You may remember Darin in episode 73 where he talked about his life-long crusade to improve food safety. We’ve kept in touch and he asked me to help him with a guest lecturer project.
Darin is in charge of the class, Global Economics of Food and Agriculture, which is a multidisciplinary graduate class focused on current global trends in the food industry. On the cutting edge, I was interested in helping him out and boy, I’m so glad I did.
I was happy to interview 6 really cool guest lecturers from Darin’s class and wow did I learn a lot. Not only about the coolest technologies in the world like Geospatial tech, and environmental biome research, but there’s a lot on authenticity not only in the food realm but the political and entrepreneurial realm as well.
Darin and I break down the purpose of the course and each of the guests that encompass this series I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.
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Show Notes
GST 6350 – Global Economics of Food and Agriculture. This course was made to interdisciplinary cross-link Global Economics and people in the food industry
Lead Faculty – Masters of Food Science in Regulatory Affairs in the Food Industry
Why do people take this class?: Both of interest and requirements. Most people in the class are for the industry
Why did you decide to use a guest structure?: I couldn’t do it alone. There’s too much to talk about. Thanks to technology, we can get guests anywhere in the world and even record and videotape it for the public.
Why did you decide to put a podcast element in the podcast?: 3 reasons.
- Students like to know how people got into their profession
- This acts as a supplementation to the lecture
- Students like listening to podcasts
- Thank to you, (Adam), podcasts last forever and this information can be interchangeable for other course. It’s an innovative platform.
Guest List:
Mitchell Weinberg – Darin met him in Dubai and kept on running into each other. Because both were doing such great work in Authenticity, Darin and Mitchell have teamed up in many things. Does a lot of public television work and TED Talk things. What do people do to push new policy?
Todd Barr– Works with another individual who Darin knows well. She recommended Todd Barr to do the lectures on precision agriculture. Still discussing on teaching a course about it.
Ted Johnson – When I was going through my doctoral program, he was a student with me. Both in the military. His podcast is about finding ways to feed the underprivileged. As a man of policy, we get pretty into finding solutions.
David Mahoney – Teaches in Regulatory affairs and Bio Medical Devices. Really good on FDA Laws. I actually interviewed him at Northeastern. During this interview, I asked the difference between a trade secret, patent, copyright.
Uwe Hohgrawe – A genius of Analytics. His desk is close to mind. We talk a lot and how to use analytics to help the food industry. Multiple discussions on epidemiology and blockchain. Had to get him to speak and had students take classes in analytics to help them in their jobs. Analytics is a gadget.
Keenan Davis – Wildcard of a guest. Very energetic. Same class as Ted and Darin. Took a different role in terms of an entrepreneur angle. It’s not all big corporations. There are startups that want to go into the food industry.
Other guests that did not get interviewed
Freight Farms
Lawyer from Boston about BlockChain
Talking about the security of food boarders
How different countries protect data
What is most important to Darin: These 32 students that come out of this class are going to make better educated decisisons whether in work, or life
I also want to learn from them as well. This would be the class I’d want to be in.