Kees Aarts

Nature lover by birth, Technologist by training. Kees holds a MSc title in Aerospace Engineering (Delft University, The Netherlands) and working experience in strategy consultancy. Before joining McKinsey, Kees was an entrepreneur in high-tech R&D and software trainings. His passions for biology and technology sparked the idea of Protix Biosystems while scuba diving.

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Koos van der Meij

Innovator and ICT master. Blockchain Evangelist. Powerful at the intersection of innovation strategy and ICT. Specialties: Strategic Business Development, creating innovative new business, Blockchain, sustainable solutions, supply community expert. 

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Joris-Jan Kraak

Product owner at Picnic, n charge of the purchase order management system. Ensuring maximum store availability and inbound efficiency while minimizing stock keeping costs.

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Marieke de Ruyter de Wildt

Marieke started her career at the United Nations. For the next 10 years, she lived in all continents and worked in more than 45 countries, from Scotland to Vietnam. She returned to Wageningen University, leading a research team to analyse the impact of agrifood investments, working with the likes of Rabobank, Syngenta, PGGM and Ahold Delhaize. In 2014, she started as director of AgriPlace, a software company developing an application to digitize agrifood certification.

Then blockchain matured. Although blockchain was hyped in the financial industry, Marieke quickly concluded it addressed key challenges in agrifood: data ownership and data integrity. Convinced that blockchain will accelerate digitization in agrifood, she founded her current company The New Fork in 2017.

The New Fork helps companies integrate blockchain into their existing infrastructure. The New Fork offers masterclasses, events like StrikeTwosummit.com, expert placements and builds and audits blockchain solutions.

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HUGO BYRNES

Product Integrity covers product legal compliance, food safety/non-food safety and sustainable products. The latter includes social compliance, animal welfare and environmental sustainability – all related to our products.

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Andre Turkienicz

Andre is the Co-Founder and CEO of AgTrace, spin-off company from Solinftec. AgTrace traceability system ensures transparency, information reliability and reduces response time to issues within the food value chain. Previously Andre was the leader of business development of IBM Research Lab for Agribusiness. He coordinated project developments in multiple areas, from production, tradings, financial institutions and retail. Before joining the IBM Andre worked at Google, besides having founded two tech companies. Hold MBA from Michigan University and Bachelor in Communication from PUC-RS

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Floris van Lieshout

At Deloitte Digital Risk Solutions our teams of dedicated blockchain, AI and machine learning professionals, help our clients build enterprise grade solutions.

With our strategic and technical knowledge and skills we build and deliver real business value for our clients.

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Tommie van der Bosch

Tommie van der Bosch leads Deloitte’s Blockchain Team in the Netherlands. Through innovative methods, he helps other parties to discover the real impact and full potential of Blockchain on their industry. Tommie has extensive experience in the financial advisory services sector, helping organisations bridge the gap between Strategy & Execution. He strongly believes that innovation and emerging technologies are essential in this process of transformation.

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Stefan Petrutiu

Project manager and entrepreneur. Building impact ecosystems and using blockchain for creating inclusive business models. Focused on designing outgrower programs and innovative, tech-driven sustainability interventions in smallholder value chains. Coffee and cocoa sector focus. Leading impact evaluation, living income and true price studies.

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Krijn van Santen

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Graham Sydney

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BRIAN KING

Brian King leads the Platform for Big Data in Agriculture, a global program of the CGIAR consortium centered on digital transformation of food systems worldwide. He has led programs leveraging successive waves of transformational digital technologies including establishing early internet networks and policies, building sustainable rural internet, licensing of mobile operators, governance of submarine cables and cross-border backbone networks, and building more inclusive mobile financial services, most of this in developing economies. He is a former agriculture extensionist and a California rice farmer.

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Carol Tarr

Carol was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Wesleyan University and Harvard University. Carol lectures in Sociology, Organizational Management and Entrepreneurship at universities in the Netherlands and is the Founder and CEO of Atomic Spices, a boutique spice company based in Amsterdam that creates blends from cold-smoked spices. Carol has a special interest in sustainable low-waste business models and developing transparency in the spice supply chain.

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Foteini Zampati

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Laura de Grave

Laura de Grave is a culinary journalist, cookbook author & Dutch TV host. As a freelancer she writes for various culinary magazines and media among which Allerhande and bol.com (as a cookbook expert). She wrote several books, including the Amsterdam cookbook and Dutch cookbook (both in English and Dutch). As a presenter she is currently making the video series ‘Lekker Lokaal’ (about local Dutch food) for TV channel 24Kitchen and the website of the Algemeen Dagblad.

For her Dutch cookbook and her TV-series she crossed on an electric motor through the Netherlands in search for local products and dishes. www.foodwriter.nl/en/

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David Muwonge

Muwonge David from Uganda is a coffee farmer and the Deputy Executive Director of the National Union of coffee Agribusinesses and farm enterprises Limited (NUCAFE) which is the Apex coffee farmer organization in Uganda currently with a membership of 213 cooperatives and associations representing 200,000 coffee farming families. He has worked in the coffee Industry for 17 years and gained vast experience along the coffee value chain. He is currently working as the leader on the Project entitled: “Supporting ICTs for agribusinesses development in Uganda” implemented in partnership with CTA. He oversees NUCAFE’s day to day and medium term finance, administration and compliance aspects.

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Hamlus Owoyesiga

Hamlus Owoyesiga, is the ICT Head and Drone Operator at IGTF-Uganda. He has worked with smallholder farmers Agribusinesses for over 7 years implementing Data4Ag, ICT4Ag and UAV4Ag (Drones) projects supported by CTA-ACP-EU aiming at achieving SDGs goals through Digitizing Agriculture.

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Dr. Lan van Wassenaer

Lan received her PhD in business economics from Wageningen University in 2008. Before that she studied agricultural and environmental economics at Wageningen University and environmental biology at Nanjing University in China. Since 2008, Lan works as a scientific researcher at Wageningen Economic Research (formerly known as LEI or Agricultural Economics Research Institute). Lan conducts both quantitative and quality research in the domain of agrifood. Lan is fascinated by the way institutions and information influence each other in an increasingly digitalised world. Since 2017, she has been leading the research program ‘Blockchain for agrifood’ from Wageningen and the PPS project ‘Blockchain: Automated Compliance in Agrifood Chains’.

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Paul Damen

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Shaunalee Katafono

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