Ainu Rofiq
Ainu Rofiq
COO
Koltiva
Dr. Allan Lim
Allan Lim leads the Open Innovation Department at Nestlé R&D Center, which is responsible for white space exploration, external partnerships, and contract management in Southeast Asia. Allan started his career in Nestlé as a chemist in 1995 after graduating with PhD from the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology. After a brief career at an animal health company between 2004-2008, Allan returned to Nestlé to lead innovation partnership in Asia. One of his biggest achievements is the establishment of strategic partnership between Nestlé and A*STAR in 2014. Today, Allan spearheads external R&D innovation in Agri-foodtech through different collaboration models and platforms with public research institutes, academia, enterprises and startups. A case in point is the Circular Materials Laboratory, a pre- competitive R&D consortium of more than 20 companies, universities, government agencies and public research institutes, which was set up in 2018 together with the Singapore government to accelerate research in material and environmental science for single serve packaging.
At the national level, Allan supports Enterprise Singapore by serving as Chairman of Singapore Food Standards Committee and member of Singapore Standards Council since 2017. For his contribution to food standard development, Allan received the Distinguished Partner Award from Enterprise Singapore in 2022.
Allan also contributes to the international and local academic institutions by serving as co-chairman of the scientific committee of the 21st World Congress of Food Science & Technology: “Future of Food: Innovation, Sustainability & Health”, and as chairman and member in academic advisory boards of tertiary institutions.
Dr. Allan Lim
Chairman
Food Standards Committee
Allan Lim
Mr Allan Lim graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering in 1999. He is the founder/CEO of Alpha Biofuels in year 2008 and Chair of Board of Directors of ComCrop, Singapore's first sustainable urban rooftop farm in 2013. In starting this farm business, he has assembled a team of professional to design and develop an operation high tech farm based on Aquaponics and vertical farming.
He is also the CEO of The Living! Project since 2011 and led a team of artist, social innovators and designes with objective of creating positive social behavioral change. He also held the position as a member of Pro Enterprise Panel, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Singapore from 2009- 2019.
Allan Lim
CEO
Comcrop Pte Ltd
Alexandros Pantalis
Alexandros Pantalis
Co-founder and CEO
Phagos
Alex Brittain
Alex Brittain serves as Senior Vice President, International at Perfect Day, a consumer biology company on a mission to create a kinder, greener tomorrow by developing new ways to make the foods you love today — starting in the dairy aisle. In his role, he leads all international strategy, development, and operations to expand Perfect Day’s global presence and impact.
Alex brings 20 years of experience building and scaling multinational food and retail brands. Prior to joining Perfect Day, Alex was at PepsiCo as the General Manager of their $1.6B FritoLay UK snacks business, where he successfully turned around a declining business to deliver five years of consecutive growth. Prior to PepsiCo, Alex spent five years leading commercial teams at the UK’s leading food retailer, Tesco, and 10 years at Mars Inc. where he was Marketing Director for their confectionery business.
Alex is a determined and innovative business leader with a wealth of experience in commercial strategy, brand building, business transformation, and building winning teams. His skill in creating cross-functional teams which foster an environment where both the business and people can grow is critical for the future of Perfect Day.
Alex received his Bachelor’s from the University of Warwick Business School where he studied business management and marketing. He is passionate about the future of animal-free dairy and, with the rest of the Executive Leadership Team, is driving Perfect Day to its vision of building a more equitable, resilient, and diverse food system for all of us.
Alex Brittain
Senior Vice President
International Perfect Day
Ángela Díaz Labrador
Ángela Díaz Labrador is a Client Success Manager of ST Engineering Geo-Insights.
Geo-Insights is a global company offering analytics, information and value-added services based on satellite images to address global demand for timely insights.
Ángela is responsible for the company's business development, marketing and sales in Latin America across varying industries such as maritime security, fisheries, energy, agriculture, infrastructure and smart cities. She is also involved in managing a portfolio of clients and cultivating strategic partnerships.
Prior to ST Engineering Geo-Insights, her professional experience included roles in Colombia and Brazil in different sectors such as telecommunications, aerospace and consumer goods. She graduated from the Pontifical Xavierian University, Colombia with a Bachelor in Industrial Engineering and holds a MBA from FGV Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil.
