Innovate Southwest Indiana - Evansville
Discover. Collaborate. Innovate.
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2025 Innovate Southwest Indiana - Evansville – Individual Ticket
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Speaker
Keynote Speaker
Katie Jenner
Panelists
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Jim Ryan
Bio
James “Jim” C. Ryan III is Chief Executive Officer at Old National.
Since joining Old National in 2000, Jim has held several leadership positions, including Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer; Director of Corporate Development and Mortgage Banking; Integration Executive for Old National’s Northern region; Treasurer; and Assistant Treasurer. Prior to joining Old National, he held senior finance positions at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage and Old Kent Financial Corp.
Jim is currently Chairman of the Evansville Regional Economic Partnership, Vice Chairman of the Evansville Regional Business Committee and member of the Southwest Indiana Regional Development Authority. He is a Board Member for Deaconess Health Systems, Inc., a Board Member for Golf Gives Back and a member of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, Inc.
Jim holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Grand Valley State University.
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Andy Perry
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Daniella Vidal
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Sara Worstell
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Ivan Ball
Bio
Ivan Ball is the co-founder and CTO of anu, where he leads a team on a mission to revolutionize food production by empowering anyone to grow fresh produce with their rotary aeroponic technology. Raised around farming in Southern Indiana, Ivan developed an early passion for agriculture and nutrition, starting with hands-on work picking melons and detasseling corn. His curiosity for energy, physics, and emerging technologies led him to study electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University.
At Purdue, Ivan worked on a NASA-funded project to optimize resource efficiency for growing produce on the International Space Station—a pivotal experience that inspired the vision behind anu. With a background in food processing automation and a deep commitment to sustainable innovation, Ivan now combines disciplines like hydroponics, data science, ecommerce, AI, and engineering to enable anyone, anywhere, to become a farmer. His work supports a future of decentralized, pesticide-free food production that enhances food sovereignty, reduces waste, and dramatically cuts water use and greenhouse gas emissions.
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