SMART AGRI-FOOD SUPERCLUSTER. Growing Canada Together

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1 SMART AGRI-FOOD SUPERCLUSTER Growing Canada Together

2 Smart Agri-Food Supercluster What is the Smart Agri-Food Supercluster (SASC)? How will SASC work? What are the benefits to Canadians?

3 The Challenge - Feeding The World Billion People 2050 Projected 9.6 Billion People Canada is one of only five countries that are net exporters of food. We need to produce 70% more food, sustainably. 3

4 What is a Supercluster? A supercluster is an innovation hotbed that is home to a strong industrial cluster, or clusters, linked through their shared reliance on specialized inputs, including technologies, talent and infrastructure.

5 Smart Agri-Food Supercluster A pan-canadian consortium of large and small companies, cross-sectoral industry organizations, post-secondary institutions, and government agencies committed to a systems-based farm-tofork approach to energizing innovation in Agri- Food. The potential to deliver over $30B in economic benefits, 300,000 new jobs over 40 MtCO2e of GHG reduction

6 How SASC is different Not just a group of attractive projects in a single cluster, SASC is a systems-based farm-to-fork approach to energizing innovation across the Agri-Food sector systems-based working collaboratively to build bridges across the value chain, breaking out of silos, freeing stranded innovation farm to fork Seed breeding, livestock genetics, agrochemical, fertilizer, machinery, farmer, agronomist, rancher, veterinarian, livestock feed rations, satellite imagery, software, data management and storage, logistics, telecommunications, buyers, food processors, food retailers, consumers.

7 SASC breadth farm to fork NFP not-for-profit MNE multi-national enterprises NGO non-government organizations

8 SASC Strategy Break down silos through collaboration Leverage diverse expertise and experience to drive Agri-food innovation across the value chain Includes expertise outside the traditional agri-food sector Focus investment on known implementation barriers Build structure to coordinate efforts from multi-perspectives Capitalize on new bio-economy opportunities GHG offsets, water and habitat ecological goods and services Engage research and educational institutions Embed learning with next generation of highly educated workforce Leading discussions to formalize Academic Working Group to develop tech and prepare future workforce

9 Innovation Communities The Innovation Communities Model is a bold transformative change to agricultural innovation Move away from silos and build links throughout the Ag value chain and with other sectors to capitalize on our R&D strengths and establish Canada as an agriculture superpower.

10 Innovation Communities

11 Breaking down known barriers to innovation

12 Ag Business Government Regions Academia NGO s Researchers Primary Producers Business Accelerate innovation across silos

13 SASC is ready Interim CEO and transition board of directors are in place Partners have committed resources Innovation Community engagement sessions January 11 th BioEconomy-Ottawa January 12 th Sustainable Livestock-Calgary January 16 th Digital Farm/Connectivity-Ottawa ISED decision expected in Q Doug Beever, Nutrien Helle Bank Jorgensen, Global Compact Canada Andrea Brocklebank, BCRC /CCA Stuart Cullum, Olds College Mary Moran, Calgary Economic Development Rod Snyder, Field to Market Jan Harder, Councillor, City of Ottawa Rob Saik, Agri-Trend/Trimble Bryan Walton, Alberta Cattle Feeders Association Bill Whitelaw, WIN & Glacier Farm Media Joy Romero, Clean Resource Innovation Network Laura Kilcrease, Alberta Innovates

14 Government s role Canada is in a global innovation race. The nation is competing with countries around the world for the most talented people, the newest technologies, and the fastest-growing companies. $250M funding request to ISED as part of Innovation Superclusters Initiative $130M in projects so far SASC has left financing room to accommodate other projects

15 Pan Canadian Benefits

16 Benefits Value creation areas Sustainably intensify Canadian production Grow more on the same land New and expanded high value markets Improve value of each unit of production Key Barton report objective Bio economy Water, GHG and habitat offsets Leveraged funding and reduced duplication Focused system funding on innovation integration 4 innovation communities to drive opportunities Roads and bridges Building collaboration systems enabling SMEs and unblocking trapped innovation

17 Global sustainability leadership Membership includes world s largest sustainability consortiums Full value chain representation enables Scaling of economic and environmental Impacts SME Participation BioEconomy jobs and economic growth Reduced technology stranding Canadian Leadership in climate change, water management, diversity and inclusion Access to existing and new higher value markets.

18 Diversity and inclusion Gender representative board Diversity working group reporting to board Initial projects Young women in agri-business & ag innovation Greenhouse and garden business in indigenous communities

19 Execution Pre-determine half of funding requests Opportunity for communities to identify highest value projects Funding opportunity draws leaders to Canada Open to including other high value supercluster projects Clean Resource Innovation Network on the transition board Initial nodes proposed for AB, SK, ON, PEI and QC Leverage diversity Diversity & inclusion committee will identify leveraging opportunities Scale impacts by linking researchers and SMEs with multinational partners Minimize stranded innovation Partnerships designed to include other Innovation Superclusters

20 Governance and diversity

21 Sample SASC project Livestock Genomics /Sustainable Rangeland Management Canada Beef Breeds Council Cargill Acceligen Animal Inframetrics 5 universities BIXSco Growsafe Technologies Delta Genomics KWS Cereals 2 colleges Diverse approaches to ; Enhance Carbon Sequestration in rangeland Cow feed efficiency and methane production Improve nutrition and sustainability Enhance cattle genetics

22 Sample SASC project Olds College Smart Farm Project Harmonizes SASC with OC on a shovel-ready project MDA-hyperspectral imaging Spectroscopy-aerial soil evaluation Zedi-sensor sourced data from business processes WIN-turnkey weather based monitoring and modelling solutions for agribusiness Intelliconn-next-generation wireless communications and remote monitoring & control Telus-rural narrow band connectivity IBM-data analytics & Watson machine learning Agri-Trend/Decisive Farming-farm management s/w & agronomic coaching

23 Summary SASC is a systems-based field-to-fork approach to energizing innovation in Agri-Food. With the potential to deliver over $30B in direct, indirect, and induced economic benefits, 300,000 new jobs over 40 MtCO2e of GHG reduction.

24 SMART AGRI-FOOD SUPERCLUSTER Contact Info: Rob Davies Interim CEO