Co-Founder And CEO of Heliponix, LLC Scott Massey Will Be Speaking About The Future of Food At The University of Michigan Tech Expo Sponsored by Google on March 13
Co-Founder and CEO of Heliponix, LLC Scott Massey will be speaking about the Future of Food at the University of Michigan Tech Expo sponsored by Google on March 13.
He will be speaking in a panel discussion with Rachel Konrad of Impossible Foods. A GroPod will also be on display to learn about its functionality from Scott in-person!
Heliponix© provides consumers with the GroPod©, a smart garden appliance with a Seed Pod™ subscription, monthly shipments of organic certified seeds of your choice in pre-formulated pods. Our automated, hydroponic hardware combined with smart, cloud software allows anyone to become a farmer regardless of their climate, space, or existing knowledge of agriculture.
Users enjoy Pure Produce™ that is better for their health, and the environment by reducing water consumption and food waste through local production. It grows vegetables produce 3X faster than soil farming methods, a 500X more efficient use of land, using 95% less water without the use of pesticides.
This accelerated growth rate, spanned over 60 planting ports, equates to the user having a head of leafy greens of their choice, every single day. Co-Founders, Scott Massey and Ivan Ball previously designed a hydroponic growth chamber at the Purdue University Horticulture College on a NASA funded research study for future space colonies; the long term goal of this NASA R&D initiative was to grow food in future space colonies.
Check out their new GroPod© product demo video and recent coverage by The Associated Press while we were at CES.
Scott Massey earned his 2017 B.S. at Purdue University in Mechanical Engineering Technology and Certificate of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Scott exited a career as an engineer in the oil and natural gas industry to become a research engineer at the Purdue University Horticulture College. It was there Scott assisted in the design of a NASA funded, automated hydroponic plant growth chamber with the ultimate goal of sustainably grown food in space colonies under Dr. Cary Mitchell.
This inspired him to found Heliponix© (formerly Hydro Grow LLC) his senior year backed by Purdue Ventures Ag-celerator agricultural/biological Engineering Research Fund and Elevate Ventures.
Today the company employs several engineers and is expanding their network of GroPods deployed in the market which has been named the "Indiana's Best New Tech Product" by TechPoint through the Mira Award and "The People's Choice Award" by IFT (Institute of Food Technologists) through the Food Disruption Challenge. Scott continues to advise the Department of State through the Mandela Washington Fellowship on several aquaponic and hydroponic farms across Africa to fight food insecurity in the developing world.