Agri-Food & Climate Circle conference 2023

On 10-11 May leading experts from all over the world will gather in Copenhagen to discuss how we can reduce climate footprints from the agri-food industry. The conference will be held at the Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers, Denmark.

The conference is a great opportunity for you and your company to network and learn about the latest knowledge or advancements in the industry in terms of reducing climate footprints. Your participation will greatly benefit your organisation and provide valuable insights into the current trends and challenges in the agri-food industry.

Dive into 7 pressing topics

The programme will cover the following topics:

• Documenting green initiatives

• Circularity and resource utilisation

• Consumer impact in the green transition

• Sustainable land use management – solutions and incentives

• Sustainable animal-based food production

• Using biotechnology as an alternative source of protein

• Protein transition

You can look forward to attending speaker sessions and participating in discussions with leading experts – including:

Jais Valeur, Group CEO of Danish Crown

The opening speaker of Agri-Food & Climate Circle. As CEO of Danish Crown since 2015, Jais will bring insights on a potential way towards sustainable meat production.

Martin Scholten, Advisor, Wageningen University & Research

Dr. Scholten will dive into the pressing topic of circularity and resource utilisation. He will raise awareness of the enzymatic treatment, biorefining and fermentation techniques to increase resource utilisation, present technologies for extracting food grade ingredients from waste materials, and talk about cultivation, harvesting techniques, and logistics in connection with the biorefining process.

Sissel Beate Rønning, Senior Scientist, Nofima

Sissel Beate Rønning is passionate about how we can produce food in a new and modern way – to be able to feed a growing population. Her primary focus is: Can we produce meat and alternative food in the laboratory? How to utilise rest material from the food industry in this process? How does the future of food look like?

15 green transition ideas are joining the circle!

15 green transition ideas have now been selected – from a pool of 86 submissions – for inclusion in the conference programme. The authors will be giving 5-minute short talks to an international audience of agri-food industry experts. See the short talks.

In addition, more than 45 of the submissions have been invited to join the marketplace for green transition ideas at Agri-Food & Climate Circle.

Join the circle

Climate is high on the agenda all over the world. In Denmark we are committed to pushing the development and leading the way in sharing and implementing knowledge from science and research to practice. To this end, we aim to facilitate cooperation across the agri-food industry.

In collaboration with leading Danish universities and companies from the agri-food industry, Danish agriculture innovation centre SEGES Innovation invites researchers, experts, and decision-makers to the new international climate conference: Agri-Food & Climate Circle 2023. This unique event brings together agri-food research and industry in the hunt for solutions, which will aid us all in reaching the goals of reducing the climate footprint of the agri-food sector – starting now.

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