Ángela Díaz Labrador
Client Success Manager
ST Engineering Geo-Insights
Arik Kaufman
Arik Kaufman CEO & Founder Steakholder Foods Ltd (formerly: MeaTech 3D)
Arik Kaufman has founded various Nasdaq and TASE traded food-tech firms. He is a founding partner of the BlueSoundWaves collective led by Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary and Effie Epstein.
Arik Kaufman
CEO & Founder Steakholder Foods Ltd
(formerly: MeaTech 3D)
Barbara Guerpillon
Passionate about disruptive technologies and collaborative culture, Barbara works at the intersection of corporate innovation, technology and sustainability. In October 2020, Barbara joined Dole to lead its corporate venture arm. Dole Ventures collaborates with start-ups to support profitable growth and enable the realisation of the Dole Promise, announced by the company in July 2020. To achieve these ambitious goals, Dole Ventures wants to play a role in the complex innovation ecosystem, by breaking down traditional barriers and tapping into talent, science, and technology. In her role, Barbara is also responsible for the decarbonisation road map of Dole globally and is behind the development of the Dole Promise annual sustainability report. For the last 15 years, Barbara has developed an exhaustive understanding of disruptive technologies, digital environments, and their commercial applications. A respected driver of innovation, Barbara has a track record of building successful collaboration between start-ups and corporate, developing employee engagement in their transformational journeys and culture building.
Barbara Guerpillon
Global Head
Dole Ventures
Professor Berta levavi-Sivan
Born in Israel, Berta Levavi-Sivan earned her B.Sc. degree in Life Science, M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Zoology from Tel Aviv University.
Professor Levavi-Sivan is a specialist in the field of aquaculture, focused on basic and applied aspects of fish reproductive physiology and endocrinology. She has worked with colleagues at Makerere University in Uganda to combat depleted fish supplies in Lake Victoria. These activities have resulted in the spawning of several species of African carp which constitute a needed food source and are being cultivated in eco-friendly fish farms. In addition, Professor Levavi-Sivan was involved in a tri-lateral project aiming to develop sustainable aquaculture of St Peter’s fish in the Palestinian Authority.
Professor Levavi-Sivan conducts research and development programs in sustainable aquaculture and has integrated basic science with applications in the aquaculture industry. Her research is directed towards understanding how the fish brain regulates a cascade of hormones that control reproduction, growth and metabolism.
Professor Berta levavi-Sivan
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
CL Goh
CEO and Co-Founder of Natural Trace, a Singapore-based start-up with the world’s first patented DNA-based food-grade tag. By creating a watermark for food: Natural Trace looks to solve traditional food traceability issues with in-product tagging technology.
Natural Trace is co-founded by Dr Chantal Roth, Dr Lukas Muller, investor Dr Alex Wild - fellow ETH Zurich alumni with DNA, Food Science and Bioinformatics expertise together with Blue InCube Ventures. The company is currently working initially with various food type ranging from wines, coffee and honey of premium brands. The company is B-Corp pending status in line with founders’ commitment to be a business for good.
He is also the Managing Partner of Blue InCube Ventures Pte. Ltd., a specialty venture builder working closely with partners and founders to create the next B2B ventures in Advanced Manufacturing, Logistics, Healthcare, Food and Environment with support from private and public co-investors. Blue InCube Ventures is an Enterprise Singapore StartupSG Founder Partner and a Seeds Capital Partner.
He founded and successfully exited his test equipment automation company in 2000. He held corporate development roles responsible for M&A, risk management, strategic business development with exposure in broad range of engineering businesses in hard disk drives, semiconductor, aerospace, oil and gas, photonics, life science, electronics assemblies in SE Asia and China.
He is interested in working on businesses seeking growth and sustainability with genuine customer value proposition.
CL Goh
CEO & Co-founder
Natural Trace
Chee Yap
Chee Yap is the Executive Director for the Sealed Air Corporation, leading the Innovation and Development team and providing strategic direction for new products and technology development for the Asia Pacific region. His team provides expertise in food sciences, microbiology, cold chain solutions, chemical engineering, materials engineering, packaging design, FEA simulation and testing to support the growth of the regional business. Sealed Air partners with customers to solve their most critical packaging challenges with innovative and sustainable solutions to enable a safer, more efficient food supply chain and protect valuable goods shipped around the world.
