8:00

Registration, networking, light refreshments

9:00

Welcome and opening remarks​

• Nitza Kardish, CEO, Trendlines Incubators Israel

• Oded Distel, Founder & Director, Israel NewTech

• 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

Judges: Eyal Emmanuel, Barry Schindler, Erich Sieber

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:

• Dan Harburg, PhD, Venture Associate, Anterra Capital

• 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
 

Judges: Severine Balick,  Johan Botterman,  Gil Granot-Mayer

13:25

Networking and light lunch

14:25

Guest interview: Blockchain in the agtech food chain

• Mitchell Presser, Head of US M&A, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

• 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: ​​​

• Eyal Ben-Chanoch, Senior Business Lead, Monsanto

• Xenia Frank, Investor & Philanthropist

• Michael Lavin, Founder & Managing Partner, Germin8 Ventures

• Spencer Maughan, Partner, Silicon Valley, Finistere Ventures

• Joseph Zhou, Investment Partner, BitsxBites

• Kevin Zussman, VP, Cultivian Sandbox

17:55

Closing remarks; announcement of winning companies

• Steve Rhodes, Chairman and CEO, The Trendlines Group

• Ofer Ben Yehuda, Partner, Shibolet

18:00

Networking and cocktail dinner