Announcing the Winners for the 2025 CEAg World Impact Awards
CEAg World Impact Awards logo. | CEAg World
CEAg World™, a Meister Media Worldwide brand and a leading media and events brand in the controlled environment agriculture (CEA) space, announced the winners of the inaugural CEAg World Impact Awards, recognizing individuals driving real progress in Advancing Food Under Cover™.
“The accomplishments of the four winners are truly impressive and a testament to their tenacity, creativity, and dedication to the CEA space,” says Kristin D. Zeit, Content Lead for CEAg World. “It’s such an honor to be able to shine a light on their work in advancing food under cover.”
These annual awards, launched on July 7, 2025, recognize CEA trailblazers who are moving the future of protected agriculture forward.
2025 CEAg World Impact Award Winners:
The winners of the 2025 CEAg World Impact Awards. | CEAg World
- Visionary Grower Award: Bill Ferguson — Riley Creek Farms
- Innovator Award: Sam Bertram — OnePointOne
- Emerging Leader Award: Gretchen Schimelpfenig — GLASE and Energy Resources Integration
- Educator/Researcher Award: Chieri Kubota — The Ohio State University
The CEAg World Impact Award winners were announced on Nov. 20, during the opening ceremony of the CEAg World Conference and Expo held on Nov. 19–21, 2025, in Durham, NC.
To learn more about the award winners and their accomplishments, a series of in-depth video interviews will be released as part of CEAg World’s CEAg Talks, a curated video series that highlights industry innovators, their impact stories, and insights from across the controlled environment agriculture community, available at CEAgWorld.com/talks. Some of the already published interviews in that series are featured below:
For more information about the CEAg World Impact Awards, please visit CEAgWorld.com/impact.
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