Red Deer entrepreneur talks Ag tech with Bill Gates
SEATTLE – What’s it like to talk agriculture with the richest man in the world?
A local entrepreneur found out last week when he gave a presentation in Seattle to Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates.
Rob Saik founded Agri-Trend in Red Deer twenty years ago. He spoke to Gates and a select group of 15 others, including world-renowned inventor Lowell Wood, about whether agriculture will be able to produce food for a world population expected to reach nine billion people.
Saik says Gates first learned of his work after watching a Ted Talk presentation he gave in Red Deer in 2014.