Sponsorship dollars help keep registration costs low, provide travel scholarships for participants, and support keynote speakers. Interested in becoming a sponsor for this event? Contact Nate Meyer at meyer179@umn.edu.
Midwest Dairy is a non-profit organization that represents dairy farm families across the Midwest. Its mission is to promote the dairy industry by building consumer trust in dairy products, supporting dairy innovation, and educating the public on the benefits of dairy nutrition. Funded by dairy farmers, Midwest Dairy collaborates with schools, health professionals, retailers, and community organizations to encourage healthy lifestyles. It also supports research, sustainability initiatives, and leadership development to ensure a thriving future for the dairy community and industry.
HGA is a national interdisciplinary planning and design firm rooted in architecture and engineering. We believe that enduring, impactful design results from deep insight into the people and passions that animate each unique environment. Our responsibility is both inspiring and humbling: to create positive, sustainable, and equitable impact through design. We value empathy, are fueled by curiosity, and embrace the meaningful work that leads to innovation. Our goal is to create a company and culture where everyone—employees and clients—can do the best work of their lives.
At Climate Resilience Consulting (CRC), we transform risk into resilience and opportunity. With over 15 years at the forefront of resilience strategy, we help governments, corporations, and nonprofits go beyond planning to funding, building, and leading real-world solutions. From extreme heat to equity and infrastructure, CRC delivers bold ideas, practical tools, and measurable impact. Our team is nationally recognized and community trusted—pioneering the next generation of climate action with urgency, heart, and hustle. Whether you're scaling resilience or starting your journey, CRC brings the spark to make it real. Let’s build the future—together.
The Minnesota Agricultural Water Quality Certification Program (MAWQCP) is a voluntary opportunity for farmers and agricultural landowners to take the lead in implementing conservation practices that protect our water and bolster economic growth. The MAWQCP showcases how certification not only improves the quality of our water, but also consistently increases profitability, to better support producers across Minnesota.
Through this program, certified producers are deemed to be in compliance with any new water quality rules or laws during the period of certification. Additionally, certified producers may use their status to promote their business as a steward of water quality, as well as obtain specially designated technical and financial assistance to implement practices that promote water quality. The program also offers transparency to the public, making it easier to recognize certified producers and have assurance that certified farms are using conservation practices that protect Minnesota’s lakes, rivers, streams, and groundwater.
The Great Lakes Commission is a binational government agency established in 1955 to protect the Great Lakes and the economies and ecosystems they support. Its membership includes leaders from the eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces in the Great Lakes basin. The GLC recommends policies and practices to balance the use, development, and conservation of the water resources of the Great Lakes and brings the region together to work on issues that no single community, state, province, or nation can tackle alone.
