CEO of Biofeed, Israel

My goal and passion are to improve farmers’ livelihood through increased production, free of bio and chemo hazards, grown in a safe environment so that consumers can enjoy healthier food.

As a leader and innovator, I develop and implement disruptive non-spraying crop protection technologies and protocols, as well as complimentary economic and business models.

I live and act in light of my vision, which leads Biofeed and me to develop endless innovative solutions for ‘missing parts of the puzzle.’

Biofeed is a company that changed my life, and now is helping me change the lives of many other people, mainly in the agri-sector in underdeveloped countries.

Thanks to my deep social and environmental awareness, rooted in my background as a farmer, I can help farmers, exporters, and regulators devise and apply winning strategies that will secure the future of agriculture trade, even under stingiest regulations.

This way, we can overcome the challenges of quarantine pests and still serve the best quality fresh produce to consumers.

Before Biofeed, and (most of it) while I was farming, I invested 15 years in the academy, mostly in fruit fly ecological research. I hold a Ph.D. in entomology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Today, I spend much of the time in Asia and Africa, working with farmers, stakeholders, policymakers, and governments to form a better future for the agri-industry.

And most important, I LOVE WHAT I AM DOING, AND I AM GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY I RECEIVED TO GIVE BACK SO MUCH.

Session: How you can improve your business success in entering Africa’s agri-industry.

Tech Company, Rethink Your Business Model For Africa and Emerging Markets

The value chain and business environment in Africa and emerging economies is very different than in developed countries. Hence, understanding those challenges well ahead is a key success factor. In this session, I focus on the challenges a company may face when attempting to enter those markets.

The goal of the session is to help businesspersons plan their entering strategy. I use examples from the challenges and solutions Biofeed’s team faced while doing it.

Learning outcomes:

• Participants will learn about the structure and gaps of the value chain in emerging economies.
• The basic business models used in emerging markets.
• As a result, participants will know how to avoid business pitfalls, and to adjust their business model to the reality in emerging markets.
• A new concept and business model for Africa.

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CEO of NONG Precision Agriculture, Brazil

My name is Gabriel do Nascimento. At the end of 2015, I was approved in a very important program of the Brazilian Government, called Science Without Borders, which offers scholarships to study in the most prestigious universities around the world. I chose a Chinese university, and this decision changed my entire life!

I studied at one of the best engineering universities in Asia. During those years, I participated in many special projects with big companies, in which I could see the most innovative Drone technologies being developed in the whole world. Back in Brazil, I was sure I want to work with Drones. In 2018, I co-founded NONG Precision Agriculture, since then, our company is dedicated to changing the way agribusinesses view their assets and manage resources through Drone Mapping. To extract the true commercial value of drones, we are constantly developing a multifaceted technology that includes advanced artificial intelligence, robust software, and rich data analysis.

Session: Drones, Satellites, Satellite-based applications, Robotics and Automation for Precision Agriculture

Democratizing Precision Agriculture

Big data, Autonomous Tractors, IoT, are examples of technologies that have transformed agriculture. But they usually are expensive, leading to a slow adoption among small farmers.

Drone Mapping can be an affordable solution for growers who want to start adopting Precision Agriculture. In this session, we will show how our company helped a group of coffee farmers from a small Brazilian Cooperative, taking their traceability to the next level and increasing their profitability.

Learning outcomes:

• Participants will learn how to use Drone Mapping as an affordable Precision Agriculture solution.
• Participants will learn about the business opportunities involving small farmers.
• Participants will learn how Drone Mapping and georeferenced field notes can increase traceability.

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Environmental and Social Compliance Consultant at Continental Clothing Company UK, France

I am an ambitious graduate student from ESSEC. I now work in sustainable development and on very important and contemporary issues such as water and natural resources management. My thesis revolved around an alternative system to traditional agriculture, which is urban agriculture. The study that I have carried out on this subject is done through the assessment of its viability in the long term in megacities, mainly through its economic, environmental, and social review. Investigating this viability was a way of addressing my question, which was whether the biggest cities in the world would be a pathway in order to meet the urgent need for more sustainable agriculture.

Sustainability is a growing concern in modern times as the impact of climate change is already felt in many parts of the world. In this context, I personally believe it is essential to address the challenges required to build a world more sustainable.

I soon discovered that Agriculture was taking on a central role in these discussions. Primarily because it is necessary to feed the fast-growing population. Secondly, because the farming industry relies a lot on our planet’s limited resources while having at the same time a significant impact on biodiversity. In the coming years, Agriculture will have to satisfy a growing demand coming from cities and megacities, which is something it is currently unable to assume without making an enormous impact on our planet.

