Hi there folks, Frank N. Foode here. I’ve been hanging out in Chicago for the Biotechnology Industry Organization International Convention. I remember last year: the farmers, scientists, and businesspeople I met, and the stuff I learned. And as soon as Karl joins me at McCormick Place tomorrow, I can get some more good pictures. I will be going to a lot of panel discussions, and Biofortified’s own Dr. Pam Ronald and Karl Haro von Mogel will each be participating in one of them. Cool!
I will also be available for photo ops, too, so to make it easy for you to find me, here’s where I will be on Wednesday the 5th:
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Now Serving 9 Billion video
Not too long ago, a few of us participated in the twitterpated webcast put on by Croplife, BIO and CAST called Now Serving 9 Billion: Global Dialogue on Meeting Food Needs for the Next Generation. We watched a live webcast, sent in questions, and followed the conversation in twitter with the hashtag #agcast. It was a pretty fun two hours because not only were people discussing the webcast real-time, the discussion was leaking into the webcast itself in the form of comments and questions being read from it. Very cool and 2.0-ish. Alex Rinkus from Croplife has provided a link to the entire webcast on Vimeo, feel free to watch the whole thing. I will make a few several comments after the fold.
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