Big thinking on big issues from big money will fuel the seventh annual Land Investment Expo Jan. 24 at the Sheraton Hotel West Des Moines.

One of the world’s richest men will travel to the epicenter of the U.S. biofuels boom to deliver the 2014 Land Expo’s keynote presentation, "Powering America’s Energy and Economic Future: A Conversation with T. Boone Pickens."

Pickens is the strategic and managerial force who founded Mesa Petroleum and built it into one of the largest independent natural gas and oil companies in the U.S. before his departure in 1996. Since then, he founded BP...