Dr Sam Hoste

Founder and CEO

Quantech Solutions

Dr Sam Hoste, through Quantech Solutions, has undertaken Agri-Tech leadership roles in business, central government and global consultancy firms. He has led sector-wide animal health improvement initiatives; was instrumental in the establishment of the UK’s Agri-Tech Centres and COO of the Centre for Innovation Excellence in Livestock. He was a director and geneticist at ACMC and NPD, and UK Technical manager for PIC and a non-Exec at the Irish startup, Monford Ag.  He is currently working with a number of UK and international Agri-tech companies that provide data, vision and emissions reduction opportunities for farmers and supply chains.

Phillip Harris

Co-Founder

Ripe.io

Mike Coffey

Head of Animal Breeding and Genomics

Scotland’s Rural College

Jaime Santana

Fish Health Manager

MOWI Scotland

Alice Swift

Director Members and Agri Commercial UK

Arla Food

Adam Quinney

Board Member and Chair of Lamb and Beef

Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

Rehan Hameed

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer

Deep Vision

Rehan Hameed received his PhD from Stanford University where he worked on energy efficient processor design and polymorphic multiprocessor architectures, and co-invented the Deep Vision architecture. In 2014 he co-founded Deep Vision and is now the CTO where he focuses on driving the company’s technological vision, including continuous evolution of the SW stack and silicon architecture. Previously he has worked on the design of multiple chips and algorithms for audio and vision processing.