The recent Future Farming Theatre at GFIA Europe, in the Netherlands, was a great success. Did you miss it? Not to worry! Watch the video.
One of the keynotes at the Agtech Leaders Summit at the GFIA Europe was given by Mr Robbie Schingler, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Planet. Photo: Koos Groenewold
The well attended Agtech Leaders Summit at the GFIA Europe attracted visitors from all over the world. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Prof. Louise O Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen UR gave a keynote address at the Agtech Leaders Summit at the GFIA Europe. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Full house at the Agtech Leaders Summit at the GFIA Europe. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Adam Anders, Managing Partner at Anterra Capital, speaking at the Agtech Leaders Summit at the GFIA Europe. Photo: Koos Groenewold
André Laperrière, Executive Director, Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN). Photo: Koos Groenewold
Dr Aalt Dijkhuizen, President, Dutch Top Sector Agri&Food in the Netherlands. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Rabobank Executive Board, the Netherlands. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Liam Condon, President of Crop Science Division, Bayer AG. Photo: Koos Groenewold
The Robotics and the Internet of Things session at the Agtech Leaders Summit, moderated by Proagrica editors. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Jacco van der Wekken, CEO at Delphy spoke in the Robotics and the Internet of Things session about practical usage of data and models to optimize crop growth. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Jürgen Vangeyte, Agricultural Engineer, ILVO (Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research) spoke in the Robotics and the Internet of Things session about IoT driven farming. Photo: Koos Groenewold
The Big Data and intellectual property session at the Agtech Leaders Summit, moderated by Proagrica editors. Krijn Poppe from Wageningen UR updated the audience about big Data and intellectual property. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Nick Evans, managing director F4F went on to delve deeper into the practical application of suing big data. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Janneke Hadders, CEO of Dacom (left) and Sara Menker, CEO of Gro Intelligence are ready to take questions from the audience at the Big Data and intellectual property session. Photo: Koos Groenewold
The Farmers Panel session at the Agtech Leaders Summit, moderated by Proagrica editors included Jacob van den Borne, (precision) potato farmer, Carlos Piñeiro, CEO of PigChamp Pro Europa and Tim Gibson. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Carlos Piñeiro presented his views and experiences on biosecurity driven swine production. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Next to the Agtech Leaders Summit, the GFIA Europe also has an exhibition, where people can get in contact with new companies and innovations, a Future Farming theatre and innovation theatre. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Proagrica was present with a big booth at the exhibition floors. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Attendees could experience the urban crop systems from Green Crop Solutions. Photo: Koos Groenewold
The BOM group, for innovative greenhouse solutions. Photo: Koos Groenewold
People browsing the booths. Photo: Koos Groenewold
People browsing the booths. Photo: Koos Groenewold
People browsing the booths. Photo: Koos Groenewold
The Proagrica Future Farming Theatre hosted 5 sessions over 2 days on pigs, poultry, dairy, horticulture and crop farming. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Geert Hekkert, Proagrica media editor (chief editor Boerderij) hosted the crop farming session. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Sjaak Wolfert from Wageningen UR updated the theatre audience on big data and smart farming. Photo: Koos Groenewold
How to use data to optimise agribusiness and food chains was the title of the talk of Jérémie Wainstain, CEO The Green Data. Photo: Koos Groenewold
In the horticulture session, Dr. Marc Kreuger, Global Head of Innovation at Here, There and Everywhere presented Tthe future of farming – emancipation of the plant. Photo: Koos Groenewold
WatchitGrow® for the future of the Belgian Potato Chain was the title of Romain Cools, Business Development Remote Sensing at VITO. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Full house at all the session in the Proagrica Future Farming Theatre. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Vincent ter Beek, editor Pig Progres, hosted the future farming pig session. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Jürgen Vangeyte, Agricultural Engineer, ILVO (Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research) spoke about early warning systems for disease detection in pigs. Second speaker in this session was Bart Teuwen, Advisor at DLV MAS. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Fabian Brockotter, editor Poultry World introduces the speakers at the Future Farming Poultry session. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Sergio Guerra, Manager of Technical Systems at Aviagen talked about data-driven decisions over the intuition approach. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Daren Suntych, CEO and founder at Xiant Technologies talked about innovative lighting systems for poultry. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Can poultry houses be ventilated by solar powered ventilation systems. Certinaly! Jens Dybdahl, Managing Direcor at DACS A/S explained how it works. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Taking young stock rearing to the next generation. Siert-Jan Boersema, veterinarian at Jongveecoach presented new inisghts in the Future Farming Dairy session. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Vivi M. Thorup, Data analyst at IceRobotics delved deeper into precision livestock farming for dairy and the role of sensors. Photo: Koos Groenewold
Henk Hogeveen from Wageningen UR explained the economic side of using sensors on a dairy farm. Photo: Koos Groenewold
This year’s first edition of GFIA Europe was a huge success, hope to meet and match next year in Utrecht, the Netherlands again! Photo: Koos Groenewold