The Aglanta Conference is a gathering to showcase urban and controlled environment agriculture (CEA) innovation in the City of Atlanta. The City of Atlanta has partnered with Blue Planet Consulting to bring together restaurateurs, grocers, architects, entrepreneurs, technologists, business owners, and urban farmers for this premium networking and knowledge sharing opportunity, according to a press release.
The Aglanta Conference will feature an environment for participants to engage with a local, national, and international audience. Through workshops, lectures, and networking sessions, the conference will cover issues across the spectrum of urban agriculture business models and technologies, with a particular focus on the emerging field of vertical/indoor farming. It will spotlight local operations food as means of ecological restoration, social cohesion, cultural preservation, economic development and biopharmaceutical development.
The event takes place on Feb. 19 at the Georgia Freight Depot in Alanta and, according to a press release, is the South’s first CEA focused conference. For more information, contact Mario Cambardella at Mcambardella@atlantaga.gov or Jeffrey Landau Jeffrey@blueplanet.consulting
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