Sustainable Food Security 2050Disruptive Innovations: better business, management, science, government.
A C A D E M I C PA R T N E R
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
JUNE 23 - 27 2018
WORLDCONFERENCE
SESSION DESCRIPTION SPEAKERS CHAIRS/ CO-CHAIRS
Opening Session
Monday08:30 - 09:30Buen Ayre A B C
IFAMA Welcome.Authorities Welcome.
Broad Synopsis of future innovation and impacts on AgBus systems.
Keynote speaker - Hon. Carole Brookins.
- Johan Van Rooyen, President IFAMA, South Africa.- Héctor Lauence, President Elect IFAMA, Argentina.
Financial Innovation andRisk Management for Agribusiness Supply Chains
Take Away:- Financial innovation a key foundation of global competitiveness in turbolent times.- Innovative tools and programs: what to expect, how to benefit.Monday
09:30 - 11:00Buen Ayre A B C
- Invited, speakers of major Argentina Banks. - Carlos Comas, Grupo Asegurador La Segunda, Argentina.- Langa Simelani, Head Agribusiness, APSA Bank, South Africa.- Tomás Peña, Director, The Yield Lab, Latam.- José Gobbé, Austral University, Argentina.
- Erica Kuhlman, BMO, USA.
Monday25/6
FORUM: MEGA TREND -STRATEGIES, CASE COMPETITION FINALS
Monday11:45 - 13:15Buen Ayre A B C
Take Away:- Profiling medim to larger farms over several key dimensions.- Better understanding of key behavior on purchases, production, risk management, financial conditions, governance.- Disussion with peers, ideas to improve managerial strategies.
Comparing large farmers in Us and Argentina
- Roberto Feeney, Austral University, Argentina. - Allan Gray, Purdue University, USA. Discussant: Large farmers from Argentina or US.- Bernardo Piazzardi, Austral University, Argentina.
COFFEE BREAK 11.00 A 11.45
- Fernando Bertello, La Nación, Argentina.
SESSION DESCRIPTION SPEAKERS CHAIRS/ CO-CHAIRS
Monday14:30 - 17:15Buen Ayre A B (in english) Buen Ayre C (in spanish)
Final round, case competition. finalist teams competing in parallel sessions, in english and in español.
Chair: - Esteban Brenes, Costa Rica.Co-Chair:- Bernardo PIazzardi, Austral University, Argentina- Johan Van Rooyen, South Africa.
A case on governance innovation as the new fronteer of competitiveness.
Take away:- Innovation in governance as key pillar of competitiveness.- Responding to disrupting changes in agbus management.
- Marcelo Paladino, Austral University, Argentina.
- Marcelo Paladino, Austral University, Argentina.
Monday17:45 - 19:15Buen Ayre A B
FORUM: MEGA TREND -STRATEGIES, CASE COMPETITION FINALS
Monday25/6
BRUNCH 13.15 A 14.30
NETWORKING SPACE 17.15 A 17.45
Transition to agrifood sustainability in Europe: the many paths of change.
Take away: - CSR a new reality also for traditional agribusinesses - Key implications to exhisting agbus; increasing competitiveness component - precompetitive networking and idea clearinghouse at IFAMA.
- João Heitor de Avila Santos, University Río Grande Do Norte, Brazil.- Mateusz Kowalewski, entrepreneur, FranceJoanna Wiśniewska-Paluszak.
- Loic Sauvee Un Lasalle and Chair IFAMA Europe
INDUSTRY RECEPTION 19.20 A 20.30 Buen Ayre Foyer
Monday17:45 - 19:15Buen Ayre C
SESSION DESCRIPTION SPEAKERS CHAIRS/ CO-CHAIRS
FORUM: ORGANIZATION INNOVATION, THE RESPONSE OF THE FIRMS
Tuesday08:30 - 10:00Buen Ayre A B C
- Marcos Capdepont, YPF, Argentina.
- Lorena Eloriaga, Los Grobo, Argentina - Viviana de la Cruz, Agrodelacruz, Argentina.- Cristian Duckwitz, Los Grobo, Argentina.- Jorge Pesquiera, Los Grobo, Argentina.- Martín Scliar.
YPY Agro story from selling diesel to selling a portfolio of good and services to Argentine farmers; challenges and the future.
Take Away- Key challenges when reorganizing a supply chains.- Innovation in products and services as key driver of distribution competitiveness.
- Carlos Andiarena, Gerente de COINCER SA, Argentina.- Carlos Carletti, Gerente de BIOENDESA SA, Argentina.
Organizational innovation as key to global competitiveness, the Los Grobo experience and applicable ideas for other AgBus companies.
Tuesday10:45 - 12:15Buen Ayre A B C
Take away:- How innovation in "ways of organizing and doing business" is necessary to secure global competitiveness. - Using the Los Grobo example, and moving broader from , the presenters (management, supliers and clients of the Los Grobo) will underline how the model may be applicable in other global contexts. - Competitiveness is built on good production, good commercialization, good organizational innovation.
