Review: Future Farming Theatre at GFIA Europe

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