The Animal AgTech Innovation Summit welcomed 249 livestock producers, animal health and nutrition providers, feed companies, investors, retailers and innovators to Amsterdam, to exchange ideas, share experiences and create brand new partnerships.

What an incredible two days of busy networking and insightful discussions – enjoy our short summary of the summit action complete with video highlights, photo gallery and important key takeaways.

Relive the Highlights

 

Who Joined Us?

 

Highlights from the Main Stage

Carbon Pricing Mechanisms

“I agree that the carbon pricing concept will be gone by 2040, clearly it’s just one of many tools that we need to engage with. But how I’d look at it now is that it’s financing the transition.

[Carbon pricing] is one of the toolkits to attract capital to the sector to make things happen. Otherwise we are going to have this same debate year after year of ‘who’s going to pay for it?’. Well now there’s a funding mechanism that can be attractive to farmers, that can get funding back to the guy who’s doing the work we need to get done. So from that perspective I say we need to lean into it and embrace it.”

Tara McCarthy, Group VP, ESG, ALLTECH, IRELAND

Identifying High-Impact, High-Return Opportunities

“Its a precondition that solutions must balance both ROI and impact to be successful in the market. Their ROI drives investments and more companies into the space, but they must simultaneously deliver impact on welfare, climate and environmental factors.” 

Lars Horsholt Jensen, Managing Director, Agri & Food, EIFO, DENMARK

Methane Reduction

“Until very recently, the main bottleneck for methane reduction was primarily around the need for technologies and solutions. While this is still important, we’ve made great progress here – so much so that now, we must bring our attention to creating market demand and business infrastructure for these solutions.”

Linda Midgley, Senior Vice President for Cargill Animal Nutrition & Health Sustainability, CARGILL, NETHERLANDS

Preparing for EUDR Compliance 

“Having a multi commodity strategy builds a very strong data infrastructure. Regardless of the commodity and origin, all the data coming from the field is centralised and harmonised. This clarity gives you a sense of control and overview before raising data issues with suppliers and origin teams, and it allows you to support implementing corrective and preventative measures. You cannot do any risk mitigation if you don’t know what is going on in your supply chain.” 

Thomas Vaassen, Co-Founder & CEO, MERIDIA, NETHERLANDS

What Our Delegates Say

“The Animal AgTech Innovation Summit underscored the critical importance of industry collaboration in maximizing environmental impact through methane reduction. This collective action is not only important but necessary for our future sustainability.” 
CARGILL

 

“A great opportunity to discuss the road ahead, the choices to be made and the collaborations that are possible today at Animal AgTech Innovation Summit.”
Global Vice President ESG, ALLTECH

“The summit offers tons of opportunities for all of us who are part of the links in the essential agrifood chain. Learning about the latest trends and challenges facing the sector and sharing with professionals what initiatives they are launching, is a unique opportunity.”
Director of Live Production, COVAP

“If you have a solution at this stage [series A or well-established], I strongly recommend attending the next event.”
Co-Founder & COO, REGROWTH

“I had the opportunity to attend the Animal AgTech Innovation Summit in Amsterdam, one of the leading events for animal nutrition and precision livestock farming. It was a valuable experience to learn about the latest innovations and network with key players from across the industry. It is clear that the use of data in livestock production is becoming increasingly important for enhancing both the profitability and sustainability of the industry.”
Digital Project Manager, ADISSEO

“Really enjoyed the Animal AgTech Innovation Summit – it was a long awaited first visit for me, but it definitely won’t be the last. I was lucky enough to meet dozens of amazing agtech players, movers and shakers – from innovative startups like mOOvement to influential giants like Nestlé – and of course always a pleasure to spend time with our friends from AgTech Ireland, Alltech and Terra NutriTech.”
CEO & Co-Founder, HERDWATCH

See You Next Time

Contact Jamie Reid if you would like to help shape the content and be involved as a speaker, partner or exhibitor at our upcoming events.