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30/03/2020

The Center of Excellence for Indoor Agriculture is Media Partner of AgriFood Innovation Event 2020

AgriFood Innovation Event 2020 welcomes The Center of Excellence for Indoor Agriculture as Media Partner

About The Center of Excellence for Indoor Agriculture

The mission of The Center of Excellence for Indoor Agriculture is to create a public-private partnership that accelerates growth and innovation in the indoor farm industry through knowledge sharing, programs and services for industry partners, research and development, testing, workforce training, advocacy and leadership.

25/03/2020

How do we make agriculture more sustainable?

How do we make agriculture more sustainable and more efficient? With connectivity, innovation, smart and vertical farming. Interested to find out more? Register for Vertical Farming Conference (June 23) and Smart Farming Conference (June 24) during AgriFood Innovation Event (June 23-24) and learn more REGISTER HERE.

AgriFood Innovation Event includes 4 conferences (focused on 2 tracks: food and agriculture), an expo, workshops, student demo corners, lab tours and more.

Confirmed speakers for Vertical Farming Conference:

05/03/2020

Data-driven controlled environment agriculture: Planning & design

by Alberto Lopez, Agritecture Consulting

Discussion of the main takeaways of the first Global CEA Census Report, the most in-depth global survey of indoor & controlled environment agriculture ever conducted, with 316 total respondents from 54 countries. In the report, Autogrow and Agritecture paint a clearer picture of the global CEA industry by identifying important trends and contextualizing them for a wider audience. Adding to this information, the Agritecture Designer tool will be presented; the first digital platform to accelerate urban farming entrepreneurs around the world. A tool engineered to provide valuable data to assess the feasibility of a future agricultural project specific for your location.

05/03/2020

Vertical Farming Conference welcomes Agritecture Consulting as Media Partner

Agritecture Consulting is Media Partner of Vertical Farming Conference

About Agritecture Consulting

Agritecture Consulting provides a comprehensive approach to urban agriculture project development. In operation since 2014, Agritecture has helped more than 100 organizations determine the feasibility of their ideas, validate their business strategies, recruit talent for their projects, manage operational challenges, and much more. Our consulting services are backed by several years of operations data and a team of experienced growers, agricultural engineers, sustainability managers, and marketing experts.

26/02/2020

3D printed vegan hamburgers

Shay Shemesh, PhD, Braslavsky research group, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will demo his project at AgriFood Innovation Event

The Braslavsky research group from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem focuses in 3D printing of novel, personalized, cellulose based meat replacements. We introduce a vegan, Meat analog Based on natural oil and proteins. We print hamburgers!

17/02/2020

The importance of the variety choice for vertical farming

by Jasper den Besten, HAS University of Applied Sciences

Choosing the correct variety is often underexposed in vertical farming. However, the differences between varieties are huge. The differences between varieties can be a factor 2 or more. Results of variety tests are limited accessible. Our basil varieties trial in Brightbox showed the importance of doing variety tests.

Jasper was a speaker at the 2020 edition of the Vertical Farming Conference

11/02/2020

Air the way you want!

by Gerjo de Zeeuw, CEO, GrowAir. B.V.. Air is invisible, but the effects of air distribution and air handling are visible. How do you create a homogenous and optimal climate?

The people of KE Fibertec – GrowAir are driven to develop, produce and to market homogenous air distribution systems for the horticultural and many other different sectors. To create a good air-distribution system in a greenhouse, vertical farm or indoor facility looks very simple and easy, but it’s very complicated to reach a homogenous climate and maximum growing results.

05/02/2020

The importance of the variety choice for vertical farming

by Jasper den Besten, HAS University of Applied Sciences

Vertical farming is a young industry and only at the beginning of its product-life-cycle. Technical developments go fast within the horticulture sector and even faster in the world around us. The innovation hype of vertical farming is over, the industry is getter mature and making more and more sense businesswise. The presentation gives an impression of challenges and future chances for this new type of farming.

03/02/2020

The true ROI of indoor farming

by Maarten Vandecruys, Urban Crop Solutions

Indoor farming has been around for a while now and organisations of different sizes have implemented this technology as part of their supply chain. But which size of farm actually makes most financial sense? What level of automation should be chosen? Where do robotics come in?

Maarten was a speaker at the 2020 edition of the Vertical Farming Conference.

25/11/2019

Anrich3D is Start-Up Partner of AgriFood Innovation Event

AgriFood Innovation Event welcomes Anrich3D as Start-Up Partner

Anrich3D is developing food 3D printing for personalized nutrition in collaboration with the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore and At-Sunrice Global Chef Academy. It is an up and coming startup to be spun off from NTU.

The name Anrich3D comes from enriched, as we want to enrich lives through 3D printed personalized nutrition!