Program

Below you can see the program of the 2019 edition, which took place on June 26 and 27 in Venlo. If you are interested in speaking or exhibiting at the next edition, or if you want to pre-book your ticket or partner with us, we invite you to contact us via this form.

Day 1, 26 June 2019
08:45	09:25	Welcome and registration
		Plenary Session
09:25	09:30		Moderator: Pieter Hermans, Jakajima
09:30	10:00		Keynote Speaker Leo Marcelis, Head of chair group Horticulture and Product Physiology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, on “Vertical farming, a revolution in plant production”, More information
10:00	10:30		Freddy Troost, Associate professor Food Innovation and Health Research, Maastricht University, on “The role of pre- and probiotics in intestinal barrier function”, More information
10:30	11:00		Maartje van den Berg, Senior Analyst RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness, Rabobank, The Netherlands, on “Personalized Nutrition – Hype or Trend?”, More information
11:00	11:30	Coffee Break and visit Expo
		Healthy Nutrition Session			Vertical Farming Session
			Moderator: Pieter Hermans, Jakajima				Moderator: Marcel Hendriks, Entrepreneur – project manager – business developer HENEDIO, More information
11:30	12:00		Nard Clabbers, Senior Business Developer Personalized Nutrition and Health, TNO, The Netherlands, on “Personalised Nutrition and the consumer of the future”, More information				Jasper den Besten, Professor New Cultivation Systems, HAS University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands, on “Vertical farming developments”, More information
12:00	12:30		Remzi Celebi, Postdoctoral Researcher, Maastricht University Institute of Data Science, on “AI and Data Science in Personalized Nutrition”, More information				Cristian Toma, Co-Founder / CEO, Kalera, USA on “Vertical Farming: Catalyst for Customer Value Creation in the Hospitality Industry”, More information
12:30	14:00	Lunch Break and visit Expo
		26 June, MiFood tour during lunch break FULLY BOOKED				26 June, Brightbox tour during lunch break FULLY BOOKED
		Healthy Nutrition Session			Vertical Farming Session
14:00	14:30		Geke Ludden, Associate Professor Interaction Design , University of Twente, on “Healthy eating and design – from behaviour change to system change”, More information				Celine C.S. Nicole, Research program manager horticulture, Signify, on “Sky high nutrition content in food production in vertical farming”, More information
14:30	15:00		Simon Steverlinck, Activity Leader/ Project manager, SmartWithFood, Belgium, on “Nutrify (EIT SmartFoodLogging): The marketplace for health professionals”, More information				Dafni Despoina Avgoustaki, PHD Fellow, Aarhus University, Department of Business Development and Technology, Denmark, on “Indoor Urban Farming, the Beginning of a Sustainable Era in Food Production. How We can Reduce the Energy Demand Cost”, More information
15:00	15:30		Krizia Ferrini, Nutrition Specialist, cereneo Schweiz AG | center for neurology & rehabilitation, Switzerland on “Lifelong Food and Nutrition Assistance: LIFANA solution”, More information				Arjen de Haan, Productmanager, Holland Plug International, on “Modern farming – smart organic growing”
15:30	16:00	Break and visit Expo
		Plenary Session
16:00	17:30		Moderator: Pieter Hermans, Jakajima
			Raymond Nolet, Managing Director, MiFood – personalised nutrition, on “Personalised nutrition”, More information
			Lieven De Maesschalck, Innovation Manager, Mobilab / Thomas More, Belgium, on “Future proof! A new adapted meal with full taste for people with swallowing problems to enjoy again”, More information
			Wythe Marschall, PhD Candidate, Harvard University, Department of the History of Science, on ‘Farming value beyond the economic: cases of social innovation through Controlled Environment Agriculture / Vertical Farming in New York City.’, More information
			Chang Liu, Co-Founder & Director, EGGXPERT, The Netherlands, on “Reveal the hidden value of eggshell membrane”, More information
