Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting - ABIM 2024, 21-23 October 2024
Monday, 21 October 2024
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| 08:30 | 10:00 | Professional Group Meeting: IBMA Microbials You can find the presentations made during the meeting here: Member Login - IBMA-GLOBAL |
| 08:30 | 10:00 | Professional Group Meeting: IBMA Semiochemicals You can find the presentations made during the meeting here: Member Login - IBMA-GLOBAL |
| 10:30 | 12:00 | Professional Group Meeting: IBMA Macrobials - Invertebrate Biocontrol Agents You can find the presentations made during the meeting here: Member Login - IBMA-GLOBAL |
| 10:30 | 12:00 | Professional Group Meeting: IBMA Natural Substances You can find the presentations made during the meeting here: Member Login - IBMA-GLOBAL |
| 14:00 | 16:00 | IBMA Global General Assembly You can find the presentations made during the meeting here: Member Login - IBMA-GLOBAL |
| 17:00 | 17:15 | Opening and Welcome note by the Executive Board ABIM AG Jennifer Lewis, Executive Director IBMA Global |
| 17:15 | 18:00 | Bernard Blum Award Alain Querrioux, CEO Andermatt France, Treasurer IBMA Global Best Innovative Product Assisting Uptake of Biocontrol: The Crop Capsule Company for Cotton Cap which targets Silverleaf Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) in broad acre rain grown and irrigated cotton production systems Gold: Certis Belchim/Certis Biologicals for Toltek, a solution that combats Take-all, one of Europe’s most devastating cereal diseases Silver: Cearitis for their push & pull combination, Remo/Pira/Samo, a method that effectively targets fruit flies Bronze: Biotalys for their protein-based solution, EVOCA, designed to protect crops from potentially catastrophic fungal diseases |
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
| CEST | Montreal Auditorium | |
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| 08:30 | 10:00 | Session 1: Pivotal Moments in Biocontrol - what's made the difference, lessons learned Vicente Dalmau, Head of Plant Health Service, Valencian Department of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Saulo Silva Delgado, Senior Manager Business Development and Innovation, BP Bunge Bioenergia Asefeh Golreihan, Regulatory Manager, LKC Switzerland Ltd. Mark Trimmer, Managing Partner, DunhamTrimmer |
| 08:30 | 10:00 | Workshop: Regulatory Seminar Claudio Mereu, Partner, EU regulatory, competition and trade, Fieldfisher Belgium Emanuele Diniz, Manager - Agro Division, VIGNA Brasil Group Shaoli Das Gupta, Biostimulants Regulatory Expert, Battelle Jochem Rutters, Business Unit Manager,Decares B.V. Trading as Triskelion Inge Huygens, Regulatory Affairs Manager, ARCHE Consulting Domenico Deserio, Policy Officer, Directorate General for Health and Food Safety |
| 10:30 | 12:00 | Keynote and panel discussion Biocontrol and the Future of Farming Panel discussion wtih: |
| 12:00 | 13:30 | Poster session (see pdf posters below) |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Session 2: Global Overview of Enabling Policies Ketan Mehta, President, Bio Protection Global (Federation of Companies in Agri Bio Solutions) Founder-CEO, Ecosense Labs. (I) Pvt. Ltd. Edouard Lehmann, Research and Innovation Brokerage Manager, Committee Linking Entrepreneurship – Agriculture – Development (COLEAD) Geoffroy Moulin, Innovation Manager, Staphyt Mette Peetz, European Biosolutions Coalition |
| 13:30 | 15:00 | Workshop: RATION I Joao Godinho, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Belen Guijarro, Senior Researcher at CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain) Department of Plant Protection, INIA-CSIC |
| 15:30 | 17:00 | Session 3: Regulatory environment Carlos Goulart, Secretary of Animal and Plant Health, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil |
| 15:30 | 17:00 | Workshop RATION II Ofir Ramot, Metabolic Insights, Israel, Leading Scientist |
| 17:00 | 18:00 | Session 4: Biocontrol Innovations Marc Letroublon, Portfolio Lead at Bayer Crop Science Magdalena Wey, PhD Student, Agroscope Switzerland / ETH Zürich Carlo Boutton, Chief Scientific Officer, Biotalys Rebekka Leitner, Expert Process Engineer, Evologic Technologies GmbH |
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
| CEST | Montreal Auditorium | |
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| 08:30 | 10:00 | Session 5: Attention Agripreneurs! Hadyn Parry, Chairman Aphea.Bio, LettUs Grow and PBL Technology |
| 10:30 | 12:00 | Session 6: The Future is Biocontrol Pascal Chapot, Group Head of Sustainable Agriculture Development, Nestlé Lieselot Van der Veken, Pro Terra Agro Keith Pitts, SVP-Sustainability and Regulatory Strategy, Bioceres Crop Solutions Cathy Xi Cao, Project manager of Financing Agrochemical Reduction and Management (FARM) FARM Project GGKP Matthew Pickard, Head of Biologicals and Seedcare Europe, Syngenta Antonio Zem, President of BIOTROP (a BIOFIRST company) |
| 12:00 | 12:01 | Closing |
Poster Session (see poster pdfs below)
Authors presented their posters during the Poster Session on Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 12:00-13:30
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