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    The Biopesticide Summit & Awards

    Birmingham,UnitedKingdom    May. 19, 2020-May. 20, 2020

    Birmingham,UnitedKingdom

    May. 19, 2020-May. 20, 2020

    Organizer：

    World Bioprotection Forum

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    The Biopesticide Summit & Awards will be held on 19-20 May 2020 at the NEC, Birmingham, UK

    The 2019 Biopesticides Summit & Awards was attended by more than 250 international experts from the private and public sectors, academia, regulatory bodies and policy makers, regulatory bodies and policy makers.

    The Summit is the annual meeting of the World BioProtection Forum.
    The Biopesticide Summit & Awards 2020 will:
    Bring together 400+ leading innovators and practitioners in biocontrol industry.
    Bring together academia, industry and investors to encourage collaboration.
    Provide meaningful discussion on the challenges facing the industry between growers, customers and biocontrol professionals.
    Provide opportunity for 1-to-1 networking, exhibition, and speaker slots.
    Provide pragmatic insight into commercialisation and investment fundraising for new biocontrol ideas.
    Celebrate the best and brightest new ideas at the Gala Dinner and Awards.

    WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
    Innovators
    Manufacturers
    Distributors
    Suppliers
    Customers
    Policymakers
    Investors
    Professional Service Providers
    Agronomists
    IPM Consultants & Practitioners
    The Biopesticide Summit 2020 agenda will feature international speakers from the research community, the biocontrol industry, government organizations, investors, policy makers, funding agencies and integrated pest management (IPM) practitioners.

    Biopesticide Summit 2020 will:
    Cover the global challenges facing the biocontrol industry
    Examine new tools and methods being used to accelerate R&D
    Consider how innovative technologies, novel formulations and application strategies can be used to deliver better formulated products for greater efficacy
    Discuss challenges and opportunities for investment and commercialisation
    Bring together academia, industry and investors to encourage collaboration

    Confirmed Speakers
    Craig Bennett, CEO, The Wildlife Trust 
    (and former CEO of Friends of the Earth), UK
    Jennifer Lewis, Executive Director, IBMA Global, UK
    Minshad Ansari, CEO, Bionema, UK
    Marcus Meadows-Smith, CEO, Bioconsortia , USA
    Caroline Reid, Senior Technical Support Lead - Northern Europe
    Paul Flynn, Soils Advisor, Soil Association, UK
    Stephen Ford, Technical Director - International Relations, Ecolibrium Biologicals, New Zealand
    Owen Jones, Former IBMA President, UK
    Sarah Carr, Innovation Specialist, Farm491, UK
    Venkatesh Devanur, MD, AgriLife, India
    Laxminarayana PraharajuI, MD, AgBio Systems, India

    Event website: https://biopesticidesummit.com/
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