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DAY 3 09:30 - 12:00
China is the largest consumer and producer in countless food categories. Yet, of the $6 billion investing in agrifood startups in China, less than 20% goes to agriculture. What types of startup solutions can capture the opportunity and build sustainable, profitable businesses? How do investors evaluate these companies and help them grow?
09:30-10:00 DAY 3
Investment
Investor panel: Finding profitable business models in agritech investing
Format
Fireside chat
Speakers
Bits x Bites + Temasek, Sinochem/ Syngenta, 拜耳, 益海嘉里, 中粮, 隆平高科, 北大荒, Tang Renjian (China’s new agricultural minister championing local seed innovations)
Moderator
42章经创始人曲凯
Synopsis
China is the largest consumer and producer in countless food categories. Yet, of the $6 billion investing in agrifood startups in China, less than 20% goes to agriculture. What types of startup solutions can capture the opportunity and build sustainable, profitable businesses? How do investors evaluate these companies and help them grow?
10:00-10:30 DAY 3
Robotics & Automation
Smart agriculture: How IOT and robotics are redefining the farms of the future
Format
Panel
Speakers
极目科技, 极飞科技, 大疆, 一拖科技, 雷沃, 约翰迪尔, 久保田, Bayer, BASF
Moderator
35斗主编高康平
Synopsis
Agriculture is under tremendous pressure. As more farms take advantage of smart technology to improve yield and reduce labor demand, can China build on its industrial robotics leadership position to automate crop and animal farms locally and around the world?
10:30-11:00 DAY 3
Biologicals/ Agricultural inputs
Fertilizing growth: How innovating pesticides and other ag inputs is central to farming of the future
Format
Panel
Speakers
Sinochem / Syngenta Bayer, BASF, 硅羿, 新农, 清源农冠, 大北农
Moderator
PnP 卿熙雯
Synopsis
The inefficiency in China’s farming input conversion could just provide a fertile ground for innovations to increase productivity, reduce input, and improve farm economics. What role will biotechnology and automation play to address this opportunity?
11:00-11:30 DAY 3
Food Security
From liability to opportunity: How technology will secure food supply for 10 billion by 2050
Format
Panel
Speakers
拼多多, ADM, Cargill, COFCO, Bayer , BASF, 江南大学校长陈坚, 唐仁健 (China’s new agricultural minister championing local seed innovations)
Moderator
农促会 李立秘书长
Synopsis
Globally, policies and food technology are being developed to alleviate hunger, address droughts, floods, pests, and other threats to food production. In the past decade, the Chinese state government has made aggressive moves to beef up its domestic agricultural industry. Starting with its consolidation of smallholder farms into a smaller number of coops and commercial farm operations, it has implemented a mix of policies and incentives that will accelerate the modernization of the agricultural sector and support innovations for years to come.
What types of startups are best positioned to capture these opportunities and what roles will corporations and investors play?