Ua hoʻolaha ʻo SVG Ventures a me Forbes ʻo ka Israeli-based Autonomous Pivot a me US-based Bloomfield Robotics nā mea lanakila ʻelua o ka Innovation Icon Award ma ka ʻehiku makahiki Demo Day ma ka Forbes-THRIVE Future of Food Summit.
I ka lā Demo, 12 mau mea hoʻomaka honua i koho lima ʻia mai kahi wai noi o kahi kokoke i 700 mau hui ma waena o 78 mau ʻāina i hoʻonoho ʻia i mua o kahi lehulehu hoʻopaʻa moʻolelo o 2,500 kiʻekiʻe o nā ʻoihana meaʻai a me nā ʻenehana, nā ʻoihana, nā kulanui, a me nā mea hoʻopukapuka kālā no ke kālā hoʻomaka.
Pivot Autonomous hoʻomohala i kahi kahua naʻauao no ka hoʻonui ʻana i ka irrigation, fertigation a me ka pale ʻana i nā mea kanu i nā māla i hoʻoulu ʻia e ka irrigation-pivot. ʻO Bloomfield Robotics' Ke hilinaʻi nei nā lawelawe loiloi hua i kahi hui kūʻokoʻa a me ke kumu kūʻai o ke kiʻi kiʻi ma luna o ka honua a me ka hana hoʻonaʻauao hohonu e kōkua i ka poʻe mahiʻai me ka maikaʻi, kūpono, a me ka hiki ke loiloi i nā mea kanu. E loaʻa iā lākou a hiki i $ 250,000 i ka hoʻopukapuka kālā mai SVG Ventures ma ke ʻano he hui lanakila o ka 2021 Forbes | THRIVE Innovation Icon Award.
"ʻO kā mākou poʻe lanakila Demo Day he hōʻike maoli i ka nui o ka hoʻomau, ka hana hou, a me nā ʻano ʻokoʻa ʻāina e hoʻopilikia ai i ka ʻoihana agrifood ma ke ao holoʻokoʻa," ʻo John Hartnett, Founder & CEO o SVG Ventures | THRIVE, i ʻōlelo ʻia ma kahi nūhou. "He hoʻokūkū ikaika loa ka cohort o kēia makahiki, ʻo ia ke kumu e hoʻomālamalama ai mākou iā lākou ma o ka hui ʻana o Forbes–SVG Ventures, a ʻaʻole hiki iā mākou ke kali e ʻike pehea e hoʻomau ai kēia mau ʻoihana i kā mākou lako meaʻai."
"I kēlā me kēia makahiki, hōʻiliʻili ʻo Demo Day i nā manaʻo waiwai a me nā ʻenehana hoʻololi mai nā ʻoihana makemake a hoʻolaʻa ʻia," wahi a Sherry Phillips, SVP o ForbesLIVE. "ʻOliʻoli mākou i ka hiki ke hoʻopili i kēia mau manaʻo me ka poʻe e makemake nui ana a ke kakali nei i ka hoʻomau ʻana i ka hoʻonui ʻana i nā ʻenehana ʻenehana hou i ka pae honua me THRIVE."
ʻO ka papa hoʻokolokolo Demo Day e pili ana i nā luna hoʻokō mai Valmont, Cavallo Ventures, Farm Credit Canada, Kubota, Trimble, a me THRIVE i loiloi pono i kēlā me kēia o nā mea hope loa a me ka 2021 Forbes i makemake nui ʻia | Ua hāʻawi ʻia ʻo THRIVE Innovation Icon Award i nā mea lanakila hui, Automonous Pivot a me Bloomfield Robotics. ʻO nā hui i hoʻokūkū ma Forbes|Thrive Future of Food Summit ʻo Arva Intelligence, Autonomous Pivot, Bloomfield Robotics, Foodlocker, Goanna Ag, Healthy Cow, Lucent Biosciences, Pheronym, Rubens Technology, Serket, Syocin Biotech, Transpirational.