Session: The future of Agriculture : feeding the world in a sustainable way in megacities?

This session outlines and discusses the viability of a system that is regaining popularity. Frequently suggested as a core solution for reconciling the sustainable goals of cities and agriculture, Urban Agriculture constitutes a contemporary and pertinent topic to work on.

My ambition was to dig a little deeper into the subject and see if there were any obstacles to this system, in order to analyze its real impact. I believe that it is necessary not to rush into alternative solutions which at first sight may seem perfect, but which could have negative repercussions decades later.

I have drawn up a plan that will first provide an understanding of the subject, its importance, and the method I have used to study it. Then, the Shanghai case study will be a way to grasp and illustrate the various advantages and challenges of urban agriculture in megacities, and to infer the implications for the viability of this model in order to apprehend the future with new keys of development.

Learning outcomes:

• In this session, participants will learn key concepts concerning urban agriculture.
• In this session, participants will be able to learn about the future of agriculture and urban agriculture.
• In this session, participants will understand the importance of agriculture in sustainability.
• It will be an interactive session, with interesting and unknown facts.

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Food Scientist at Big Idea Ventures, Singapore

Dr. Matthew Zhao is the Food Scientist at Big Idea Ventures, Asia. His technical expertise includes specialisation in post-harvest technology, food packaging and processing, and shelf-life evaluation. Under his guidance, several companies were successful in adopting innovative novel technology, solutions and processes to commercialise their product with better nutritional value, a stable shelf-life among other value-added functional properties. He holds a PhD in Food Technology from Massey University, New Zealand.

Session: Alternative protein as the future food

Alternative protein to address global consumption

It is expected that the world population will reach 10 billion in 2050. Alternative protein may be one of the main approaches to produce sufficient food to feed 10 billion people by 2050. Alternative protein covers the plant-based and cellular agriculture sector, adopting innovative technology to recreate food products.

Learning outcomes:

• Gain awareness of alternative protein
• Understand plant-based technology and products
• Impact of cellular agriculture on meat industry
• Food security issues

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Director of Activ8water, Australia

Session: Most innovative water enhancement water technology for agriculture and livestock industry

New and Innovative water technology for agriculture & livestock industry

1. Basic mechanism of the technology
2. General effect of the technology
3. Soil improvement
4. Benefits to agriculture
5. Benefits to livestock industry

Learning outcomes:

• Water saving for agriculture & livestock industry
• Soil remediation & improvement
• Increased yield of crops with less fertilizer and water
• Significant reduction of mortality rate of livestock and increased health condition

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Chairman of the Board at Liquid Technologies International, Inc., Japan

Tatsuhisa is an experienced international businessman. He is a graduate of University of Cambridge with a Masters law degree and a thriving business law practice in Europe as well as in Japan. He has also been working as a prominent business consultant for the Japanese companies which plan to develop the overseas markets for their innovative or leading edge technology . He has been successful in promulgating many of the Japanese innovative products on a global market.

Tatsuhisa is Chairman of Liquid Technologies International, Inc., a corporation dedicated to the promulgation of the cutting edge water enhancement technology with the constant agitation of the ceramic beads which are made from 100 % natural ores, and this technology could be compatible with the conventional water treatment technology and of which use could significantly promote human health and high-yield livestock & agriculture not to mention the progress of water quality in any use.

Session: Most innovative water enhancement water technology for agriculture and livestock industry

New and Innovative water technology for agriculture & livestock industry

1. Basic mechanism of the technology
2. General effect of the technology
3. Soil improvement
4. Benefits to agriculture
5. Benefits to livestock industry

Learning outcomes:

• Water saving for agriculture & livestock industry
• Soil remediation & improvement
• Increased yield of crops with less fertilizer and water
• Significant reduction of mortality rate of livestock and increased health condition

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Professional for robotic dairy farms at LINIVERSS Uldis Krauze, Latvia

I have acquired my education at Riga Technical College and Riga Technical University in Latvia. For several years I have worked in dairy farming in Latvia and then acquired several years of experience in dairy farming in the United Kingdom. As a relief worker and employee, I have worked on dairy farms with conventional dairy systems, but thanks to a successful coincidence of circumstances, I have had the opportunity to start working with farm robots, and now I’m sure that introduction of digital technologies is the only way to keep employees in dairy farming also in the future. And not far in the future, but in next five- ten years already.

Session: Farmers and farm workers- Generation Z

My own experience working with the newest dairy farm robots and compare it with work on dairy farms with conventional milking systems

An employee’s vision of why it is crucial for dairy farmers who are using manual and conventional milking system to take immediate action and to apply changes in order to stay in the market and not lose their position to a farmers who uses new-generation farm robots, because the digital era of farms doesn’t coming soon – it has arrived already!

