Kenneth Purcell’s iSeatz is the engine that drives online booking for American Express Travel, Delta, Orbitz and more, from right here in New Orleans. Gary Solomon’s The Solomon Group lights up the Superdome, and that’s just for starters.

Andre Champagne’s massive fleet of Hollywood Trucks keeps Hollywood South industry rolling. A.J.Niland’s New Orleans-based HUKA Entertainment stages some of the nation’s biggest and brightest music festivals.

We can’t keep saying forever that we’re in a boom in New Orleans. Dana Eness from The Urban Conservancy and Blair duQuesnay from Ignite Investments and Planning on the dawn of the day after the boom. Will we have longterm change or a nostalgic golden era to look back on?

Kevin Morgan Rothschild, co-founder of [VertiFarms][link1], and Megan Nuismer, founder of [The New Orleans Fruit Tree Project][link2], are changing the way we grow vegetables in a swampy urban food desert and harvest fruit in an abundant garden of Eden. [link1]: http://growvertifarms.com/tags/vertifarms[link2]: http://www.nolafruit.org/

Kevin Morgan Rothschild, co-founder of VertiFarms, and Megan Nuismer, founder of The New Orleans Fruit Tree Project, are changing the way we grow vegetables in a swampy urban food desert and harvest fruit in an abundant garden of Eden.