University

2:25pm

Strawberry everbearer excels in hoistable gutter system

Stef Laurijssen

Hoogstraten Research Centre

2:50pm

Neopestalotiopsis Disease in Strawberries: Identification, Impact, and Management Strategies

Melanie Ivey

The Ohio State University

3:15pm

Big Picture Strawberry Growing – A Case for Success

Josh Tamminga

TamBerry Farms

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