The World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit welcomed 900+ agribusiness corporates, investors, policy-makers and start-ups to exchange ideas, share experiences and forge new partnerships in London.

What an amazing two days of high-energy networking and compelling discussions, buzzing with energy at our biggest European event yet!

From the exhibition and main stage to the Start-Up Arena and breakout room, spilling out to business HQs and evening dinners, the industry showed up united toward a more resilient future for food!

Enjoy our lightning summary of the summit action complete with video highlights, photo gallery and impactful takeaways.

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Relive the Two Days

Who Joined Us?

Here are just some of the global players and industry leaders who joined us at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in London and online:

Highlights from the Main Stage

The UK Government’s Support for Precision Breeding

“Today we are introducing legislation to unlock precision breeding to boost Britain’s food security, support nature’s recovery and protect farmers from climate shocks. With these measures, our agriculture sector will be at the forefront of innovation across the world.”

Daniel Zeichner, Minister for Food Security and Rural Affairs, DEFRA, UK GOVERNMENT

Climate Strategy

“We need healthy soils and the carbon removal policy in Europe is the first step toward this”

Christian Holzleitner, Head of Unit for Land Economy and Carbon Removals, Directorate-General for Climate Action, EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Strengthening Agriculture from Farm to Fork

“We can expect regulation in genomics to be implemented in 2027. It’s exciting on the one hand but we need more investment in breeding tech to make this work in reality”

Stefan Schwarz, Head of Innovation of Licensing, KWS GROUP

Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Agriculture

“Let’s create the right demand for customers to want British food and to want nutritious farm grown food. We need to create a demand and a knowledge into what farmers are doing and how passionate they are.”

Sophie Throup, Technical and Sustainability Director – Manufacturing, MORRISONS

Integrating Data, Equipment & Precision: Sustainable Farming and Enhanced ROI

“The key learning should be to focus on the ag tech not the tech. We are pushing the tech but not that it works for the environment and for the farmer. We are not heading to an ag revolution, but an evolution.”

Konstantin Krestchun, Global Head and Managing Director of Digital Farming Solutions, XARVIO

Strategic Moves in the Evolving AgTech Funding Landscape

“The whole ecosystem is not mature enough yet…take example from the pharma industry, for instance, they’ve started to integrate innovation within the whole cycle 30 years ago, so now they are mature enough to write big checks or to buy innovative startups at any stage. In ag, we don’t have that.”

Christina Ulardic, Partner, ASTANOR

Industry Announcements at World Agri-Tech

Syngenta Announces Cropwise AI launch

GenAI-enabled, the system leverages advanced machine learning algorithms and data analytic to increase the efficiency of agronomic advisors and growers to determine the best crop management practices.

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New legislation to support precision breeding and boost Britain’s food security

The Government announces new laws to support precision breeding technology which will increase food production, reduce costs to farmers and allow drought and disease resistant crops to be grown.

Press Release

 

Scaling Early-Stage Technology with Corteva Catalyst & Micropep Technologies

Following an $11m funding injection, Tom Greene, Senior Director at Corteva Catalyst and Thomas Laurent, CEO of Micropep Technologies discuss the steps to fostering successful start-up/ corporate relationships.

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Garford Farm Machinery Launches Next Generation Vision Guidance System

Delivering higher uptime, increased capacity and lower cost of operation, the new Robocrop AI InRow option has been developed exclusively by Garford’s project team of mechatronic, software and data engineers, to provide greater flexibility and higher resilience to light conditions and weed pressure.

Press Release

BASF launches xarvio BIOENERGY in the U.S

xarvio BIOENERGY offers the biofuel production supply chain – growers, retail agronomists and biorefineries – a quality assured and complete, end-to-end solution.

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xFarm Technologies and Dyson Farming collaborate to digitise over 33,600 acres

xFarm will implement a highly customised project to further increase the efficiency of farm operations management at Dyson Farming, one of the largest farming businesses in the UK.

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The Summit in the News

AgFunder News: The venture capital model is still suitable for agtech. Sort of

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Bloomberg: How a DJ Became an Unlikely Champion for Green Farming Push

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AgTech Naviagtor: Overheard at World Agri-Tech: 11 talking points for the sector to ponder

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Farmers Weekly: How research is improving bioproduct performance

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Global Corporate Venturing: Agtech investors keep focus on sustainability despite tough market

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Via Satellite: Can Space Data be the Catalyst for a Revolution in Food Production?

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What Our Delegates Say

See You Next Time

World Agri-Tech summits take place across the world, in London, Dubai, Mexico City, Singapore, San Francisco and São Paulo. See where you could join us next.

After such a positive edition, we’re already excited to see how we can grow the summit next year! Save the date now, and keep in touch with Marion if you’re interested in taking an active role as a summit partner, speaker or start-up presenter.