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2019

Dr. Nick Bontis – Keynote Speaker
Ranked among the Top 30 management gurus and the Top 5 management keynote speakers world-wide, Dr. Nick Bontis is recognized by the former Editor of Harvard Business Review and Fortune Magazine as “a pioneer and one of the world’s real experts in intellectual capital.” Maclean’s Magazine has rated him as one of “McMaster University’s most popular business professors for six years in a row!” He is also a 3M National Teaching Fellow, an exclusive honour only bestowed upon the top university professors in the country! Web: www.NickBontis.com Twitter: NickBontis

Matthew Johnson is the President and CEO of M3 Aerial Productions Inc., and has been involved with the company since he founded it in 2015. Matthew has spent 5 years teaching high school mathematics in Manitoba schools, and 10 years in the Canadian Armed Forces. In 2018, Matthew was named one of the Top 7 Drone Visionaries in Precision Agriculture and among the Top 50 in the world, by the Commercial UAV News. In 2016 M3 Aerial Productions launched their UAV Ground School training program which has trained around 600 commercial UAV pilots across Canada to date.

John Heard is the Manitoba Provincial Soil Fertility Specialist with the Manitoba Government! You will not fins a more passionate person about soil and fertility!

Ryan is a 2019 Nuffield Scholar who is passionate about soil health, forage efficient cattle and no-till cropping systems. Ryan operates a mixed farm just north of Forrest, Manitoba with his wife Sarah, daughter Piper, son Bingham, and parents Jim and Joanne Boyd.