Event Info

Agri-TechE’s annual REAP conference is the flagship event of Agri-Tech Week, bringing together farmers and growers with researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs and investors. It is strongly focused around bridging the gap between producer needs and innovation-based solutions, as well as showcasing the increasingly vibrant agri-tech start-up community in the east of England and beyond.

Managing complexity is the biggest challenge for agriculture, as every variable – from the microbes in the soil to global weather patterns – can impact productivity, profitability and sustainability.

This is the opportunity to create new connections, catalyse collaborations and share ideas.

Agenda

9:00     Conference opens: Welcome and information

9:30     Introduction to REAP 2020

John Barrett, Director of Sentry Ltd, and Chair of the Agri-TechE Stakeholder Group

Belinda Clarke, Director of Agri-TechE

9:45     Farmer-Tech Focus – digital agriculture in action

Three agri-tech companies – Outfield: precision fruit farming; Breedr: precision livestock production; and Arable Labs: decision agriculture – featured in REAP Start-Up Showcases just a few years ago are now achieving global impact. The entrepreneurs return to share their journey from concept to on-farm commercial adoption and their farmer partners will discuss how to integrate innovation into current practice.

11:00   Start-Up Showcase – the new generation

The REAP Start-Up Showcase is the launch pad for game-changing innovation. Profile gained within the agri-tech ecosystem of investors, advisors, customers and collaborators accelerates the progress of enterprises that are bringing new thinking to real world challenges.

12:00   Break: Exhibition tours and express networking facilitated by Agri-TechE and AI

12:30   Emerging Agri-Tech – Come into the lab

Incremental improvements to crop performance and big picture thinking to evaluate risk are both needed within agriculture. However, innovating successfully across these different “scales” requires novel technologies and thinking from different sectors to create an understanding of the complete “system”. Leading scientists invite you into their labs to explore the discovery science that is evolving for commercial application.

13:30   Lunch: Exhibition tours and express networking

14:30   Keynote address – Growing a Revolution 

David Montgomery, MacArthur Fellow and professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington

Montgomery has travelled the world, meeting farmers at the forefront of an agricultural movement to restore soil health. He sees the huge societal benefits of this work and potential for reforming government subsidies to incentive practices that build soil health and carbon storage. He provides an inspirational view of what is possible.

15:15   Sofa Session – building an inter-scale agricultural system

Sir Duncan Wingham, Executive Chair of the Natural Environment Research Council

Jane Rickson, Professor of Soil Erosion and Conservation at Cranfield University

Mike Green, Agricultural Sustainability Manager – Agricultural Solutions at BASF

Stuart Hill, Head of Technology and Innovation at Hutchinsons

David Montgomery, MacArthur Fellow and professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington

What does an “inter-scale” agricultural system of the future look like?

Innovators from different perspectives, from soil microbiology to earth observation, from field level to policy overview, help pull together the thinking from the day and stimulate a discussion with the delegates. Together we will envisage a technology roadmap to the future.

15:45   Closing comments

Belinda Clarke / John Barrett

15:50   Exhibition tours and express networking

When?
Tuesday 10th November 2020

What time?
9.00am-4.00pm

Where?
Online

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How much?

Before 1^st October: £75 for members of Agri-TechE,  £125 for non-members

Between 1^st October – 25^th October: £75 for members and £150 for non-members

26^th October onwards: £85 for members and £175 for non members

All prices exclude VAT.

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