Agriculture Technologies Meet Investors at Agriculture 2.0 in Toronto

Online, October 25, 2011 (Newswire.com) - New York, New York - On November 7-9, 2011, hundreds of investors, entrepreneurs, and industry executives will convene at the Renaissance Downtown Toronto in the heart of the city's financial district for the Agriculture 2.0 Global Investments Conference and Water 2.0 Investment Summit.

One of the goals of this conference-the second annual Ag 2.0 in Canada-is to connect investors with technology-based agriculture and water companies seeking investment capital. This year the expanded event will also explore the investment themes of global farmland, agribusiness and agri-food companies.
Presenting companies include:

• PlantForm Corporation (Toronto, Ontario)
• Vive Nano (Toronto, Ontario)
• Big Box Farms (New York, New York)
• Todd Ecological Design (Woods Hole, Massachusetts)
• Local Ocean (New York, New York)
• Vestaron Corporation (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
• Truetrac (Salinas, California)
• Best Tech Brands (Irving, Texas)
• SymBioSys (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• WiseConn (Viña Del Mar, Chile)
• Ferthaul (Dexter, Michigan)
The full list of presenting companies will be announced next week.

Fred Luckey, Executive Vice President of Bunge North America, is slated to address the conference along with Garth Hodges, Global Head of M&A for Bayer CropScience, Jigar Shah, CEO of The Carbon War Room, and Sheeraz Haji, CEO of Cleantech Group.

"This sector provides a very real and timely opportunity for entrepreneurs," says Dave Smardon, President of Bioenterprise Corporation. "Industry and governments alike are realizing both the current and potential societal benefits and game changing impact that agricultural advancements are having, and can have, on the sector globally. There is plenty of room for more innovators, and the timing is now."

Participants from CPPIB, TIAA-CREF, Eastern Illinois University Foundation, Greenrock Asset Management, Investeco, Unilever Ventures, Syngenta Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, NGP Global Adaptation Partners, Deutsche Asset Management, Wake Forest University Endowment, Cultivian Ventures, Global Thematic Partners, Bioenterprise Corporation, Avrio Ventures, Sprott Resources, XPV Capital, Emerald Technology Ventures, Ecomundi Ventures, SAIL Ventures, and many more will come together to learn the nuances of investing in the rapidly-changing, multi-trillion dollar market of sustainable technology and responsible real assets. Registration information is available at www.ag20global.com.