2018 edition

The 3rd edition of the Agri-Food Innovation Event took place on June 28-29, 2018, at Brightlands Campus, Venlo, The Netherlands.

The event brought together over 500 attendees and speakers, who shared their opinions and views on the latest developments in 3D food printing, vertical farming, smart farming and healthy nutrition.

A photo impression of the conferences and the expo can be found here.

Below you can see the program of the event

Day 1, 27 June 2018
08:30	09:25	Welcome and Registration
09:25	09:30		Opening by Pieter Hermans, Matchmaker for Innovators, Jakajima, Moderator
09:30	10:00		Professor Aalt Bast, Professor Toxicology Maastricht University and Dean of the Campus Venlo, on “The cook as pharmacologist of the future”, More information
10:00	10:30		Celine Nicole, Senior Plant Research scientist, Philips Lighting, The Netherlands, on “Light recipes enable sky high vitamins and a longer shelf life in leafy greens”, More information; Read the interview
10:30	11:00	Coffee Break and visit Expo
		Healthy Nutrition Session #1				Vertical Farming Session #1
11:00	11:30		Freddy Troost, Associate professor,  Food Innovation and Health, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, on “Targeted release of nutrients and tastants to tackle obesity”, More information				Lambert van Horen, Analyst Horticulture, RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness, The Nehterlands
11:30	12:00		Stefanie Bröring, Professor, Rheinisch Westfälische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany, on “Food or drugs? What drives consumers’ perception of borderline products?” More information				Daniel Podmirseg, Head & Founder, Vertical Farm Institute, Austria, on “Ten ideas to rescue the world [so far]”, More information
12:00	12:30		Alie de Boer, Assistant Professor in nutritional sciences and food law, Maastricht University Campus Venlo, The Netherlands, on “Health benefits of foods: how can you communicate it?”, More information				Mark Korzilius, founder, Farmers Cut GmbH, Germany, on “Dryponics – Energy efficient consumer focused approach to grow indoors”, More information
12:30	14:00	Lunch Break and visit Expo Brightbox tour (vertical farm expertise centre) – fully booked
		Healthy Nutrition Session #2				Vertical Farming Session #2
14:00	15:30		Remco Havermans, Assistant Professor, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, on “The product, the consumer, and the behavioural scientist”, More information				Felipe Hernandez, CEO & Founder, Hexagro Urban Farming, Italy, on “Creating an Urban Farming Network inspired by Nature”, More information
			Gertrude Zeinstra, Scientist, Consumer Science and Health, Wageningen Food and Biobased Research, The Netherlands, on “Understanding consumer behaviour to enable healthy and sustainable food choices”, More information				Henry Gordon-Smith, Managing Director, Agritecture Consulting, USA, on “Smart Agriculture for Smart Cities: How data and scenario analysis could take vertical farming mainstream”, More information; Read the interview
			Rick Schifferstein, Associate Professor, Delft University of Technology, on “Cooperating with designers to develop new food products and health interventions”, More information				Gert-Jan van Staalduinen, Director, Logiqs BV, The Netherlands, on “Greencube, Vertical farm of the future”, More information
			Mehmet Cicek, CEO, Fovation – Food & Innovation, Germany, on “More success by sustainability? How can life cycle assessments and the Dutch-German Food2020 programme support your company?”, More information				Ine Pertry, Project Developer, Inagro, Belgium, on “Agrotopia – a living lab for high tech urban and greenhouse horticulture”, More information
15:30	16:00	Break and visit Expo Laboratorium tour Centre for Healthy Eating and Food Innovation – fully booked
		Healthy Nutrition Session #3				Vertical Farming Session #3
16:00	17:15		Vincent van Buul, Investment Analyst, Brightlands Agrifood Ventures, on “Nutrition Information Usage and Future Food”, More information				Martin Veenstra, Sales Engineer, Certhon, on “Key success factors in designing Indoor Farms”, More information
			Fred Bergmans, Co-founder & Entrepreneur, Carezzo Nutrition bv, on “Dutch Innovation: From Science to Solution. Avoiding malnutrition with protein enriched food & drink”, More informationShirley Vollenberg, Communication advisor – EU Projects, WATIFY – Brainport Development, on “WATIFY – Inspire, boost & connect”				Yangang Xing, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, United Kingdom, on “Energy Efficient Vertical Farming”, More information