17:30	18:30	Drinks and visit Expo
19:00	22:00	26 June, 19.00 hours Networking dinner Registration required
Day 2, 27 June 2019
08:45	09:30	Welcome and registration
		3D Food Printing Session			Smart Farming Session
09:30	09:35		Moderator: Pieter Hermans, Jakajima				Moderator: Lenny van Erp-van der Kooij, Professor (UAS) Precision Livestock Farming, HAS University of Applied Sciences, More information
09:35	10:05		Mathijs de Schipper, Research Scientist/Innovator Additive Manufacturing, TNO, on ‘Towards personalized nutrition with 3D food printing, More information				Vik Vandecaveye, Manager Advanced Data Analysis and Application Development, CNH Industrial, Belgium, on “IoF2020: Interoperability for Internet of Agriculture”, More information
10:05	10:35		Giuseppe Scionti, CEO & Founder, NOVAMEAT, Spain, on “3D printing the world’s first plant-based beefsteak”, More information				Jeroen Burks, Founder, Blockheating.com, on ‘What do Greenhouses and Datacenters have in common?’, More information
10:35	11:00	Coffee Break and visit Expo
		3D Food Printing Session			Smart Farming Session
11:00	11:30		Roisin Burke, Senior Lecturer in Culinary Science and Food product Development, Technological University Dublin (formerly Dublin Institute of Technology), Ireland, on “3D Printed Note by Note Foods: Customising and Personalising Foods to Meet the Growing Markets of the Future”, More information				Andre Fabris, Executive Director, AppsForce, United Kingdom, on “Future of Farming – Animus”, More information
11:30	12:00		Duo presentation: Jeroen van der Graaf, Creative Innovation Manager, Verstegen Spices & Sauces B.V., The Netherlands, on “Scaling up customised production with 3D Food Printing and standard fillings in the Food Service Market”				Grégoire Hummel, CEO, PHENOSPEX – Smart technologies for plant analysis, The Netherlands, on “The power of combining 3D with multispectral information for indoor farming”, More information
12:00	12:30		Duo presentation: Nina Hoff, CEO & Co-Founder, byFlow, on “Scaling up customised production with 3D Food Printing and standard fillings in the Food Service Market”, More information				Sergio Ooijens, Head of International Marketing and Communications, Lely, on “The dairy farm in 2025”, More information
12:30	14:00	Lunch Break and visit Expo
		Workshop byFlow 3D Food Printing Registration required
		3D Food Printing Session			Smart Farming Session
14:00	14:30		Jonathan Blutinger, PhD Candidate, Columbia University, Creative Machines Lab, USA, on “Laser cooking: re-imagining the culinary experience”, More information				Judith Roelofs, Senior lecturer animal husbandry, HAS Hogeschool, on “Sensor technology in dairy farming – practical research and applicability”, More information
14:30	15:00		Rob van de Langenberg, Lecturer/Advisor Food Innovation, HAS Hogeschool/University of Apllied Sciences, on “3D Business Cases – applied research at HAS Hogeschool”, More information				Atilla Erdődi, Founder & CTO, Serket, The Netherlands, on ‘Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence in Livestock Production!’, More information
15:00	15:30	Break and visit Expo
		3D Food Printing Session			Smart Farming Session
15:30	16:00		Sicong Zhu, PhD Candidate, Wageningen University & Research, on “3D printing: relationship between printability of ingredients and its rheological properties”				Professor Luca Simone Cocolin, University of Torino, Italy, on “Use of innovative ingredients in poultry feed to tackle modern challenges in food systems: the Innopoultry project”, More information
16:00	16:30		Benedikt Daschner, Founder chocolate³, on “Possibilities and limitations of 3D-Printing chocolate”, More information				Ine van der Fels-Klerx, Expertisegroup leader Agrochains, Wageningen Food Safety Research , The Netherlands, on “MyToolbox decisions support for mycotoxin prevention and control along the chain”, More information
16:30	17:00				Willy Detiger, Owner, Detiger Bos & Boom verzorging, on “Humidity as basis, measuring is knowing”, More information
17:00	18:00	Drinks and visit Expo