SmartSheffield #19 - David Dixon: "The Future of Farming"

David is the co-founder of Future Greens, along with Gabrielė Barteškaitė, which is an urban farming startup that is growing a range of produce grown in an innovative substrate of their own design, and supplying local retailers in Sheffield.

For more, please visit: Future Greens

These slides were presented at SmartSheffield#19 on May 9th 2022 - please see the Event Website for videos of all the talk and to sign up to receive notification of future events.

Many thanks to our hosts: Creative Space Management and everyone at the Electric Works, as well as our regular sponsors: Arup, Pitch-In Project and Sheffield Digital.

Transcript

2. The Problem: Source: UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (2020); The Waste and Resources Action Programme (2017) annual food waste of lettuce is imported of salad wasted
3. The Solution:
4. The Vision: Source: UNICEF (2022), The Guardian (2015); The Meteorological Office (2022); The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (2012)
5. The Advantage • Cleaner • Cheaper • Zero-waste
6. Source: Statista(2022); The Grocer (2021); Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (2019); Florette (2017) • Scalable technology • • of Leaf Salad sold annually in the UK 8Bn Global leafy greens market 700M UK leafy greens market M UK’s socially conscious salad consumer Of shoppers try to buy British food whenever they can The Market
7. The Product:
8. The Traction:
9. TopDesk Software Development BSc. Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Capitalmind Corporate Finance Advisory MSc. Finance Royal Academy of Engineering BSc. Intelligent Systems & Control Engineering
11. David Dixon daviddixon@futuregreens.uk https://www.futuregreens.uk/