			Iris de Hoogh, Scientist Innovator, TNO, The Netherlands, on “Personalized Nutrition & Health: from science to practice”, More information				VK Kishore, Solanaceous Breeding Lead – Europe, Middle East and Africa & Science Fellow, Monsanto Company, on”The Role of Genetics in Driving Growth for the Vertical Farming Industry”, More information
17:15	18:30	Drinks and visit Expo
19:00 – 22:00 hours Networking dinner June 27 (registration is required)
Day 2, 28 June 2018
08:30	09:30	Welcome and Registration
		3D Food Printing Session #1				Smart Farming Session #1
09:30	10:00		Stephen Homer, Materials Scientist, CSIRO, Australia, on “3D printing for personalised nutrition”, More information				Dennis van der Wiel, CEO, Polariks, The Netherlands, on “How space technology and robotics can help make better wine”, More information
10:00	10:30		Martijn Noort, Scientist and Project Manager, Wageningen Food & Biobased Research, on “Powderbased 3D food printing technologies”, More information				Michael Utkin, co-Founder / CEO, eFarmer, on ‘professional tractor navigation and precision farming’
10:30	11:00	Coffee Break and visit Expo
		3D Food Printing Session #2				Smart Farming Session #2
11:00	11:30		Mary Scerra, Food Technologist, US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, USA, on “Exploration of 3D food printing and its application for tailored military rations”, More information				Louis de Bruin, Blockchain Leader Europe, IBM Digital Operations, on “Blockchain: a powerful tool for creating trust in the food chain”, More information
11:30	12:00		Kjeld Van Bommel, Senior Consultant, TNO, The Netherlands, on “3D food printing @ TNO: latest developments”, More information				Jan Vet, CEO, Sensite Solutions, on “No Food To Waste”, More information
12:00	12:30		Eshchar Ben Shitrit, CEO & Co-Founder, Jet-Eat, Israel, on “The food Printing Manifesto”, More information; Read the interview				Thijs Verploegen, Productmanager Deepfield Connect, Robert Bosch Start-up GmbH, Germany, on “From Robotics to IoT Bosch’s activities in the Smart Agricultural field”, More information
12:30	14:00	Lunch Break and visit Expo Attend Masterclass 3D Food Printing with byFlow & Jan Smink (limited # of tickets available)
		3D Food Printing Session #3				Smart Farming Session #3
14:00	14:30		Lu Zhang, PhD Candidate, Wageningen University, on “3D printing of porous food structures contain Lactobacillus plantarum WCFS1”, More information				Arend Koekkoek, Idea-x/ Campus Almkerk, on “Pixel Farming, farming in the digital era”, More information
14:30	15:00		Patricia Bulsing, Senior Lecturer, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Nutrition and Dietetics bachelor degree programme, on “The psychology around 3D food printing: acceptance and perception”, More information				Pieter Hoenderken, Het Internet Huis, on “IoT applications for farmers”, More information
15:00	15:30	Break and visit Expo
		3D Food Printing Session #4				Smart Farming Session #4
15:30	16:00		Antien Zuidberg, Lector, HAS Hogeschool, on “3D food printing @ HAS Hogeschool”, More information				Geert Hermans, Project Leader / Business Developer, ZLTO, The Netherlands, on “ZLTO vision on Smart Farming and Big Data; What happens in the market and how and where are there opportunities for you!”, More information
16:00	16:30		Valerie Vancauwenberghe, PhD, Post-Doc, KU Leuven, MeBioS division, Belgium, on “Coaxial extrusion-based printing for designing foods having personalized properties”, More information				Eva van Rijsingen, Natural Science Engineer, Blue Engineering BV, The Netherlands, on “Technology as a driver in biodiverse long-lasting productivity”, More information
16:30	17:00		Frits Hoff, Director, FabLab Maastricht ‘Internet of Food, Bockchain and 3D Food Printing”				Lenny van Erp-van der Kooij,  Professor (UAS) Precision Livstock Farming, HAS University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands, on “Precision Livestock Farming”, More information
17:00	18:00	Drinks and visit Expo
Additional Day – June 29, 2018 – 3D Food Printing Experience at Wageningen University & Research

Attendees at the conferences can download the presentations from the following links: Day 1, Day 2.