18/05/2026
Week one of the Berkeley Agro Accelerator at the University of California, , School of Business, is behind us. Our CEO , and CTO Andriy Nedvyha are in California, and the first five days covered more ground than most programmes manage in two weeks.
Barry Katz ( / ) opened by framing the Silicon Valley ecosystem as infrastructure, not mythology.
Gauthier Vasseur from University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business / , ran two sessions on sustainable data strategy and stretching data with AI, directly relevant to how we architect client pipelines.
Rebecca Hinds, PhD, Head of the Work AI Institute at Glean, delivered a research-backed session on what actually separates AI leaders, not a keynote, which made it more valuable.
Ellen Bruno and James Sallee from UC Berkeley’s Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics grounded the week in water resilience and agricultural decarbonisation as a real market opportunity.
Friday closed with an off-site visit to an almond farm in the Central Valley, after five days of talking about precision ag data, seeing the physical operation mattered.
Week two starts today.
Special thanks to Kateryna Akymenko and the full team at the University of California, Berkeley for Business Innovation.
This programme is made possible by the support of the