The 2026 Summit Speakers

Allan is Regulatory Affairs Manager - LATAM, Lallemand

Amy is Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, Lallemand Plant Care

Anne is the Associate Dean, Agricultural Services, UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Director, Sustainable Food Group, IPM Institute

Ashish is Managing Partner, & Chief Strategy Officer, DunhamTrimmer

Clarice is President and CEO of the Almond Board of California

Dennis is the Mayor of Salinas

Don is the President of the California State Board of Food and Agriculture and is the Vice President and General Manager of Terranova Ranch

Ed is VP of Government Affairs, The Fertilizer Association

Emanuele is a Brazilian Regulatory Framework Specialist, Vigna Brasil

Gabriel (Gabe) is the Chief Innovation Officer, University of California, Agriculture & Natural Resources

Gustavo is Head of International Business Development at IdeeLab.

Hillary is currently the Research and Technical Director, Naturipe Berry Growers,

CDFA Secretary Karen Ross

Jennifer is the Executive Director of the California Leafy Greens Research Board.

Julia is the Director of Institutional Relations at ANPII BIO

Keith is Senior Vice-President, Sustainability and Regulatory Strategy, Bioceres Crop Solutions

Jim is the Global Business Leader for Biologicals and Seed Applied Technologies, Corteva Agriscience

Jose is a Brazilian Sector Organizer and Ag Biologicals Pioneer

Kelly is Training Projects Manager for Lallemand Plant Care

Leia Bailey is the Chief Deputy Director at the Department of Pesticide Regulation.

Louise is a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Agriculture and Food

Maria is an ag biologicals deep science specialist working at Esalq/UAP in Brazil

Megan is the CEO of Grasslanz Technology Limited

Mike is Chief of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Emerging Technologies Branch.

Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Global Research, Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia

Nick Young is the Environmental Program Manager for the California Department of Food & Agriculture's Fertilizing Materials Inspection Program.

Pam is Co-founder & Executive Chair, Invasive Species Foundation and Invasive Species Corporation

Dr. Patrick Brown is a Professor of Plant Nutrition at the University of California, Davis, USA.

Peter is the Salinas Biological Summit convenor

Pip is Executive Director of CSU AgriPark at Charles Stults University. Pip is this year's Summit MC.

Richard is the Chief Scientific Officer, Plant & Food Research (NZ).

Founder & CEO of IdeeLab

Sherry is Vice President, Total Wellness – NielsenIQ, the global leader in consumer intelligence

Tim is the Co-Founder of AgList.com, the leading independent discovery platform for agricultural biologicals.

Todd is the North American Regional Manager for Nestle’s Sustainable Agricultural Development group.