- Gustavo Grobocopatel, President Los Grobo, Argentina.
26/6Tuesday
COFFEE BREAK 10.00 A 10.45
BRUNCH 12.15 A 13.30
SESSION DESCRIPTION SPEAKERS CHAIRS/ CO-CHAIRS
Tuesday13:30 - 15:00Buen Ayre A B
- Authors of 3 of the best papers selected from the Sat-Sun Symposium.
Take Away- Outline of key challengesfor startups in Argentina and Lat Am.- Profile of key success / failure sources. - Opportunity to ask questions to and exchange ideas with these entrepreneurs.
- Claudio Dunan, Bióceres, Argentina.- Alejandro Vila, Instituto de Biología Molecular, Argentina.Anthony Bertini.- Antony Bertini, Trumper One Pty Am- Gustavo Sosa, INBIOAR.
Best Papers Spanish.
Take away:- Implications and actionable ideas from relevant applied research.
- Roberto Feeney, Austral University, Argentina.
Industrial convergence in new entrepreneurial startups. Cases.
- Javier Preciado Patiño, Argentina.
Best Papers English
Tuesday15:30 - 17:00Buen Ayre C
Tuesday13:30 - 15:00Buen Ayre C
Take away:- Implications and actionable ideas from relevant appliedresearch.
- Authors of 3 of the best papers selected from the Sat-Sun Symposium.
- Jacques Trienekens, Netherland.
FORUM: ORGANIZATION INNOVATION, THE RESPONSE OF THE FIRMS
26/6Tuesday
NETWORKING SPACE 15.00 A 15.30
SESSION DESCRIPTION SPEAKERS CHAIRS/ CO-CHAIRS
Tuesday15:30 - 17:00Buen Ayre A B
- Maria Carmela Annosi, Wageningen University, Netherland.- Mariantonietta Fiore, Foggia University, Italy.- Gerhard Schiefer, Bonn University, Germany.- Roberto Feeney, Austral University, Argentina. - Johan Van Rooyen, IFAMA President, South Africa.- Ana Galiano, Austral University, Argentina.- Loïc Sauvée, IFAMA Europe Chair, Integrating a regional chapter: plans for IFAMA Europe, France.
Take Away- Cluster as public / private partnership.- Cluster as rational response to disrupting innovation- The Rotterdam food initiative: values for other regions.
- Dutch entrepreneurs: why cluster matters.
- Sharon Janmaat, Rotterdam Food Cluster.
Take away:- Understand portfolio of services provided by IFAMA as leading pre competitive, agbus knowledge-based association: focus on people, big data and environment; IFAMR, IFAMR en Español, local chapters, networked research services, becas.- Several reasons to be involved in IFAMA.- IFAMA projects image of an Association which tackles relevant issues for AgBus.
- Francesco Braga, CEO, IFAMA, Canada.
- Woody Majier, Netherlands.
Tuesday17:45 - 19:15Buen Ayre C
Cluster as strategic innovation: the Rotterdam food initiative. Looking forward to IFAMA 2020 in Rotterdam, Nl.
IFAMA: Innovation in portfolio of goods and services. Why an IFAMAmembership pays o�.
FORUM: ORGANIZATION INNOVATION, THE RESPONSE OF THE FIRMS
26/6Tuesday
COFFEE BREAK 17.00 A 17.45
SESSION DESCRIPTION SPEAKERS CHAIRS/ CO-CHAIRS
Wednesday08:30 - 10:00Buen Ayre A B
- Johan Van Rooyen,IFAMA, President, South Africa.
Take Away- Dynamism of African Ag Bus, breaking dn internal trade barriers.- Key challenges, how to solve them.- Key role of business education, new governance systems, linking small holders into value chains.
Managing disruptiveinnovation in African Agribusiness
- Langa Simela, Head ABSA Agribusiness.- Thinus van Schoor, Value Chain Solutions.- Hein Gerwel, expert in fruit trade.- Sifiso Ntombela,Economist AgBiz on Infrastructure.
27/6FORUM: REGIONAL AND VALUE CHAIN OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
Wednesday
COFFEE BREAK 10.00 A 10.30
Management of Innovation: examples from around the world.
Wednesday8:30 - 10:00Buen Ayre C
Take away:- Knowledge on innovation in cooperatives, through examples all arround the world.
Argentine Cooperatives- Nicola Shabolt, Fonterra, New Zeland.- Melissa vd Merwe, University of Pretoria, South Africa.- Julián Echazarreta, CEO ACA.
- Mike Cook, USA.
Wednesday10:30- 12:00Buen Ayre A B
Take Away- Key disrupting forces in the industry, increasing friction between traditional producers vs. increasingly well funded newcomers.- Ideas about how to take advantage of these forces.
-Johann Boonzaaier, BFAP, South Africa.- Mariana Alemany, Ministerio de Ciencias, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva. - Daniel Lucci, Presindent Grupo Lucci, Argentina.- Pablo Cervi,Presidente de CAFI,Argentina.