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Director of Indigram Group, India

Dr Dinesh Chauhan is Director of Indigram Group. It comprises of Indigram Labs Foundation ILF a Technology Business Incubator, Indian Society of Agribusiness Professional ISAP, Indian Agribusiness Systems Pvt Ltd (www.agriwatch.com) and Indian Society of Healthcare Professional ISHP.

He is an eminent Key note speaker and has a long history with Agriculture and Agribusiness sector. He has been involved in the agricultural sector for around 20 years. He has a technical background in Agriculture, Food Technology, Agribusiness Management, having worked in academics, consulting, sales and business development in various Multinational and leading national companies at senior management positions. He has also worked with UNDP in Africa as Agribusiness Management professional. Areas of expertise include advising and mentoring Agri and Food Startups, developing farm solutions; farm consulting, Large Scale Modern Farming, Business Planning, Supply Chain Management of Agrivalue Chain, Category Management of Fresh Produce, Business Development of Rural Retail One Stop Shop Solutions, Collateral Management and Commodity Finance, Structured Trade Finance, International Agribusiness, On- farm investment and farm profitability analysis. He has worked in Asia and Africa region. He is Phd in Management, MBA in Agribusiness Management, MSc in Food Technology and BSc in Agriculture and Animal Husbandry.

Previously he was CEO and Director of leading International Consulting Firm with the mandate for agriculture projects consulting, research, trade and technology and investments facilitation in food and agriculture sector. He offered consulting services across entire the domain in agriculture, agribusiness, animal husbandry and allied sector with clients ranging from India, Africa , Middle East, Latin America and South Asia.

He is also advisory board member of Africa Agribusiness Alliance, HackAfrica2020, Global Bio Ag Linkages , United States, AgTech Insight California, Ghana India Trade Advisory Council- Ghana, Global AgTech Council and working group member of National level Committee of Agri StartUps, ICFA

Under his able leadership his consulting group was recognized by Silicon India among most promising Agriculture Consultants in 2019. He has been instrumental in forging tie-ups with organisations like Global GAP India Partner, IBM The Weather Company, CropIn Technologies, AgInsight ( USA ), BioAgLinkages ( USA ), Farmlogics , CAAMS ( China ), CAMDA ( China ) , Federal Government of Sudan, Ministry of Defence Zambia etc. He has been at Senior Leadership roles for more than one and half decade. Worked across sectors ranging from food production / processing, quality, supply chain, NPD, commodities, collateral management , International Trade, warehousing, sports grounds, financial consulting and business facilitation. He has worked with various cross cultural teams ranging from India, US, Australia, Israel, Africa , China, Norway and South Asia.

Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkchauhan72/

Dinesh Kumar Chauhan

Director, Indigram Group

Contact: dinesh.chauhan@indigram.in

Twitter: @dkchauhan

Session: Precision Agriculture

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CEO of Ansio, India

Session: Digitisation of Agriculture value chain and precision farming

Core objective of AgriTech intervention should be :

*Minimizing cost of production per acre and maximizing output

*Categorized in to pre harvest and post harvest solution

*Pre harvest solution should include providing solution related to

*Availability and Judicious use of inputs based on soil condition and weather factors

*Information and alerts about pest and disease Weather perils

*Accessibility of crop production information

*Market linkage, production based on sustainable practices, supply chain,

*storage and quality assessment to better price realization

*Technology should create impact promotes sustainability

Learning outcomes:

• Decision directly to the farmers
• Usage of data for better decision making
• Complete digitisation of agriculture value chain
• Reduction of farming cost and maximising farming income through technology

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Account director at VCearth, China

Li Weiyu, Vcearth Customer Director. With seven years of education background in journalism and media, focuseing on industrial innovation and benchmarking enterprise growth driven by new technologies.  Li participated in the editing and proofreading of the “Chinese Grand Ceremony · Agricultural Canon” in 2017, led the Chinese authoritative agrifood awards “Future Agrifood Top 100” in 2019, served as the host of 2019 Future  agricultural&food Summit, and participated in “Future Agricultural Series report”.

Session: An overview about the existence and potential of China agri food tech

How China AgriFood tech Rock and Rolls

Learning outcomes:

• How China’s AgriFood industry changed under the pandemic
• China’s AgriFood industry investment trends over the past decade
• Industry hotspots of digital technology innovation Insights on future agricultural technology
• How Chinese entrepreneurs seeks for globalization

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