Cultivate Live

Cultivate Live! the industry’s show-and-tell for inventions, news, and technologies that everyone needs to know about. The Cultivate Live! stage is a fast-pitch stage for exhibitors to demonstrate, share, and show what’s awesome about their products and innovations. The Cultivate Live stage is located on the Trade Show floor.

*Schedule as of June 11, 2021

Sunday, July 11

Time Company Presenter Title

10:00 – 10:30 AM Lallemand Plant Care Matthew Krause, PhD, LALSTOP K61 WP and LALSTOP G46 WG: Technical Lead, North America Next-generation Soilborne and Foliar Disease Management from Established Biofungicide Technologies

10:45 – 11:15 AM Syngenta Crop Nancy Rechcigl, Field Technical Protecting Poinsettias Protection Manager at Syngenta

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM The HC Companies Chris Soltis, Director of Sales & Come See What’s New at The HC Companies! Mark Wilkinson, Director of Retail Sales

1:30 PM – 2:00 PM OHP

2:15 – 2:45 PM BioBest Carlos E. Bográn, PhD, Sr. Technical Manager Seido, A Novel Fungicide for Powdery Mildew Control in Ornamentals

Veronica Cervantes, Product Updates on the Label Expansion of Manager, Microbials (North Asperello T34®, Now Available for use in Hemp, America) and Elwood Roberts Outdoor Ornamentals, Vegetable, & Fruit Crops

3:00 – 3:30 PM Jacto

3:45 – 4:15 PM BioSafe Dan Shumaker, Product & DJB Battery-Powered Backpack Sprayer Technical Services Manager and Time-Interval Doser All-in-One

Gretchen Pettis, PhD, Principal Entomologist Pollinators and Retailer Commitments: Implementing Biorationals and Biologicals to Meet New Requirements

4:30 – 5:00 PM Jiffy

Monday, July 12

John Ward, Senior Manager Optimizing Your Labor By of Innovation Controlling Your Inputs

Time Company Presenter Title

9:30 – 10:00 AM SQM Doug Snyder CPAg National Marketing Agronomist Water-Soluble Nutritional Solutions

10:15 – 10:45 AM Michigan Peat Tom Roth, Director of Sales & If Everybody’s Gonna Eat; Somebody’s Marketing Gotta Sell Something

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Bailey Nursery Alec Charais, Chief Marketing & New Shrubs for Landscape & Product Development Officer Home Gardens

1:30 PM – 2:00 PM Yunustech Inc Erdem Bilaloglu, M, Sc. P. Eng. Introduction of Electrical Stimulation to Plant Grow

2:15 PM – 2:45 PM BioBest

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM BioBee Elwood Roberts and Amanda Brown

Steven Arthurs Aphid Control Using Chrysoperla Carnea in Hemp and Pepper

Advances in Biocontrols in Ornamentals

3:45 PM – 4:15 PM Nufarm Rick Fletcher, Technical Services Mite Management Rotations Manager, Turf and Ornamentals

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM Koidra Inc Kenneth Tran, Founder & CEO Transform your greenhouse with AI and IoT: from Digital Horticulture & Autonomous Growing