Chee received his M.Sc. and B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Technological University and Executive MBA from Rutgers Business School. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (LSSBB) and has over 20 years of combined industry experience in the food, protective packaging, and automotive interiors. He has spent a considerable portion of his professional career holding various positions in research & development, process engineering, quality controls, and operations management with increased responsibilities.
Chee is passionate in creating sustainable packaging solutions by collaborating with industry partners to develop and promote a low-carbon, circular economy, and work towards net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 as committed by Sealed Air. He is a strong believer in authentic leadership, customer centricity, purposeful innovation, growing talents, and giving back to the society.
Chee Yap
Executive Director,
APAC Innovation & Development, Sealed Air Corporation
Chong Nyet Chin
Ms Chong Nyet Chin holds a Science degree in Chemistry from National University of Singapore, and an MBA from Leicester University, UK. She has over 20 years’ experience in the areas of quality assurance and food safety.
As a technical professional, she is currently the Technical Chair of food processing & distribution under Singapore food standard committee. She has been working with government authorities such as SFA and Enterprise Singapore in areas of Cold Chain Management Standards, Organic certification, FMCG standards and Food Safety Regulations. In 2017, she received the Merit award for Quality and Standards given by ESG, endorsing her contributions to the Singapore standards journey.
In her current position in FairPrice, she is responsible for the overall control of the food safety and quality assurance system as well as regulatory management for the Co-operatives. Due to keen interest in quality management systems and strong belief that a strong foundation in system will build a strong brand, she has helped Fairprice in developing the risk management framework and various control measures in fulfilling the vision of assuring food safety from source to store.
Chong Nyet Chin
Director,
Food Safety & Security, NTUC Fairprice Co-operative
Davide Pacheco
Davide has more than a decade of experience in the Renewable Energy sector. He has a strong ability to streamline business operations resulting in increased operational efficiencies and enhanced bottom-line. Progressive leadership experiences have created a passion for cost optimisation and achievement of targets through efficient financial management, development/execution of commercial strategies and process improvements.
Davide is a Solutions Architect with proven skills in leading change and leveraging innovation in the drive for better profits and increased shareholder value.
Davide has several years of international experience and worked in numerous cities of Portugal, Greece, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Belgium and France; exceptional multilingual communicator in French, Portuguese, Spanish and English.
Davide Pacheco
APAC CEO,
Amarenco Group
Dharmendra Shukla
Regional Sales & Market Unit Manager for Food Solutions and Protein Systems, Business Unit Food Systems,
Alfa Laval Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.
Professor Dean Jerry
Professor Dean Jerry
Director of the Tropical Futures Institute, James Cook University.
Dr. Dylan Banks
Dr Dylan is a physicist and bio-engineer; he has held positions in business and technology commercialisation environments at Cambridge and Imperial College London. He has worked closely with the NHS, MoD, Defra, DIT and AgriTech centres to develop novel technologies and systems. He is driven by a commitment to a sustainable human future and building the technological innovations that will deliver it.
Dr Dylan Banks
Co-Founder & Knowledge Director, Liberty Produce
Eddie Tan
Mr Eddie Tan is Vice President of Integrated Digital Projects, Singapore, at Sembcorp Industries. He is responsible for developing Sembcorp’s suite of sustainable solutions. These include integrated energy, water, waste and digital solutions aimed to help customers meet their environmental sustainability targets.
Mr Tan has over two decades of broad experience in the energy sector, spanning power generation, engineering, operations, management, sales and strategy. Before joining Sembcorp, he was the director at Bosch Southeast Asia responsible for Smart Cities, I4.0 and energy solutions sales. Prior to that, Mr Tan has also worked with various power utilities companies in the Asia Pacific region, including Singapore Power, GE Energy, DNVGL and Bosch.
Mr Tan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sheffield, UK.
Eddie Tan
Vice President of Integrated Digital Projects,
Singapore, Sembcorp Industries
Dr. Efrat Dvash Riesenfeld
Dr. Efrat Dvash Riesenfeld is a food and biotechnology engineer (Technion, 2005) with a master’s degree in genetics and breeding (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2008) and PhD in Molecular Genetics from the Weizmann Institute of Science (2015). Efrat was awarded an American Diabetes Association fellowship and conducted her postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School (2018). Before leading the R&D at Bee-io Honey Ltd. she was the Director of Breast Cancer Translational Research Laboratory at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov Hospital). Efrat has More than 17 years of academic research and management experience in the fields of molecular genetics, microbiology, cancer research, immunometabolism, chemotherapy, biotechnology, food engineering as well as project and people management. Currently, as the CTO of bee-io, a company that produces honey without bees, she is passionate about novel scientific ideas, enabling technologies and implementation of scientific ideas to develop a sustainable future for the world.
