Modern Agriculture Technology Day

The doors are open! Take some time to look around the platform before the keynote session.

Opening Keynote:
A New Era in Agriculture: What’s Changing and Why It Matters

Kick off the day with Stoneridge Software CEO Eric Newell as he explores the technology trends shaping the future of agriculture, from AI and automation to changing business pressures and customer expectations. Eric will share where tools like Microsoft Copilot are starting to make a real impact, and what agriculture businesses should be paying attention to next.

Fuel up for the day: Make sure to join us live for the opening keynote to claim a coffee, tea, or treat on us!

Speaker:
Eric Newell

AI Meets Agribusiness: Streamlining Grain Transactions Presented by Levridge

Agribusinesses face unique accounting and operational challenges including managing commodity transactions, sharing data across multiple locations, and legacy systems. Learn how Levridge solutions, purpose-built for agribusiness, meet these challenges head-on.

Speaker:
John Melland, CEO, Levridge

Modern Customer Portals & Sales Experiences for Agribusiness

In this session, we’ll walk through a modern customer portal example and explore what’s possible with today’s connected business tools. We’ll show how modern portals can support the front-end sales cycle by giving customers easier access to quotes, contract information, approvals, updates, and self-service interactions online.

We’ll also explore how connected systems can improve visibility across sales and operations, streamline communication, simplify contract and order management, and reduce manual work for internal teams. Join us for a practical look at how agribusinesses are using modern tools to create more efficient, responsive, and connected customer experiences.

Speaker:
Jesse Bucholz

Better Flow, Less Friction: Connecting Ag Operations and Payments Presented by Bushel

Agriculture runs on relationships, but commercial activity often stalls when offers, invoices, payments, contracts, and customer data live across disconnected systems. In this session, Bushel will share how connected digital workflows create a stronger commercial flow between agribusinesses and farmers. We’ll cover how grain and ag retail teams can reduce manual work, improve payment visibility, speed up follow-up, and give farmers clearer ways to act. Attendees will learn how Bushel connects ERP data, CRM activity, digital payments, offers, eSign, and customer-facing tools so teams can spend less time chasing information and more time moving business forward.

Speakers:
Benny Andres, Chief Operating Officer, Bushel
Julia Eberhart, Director of Marketing, Bushel

The “Do We Really Need AI?” Session

If hearing the words “AI strategy” makes you want to close your laptop, this session is for you. We’ll keep the conversation grounded in real agriculture challenges and opportunities we're seeing right now. By combining data from sensors, drones, weather models, connected equipment, and business systems, AI is helping agriculture businesses make smarter decisions around planting, irrigation, fertilization, harvesting, and day-to-day operations.

As labor shortages, climate variability, and rising input costs continue to pressure the industry, more organizations are turning to automation, AI agents, and modern work tools to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and get more from the resources they already have. Join us for a conversation about where AI is creating real advantages across agriculture.

Speakers:
Scott Frappier
Joe Tews

Driving Efficiency at Scale: A Modern Ag Company's AP Automation Journey Presented by Truvio

Discover how a fast‑growing agricultural enterprise transformed its financial operations by standardizing and automating AP across complex, distributed workflows. This session walks through the organization’s journey—from manual bottlenecks and seasonal volume spikes to a streamlined, scalable AP engine built for accuracy, visibility, and control.

Speakers:
Scott Harvey, Senior Partner Sales Executive, Truvio
Morgan Jonsson, Sr. Director Customer Success North America, Truvio

Take a quick break, grab some lunch, or stick around and hang out with us for music and a prize giveaway before the afternoon sessions begin!

Growing Beyond Legacy Systems: Inside Arthur Companies' Tech Transformation Journey

What does it really take to move beyond a legacy ERP system? Join leaders from Arthur Companies for a candid conversation about their transformation journey to Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management with Levridge.

Hear directly from a team that's been through the process as they discuss what prompted the change, lessons learned along the way, and how they approached modernization while continuing to support day-to-day operations. They'll also share practical advice for organizations considering a similar transformation and the business impact they've seen since go-live.

Speakers:
John Melland, CEO, Levridge
Jeremy TenBroek, CIO, The Arthur Companies
Aaron Remick, Strategic Projects Manager, The Arthur Companies

Turning Technology Investments into Meaningful Change

New systems and technology only make an impact if teams actually adopt them and use them effectively. In this session, we'll bring together many of the themes discussed throughout the day and talk about what it really takes to turn technology investments into meaningful business change.

Organizational change management (OCM) plays a critical role in whether new technology initiatives succeed or stall out. From leadership alignment and team buy-in to training, communication, and day-to-day adoption, we’ll explore practical ways agriculture businesses can help people feel more confident, engaged, and successful as new tools and processes are introduced. Join us for a conversation focused on helping your business move from planning technology changes to actually putting them into action.

Speaker:
David Arnold

Surviving and Thriving in an Ever More Volatile World

In a world ravaged by war, tariffs, recessions, inflation, labor market instability, unprecedented market volatility, and escalating political division and strife, how can we position our businesses to capitalize on the opportunities that do exist?

What can we learn from past price cycles, both boom and bust, and how can we apply it to today? How much of the inflation we are seeing is actually monetary, and how much is due to supply chain or demographic factors? Most importantly, what does all of this mean for your business decisions—whether hiring and marketing, or long-term planning. Join us to hear how Dr. Roberts will bring this together with insight and humor, and walk away with actionable insight to make our businesses more profitable and resilient.

Speaker:
Dr. Matt Roberts

Closing Remarks

Stick around for a quick event wrap-up and our grand prize drawing! One random attendee joining us live during closing remarks will take home the prize.