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WWW.POTATOGROWER.COM 51 www.rdoequipment.com Call 888-877-7935 or visit your local RDO Equipment Co. store. WASHINGTON Coulee City Moses Lake Othello Pasco Ritzville Sunnyside OREGON Hermiston Pendleton Wasco Equipment for all your needs: RDO does that. 1963-17RDOEquipment13h.indd 1 10/1/18 8:48 AM WASHINGTON w w w. p o t a t o c o n f e r e n c e.c o m C O N F E R E N C E 2 0 1 5 OREGON www.potatoconference.com WASHINGTON w w w. p o t a t o c o n f e r e n c e . c o m C O N F E R E N C E 2 0 1 6 OREGON January 21-24, 2019 Kennewick, WA Schedule Overview Monday, January 21 1 p.m. - 4p.m. Booth Move In 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. Tuesday, January 22 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. 8:50 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. 1:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. Early Bird Reception, Spring Hill Suites Booth Move In Spanish Language Session Trade Show Cultivar Performance Workshop Trade Show Reception & Potato PAC Auction @ TRCC Wednesday, January 23 7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast 7:50 a.m. - 11 a.m. General Sessions 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. 11:00 a.m. 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. 1 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. Thursday, January 24 7:30 a.m. 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. 1 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. Trade Show Ladies Program Keynote Address-Pablos Holman Hosted Potato Bar Leadership Recognition Banquet @ TRCC Continental Breakfast General Sessions Trade Show Hosted Lunch General Sessions Previously, Pablos helped build: spaceships with Jeff Bezos at Blue Origin; the world's smallest PC; 3D printers at Makerbot; artificial intelligence agent systems; and the Hackerbot, a robot that can steal passwords on a Wi-Fi network. Pablos has a unique ability to articulate practical solutions and visions for the future of technology. He is a world renowned expert in 3D Printing, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Robotics, Manufacturing, Blockchain/Cryptocurrency, and has contributed to visions for the future of urban transportation, entertainment, education, health care, food delivery, sensor networks, payment systems & cloud computing. Pablos is often invited to speak at conferences about innovation, invention, hacking, technology, cyber security, and The Intellectual Ventures Lab. Recently, he has spoken at Stanford, the United Nations, the World Economic Forum at Davos, the Microsoft CEO Summit – invited by Bill Gates, the CIA, Google Zeitgeist, The Milken Global Conference, and to many of the top tech companies and tech conferences in the world. His TED Talks have over 20 million views. 2019 Keynote Pablos Holman : Pablos Holman is a notorious hacker, inventor, entrepreneur and technology futurist who thinks differently to solve the world's biggest problems by inventing new technology. As Senior Inventor at his lab, with 150 scientists and engineers he worked on a brain surgery tool, a machine to suppress hurricanes, 3D food printers, and a laser that can shoot down mosquitos- part of an impact invention effort to eradicate malaria with Bill Gates. General Sessions 1964-14WashOrePotatoConf13s.indd 1 11/9/18 10:09 AM the greatest amounts of pre-planting Spongospora DNA (PreDicta Pt test) gave the most powdery scab on harvested tubers. THE NEXT STAGE Data gathered from these different analyses will be integrated to determine whether individual or combinations of soil physical, chemical or biological characteristics are associated with suppression of Spongospora diseases. The next phase of the project will determine details of the microbial populations in the soils, and will then identify individual disease-affecting soil factors that could be manipulated to reduce disease. These will then be tested for effects on powdery scab and associated root diseases. The key outcome from this project will be new knowledge of which soil factors affect powdery scab in potato crops. This could form the basis for future research initiatives to test new practical methods for management of root and tuber diseases caused by the powdery scab pathogen. Manipulating soil nutrients or microbial populations could be used to enhance suppression of these key potato diseases. For more information, email richard.falloon@plantandfood.co.nz. This project is funded by Hort Innovation (Australia) using the fresh potato and potato processing research and development levies and contributions from the Australian government. The greenhouse pot trial, seven weeks after planting seed tubers. Each column of pots (left to right) includes pairs each containing 12 different field soils (color-coded), where one pot per pair remained uninoculated, and the other received Spongospora inoculum prior to planting a powdery scab-susceptible seed tuber. Photo courtesy Peter Wright