Video Spotlight: 2025 Emerging Leader Impact Award Winner Gretchen Schimelpfenig

By Nick Matysik|January 1, 2026

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At the 2025 CEAg World Conference and Expo held on Nov. 19–21, 2025, in Durham, NC, the winners of the inaugural CEAg World Impact Awards were announced, recognizing individuals driving real progress in Advancing Food Under Cover™. Afterwards, CEAg World sat down with the winner of each award for a chat on their work and accomplishments. Below, readers will find the CEAg Talk with Gretchen Schimelpfenig, Executive Director of GLASE, Senior Energy Engineer at Energy Resources Integration (ERI), and the winner of the 2025 Emerging Leader Impact Award.

This video and more CEAg Talks can be found hosted on the CEAg World YouTube channel.

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