13 January 2025
CROP Innovation & Business (CropIB) conference in Cologne, March 30- April 1, 2025
Central theme of CropIB 2025 is: “Tomorrow’s crops: latest trends in the interplay of technological innovations, market developments, business opportunities and societal demands”.
You can register now and read more about the content on cropib.com
On March 30-April 1, 2025, the International CROP Innovation & Business (CropIB) conference will take place in Cologne, Germany. The international conference will again combine science, technology innovation, and business in the field of plant breeding and innovative crops.
The conference brings together breeding, AgBio, and AgTech companies, academics, investors, startups, and experts from the international agri-food industry. Innovations, technologies, and business strategies for developing future crops that provide solutions to agriculture’s sustainability challenges will be discussed.
C-level participants
CropIB is a C-level conference for management, entrepreneurs, leading scientists, financial- and legal experts from the international AgBio and AgTech industry.
Around 200 delegates (CEOs, CSOs, Business executives, heads of R&D/Biotech, legal firms, key scientists, policy makers and financial experts) from the international AgBio and AgTech industry will be present, representing over 100 different organisations.
Interaction
At CropIB, much time and space is reserved for interaction, to benefit from:
- The network: Connect with industry experts, entrepreneurs, and professionals from around the world during lunch sessions, social drinks and 2 fantastic dinners at unique venues.
- Knowledge Sharing: Gain insights into the latest advancements, trends, and best practices on the use of new technologies for breeding innovative crops.
- Collaboration Opportunities: Explore potential partnerships and collaborations that can drive innovation and growth in your business.
- Market Developments: Stay updated on market dynamics, regulatory changes, emerging opportunities and the investment landscape in the plant breeding sector.
CropIB 2025 program
Some highlights of the CropIB 2025 program are:
- Realizing the potential of plant genetic resources by leveraging cutting-edge technologies
- New gene-editing (enabling) technologies for crop improvement
- Navigating the Nexus: Intellectual property and regulatory challenges in plant breeding
- How to accelerate crop breeding
- The changing plant breeding sector
- New crops, applications and commercialisation strategies for the agricultural bioeconomy
- Partnering & collaboration strategies in AgTech. How to succeed in the collaboration dynamics between corporates and startups?
- Applications of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning in plant breeding
- Pitch program for young AgTech/AgBio companies
Join CropIB 2025 in Cologne!
You can secure your spot at the CROP Innovation in Business conference by registering here. For more information about the conference, please visit cropib.com
CROP Innovation & Business is an initiative of KeyGene, organised by Iventus in collaboration with partners VIB and CEPLAS.
