Futurist Bob Treadway keynote speaker at 2011 Washington-Oregon Potato Conference

The program for the 2011 Washington-Oregon Potato Conference is packed with scientific reports, national and state updates on the industry and of course a keynote speaker.

Karen Bonaudi, Assistant Executive Director of the Washington State Potato Commission, says the keynote speech will be given by a Washingtonian.

Bonaudi: “Bob Treadway is from Anacortes. And we actually heard him speak at the Focus on Farming Conference they had up in Snohomish County earlier this year. And he was a really, really good speaker.”
Treadway’s address is entitled “20/20 Foresight: A look into the Future of Agriculture.”

Bonaudi: “He calls himself a futurist but we have had futurists before and what they usually do give a lot of statistics and even projected statistics. What Bob does is take a look at what is happening now and what is projected, and actually tells people what they can do about it and gives examples of that. So it really is an applied futurism.”