8:55 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Making the Regulatory Landscape Work for You
9:00 am Regulatory Requirements – An Essential Consideration for Marketing
Synopsis
- Understanding how Regulatory aspects will impact when (or whether!) you can go to market
- Comparing the different approaches for EPA, USDA and FDA
9:30 am Striving Toward Regulatory Consensus on Biostimulants
Synopsis
- Looking at current biostimulant policy and regulatory framework
- Discussing pitfalls to state and federal consensus
- Addressing challenges on the road ahead
10:00 am Structured Networking Session
10:30 am Morning Break and Networking
ALIGNING AGBIO WITH OTHER INDUSTRY
11:20 am Raising the Bar on Quality for Microbial Biostimulants
Synopsis
- Understanding why regulators and testing laboratories often find microbial products to be under-formulated, contaminated, or both
- Working to develop, validate, and adopt testing methods for these microorganisms, reducing the incidence of false negatives when subjected to enumeration assays
- Establishing a voluntary, customer-facing certification program for microbial biostimulants
11:20 am Harnessing Green Chemistry Solutions
Synopsis
- Outlining new tools for greener formulations
- Rationalizing formulation design for sustainability
- Conceptualizing a novel approach to formulation development
WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER? EXTENDING SHELF LIFE AND LIFE IN THE SOIL
10:50 am Innovating Maximum Shelf Life and Soil Capabilities
Synopsis
- Many plant growth promoting rhizobacteria isolated from soil and plant material are gram negative bacteria
- Creating shelf stable microbial products with gram negative bacteria remains challenging for the industry
- Innovation in biotechnology, bioformulation, biomanufacturing and supply chain are ways to extend shelf life and improve product performance
11:20 am Exploring Inactive Microbial Application Methods
Synopsis
- Looking at in-furrow, foliar, and seed treatment
- Discussing implications for distribution
- Factoring in considerations for shelf-life
11:50 am Lunch & Networking
Elevating Plant Health with Support from Microbes
12:40 pm Maximize Yield Potential with Nitrogen Fixation
Synopsis
- Looking at itrogen fixation mechanisms
- Discussing the deployment of Microbes
- Analyzing the response from crop
1:10 pm Plant-Microbe Interactions: Shifting Focus to Iron
Synopsis
- Overviewing the rationale for considering iron
- Discussing the plant response to iron availability
- Analyzing iron-controlled microbiome interactions
Translating Your Product to Market Through Building Trust
12:40 pm Shepherding New Technologies to Market Through Building Trust
Synopsis
- Understanding the science, safety, and fit of the technology into the current and future ecosystem is paramount to technical, regulatory, and market success
- Working with key stakeholders from government, academia, and industry around shared value
- Staying connected with the benefits to not only agriculture, but society as a whole
1:10 pm Pitfalls to Partnering: An Overview
1:40 pm Afternoon Break & Networking
Alternative Considerations for the Plant-Soil Microbiome
2:40 pm Changing the Paradigm of Plant Nutrition
Synopsis
- Recycling waste organic residues to produces a novel, biobased nutrient technology using Anuvia™ Plant Nutrients
- Harnessing SymTRX™ to release nutrients in a manner that reduces loss to the environment either via leaching, or volatilization thereby improving plant nutrient uptake, yield, and grower
- ROI across a wide range of crops and geographies; furthermore, Anuvia’s technology returns organic matter to the soil benefitting the soil microbiome.
- Replacing synthetic nutrients with biologically supplies nutrients using Anuvia™’s advanced microbial technologies to the core biobased
technology
3:10 pm Stimulating the Microbiome to Reduce Nitrogen Inputs and Carbon Footprint
Synopsis
- Manipulating the microbiome with plant signal mimicry
- Striding towards sustainability with nitrogen fixation
- Enhancing microbial performance
3:40 pm Panel Discussion: The Grower Perspective
Synopsis
- Discussing why we must stop ‘imposing our will’ on the soil and pay attention to soil health: Microbial communities
- Uncovering why microbial uptake amongst growers has been slow starting: tackling the ‘snake oil’ label
- Moving forward: What microbiome innovation growers want to see from biotech companies
4:10 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks & End of Conference
