Kyler Laird

Kyler Laird was born into farming. His pursuit of high technology took him away from the farm until he realized agriculture's need for his passion of computerized controls. His path continued through managing and farming thousands of acres of corn and soybeans using conventional machinery, and evolved into developing driverless equipment which was used in production on that land. In 2019, he toured the Midwest, planting soybeans using driverless equipment he designed.

Kyler's diverse experience provides common ground with many audiences and it allows him to synthesize new perspectives of relevance. He has deep, daily, hands-on experience with row-crop agriculture and robotics.

Before returning to the farm, Kyler primarily gave presentations to audiences full of children and he shared the stage with therapy dogs that he rescued and trained. He has retained the fluid conversational style of presentation required of children and dogs. Kyler eschews slideshows and delights in discovering and pursuing specific topics of interest to audiences during speaking opportunities.