From 30 March to 1 April 2025 the International CROP Innovation & Business (CropIB) conference will take place in Cologne, Germany.
The international conference that combines science, technology innovation, and business in the field of plant breeding and innovative crops.
Why Attend?
This conference brings together breeding, AgBio and AgTech companies, academics, investors, startups and experts from the international agri-food industry. Innovations, technologies and business strategies for developing future crops that provide solutions to the sustainability challenges in agriculture will be discussed.
This event offers a unique opportunity to:
Network: Connect with industry experts, entrepreneurs, and professionals from around the world during lunch sessions, social drinks and 2 fantastic dinners at unique venues.
Knowledge Sharing: Gain insights into the latest advancements, trends, and best practices on the use of new technologies for breeding innovative crops.
Collaboration Opportunities: Explore potential partnerships and collaborations that can drive innovation and growth in your business.
Market Developments: Stay updated on market dynamics, regulatory changes, emerging opportunities and the investment landscape in the plant breeding sector.
What to expect?
Some highlights of the CropIB 2025 program:
- Realizing the potential of plant genetic resources by leveraging cutting edge technologies
- New gene-editing (enabling) technologies for crop improvement
- Navigating the Nexus: Intellectual property and regulatory challenges in plant breeding
- How to accelerate crop breeding
- The changing plant breeding sector
- New crops, applications, and commercialization strategies for the agricultural bioeconomy
- Partnering & collaboration strategies in AgTech. How do we succeed in the collaboration dynamics between corporates and startups?
- Applications of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning in plant breeding
- Pitch program for young AgTech/AgBio companies
Whom to meet?
CropIB is a C-level conference for management, entrepreneurs, leading scientists, and financial- and legal experts from the international AgBio and AgTech industry.
Around 200 delegates (CEOs, CSOs, Business executives, heads of R&D/Biotech, legal firms, key scientists, policymakers, and financial experts) from the international AgBio industry will be present, representing over 100 organizations.
Secure your spot at the CROP Innovation in Business conference by registering here.
For more information about the conference, visit cropib.com.
CROP Innovation & Business is an initiative of KeyGene, organized by Iventus in collaboration with partners VIB and CEPLAS.
Join us in March to meet your agri-food colleagues!
