Overview
In this episode, Darryn Keiller, Futurist, Entrepreneur, and founder of WayBeyond, discusses how digital agronomy helps growers make better decisions with data. He explains how farms can combine sensor, environmental, plant-response, and satellite data to improve daily decisions, predict risks, and raise yield and fruit quality. The conversation also covers the challenges of introducing new technology into agriculture, especially around trust and data ownership. Darryn argues that AI will not replace growers, but support them by closing knowledge gaps, and helping younger professionals adapt faster. It also enables farming systems to respond better to climate change, labor shortages, and growing production pressures.
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Darryn Keiller is the founder of WayBeyond, a global leader in crop management solutions operating in North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and South East Asia. WayBeyond works with leaders in seed production such as Bayer, BASF, Syngenta, Limagrain, etc., and large commercial fresh produce growers such as Azura, Costa, NatureSweet, African Blue, etc.
Darryn is a well-known futurist, investor, director, founder, CEO, and entrepreneur.
Darryn sees the future of food today leveraging digital agronomy data and AI-driven insights to empower growers to optimize production, support sustainability, and increase commercial performance. Darryn founded WayBeyond in 2016 (initially a business unit of Autogrow) and launched the company independently in 2021 to champion crop management and grow more, better quality fruits and vegetables, consistently.
Darryn has held leadership roles in global tech and sports marketing – such as Compaq, HP, Polycom, Spark, LexisNexis and New Zealand Rugby Union. Building business relationships around the globe has been a constant feature of Darryn’s career. This has included consulting work for emerging technology companies in advanced materials, nano technology, drones and software. He has a personal passion for robotics and space exploration. Darryn is the pioneer behind the hackathon for growing ‘Crops On Mars’ with NASA, Microsoft, IBM Watson AI in Silicon Valley.
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