Speakers

Ms. Henri G. Moore

Leo den Hartog

Leo den Hartog is director R&D at Nutreco and professor at Wageningen University in “Animal Nutrition in a circular economy”. His broad experience is reflected in over 450 scientific and applied articles and seven books as author or co-author. To date he has given more than 750 lectures in over 40 countries for farmers, scientists, policy makers and advisors. He has also been chairman of Dutch trade missions on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality to China, Taiwan, South Korea, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and South Africa.

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Michaël Wilde

I am passionate about sustainable agriculture. Safe guarding our food system for future generations and protecting our precious planet, can only go hand in hand. My passion and expertise is motivating companies and consumers to choose sustainable products and together helping to shape our common future.

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Roel van Poppel

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Martin Topper

Arable farm Zonneheerd focuses on the cultivation of arable crops and the cultivation of vegetables. Including a specialization in forgotten vegetables such as purple, yellow, rainbow carrots, parsnip, parsley parsley and various beetroot colors. Zonneheerdt sells and processes these vegetables from Weleer under its own label. “Color with more Taste”. Furthermore, co-founder of the Youth, Health and Food steering committee Flevoland. Now continued as chairman of the Flevofood association. In addition, a major commitment to display the image of vegetables as an experience for children and adults. They make them think and experience what they are eating now and how it came about. Specialties: consulting, marketing, buyer, product developer and education.

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Ad Rietberg

I’m passionate about innovative IT-technology solutions. As director of Nearshoring we help organizations select, develop, implement and maintain the best IT-systems. As an investor in Yameo, COIN22, Dodore, Yetiz and Saffron I stimulate the use of the latest IT-technology to deliver new innovative products and services.

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Varun Baker

I have over 11 years of enterprise level industry experience in business communications, and operational management, with a strong focus on software engineering. I design web services and website architectures based on open standards.
I provide forward thinking solutions by assessing cost benefit factors, compatibility issues and budgetary/resource impacts for the organization. This includes yearly budgetary IT Infrastructure projections and the justification of each. At times I must identify where exceptions to the enterprise architecture standards are required.Previously, I co-founded the SlashRoots Foundation (“SlashRoots”) which is a civic tech non-profit that leverages technology to create solutions to social problems endemic to the Caribbean region.

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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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Angus Rama Keck

Angus is currently serving as COO of award-winning tech startup AgUnity. An Australian-based social enterprise founded in 2016, AgUnity’s ambition is to help change the lives of the 2-billion unbanked last mile communities in the world. Angus has previously had a career as an ICT consultant, and studied his Masters in Environment (Climate Change) at the University of Melbourne. Angus has a passion for innovation, people and solving critical issues such as global warming and extreme poverty

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Anton Eitzinger

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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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Colinda de Beer

Educated in horticulture I started my career as a researcher in the field of indoor plants. After studying information technology I transferred to software development and management. After finishing my third study (MSc in change management) I became a business developer at InnovationQuarter, connecting horticulture, technology and business innovation.

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Roel Messie

Experienced banking and investment professional, in the last 10 years in a managing role. Pragmatic and problem solving approach, believing that true team work is the way to achieving the best possible results.

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Jacob van den Borne

Jacob van den Borne, owner of Van den Borne Aardappelen, is an arable farmer in the south of Brabant. He is a forerunner in the use of precision agriculture, technology and data at his company: he makes company data available via the cloud, flies drones about his fields and uses satellite data for precision agriculture. He achieved his in 2004 Bachelor of Agriculture at the HAS in Den Bosch.

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Annemarie de Ceuster

Annemarie de Ceuster is a financial business consultant in agriculture and recently graduated her Masters in International Agribusiness and Food Chain Management. She focussed her thesis on agricultural business succession, in partnership with Rabobank and NAJK. As today, she is a critical assessor of the Dutch financing system and aims for new business models to stimulate agricultural successions which are strongly decreasing in the future. Young farmers are the future, and therefore a task for the whole value chain to contribute!.

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