Summits
Influential Women in Agriculture Summit 2020
October 20, 2021 at
12:00pm ET
On DEMAND
Q&A: Bethany Deshpande
Speaker: Bethany Deshpande, CEO, SomaDetect
The Influential Women in Canadian Agriculture Q&A series provides casual conversations with other change makers in Canadian agriculture. In this session, Bethany Deshpande shares what her experience has been like working in the agtech industry and what advice she would give to her younger self and fellow female founders in the industry.
Speaker bio: Bethany Deshpande is the CEO of SomaDetect. SomaDetect was founded in 2016 with the mission of providing farmers with the information they need to make the best possible milk. With Bethany’s leadership, the company has grown from four people working in a small apartment to now having a team of twenty-six people with offices in both Canada and the United States. SomaDetect was selected as the recipient of the Ag Innovation Showcase prize (St. Louis, 2017), one of the Canadian Innovation Exchange Top 20 companies (Toronto, 2017), Grand Prize winner of $1 M from Buffalo’s 43North Competition (Buffalo, 2017), and Rabobank’s Foodbytes’ Judges Choice Award (NYC, 2018).
