GLOBAL AGRIPRENEURS SUMMIT
April 16th, 2018
Borsa Istanbul (Istanbul Stock Exchange), Turkey
Speakers
Mario Arvelo
Theo De Jager
Emma Weston
Jeroen Leffelaar
Alison Van Eenennaam
Judith Munyurwa
Business title: COO
Organization: Databank Agrifund Manager
What is the Global Agripreneurs Summit?
The Global Agripreneurs Summit is an industry highlight in the agrifood tech sector that dives deep to understand where the source of our food is coming from.
The Summit aims to bring an en...
What is the Global Agripreneurs Summit?
The Global Agripreneurs Summit is an industry highlight in the agrifood tech sector that dives deep to understand where the source of our food is coming from.
The Summit aims to bring an entrepreneurial mindset to the industry to reignite agriculture as a key pillar for global economical growth and sustainability. It showcases highlighting cutting-edge solutions from farm to fork; industry experts and stakeholders meetups for the potential of new synergies and cross border opportunities; and delivers the global stage to learn insights from influencers and controversial voices from the field of sustainability, food security, production and traceability.
The Summit brings increasing interaction between farmers, agripreneurs, investors, the private sector, government and other stakeholders from around the world to build awareness of the industry potential, introduce game changing innovations, and attract the necessary talent that will revive the 40% of the workforce employed by agriculture, as well as, gain increased attention from the youth to see agriculture as a food basket opportunity.
FAC Global Championships is the highlight event within the Summit where the winning agripreneur from over 60 nations across 5 continents competes at an international level to be entitled the Agripreneur of the Year to receive dedicated resources to help them grow their business and expand into new markets. The leading global competition is focused on discovering and accelerating innovative and fundable ventures addressing the entire food value chain from farm to fork.
Every year, the Summit travels to a new destination to bring increasing interaction between farmers, agripreneurs, investors, the private sector, government and other stakeholders. From Colombia 2016, to South Africa 2017 and now off to Turkey 2018, it energizes the traditional agrifood industry into an innovative space to reignite agriculture as a key pillar for global economical growth and sustainability.
Why Should I Participate In the Global Agripreneurs Summit?
The Global Agripreneurs Summit brings top industry experts and stakeholders for the potential of new synergies and cross border opportunities. The global stage voices influencers and controversia...
Why Should I Participate In the Global Agripreneurs Summit?
The Global Agripreneurs Summit brings top industry experts and stakeholders for the potential of new synergies and cross border opportunities. The global stage voices influencers and controversial voices from the field of sustainability, food security, production and traceability.
The innovator’s vendor fair showcases selected cutting-edge innovations and technologies disrupting the food and agriculture industry and are enhancing social innovation opportunities across the globe.
The Summit is the place to be if you are seeking new industry trends, networking opportunities or aim to earn stakes in upcoming ventures that will disrupt the food and agriculture industry as we know it.
schedule
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9:30 AMExclusive B2B Session - (VIP attendees only)An exclusive session between startups, investors, and corporates specially designed for new partnership opportunities.
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11:30 AMRegistration - (doors officially open to all attendees)
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12:30 PMWelcome Address
- Mr. Himmet Karadağ - Borsa Istanbul Chairmain of the Board and CEO,Board Member & Steering Committee
- Carla Tanas, Co-Founder of Industry Disruptors Game Changers and Future Agro Challenge
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12:45 PMFood Safety, Quality,& Innovation with Next Generation SequencingSasan Amini's talk will be focused on describing how food safety, quality, and innovation systems can be transformed using next generation technology platform, coupled with data science. Compared to conventional technologies, this powerful combination has the potential to significantly improve the scalability and accessibility of food safety and quality measures and accelerate food innovations.
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13:00 PMGene Editing in Agrifood: Its Promise and ProspectsAlison Van Eenennaam will discuss how precision breeding using gene editing has the potential to produce crops and livestock that are better adapted to pressing problems such as disease, drought, and climate change in agricultural production systems. Researchers have already used this tool to develop plants and animals that are more resilient, and globally much promising research is being undertaken by public institutions and small companies. The challenge for the gene editing community will be to communicate the importance of this technology to develop more sustainable agricultural production systems. Gene editing frequently does not involve the introduction of novel DNA sequences and these products are indistinguishable to those produced through de novo processes. As a result there is uncertainty as to how the products of gene editing should be regulated, and scientists globally are increasingly pushing for regulation based on any unique risk(s) of the product, rather than regulation solely triggered by the use of gene editing.
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13:20 PMAsk the Experts: Stakeholder Questions about Gene-EditingAn interactive discussion of key stakeholders who will challenge the experts on gene editing. The questions we are all asking!
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13:50 PMLunch Networking
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14:30 PMUncovering Cutting-Edge Innovations from Around the WorldHear new cutting edge innovations that are crawling up the ladder to disrupt the agrifood industry.
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14:45 PMFAC Global Championships 3rd & 4th Place
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15:05 PMAI & Robotics: the Next Generation of FarmersTheo De Jager, President of the World Farmers Organisation will share viewpoints about the future of farmers and how they will feed the growing population. He will give insight on what will robotics & AI mean to youth employment; what skill sets will this include; what will they be seeking (and what do they currently seek); how willing are they to innovate; how fast are they adopting to new technology)?
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15:15 PMBlockchain: The Future of Global Agricultural Supply ChainsEmma Weston will share how the agriculture industry is using blockchain, and the challenges ahead for this segment of the industry. She will offer insight about transparency, real time management, and improved access to finance. She will also touch on the challenges including connecting the technology to viable business models.
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15:35 PMCreating Result Oriented Policies in the Food Supply ChainMario Arvelo, Chairperson of the Committee of World Food Security (CFS) will shed light on how we can create result oriented policies vs prescriptive policies as today's agricultural's industry is turning into a high-tech industry, as the growing number of agricultural startups and investors indicate. Gaps in the market creating products that really talk to today’s consumer or the things that today’s consumer is interested in. Each region encounters different challenges, agriculture is a complex industry you must consider culture, education, experience and politics in many cases.
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15:45 PMFAC Global Championships 1st & 2nd Place
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16:05 PMCoffee Networking
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16:30 PMPanel: New Funding Structures in the Agrifood IndustryAn intensive panel discussion around various sources of financing and funds in the agrifood sector including new models and assessing traditional ones. We will also learn about the appetite from investors and corporates.
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17:00 PMDesigning Collective Intelligence for Food & AgricultureThe PC and mobile computing -that we all are familiar with- have disrupted many aspects of life. Some academics claim that we have already entered a new era of computing known ascollective computing. The key differentiating characteristic of this era is the direct and mass participation of a large crowd of people -through web platforms- that are ready to complete a variety of tasks, ranging from simple (such as annotating an image) to more complex (such as thinking of new product). The term collective intelligence is a related term that links the infrastructure (computing) with human capabilities in a large scale. Inspired from these trends and in collaboration with Future Agro Challenge, Javed Khan will present a novel platform -designed in Eindhoven University of Technology- that tries to translate these trends into meaningfully addressing the needs of the food and agro industry on a global scale.
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17:10 PMFAC Global Championships Award Ceremony
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17:30 PMClosing
*The program will be conducted in the English language with simultaneous translations into the Turkish language.
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