Dr. Efrat Dvash Riesenfeld
CTO
Bee-io Honey Ltd
Eliron Toby
A master of designing marketing strategies, drafting unique value offerings and creating brands. He is a lecturer in Marketing Thinking and faculty member at at the Faculty of Design at HIT (Holon Institute of Technology) in Isreal. Eliron is the author of “The Magic of Marketing”, a kit of 52 cards for experiential study of the art of marketing.
Eliron Toby
Chief Marketing Officer
NextFerm Technologies
Emily Whitelock
Emily is the subject matter expert within FIA’s regulatory team on the topics of food e-commerce, food safety and alternative protein. Emily is involved in researching, monitoring and critically analyzing regulations, scientific findings, policies and consumer perception studies, as well as promoting science-based advocacy through strategic stakeholder engagement. In addition, Emily is involved in the development of food standards on a national and international level. Prior to FIA, Emily worked as an AfN Registered Associate personal nutritionist, and within the technical team of the snack company Graze in the UK.
Emily Whitelock
Senior Regulatory Affairs Executive
Food Industry Asia
Emmanuel Richard
CEO
Custom Agricultural Intelligence Inc.
Dr. Emmanuelle Bucaille
Dr. Emmanuelle Bucaille
CEO
Pure Active Water
Eran Perlstein
R&D Executive with expertise in HW/SW & industrial applications. Experienced Product Director with a demonstrated history of working in the industrial automation industry. Skilled in Embedded Software, Management, Pre-sales, and Start-ups. Strong product management professional with Electronic Engineer and a Master of Business Administration (MBA), both from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Eran Perlstein
COO
Bio-Circular (Biotic) Ltd
Erez Fait
Erez has over thirty years of experience in R&D, communication, and strategy, with twenty years of sales experience in Southeast Asia. After heading the sales operations of leading companies, Erez began independently pursuing international technology transfer to connect regions facing similar challenges to the top solutions on the market. For example, Erez led the penetration of Waze and Moovit in Southeast Asia. Upon meeting Eitan Israeli, Erez recognized the global potential of Agrinoze and joined as Chairman and Co-Founder in 2018.
Erez Fait
Co-founder and Chairman
Agrinoze
Eva Vandest
As Group Head of Public Affairs of Amarenco Group, Eva Vandest elaborates and operates an influence strategy to boost Solar Energy deployment, the most sustainable and affordable Energy to date. As chair of the Agrisolar workstream of SolarPower Europe, she promotes synergies between Agricultural and Solar sectors to tackle climate change adaptation and stands for ecological transition promoting regenerative agriculture solutions combined with Solar Energy production in rural areas.
Eva has a Master's degree in Law from the University of Paris Pantheon Sorbonne, specialising in public law and political science. She is also a-Sciences Po Paris certified in Public Affairs, Strategy and Influence.
Eva Vandest
Group Head of Public Affairs
Amarenco Group
Faridah Mohd Saad
Enterprise Singapore is the government agency championing enterprise development. We work with committed companies to build capabilities, innovate and internationalise.
Faridah Mohd Saad is Deputy Director (Agritech) at Enterprise Singapore, where she hems a trail-blazing team to spearhead Singapore as a leading urban agriculture & aquaculture technologies hub, contributing to food security, economic growth and good jobs for Singaporeans.
Prior to this, Faridah was seconded to the Ministry of Trade & Industry, where her team was involved in negotiating, reviewing and implementing Singapore’s Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and cooperation activities among ASEAN and its dialogue partners, including negotiating the world’s largest FTA – the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). Between 2015 and 2018, she was based in South Africa as Regional Director (Johannesburg), Enterprise Singapore where she led a local team responsible for trade promotion and outward investment activities by Singapore firms across Southern Africa.
Her strong interest in multilateral trade and cooperation was fueled by roles in her early career. From 2012 to 2014, she facilitated cooperation activities between Singapore and International Financial Institutions (IFIs) such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and oversaw the set-up of the Singapore-based Asia Infrastructure Centre of Excellence (AICOE), a joint project development initiative co-funded by the Government of Singapore, the Government of Canada and the ADB.
