Programme overview
April 2, 2017
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14:00
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15:00
Welcome reception and social event
Visit to Micropia
The only museum of its kind in the centre of Amsterdam, displaying the invisible world of micro-organisms. More beautiful and spectacular than you could ever have imagined.
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17:00
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Prof. dr. Arjen van Tunen, CEO KeyGene
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17:05
Plenary keynote lectures & panel discussion
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´Adaptation to Climate Change & Zero Carbon Emission´ from a European perspective
Barend Verachtert, Head of Unit Agri-Food Chain DG Research & Innovation at the European Commission, will present the policy of the EU in how to adapt our crops to climate change.
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´Food Supply & Zero Hunger´ from an Asian perspective
Dr. Usha Barwale Zehr, Director and Chief Technology Officer at Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company Private Limited (MAHYCO) (India) will illustrate how crop innovations can impact food supply and contribute to the zero hunger challenge.
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´Higher Yields & Zero Waste´ from an U.S. perspective
dr. S.J. (Sally) Rockey, Executive Director of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (U.S.A.) will share her vision about US perspectives that increase crop yield and reduce food waste.
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Panel discussion: 'Critical challenges to agriculture - next-generation perspective'
led by Christine Gould, CEO Thought For Food (Switzerland)
Panel members:
- Ihab Boulas, Cofounder and CEO Unibiome (France)
- Gerald Perry Marin, Co-founder FoPo Food powder (Switzerland)
- Max Loessl, Founder of agrilution and Founder of the association of vertical farming - AVF (Austria)
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19:00
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20:00
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A Dutch perspective on plant breeding and societal challenges
Marjolijn Sonnema, Director General Agro and Nature, Ministry of Economic Affairs, will share her vision on how it is the task of businesses, NGO’s, researchers and the government to further shape these techniques and their support.
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April 3, 2017
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08:30
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09:00
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Arthur P.J. Mol, Rector Magnificus Wageningen University
Arthur P.J. Mol is currently Rector Magnificus and vice-president of Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands. He was professor and chair of Environmental Policy at Wageningen University; professor in environmental policy at Renmin and Tsinghua University, China; professor in enviornmental policy at UKM, Malaysia; Director of the Wageningen School of Social Sciences, the Netherlands; joint editor of the journal Environmental Politics. He worked extensively in Southeast and East Asia, East Africa, and the EU.
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09:45
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10:30
Parallel sessions part 1
Realizing new solutions: IP & Regulatory
This session highlights the current trends from various perspectives including patentability of novel breeding technologies, products and biological processes. Regulatory status of new breeding technologies like Crispr/cas9.
Presentations by:
▪ Franck Coutand (Groupe Limagrain)
▪ Sunit Talapatra (Foley & Lardner LLP)
▪ René Raggers (EP&C)
▪ Patrick Rüdelsheim (ABS-int)
▪ René Custers (VIB)Insights and understanding: Breakthrough R&D
What are the next gen innovations generated by our next generation and how are academic R&D findings translated into start-up companies. Will Google’s big data and virtual reality technologies also have impact on the Agri biotech industry?
Presentations by:
▪ Els Beirnaert (VIB)
▪ Christine Gould (Thought for Food)
▪ Clive Brown (Oxford Nanopore Technologies)
▪ Allen Day (Google)
▪ Willem Broekaert (V-Bio Venture) -
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Parallel sessions part 2: Crops innovation showcases: Agricultural solutions and opportunities for socio economic challenges
The breeding industry and Ag Biotech companies are developing traits that provide solutions that are beneficial throughout the value chain. This session showcases trait innovations in crops like sunflower, sugar beet and potato.
Presentations by:
▪ Mike Vermeer (Lamb Weston Meijer)
▪ Craig Richael (Simplot Plant Sciences)
▪ Rob van Tetering (SESVANDERHAVE)
▪ Philippe Rousseau (Syngenta)This session will feature traits and innovations that address several of the major issues facing the vegetable value chain including the use of pesticides, abiotic stress and shelf life.
Presentations by:
▪ Venkata Kishore (Monsanto)
▪ Jeroen Rouppe van der Voort (COO Scienza Biotechnologies B.V.)
▪ Gerald Perry Marin (FoPo GmbH)
▪ An Michiels (Bayer CropScience) -
15:30
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16:15
Plenary innovator pitch programme
Innovator pitches by young-, promising- and/ or start-up innovators
Four innovator groups, start-ups or SMEs will have an opportunity to present their venture, technology or business case in an elevator pitch of ten minutes. After their pitch they will take questions from the audience and, based on the reflection by the programme committee, a winner will be selected. .Pitching companies:
- NSure (NL)
- Sensoterra (NL)
- Iden Biotechnology (Spain)
- Aphea.Bio (Belgium)
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17:30
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20:00
At the conference dinner experience upcoming Dutch talent Joris Mur (No Mondays Music) DJ and producer, will give you an insight how dance music is produced. You will get the opportunity to experience by yourself how to produce and/or mix dance music.
Pop Up Pitches
In 2 minute sessions anyone who wants to take the floor with a business or applications idea can take the floor. Sign up during this conference but up to 30 minutes in advance of this session. Please contact Dr. Leon Mur for more information and participation leon.mur@cropib.com.
April 4, 2017
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08:30
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09:00
Presentation by Prof. dr. A. (Arjen) van Tunen, CEO KeyGene
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09:45
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10:30
Parallel sessions part 3: Leveraging new tools
Robotics, big data & precision agro
The use of precision agriculture technology and big agriculture data management will lead to an increase in a sustainable production of products. Agricultural producers are increasingly adopting these precision agriculture technologies in the recent years. New developments will be addressed in this session.
Presentations by:
▪ Robert Berendes (A-Connect)
▪ Lénaïc Grignard (Delair-Tech)
▪ Peter Maes (Koppert Biological Systems)
▪ Margot Ribberink (Meteo Group)Game changer technologies with benefits for the grower, the processing industry, consumers and our environment will be addressed on the basis of traits in crops.
Presentations by:
▪ Jane Theaker (LGC Genomics)
▪ Ofer Haviv (Evogene Plant Innovation)
▪ Bart Lambert (Bayer CropScience)
▪ Speaker t.b.a. (Calyxt) -
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Parallel sessions part 4: Crop innovation showcases: agricultural solutions and opportunities for socio economic challenges
From breeding to growing crops to bio refinery and valuable bio based products. This session will highlight a number of successful cases including Dandelion for natural rubber production, Canola oil, trees for paper applications and palm-based products.
Presentations by:
▪ Gabriel Dehon Rezende (Fibria)
▪ Andry Andriankaja (BASF Plant Science LP)
▪ Anker Sørensen (KeyGene)
▪ Sharifah Shahrul Rabiah Syed Alwee (Felda Global Ventures R&D Sdn. Bhd.)
▪ Ronald Zwart (Biotechnology Expert Group)The ornamental industry is characterized by crops that are mainly vegetatively propagated and with an integrated value chain. The companies are very innovative in fields like logistics, IT and marketing concepts. The companies are nowadays also investing in new breeding technologies meet consumers demand and develop a sustainable supply chain. A number of these innovations will be discussed.
Presentations by:
▪ Lambert van Horen (RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness)
▪ Mark van der Knaap (Anthura)
▪ Michiel van Veen (Royal Lemkes) -
15:30
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16:15
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Vision on the Crisp/Cas9 mutagenesis revolution: status and where do we go from here.
Presentation by M. (Mathias) Muller, Director of Business Development DuPont Pioneer.
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17:00
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18:00