The following presentations or abstracts, agreed for publication, are available and can be downloaded:
Keynote lectures
- dr. Sally Rockey, Executive Director of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (U.S.A)
- prof. dr. Arjen van Tunen, CEO KeyGene (NL)
Realizing new solutions: IP & Regulatory
- Franck Coutand, Head of Industrial Property/Corporate Scientific Direction at Limagrain (France)
- Dr. Patrick Rüdelsheim, Senior Regulatory Advisor, ABS-int (Belgium)
- René Custers, Regulatory & Responsible Research manager at VIB (Belgium)
- Dr. René Raggers, Dutch & European Patent Attorney (associate partner) EP&C (NL)
Insights and understanding: breakthrough R&D
Open Field Crops
- Craig Richael, Director of R&D Simplot Plant Sciences (U.S.A)
- Rob van Tetering, Chief Executive Officer SESVANDERHAVE (Belgium)
- Philippe Rousseau, Head of Sunflower and WOSR Syngenta (France)
Vegetable Crops
Robotics, Big Data & Precision Agro
- Robert Berendes, Partner a-connect (Switzerland)
- Peter Maes, Director Corporate Marketing Koppert Biological Systems (Belgium)
(Bio)technologies & Genomics
- Jane Theaker, Vice President of Science and Technology Development LGC Genomics (U.K.)
- Ofer Haviv, President & CEO Evogene Plant Innovation (Israel)
Biobased Crops
- Dr. Gabriel Dehon Rezende, Forest Technology and Innovation General Manager Fibria (Brazil)
- Anker Sørensen, Vice President New Business Keygene (NL)
- Dr. Sharifah Shahrul Syed Alwee, CEO at Felda Global Ventures Research & Development Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia)
- Ronald Zwart PhD MBA, Biotechnology Expert Group (NL)
Ornamental Crops
- Lambert van Horen, Analyst Horticulture (floriculture) at RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness (NL)
- Michiel van Veen, Operations & Supply Chain Director at Royal Lemkes (NL)
Innovator pitches