Below you can download in pdf format the presentations from the Vertical Farming Conference, which took place on June 28, 2017
Please note that not all speakers allowed us to publish their presentations.
| 08:45 | 09:20 | Registration and coffee | ||
| 09:20 | 09:25 |  |
Welcome, Saskia Goetgeluk, CEO, Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo |
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| 09:25 | 09:30 |   |
Opening & Welcome, Pieter van Hout & Jacqueline van Oosten, AgriFoodTech Platform, More information | |
| Session ‘Plant Science’ | ||||
| 09:30 | 10:00 |  |
Keynote: Lisa J. Newman Ph.D., Chief Operations Officer, AeroFarms, USA, on “Commercial Indoor Vertical Farming: Here Today”, Download presentation | |
| 10:00 | 10:20 |  |
Stiina Kotiranta, Research Manager, Valoya Ltd, Finland, on “Quality of light matters in vertical farming”, Download presentation | |
| 10:20 | 10:40 |  |
Celine Nicole, Senior research scientist (PhD), Philips Lighting, The Netherlands, on “Vertical farming: a revolution in food production enabled by LED lighting”, Read the interview; Download presentation | |
| 10:40 | 11:00 | Discussion | ||
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Break and networking | ||
| Session ‘Plant Nutrition’ | ||||
| 11:30 | 11:50 |  |
Pieter Heyse, Research Scientist, Centexbel, Belgium, on “Textiles: key in next generation farming”, Download presentation | |
| 11:50 | 12:10 |  |
Rene van Haeff, Managing Director, Light4Food, The Netherlands, on “City Farming: Cultivation on a net”, More information |
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| 12:10 | 12:30 | Discussion | ||
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Lunch and networking |
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| Session ‘Greenhouse / Pinkhouse technology’ | ||||
| 13:30 | 13:50 |  |
Jan Westra, Strategic Business developer, Priva, Download presentation |
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| 13:50 | 14:10 |  |
Martin Veenstra, Sales Engineer, Certhon, The Netherlands, More information | |
| 14:10 | 14:30 |  |
Marcel Kers, Plant Paradise Profiler, PlantLab Group, The Netherlands, on “PlantLab, the Next Generation of Growing”, Download presentation | |
| 14:30 | 14:50 |  |
Peter Korsten, Director/CEO, Botany B.V, The Netherlands, on “Technology in a Vertical Farm/BrightBox”, More information | |
| 14:50 | 15:00 | Discussion | ||
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Break and networking |
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| Session ‘Environment’ | ||||
| 15:30 | 15:50 |  |
Mag.arch. Dr. techn. Daniel Podmirseg, Architect, Head of the Vertical Farm Institute, Austria, on “Towards a new building typology”, Download presentation | |
| 15:50 | 16:10 |  |
Herman van Bekkem, Greenpeace, The Netherlands, on “Ecological conditions to make vertical farming a success”, Read the interview; Download presentation |
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| 16:10 | 16:30 |  |
Peter van Wingerden, Floating Farm |
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| 16:30 | 17:00 | Discussion | ||
| 17:00 | 18:00 | Drinks and networking | ||