Faridah Mohd Saad
Deputy Director (Agritech) Enterprise Singapore
Felipe Daguila
Felipe is an accomplished global business and technology trailblazer with +24 year record of leading, designing and delivering transformative business and digital strategies for startups, Fortune 500 companies, (among them being Google and AWS), and now Terrascope!
As both a visionary and hands-on pragmatic leader, he is respected in the technology industry as a catalyst for transformation, customer obsession and building top performance diverse teams.
A truly international executive, Felipe has lived and led teams in Singapore, USA, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Portugal and Doha, and supported business development and led operations across North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.
Felipe is passionate about mentoring and promoting culture and diversity in technology. In addition to the Google Launchpad Accelerator, he has formally mentored, advised and was board member of several startups in Asia and the US.
Felipe Daguila
CCO
Terrascope
Ferron Haryanto
Ferron Haryanto
CEO
eKomoditi
Fong Yew Chan
Mr Fong is the Chief Technology Officer at Republic Polytechnic, an institute of Higher Learning based in Singapore offering a range of diverse diploma programmes. He is responsible for spearheading innovation and digitalisation across the entire polytechnic, as well as overseeing the R&D and commercialisation endeavours in the schools. Prior to Republic Polytechnic, Mr Fong has held senior appointments at A*Star, the National Science and Technology Board, Singapore Technologies and DSO National Laboratories. Mr Fong holds a Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA) from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) and the École Centrale de Lyon (ECL). He also holds a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from the École nationale supérieure d'ingénieurs électriciens de Grenoble (ENSIEG), in France.
Fong Yew Chan
Chief Technology Officer, Republic Polytechnic
Gaetan Fabritus
Gaetan Fabritus
CCO
BioCeanor
Gita Syahrani
Gita Syahrani
Executive Director
Sustainable District Association (LTKL)
Gustaf Brandberg
Gustaf Brandberg
Founding Partner
Gullspång Invest & Re:food
Harald Braungardt
Mr. Harald Braungardt is the CEO and owner of Step Systems, manufacturer and distributor of soil-, water- and climate control instruments. Currently Mr. Braungardt is working on different projects e.g. PMC Pattern Management in China in cooperation with the Agricultural university Stuttgart-Hohenheim and CAU Chinese Agricultural University, Bejing. The Cannabis Net – Phytosens with the Agricultural university Stuttgart-Hohenheim and Klasmann-Deilmann company. Together with Horti- and Agricultural university Munich-Weihenstaphan they work on the project N-Phone. Harald has a cooperation with the Horticultural University Osnabrück, with the company Brandkamp young plants about CA-Light (Controlled Atmosphere).
Harald Braungardt
CEO and Owner
Step Systems
Harman Nijjar
VP Global Sales & Business Development
ENWAVE Corporation
Hugues Dumas
Hugues DUMAS (France and Malaysia), Co-CEO & founder
Pure player of agro-industry and agribusiness, Hugues is a successful entrepreneur. After more than 15 years as Marketing Leader, BU Manager and General Manager in Seeds Industry (Limagrain, Vilmorin, HMClause), Biotechnologies (Olmix), Crop Nutrition and Biosolutions Industries (Rovensa-Tradecorp), he has focused his skills toward HR activities to support decision-makers and executives leaders in his domain of expertise.
Master’s Degree & Engineer in Agriculture, bachelor in cell biology, graduate of EDHEC Business School, it is a leader and manager, specialist in life sciences and agribusiness professions who is at your service. People development and performance is also highlighted in its sports and association commitments.
Co-founder of Seed-In-Tech, a biotech start-up in seed priming, Hugues has roles of operational consultant for private equity & investors (due diligence, organization audit, marketing, go-to-market strategy,…).”
