🌟 We have exciting news to share! Out of over 60 teams, Tarragon won runner-up AND the audience choice award at the MIT Water, Food, & Agriculture Innovation Prize last night! 🌿 Tarragon's AI-powered demand forecasting reduces food waste so restaurants can better serve their customers, make a difference on climate, and become more financially resilient. Congrats to Brandon Chi of Crop Diagnostix for taking 1st place with his proactive solution to detecting plant stress! Special shoutout to our sharp judges: Ashlie L Burkart MD, CM, Erum Sattar, Johanna Wolfson, William Harvey, and Sezin Yigit, PhD! Thank you to our dedicated Water, Food, and Ag Prize mentor, Jonathan Levine, PhD, for your feedback throughout the process. 👏 Lastly, big thank you to the to the entire MIT Water, Food, & Agriculture Innovation Prize team: Jocelyn Foulke, Nisha Patel, Alexa Katz, Ali Decker, Masayuki (Masa) Kawahashi, and the rest of the crew!
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🤓 Being judgy...at the MIT Water, Food, & Agriculture Innovation Prize. Great to be involved as a judge alongside Erum Sattar, Johanna Wolfson, William Harvey, and Sezin Yigit, PhD. Congratulations to Crop Diagnostix (CEO Brandon Chi) for clinching the top spot with their patented gene expression technology and AI, nipping plant stress in the bud and helping farmers optimize inputs. 🌱 Hats off to the runner-up and audience's choice award team Tarragon Systems (Tess Harper, Nick Anderson, Richard Chen) whose AI-powered demand forecasting software is slashing food waste and saving restaurant managers' time and money. 🥗 Big kudos to speaker Florian Schattenmann and to the amazing WFA Prize team, led by Jocelyn Foulke, and including Victoria Tostado, Masayuki (Masa) Kawahashi, Alexa Katz, Nisha Patel, and Ali Decker. 🙌