- Hector Laurence, IFAMA President Elact, Argentina.
Innovation in Regional Value Chains.
SESSION DESCRIPTION SPEAKERS CHAIRS/ CO-CHAIRS
- Scott Hine, CIO Novus, innovation in develioping markets, USA.- Carlos Curci-Gonzalez, Journalists (IFAJ), Argentina. - Denene Erasmus, Editor, Farmer's Weekly, South Africa.- Damián FernandezPedemonte, Associate Dean, School of Communications, Austral University, Argentina.- Héctor Huergo, Clarín newspaper, Argentina.
Take away:- Info needs and use and traditional media. Balancing act.- Quantitative versus qualitative info: role of big data vs, or rather with, traditional media- Role of rural journalist to support sector competitiveness and social progress.
- Scott Hine, CIO Novus, USA.
Information - Big Data, risk of news overload, the role of specialized ag media. Communication in thedigital era.
Wednesday10:30- 12:00Buen Ayre C
27/6FORUM: REGIONAL AND VALUE CHAIN OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
Wednesday
BRUNCH 12.00 A 13.00
Wednesday13:00- 14:30Buen Ayre A B
Take Away:- New challenges from emerging technologies.- New demands from health conscious consumer.- New technologies for protein production (food and feed).
- Victor Tonelli, Argentina. - Luis Bameule, Argentina.- Greg Baker.- Simon Chater,UK Embassy.
- Greg Baker, USA.
The future of meat: disruptive technologies and threats
SESSION DESCRIPTION SPEAKERS CHAIRS/ CO-CHAIRS
- Esteban Bullrich, senator, Bs As, Argentina. - Leonardo Sarquis, Ministro de Agroindustria, BsAs, Argentina.
Take Away:- Understand how Urban Agriculture is part of a disruptive process world-wide.- Understand how Urban Agriculture as a way to take extra advantage of soil, water, sun and space helping the environment in big cities.
- Fernando Vilella, UBA, Argentina.
Urban Agriculture
Wednesday13:00- 14:30Buen Ayre C
27/6FORUM: REGIONAL AND VALUE CHAIN OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
Wednesday
Wednesday15:00- 16:30Buen Ayre A B
Take Away:- New market segment in food: needs and opportunities.- New products requirements to serve these segments.- Opportunty for producers and processing AgBus. - vision on changes to be implemented , ideas on what, how and when to do it. Possibilities.
- Fernando de EstradaFood and health - Rodolfo Frers, Solidagro Food.- Alejandro Caride, German Hospital, Argentina. - Guillermo Mattioli, Bagó Laboratories and Argentine biotech Chamber.- Daniel Funes de Rioja, President, Industrias de Productos Alimenticios (Copal), President, Federation of Foodstu� Products (FIPAA).
NETWORKING SPACE 14.30 A 15.00
eCommerce impact on agbusiness. What is the situation now, how it may evolve. Looking forward to IFAMA 2019 in Guangzhou, China
Take Away:- What opportunities and challenges to agbusiness from growing ecommerce.- Traditional food vs. commodity food in eCommerce.- Disrupting or expanding market for traditional food?
An executive Alibaba Fernando Vilella, UBA, Argentina.- Maximiiano Landrein,CEO Agrofy,Argentina.
Longbao Wei, China.
Wednesday15:00- 16:30Buen Ayre C
SESSION DESCRIPTION SPEAKERS CHAIRS/ CO-CHAIRS
Emerging hot issues in Trade
Take Away:- Fresh discussion with di�erent perspactives on troubled trade situation.- Why this may matter a lot.
- John Purchase, President the South African agbus chamber of commerce.- Alberto Padoan, President, Bolsa de Comercio de Rosario, Argentina. - Martin Piñeiro, Director Comité de Agricultura, Consejo Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales, Argentina.-Maximiliano Moreno, Subsecretario de Relaciones Agroindustriales, Argentina-Invited British Embassy.
- John Purchase, South Africa.
Wednesday17:00- 18:30Buen Ayre A B
Sustainability approaches. New vision of agricultural production, agribusiness chain and consumption.
Take Away:- Knowledge on a deep change coming along and the latest technologies and science.
- Marcelo Visconti, RTRS, Argentina.- Eduardo Serantes, GPS, Argentina.- Guillermo Valles, GPS, Uruguay. - Merlin Yolstick , IOWA Project.- Pablo Adreani,Benson Hill.- Sam Gilbert,UK Department for International Trade Director, Strategic Projects, Latin America & The Caribbean.
- Hector Laurence, IFAMA President Elact, Argentina.
Wednesday17:00- 18:30Buen Ayre A B
27/6FORUM: REGIONAL AND VALUE CHAIN OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
Wednesday
NETWORKING SPACE 16.30 A 17.00
PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION 20.00 a 20.30 Buen Ayre Foyer
PRESIDENTIAL BANQUET 20.30 a 23.00 Buen Ayre A B C