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Plenary lectures:
- Steve Patterson, Global Crop Manager Cereals at BayerCropScience
- Marc Albertsen, Research Director Pioneer
- Volkert Engelsman, CEO Eosta - Nature & More
- Ram Kaundinya, Non-Executive director on the Board of Advanta Ltd. >>
- Anker Sørensen, Vice President New Business KeyGene >>
- Howard-Yana Shapiro PhD, Chief Agricultural Officer Mars Advanced Research Institute Fellow |MARS, INC.
- prof. dr. Arjen van Tunen, CEO KeyGene N.V. >>
Presentations session Input & consumer traits: sustainability & traits:
- Gerhard Steinrucken, Research Director SESVanderHave >>
- Marco van Leeuwen, Managing Director Rijk Zwaan >>
- Dr. Lisette Mascarenhas MBA, Director of Research and Development at Saskatchewan Pulse Growers
- dr. Bernd Mussler MBA, Innovation Project Director - Human Nutrition and Health/IPM at DSM
Presentations session Technologies & Agribusiness: Game-changing biotech technologies challenging Agribusiness Product Development and concept realisation:
- dr. Silvia Travella, Coordinator ETP Plants for the future >>
- Pim Lindhout, Director Solynta >>
- Dr. Jeroen Rouppe van der Voort, Director Biotechnology Enza Zaden >> not available
Presentations session Product Development and Value creation outside the seed industry: Trends and challenges :
- Dr. Raúl Urbina, Director Stevia One Perú
- Eric Mathur, Chief Science Officer / Senior Vice President Crop Science at Yulex Corporation
- Drs. Leontine Gast, Managing Partner The Terrace
- JanWillem Breukink, Senior Executive Member of the Board at INCOTEC Group BV >>
Presentations session Big Data & Value: Developments, opportunities and partnerships in the breeding, crop protection and seed technology industry:
- Roeland van Ham, Professor Computational Plant Biotechnology at TU Delft
- Elisha Nathan Ph.D. MBA, Director Business Development at Evogene LTD >>
- Jos Lunenberg, Chief Business Officer at Genalice >> and >> video registration
- Prof. Jakob de Vlieg, VP - Sr. Expert Lead at Bayer CropScience
Presentations session Plants and legal protection, hosted by EP&C:
- Dr. Robbert-Jan de Lang, Dutch & European Patent Attorney (partner) at EP&C >>
- Dr. Michael Kock, Head of Intellectual Property at Syngenta International AG >>
- Geertrui van Overwalle, Professor University of Leuven – ICRI/CIR-Centre for Intellectual Property Rights >>
- Rob Huijten, Global Head of Law, Patents & Compliance at Bayer CropScience Vegetable Seeds >>
- Claudia Hallebach, LL.M., Head of R&D Legal Affairs and Intellectual Property at KWS SAAT AG >>
Presentations session Plants and Society, hosted by Cibus:
- Guus ter Haar, Consultant Technology & Society at Schuttelaar & Partners >>
- Karin Verzijden, Attorney at law at Axon Lawyers >>
- Greg Gocal, Senior Vice President, Research and Development at Cibus >>
- dr. Alan Gould, Verdant Partners LLC >>
Pitches by young-, promising- and/or start-up companies:
- Moderator: Adam Anders, Managing Partner Anterra Capital
- #1 Job Schipper, Hortimare BV
- #2 Giacomo Bastianelli, Co-founder & CEO at Meiogenix >>
- #3 Hanne Volpin PhD., Deputy CEO and Head of R&D at Danziger Innovations >>
- #4 Dr. Marcel Ottiger, Executive Partner, Member of the Board at Amphasys AG >>
- #5 Prof dr Daniel Bonn, GreenA >>