
AgriVest 2018 Agenda
8:00
Registration, networking, light refreshments
9:00
Welcome and opening remarks
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Nitza Kardish, CEO, Trendlines Incubators Israel
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Oded Distel, Founder & Director, Israel NewTech
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Gideon Soesman, Co-Founder& Partner, GreenSoil Investments
9:20
Keynote address: Transition to a sustainable agri-food system
Professor Louise O. Fresco, President of Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
10:00
Best Israeli Agtech Company Competition: Presentations by selected agrifood tech start-ups: FruitSpec, Water.io, Agrematch, Unavoo
10:45
Networking break
11:15
Panel: How robotics and automation will forever change the future of agriculture
Moderator: George Kellerman, COO & General Partner, Yamaha Motor Ventures
Panelists:
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Dan Harburg, PhD, Venture Associate, Anterra Capital
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Steven Saunders, Co-Founder & CEO, Robotics Plus
12:00
Keynote address: The next revolution in agriculture: Growing much more with much less
Ran Maidan, President & CEO, Netafim
12:30
Guest speaker
Aharon Aharon, CEO, Israel Innovation Authority
12:40
Best Israeli Agtech Company Competition: Presentations by selected agrifood tech start-ups: WeedOUT, AquiNovo, Skyx
13:25
Networking and light lunch
14:25
Guest interview: Blockchain in the agtech food chain
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Mitchell Presser, Head of US M&A, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
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Sumer Johal, CEO, Agralogics
14:55
Best Israeli Agtech Company Competition: Presentations by selected agrifood tech start-ups: HiGrade-Cannabis Analytics, MetoMotion, PlantArcBio, Flying SpArk
Judges: Florentine Fockema Andreae, Eitan Elkin, Barry Schindler
15:40
Tech talk: On odor reproduction and communication, and how to test them
Prof. David Harel, Dept. of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science
16:10
Networking break
16:40
Panel: Investments in growth opportunities in agtech
Moderator: Gideon Soesman, GreenSoil Investments
Panelists:
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Eyal Ben-Chanoch, Senior Business Lead, Monsanto
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Xenia Frank, Investor & Philanthropist
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Michael Lavin, Founder & Managing Partner, Germin8 Ventures
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Spencer Maughan, Partner, Silicon Valley, Finistere Ventures
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Joseph Zhou, Investment Partner, BitsxBites
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Kevin Zussman, VP, Cultivian Sandbox
17:55
Closing remarks; announcement of winning companies
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Ofer Ben Yehuda, Partner, Shibolet
18:00
Networking and cocktail dinner





