S2E26: Sepehr Mousavi - Sustainability, Innovation and the Future of AgTech

Vertical Farming Podcast

English - February 26, 2021 11:50 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MB
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Next Episode: S2E26: s2e26 Sepehr Mousavi - Sustainability, Innovation and the Future of AgTech

Episode Summary

Join Harry Duran, host of Vertical Farming Podcast, as he welcomes to the show speaker, futurist and Chief Sustainability Officer at SweGreen, Sepehr Mousavi. Sepehr is a sustainability strategist, innovation catalyst and a passionate futurist with an international and multicultural background. His organization, SweGreen, is the number one AgTech company in Sweden and is revolutionizing the vertical farming industry by providing futuristic, smart and circular solutions for controlled-environment growing systems. In this episode, Harry and Sepehr discuss Sepehr’s unique background and vertical farming origin story. They delve deep into the concepts of symbiosis, smart real estate solutions and the importance of Research and Development. Finally, Sepehr speaks to the importance of educating the world on vertical farming and what excites him the most about the future of SweGreen and the AgTech industry.

Episode Sponsor

Ceres Greenhouse Solutions

Key Takeaways

03:22 – Harry welcomes to the show Sepehr Mousavi, Chief Sustainability Officer and Founding partner at SweGreen, who discusses his background and roots, what brought him to Sweden and how he got involved in vertical farming and AgTech

11:38 – What Sepehr learned from his time at Plantagon, one of the early pioneers in AgTech

20:15 – Sepehr expounds on the concept of symbiosis

24:18 – Sepehr talks about farming as a service

30:47 – Sepehr expounds on SweGreen’s smart real estate solutions

34:37 – The importance of Research and Development (R&D)

36:41 – Sepehr speaks to why he identifies as a futurist, where he looks for inspiration and what excites him about the future of AgTech

44:42 – The importance of educating consumers and those looking to enter a career in AgTech or vertical farming

47:46 – Sepehr shares the SweGreen initiatives he’s most excited about

53:11 – Harry thanks Sepehr for joining the show and let’s listeners know where they can connect with him

Tweetable Quotes

“If you’re going to scale down the innovation from a city function to something that could feed neighborhoods, then you could look at smart buildings and how you could build up symbiosis.” (21:09)

“The logistics of food is very difficult to handle.” (25:28)

“From the very beginning I was very interested in history. And what I learned from history is that if you look at the process of how we got here, you could speculate where we’re going to end up in the future because we always repeat these evolutionary trends.” (37:52)