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8:30 am Registration & Coffee
Harmonizing the Value Chain to Maximize Product Adoption & ROI
9:00 am The Grower’s Perspective: Bridging The Gap Between Research & Real-World Applications
Join this interactive panel discussion to ask all your questions directly to the end user of your products to make sure that your product development solves a real need.
- Discussing the disconnect between agricultural research and practical implementation on a farm
- Learning directly from the grower about the value proposition of a product that drives adoption
10:00 am Designing AgBiotech Solutions That Start with the Grower
- Exploring the fragmented agricultural market and the challenges of communicating product benefits
- Prioritizing what truly matters to the growers and using this to inform product development
- Communicating value to growers using on-farm demos
10:30 am Working Closely with Farmers During the R&D Process to Optimize Sales
- Learning from successes and failures by using farmer feedback to drive product improvements
- Focusing on farmer-led solutions that solve real problems like saving money, boosting yields, and improving quality
- Breaking down silos to ensure solutions benefit the entire value chain, from development to application to yield
11:00 am Morning Break & Speed Networking
Maximizing Distributor & Investor Interest Through Effective Strategy
12:00 pm Fast Capital, Slow Science: Why We’re Starving the Next AgBio Revolution
- Exposing the mismatch between fast capital and the slower path of real AgBiotech innovation
- Showing how current funding models create pressure to scale too soon, distorting incentives and starving strong science
- Proposing bold alternatives, including more patient capital, reimagined funding stacks, and strategies built on asymmetric insights
12:30 pm Using Comprehensive Testing to Ensure Success When Pitching to a Distributor
- Demonstrating product reliability to distributors to increase the appeal for sales
- Creating guidelines for the required tests to bring a product to market
- Protecting your pitch against common shortfalls, accelerating acceptance
1:00 pm Lunch
Removing Roadblocks in the Path to Commercial Success
2:00 pm Addressing the Fermentation Bottleneck to Open New Opportunities for Scaling Biological Products
- Learning how innovations in bioprocessing technologies can drive down production costs
- Eliminating the need for expensive infrastructure using cutting-edge breakthroughs
- Overcoming the challenges associated with getting a product from the lab to the shelf
2:30 pm Using Targeted Screening Criteria to Save Resources in the Development Process
- Choosing the right candidate for commercial success with effective screening
- Optimizing existing assays to improve your ability to predict candidate microbe performance and reduce risk
- Demonstrating robust selection criteria to build confidence in potential investors
3:00 pm Afternoon Break & Poster Session
Spearheading Biological Product Efficiency Through Novel R&D Frontiers
4:00 pm Modulating Plant Health & Climate Impact with the Leaf Microbiome
- Understanding how the phyllosphere microbiota plays a critical role in protecting plant health and immunity
- Exploring the impact of climatic warming on leaf microbiota and its consequences for plant health
- Identifying plant genes that modulate microbiota as potential targets to boost immunity and productivity
4:30 pm Harnessing AI & Molecular Insights to Advance Nitrogen Fixation Technologies
- Enhancing biological productivity using molecular biology, novel biochemical technologies, and AI tools to understand and optimize mode-of-action
- Improving product performance by identifying genes related to nitrogen metabolism and transport, enabling more efficient nutrient use and stress resilience
- Supporting stronger, higher-yielding crops by validating field results with molecular data, guiding the next generation of biological formulations
5:00 pm *New Data* Digital Phenotyping in Greenhouse of Nitrogen Fixing Biologics Yields Higher Success Rates in Field Trials
- Predicting nitrogen-fixing microbial product field trials success through greenhouse metric correlation in row crops
- Digital phenotyping in greenhouse & machine learning with big data
- A holistic microbial phenotyping pipeline is essential to narrow leads