Participants
Take a look at our speakers scheduled for this event
President
Eric Archambeau
Founder and Senior Managing Partner
Astanor
Speakers
Isabel Vercauteren
CEO
Aphea.Bio
Pavlos Kalaitzoglou
Director of Research
Astanor
Leslie Kapin
Partner, Director of Impact
Astanor
Christian Bogen
EMEA Policy Advocacy Manager
Bayer Crop Science
Frank Terhorst
EVP, Strategy & Sustainability
Bayer
Melanie Heroult
Head of Weed Control Research
Bayer
Sami Khan
ESG Investment Director - Regenerative Agriculture
Bayer
Raphael Dumain
Global Head of External Innovation & Partnerships
Bayer
Karl Collins
Director Innovation Ecosystem, Europe
Bayer
Stephan Schindele
Head of Product Management Agri-PV
Baywa
Marcel Zijp
Sr. Investment Manager Agrifood
Brightlands Venture Partners
Andreas Mucke
Managing Director
Circular Valley
Christoph Hahn
Deputy Head of Department for Economic Development and Tourism
City of Monheim
Sonja Wienecke
Mayor
City of Monheim
Geoffroy Dubus
Partner
Demea Sustainable Investment
Nemanja Grgić
Associate Director, Food and Agribusiness / Corporate Sector Advisory
EBRD
Marie Brueser
Senior Business Development Manager
EIT Food
Alicia Abendroth Vosloo
Senior Partnership Manager - Strategic Alliances, Food and Agriculture
EIT Food
Stéphane Roussel
Partner
European Circular Bioeconomy Fund
Luis Sánchez
Head of Sector at DG AGRI
European Commission
Jonas Sebhatu
Deputy Head of InvestEU Implementation Unit
European Commission
Manuel Mendigutía
Senior strategy advisor and program coordinator
European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA)
Alejandra Manzanares Bertrán
Senior Loan Officer – Cleantech Equity & Growth Capital
European Investment Bank (EIB)
Carsten Gerhardt
Partner, Circular Economy & Chairman Circular Valley Foundation
EY & Circular Valley
Ulrich Schurr
Prof. Dr.
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Ingeborg Gasser-Kriss
Director
Founder Institute Switzerland
Jaap Strengers
Managing Partner
Future Food Fund
Varghese Thomas
Senior Director, Agriculture Programs
Ginkgo Bioworks
Stephan Ruck
Investment Analyst
High-Tech Gründerfonds
Rik Pantjes
Teamlead Agrifood Business Development
Invest-NL
Paimun Amini
Sr. Director of Venture Investments
LEAPS by Bayer
Lee Rowan
Senior Director
Mondelēz International
Ralph Jansen
Senior Investment Manager | VC
Oost NL
Katrien Swerts
Executive Director Rabo Investments
Rabobank
Lisa Schmitt
Head of Venture Capital & Start-ups
Rentenbank
Raphael Sars
Investment Associate AgriFood
Rockstart
Philipp Rittershaus
Corporate Innovation & Startup Coaching
RootCamp
Michael Krel
Partner
Sofinnova Partners
Nicola Harrison
Managing Director
StartLife
Silke Gorissen
Minister for Agriculture and Consumer Protection
State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Tommy Alexander Schmid
Corporate Development & Services
Suedzucker Group
Sebastian Klie
CEO
Targenomix
William Stevens
Group Managing Director
Tech Tour Europe
Yasemin Baran
Tech Tour
Nils Wuytens
Program Director
VITO
Sebastiaan Berendse
Corporate Director Value Creation
Wageningen University & Research
Björn Heinz
Investment Director
Yara Growth Ventures
Stephan Decher
Managing Partner
Zaz Ventures
Rien Kamman
CEO & Co-Founder
Source Ag
Expert Jury
Barbara Berckmans
Investment Manager
Agri Investment Fund
Phil Taylor
Director of Ecosystem Development
Bayer
Florian Jupe
External Innovation Biologicals & Negotiations EMEA
Bayer
Verena Hermann
Innovation Scout
Bayer
Marie Ammann
Senior Innovation & Startup Manager
BayWa
Bruno Meireles de Sousa
Operating Partner
Bidra Innovation Ventures
Anne Helfer
Start-up support manager
Biotope Ventures
Ricardo Godinez Moreno
Innovation manager
CEPLAS (HHU Düsseldorf)
Felix Giesker
Manager Technology Scouting
CLAAS
Daniele Maggiolini
Global Head of Go To Market
CNH Ventures
Sharon Cittone
Founder & CEO
Edible Planet Ventures
Léna Sanvoisin
Investment Analyst
ETF Partners
Hakan Karan
Associate
European Circular Bioeconomy Fund
Giulia Stellari
Director
Fall Line Capital
Adrian Friederich
Principal
Foodlabs
Kim Wagenaar
Investment Director
Future Food Fund
Lukas von Hoyos
Innovation & Strategy Officer
Growth Alliance (Rentenbank & TechQuartier)
Pelin Yilmaz
Investment Director
ICIG Ventures
Hugo Senges
Strategic Business Developer
Kubota Holdings Europe
Pierre Poublan-Couzardot
Strategic Development - Partnership Europe
Kubota Holdings Europe
Ute Theel
Investment Professional
Matterwave Ventures
Theis Malmborg
General Partner
NOON Ventures
David Farquhar
Investor
Northface Ventures
Maximilian Erb
Investment Director
NRW Venture Capital
Dr. Isabella Fandrych
Co-Founder and General Partner
Nucleus Capital
Marika King
Head of PINC
PINC (Paulig incubator)
Chloe Payne
Principal
Ponderosa Ventures
Mark Durno
Managing Partner AgriFood
Rockstart
Charlie Macdonald
Investment Manager | Team Planet
Rubio Impact Ventures
Victoire Dumas
Investment Principal
Sparkfood
Dr. Peter Risser
Head of the Kirschgartshausen Experimental Farm
Suedzucker Group
Marion Meyer
Senior Advisor
SVG Ventures
Roman Werner
Managing Director
TUM Ventures
Etienne Jobard
Economic Research Manager
Unigrains
Tom Viaene
Manager New Ventures
VIB
Jurgen Decloedt
Business Development Manager Environmental Intelligence
VITO
Florian Schlehuber
Head of Business Development (ZV West)
Zaz Ventures
Boris Dorin
Partner
First Imagine Capital
Presenting Companies
Omar Dekkiche
CEO
Amatera Biosciences
Soledad Traubenik
European Country Manager
APOLO Biotech
Chiara Guidi
CEO
B-COS
George Crane
CEO
Bindbridge
Denis Payen
CEO
BiocSol srl
Christopher Mosedale
CTO
Bugbiome
Teodoro Garcia Millan
CEO
CDotBio
Conrad Young
Founder
Chirrup.ai
Tavseef Mairaj Shah
COO
CinSOIL GmbH
Jamie Hutchinson
CEO
Cordon Technologies Ltd
Frans-Peter Dechering
CCO-founder
Corvus Drones BV
Tomer Tzach
CEO
CropX