March 28, 2016

Stephanie Race is the Founder and CEO of Crop Performance Ltd. a geospatial analytics company providing data services for sustainable agriculture. Crop Performance works with growers and food companies to improve productivity, conserve resources, and monitor the environmental impact of food production. The food industry benefits with more accurate supply forecasts, an enhanced visability to source commodities, assess risk and monitor the impact of climate change on agriculture. Crop Performance analytics forecast crop yields with accuracy in advance of harvest. The data is used to inform in-season yield, water & nutrient status of crops at the field scale. Customers of growers in the supply chain benefit from an integrated view of supply to inform sourcing, harvest planning and logistics. The in-situ remote sensing platform utilizes IoT, satellite, and drone platforms to monitor weather, phenology, pests and disease allowing growers to produce higher yields of quality crops on less land, improving profit per acre. Stephanie has been providing sourcing and risk management solutions for the agriculture, food & beverage industry for over 25 years. One of the early pioneers of IoT, Stephanie developed the first product data exchange utilizing electronic product codes to delineate location based sourcing for the food industry. Stephanie was a Partner at Accenture, and gained her corporate technology experience with leadership roles at Oracle Corporation and Andersen Consulting. In collaboration with NASA, she conceived and built solutions using satellite based earth observation data to analyze the economics of agriculture, land use, infrastructure and water for the food and beverage industry. Stephanie is the co-founder and Board Member of Global Map Aid a non-profit that provides geospatial data for humanitarian assistance resulting in more efficient distribution of aid to those in need.