Conference Day Two, February 29, 2024
8:00 am Registration & Morning Coffee
8:50 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Uncovering New Product Insights to Understand Market Placement & Inform Decision Making
9:00 am Case Study: Managing Presence & Prevalence When Dealing with Consortia to Minimize Future Process & Product Errors & Minimize Spend
Synopsis
- Informing best practices on growing, developing, and storing consortia to minimize contamination and retain product quality for market
- Uncovering relevant metrics to obtain to understand and prove value and viability of your product to clear ambiguities and gain consumer trust
- Scaling with cost efficiency in mind to ensure a successful production of new products with high quality for crop growth
9:30 am Roundtable Discussion: Delivering Data to Growers: Assessing Priorities to Effectively Deliver on Data & Secure Adoption
Synopsis
- How do you most effectively assess grower priorities to inform data delivery?
- How do you tailor your field trial approach to your specific clients and meet requirements?
- What are the best strategies for streamlining data delivery to grower adoption?
Promoting Product Quality & Stability During Manufacturing & Trials to Enable Long-Lasting Efficacy
10:15 am Streamlining the Product Development & Experimentation Process to Make Products & Crops More Robust
Synopsis
- Effectively transitioning from greenhouse to field trials with enough data to provide security in your product and prove viability to growers
- Understanding differences and complexities in soil structure to design your experiments accordingly and collect the best data for display
- Exploring characteristics beyond yield to portray quality information to growers and differentiate from competitors
10:45 am Morning Coffee Break
11:30 am Exploring Manufacturing Practices: Analyzing the Impact of Product Quality Consistency on Efficacy & Yield Enhancement in Agricultural Biologicals
Synopsis
- Discussing the “uncomfortable truth” of agricultural biological products’ quality to better inform decision making and avoid time constraints in production
- Evaluating the significance of localization in production for minimizing transport damage and extending shelf life to enhance product efficacy
- Strengthening quality control processes for contaminant mitigation and enhanced crop performance
Reinventing Workflow & Commercialization to Streamline Product Adoption
12:00 pm Fireside Chat: Addressing Collaborative Partnerships Within the World of Agriculture & What Investors Look for to Expand Your Product Horizons
Synopsis
- What do investors look from an agbiologic organization to help inform decision making and partnership decisions?
- Identifying what can be done from an agbiologic perspective to enhance relationships that expand marketing and business-driven success
- Identifying whether investors always want to see partnerships with major companies – is this always desirable?
12:45 pm Networking Lunch
1:45 pm Walking Through the Development & Safety Assessment of Biotech Crops to Streamline the Regulatory Process & Prevent Delays
Synopsis
- Introduction to biotech crops, their adoption and acreage
- Discussing optimal development for biotech crops including process, timeline and cost to remove ambiguity and process bottlenecks
- Learning how to incorporate safety assessment of biotech crops for speedy approval and faster commercialization
2:15 pm Panel Discussion: Securing a Multidisciplinary Foundation for Agbiologic Commercialization to Enhance Both Product & Commercial Success
Synopsis
- Discussing what’s required from a microbiology, trait discovery, and research perspective to better personalize agbiologic products and minimize new product failure
- Identifying the soft skills required optimize intra-organization collaboration to develop products from research through to commercial adoption without error
- Bridging the gap between academia and industry to help better inform farmers of their products and expected results to gain trust