Videos

Davide Dantonio on gBETA agbioscience, emerging startup innovation trends + connecting university research to startup development

Alloy Partners’ Ben Lewis on the One Health Studio, Indiana’s unique advantage + startups + corporations winning together

CICP’s Ting Gootee on the launch of IN AI, putting tech to work for your organization + building Indiana into a more AI-ready economy

AgrIInstitute’s Beth Archer on building a leadership ecosystem, the power of different industry voices in one room + delivering consistency in an industry of constant change.

Purdue’s Dr. Lavanya Reddivari on her groundbreaking food is health research, partnerships moving discovery forward + Indiana’s opportunity to accelerate its impact

The development and creation of startups and new companies is what allows an innovation ecosystem to thrive. Alloy Partners launched to co-create advantaged startups and venture studios in partnerships corporations and entrepreneurs, melding a future of collaboration between the two. This week, we are joined by One Health Studio Director Ben Lewis to talk market challenges, the studio model and what he sees ahead for the One Health opportunity. Highlights include:

The unique work Ben leads to enable company creation at Alloy Partners

Ben’s personal story that led him to this point – tracing back to his time as an Olympic athlete

Gaps identified in the market that led to the studio’s creation

Alloy’s model and its differentiation from traditional corporate innovation programs

How the process works: spinning a new coming with the Alloy One Health Studio

Biggest challenges facing company creation in the One Health space

Indiana as a breeding ground for quality partnerships and being structured to succeed when it comes to One Health innovation

How Ben sees public-private partnerships evolving and the next steps in that process

Balancing scientific depth with speed and urgency of startup life when working to create new companies

How Ben’s past experience as an entrepreneur has prepared him well for this role

One Health trends that are emerging that have Ben most excited for the next five to ten years

What Alloy Partners is working on right now that has Ben most excited

Davide Dantonio on gBETA agbioscience, emerging startup innovation trends + connecting university research to startup development

American Autonomy’s Mariah Scott on the US drone market, better data access for improved tech adoption + farmers defining the future of innovation

CICP’s Ting Gootee on the launch of IN AI, putting tech to work for your organization + building Indiana into a more AI-ready economy

AgrIInstitute’s Beth Archer on building a leadership ecosystem, the power of different industry voices in one room + delivering consistency in an industry of constant change.

Purdue’s Dr. Lavanya Reddivari on her groundbreaking food is health research, partnerships moving discovery forward + Indiana’s opportunity to accelerate its impact

Food is health is a growing conversation across the agbioscience landscape and research is moving the conceptual to tangible solutions. Dr. Lavanya Reddivari from Purdue University joins this week to talk groundbreaking food science research, advancing discovery through the innovation pipeline and how her family roots are making something old new again.

Highlights include:

A high level overview of her research at Purdue and its impact on food is health

How Lavanya views food is health from a modern, scientific research perspective

Her team’s recent findings of a compound in blueberries that aids people with digestive diseases; the discovery process and how it informed follow up

Nutrition as a support function for chronic illnesses that are critically impacting the U.S. population and her team’s “aha” moment where the gut microbiome was the foundation to overall health

A grant Lavanya’s team received through the Heartland Children’s Nutrition Collaborative and what it has enabled their research to do

How the right partnerships have enabled them to move through different stages of their exploration

Lavanya’s family roots and how this story is personal for her

Applying her team’s findings and putting them into practice

How Lavanya wants to see this research make an impact on the world and the health of its people

What she believes are our biggest opportunities to advance Food is Health, given our strengths in Indiana

What’s ahead with her laboratory team that has her most excited

Dave Fischer on soil health, regenerative ag + Fischer Farms leveraging AI + automation for direct-to-consumer meat delivery

Davide Dantonio on gBETA agbioscience, emerging startup innovation trends + connecting university research to startup development