Indoor Ag-Con 2022
![Say hi to Jeff Conley & Gary Braze with Conley’s. Last year the company celebrated it’s 75th anniversary, making it one of the dinosaurs in the industry.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0112.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Jason Barrett, Paul Cooper & Eric Waterman with Quick Plug. Thanks to the growing market and a growing market share, they’re expanding rapidly.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0163.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![David Bovell & Derek McLaughlin with Bellpark Horticulture are accompanied by their partners from DryGair: Ziv Shaked & Elad Spiegel.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0152.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![The team with Surna was present at the show to show their cultivation technologies, both in vegetables, vertical farms and cannabis enterprises.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0161.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Avner Shohet with TAPKIT, Linda Bracha with Green-Tek and Dave Daily with BFG Supply. Only recently Green-Tek & BFG Supply announced to start market the TAPKIT hydroponic solutions: https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9402883/we-will-bring-hydroponically-grown-produce-to-every-corner-in-the-usa/](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0165.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Will Lammers, Ridder & Bas Duijvestijn, Van Der Hoeven, go a long way back and now are both located on the North American continent.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0103.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Justin Leavitt joined the IPM panel debate in the morning and manned the booth together with Davey Rock in the afternoon.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0105.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Andrew Bonds, Marc Oosterhuis & Alexander Alesen with Babylon Micro-Farms brought their growing solution to the show, also showing it to the participants of the National Grocers Association.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0114.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Shane Maretti with BFG Supply, Avner Shohet with Tapkit, Linda Bracha with Green-Tek and Joe Farinicci & Yvonne Conray with BFG.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0116.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Kyle Barnett, Daphne Preuss & Eugene Losev with Carbonbook. Read more about their carbon calculation tool here: https://www.hortidaily.com/article/9398196/carbon-calculation-tool-for-indoor-agriculture/](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0143.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Nona Yehia, co-founder & CEO of Vertical Harvest, consultant Nick Greens, Stephen Ritz (Green Bronx Machine) and Sidsel Robards (NY Sun Works) discussed how to cultivate the future workforce of farmers and farm workers.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0175.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Oliver Muenz-Winkler and Michael Brooks with Clayco, offering planning, engineering, construction, design & build support in CEA.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0200.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![James Nichols & Jeffrey Kohler with NASA were present to share more on the insights they’ve gained through the years of testing and trialing growing crops in space stations. Growing out of space, growing indoors, what’s the difference anyhow?](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0206.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Austin Sneller & Jeffery D Martens with H2O Engineering. The name might reveal it: they offer solutions for water treatment.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0207.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Peter Rietveld, Steve Biles and the new addition to the team, Renko Schuil. Such an interesting day to start a new job!](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0194.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![HpNow’s Cord Nunez had some very busy days at the show as their on-site peroxide generation attracted many curious visitors.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0226.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Eric Douw, Thomas van Dusseldorp and Thomas Wennekers are ready to further expand KUBO in North America.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0233.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Hi Glenn! Glenn Behrman promised to drop by the HortiDaily / VerticalFarmDaily office when he’s in Europe again and we are to stick to this promise!](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0242.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Modular, scalable & flexible. That’s the slogan of IGS. They also brought software that shows how your indoor farm will look in your building – true to size.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0263.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Brian Sullivan with Indoor Ag-Con opened the show and was happy to welcome again at the Las Vegas event. Due to the pandemic, the show had to move to Florida last year.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0038.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Steve Platt with BrightFarms was the keynote speaker of day one. He shared how the company partnered with Cox Enterprise to enable rapid upscaling.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0044.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Steven Bradley with Cox Enterprise revealed plans to invest a LOT of money in the CEA industry, as they are sure of the possibilities the industry has to offer.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0047.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Adam Wright with Florida growing company The Villages Grown, George Grant with Griffin Greenhouse Supplies, Erika Verrier with iUNU and Justin Leavitt with Biobee shared their insights on best practices in IPM.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0049.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Daphne Preuss, CEO with CarbonBook. James Eaves with VoltServer, Luis Ampudia with INNIO Jenbacher and Paal Elfstrum with Wheatfiled Gardens discussed energy optimization in indoor agriculture.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0053.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![How about IoT and sensors in your greenhouse? Steve Brown with USDA-NIFA/NSF AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (AIFS) hosted a debate about the possibilities and the impossibilities of these techniques with Kayla Waldorff (WayBeyond), Adam Greenberg (iUNU) and Bertram Samuel (One Point One).](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0056.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Jim Pantaleo hosted a talk with Todd Downing, Best Human Capital & Advisory Group, Nadia Sabeh, Dr Greenhouse and Nona Yehia with Vertical Harvest on recruitment, work force & HR.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0064.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Let’s talk LEDs! Haley Rylander with the GLASE consortium led the discussion between Ed Stoneham, XtremeLUX, Blake Lange with Signify and Daniel Lee, GE Current.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0068.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Second keynote of the Indoor Ag-Con was Jonathan Webb with AppHarvest, who rapidly became one of the most well-known faces in the industry. His mission: to make sure the industry gets seen, because as he clarified, the CEA industry is way to invisible.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0075.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
![Gabe Youtsey with UC ANR hosted a talk with Viraj Puri, Gotham Greens, Matt Lingard, BrightFarms and Austin Webb, Fifth Season on large CEA success.](https://www.verticalfarmdaily.com/remote/https/agfstorage.blob.core.windows.net/vfd-com/photos/9890/ASI_0267.jpg?preset=AlbumCoverThumb)
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