Hugues Dumas
Co-CEO & Founder
SYNOVIVO Consulting
Jack Wang
Jack Wang
Director for Agribusiness
SAP Southeast Asia
James Lim
Believes in enabling processes with simpler solutions. Not everyone needs to be an IT guru to achieve efficiency. Slaying digital transformation was made easy with Scrum, Lean IT and excellent communication skills. Grew up together with the internet from 33.6kbp to 2Gbps. now swims with Web3.0 combining the best of traditions and cutting edge. Proven track record in leading business digitalization projects. James graduated from Oklahoma City University, majoring in Mass Communication/Media Studies. Well rounded with a Nanyang Polytechnic Diploma in Digital Games Design, and Alibaba Business School’s Managerial Elite Ecommerce Programme. Initiated many e-commerce projects, with Dynamic Web Rapido system integrated with Microsoft Navision. Well-versed in digital marketing strategies, improving online presence, advocated e-commerce to transit customers from offline to online transactions. Enjoyed a fulfilling journey with Nikon Singapore, Intellihub, ORAPI Group and many others.
James Lim
Digital Transformation Consultant,
AMG Concept Pte Ltd
James McQueen
VP, Business Development
GrainFrac Inc.
Jiang YiFan
YiFan is the Associate Director, Science & Regulatory Affairs at Food Industry Asia (FIA), where she leads FIA in providing science-based advocacy to promote regional/global regulatory harmonization. YiFan also leads FIA’s initiatives in various food safety capacity building programmes and technical trainings in partnership with national regulatory agencies and IGOs to help enhance the national food safety control systems and standards-setting activities in the region. Since 2021, YiFan has been acting as a co-convener together with the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) to develop a new Food E-Commerce Guideline for Singapore.
Jiang YiFan
Associate Director of Science & Regulatory Affairs
Food Industry Asia
John Pennington
John Pennington is an entrepreneur and founder of Assure+ (formerly Rfider), an FDA award-winning global supply chain traceability solution. Currently an Executive Manager at TradeWindow, John has over 20 years’ experience working across the digital landscape with globally recognized brands such as CGI, Boston Consulting Group, Vodafone, Deloitte Digital and Apple.
John has a passion for driving purpose-driven agendas, leading and shaping digital strategy, innovation and transforming information technology. Initially starting out in Marketing, John developed his career in technology strategy and business process re-engineering, before gaining exposure to cloud computing, big data, analytics, information management and digital operations.
John Pennington
Executive Manager
TradeWindow
Juan Francisco Delgado Morales
Vice president of the European Innovation Foundation and leader of SmartagrifoodSummit.com, the largest technology event applied to the agri-food chain. Appointed Senator to represent European Union at the Grand Assembly of the World Business Angels Investment Forum. CEO & Founder of the Digital & Intelligence and Global Indevices Company. Psychologist training, active user of web 2.0 and regular presence in the forums on ICT, Talent, Social innovation, and new citizen leadership. From 2007 to April 2014, Manager of "Consortium Fernando de los Rios" (Spain) and as a result he led the team responsible for Guadalinfo (Social Network of the 800 public centers for social innovation and ICT access). Elected in March 2010, President of the Spanish Association of Telecentre Networks and reelected as a member of the Board of Telecentre-Europe. Also, part of the European Council and Living Lab is one of the experts skateholders on Technology and innovation in the European Commission. World Bank expert on issues of Social Innovation. Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Director of the "Master of Digital transformation and Innovation in the agri-food chain" at UNIR, (the Internet University). Before Director of the Master of Social Innovation at the International University of Andalusia. Professor of Master of the accessibility and Smart Cities and the MBA from the University of Jaen.
Juan Francisco Delgado Morales
Executive Vice President of European Foundation of Innovation (INTEC) and Senator of European Union of the World Business Angels Investment Forum (Asociated to G-20 for Inclusion Areas)
Julie Greene
Julie Greene is committed to responsible private sector development as a means to socio-economic progress. As Chief Sustainability Officer at Olam Agri, she promotes strategies that are good for society, good for the environment and good for business.
The cotton business that Julie built under Olam in Cote d’Ivoire from 2008-2013 improved the livelihoods and well-being of over 15,000 farm families. It has been featured in the Financial Times This is Africa; as “best practice” in BBC presenter Conor Woodman’s 2011 book, “Unfair Trade;” and was a 2016 finalist for the “Responsible Business Awards” organized by Business in the Community.
In Sierra Leone from 2003-2007, Julie provided business advisory services to ex-combatants and managed village infrastructure projects with German Technical Cooperation (GIZ) and supported relief programmes at International Rescue Committee (IRC).
Her passion for bringing out people’s potential has led her to launch a women’s network for Olam in Africa, promote social cohesion through art in Sierra Leone and teach prisoners in the U.S.
Julie holds an MBA from HEC, University of Geneva, and a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College, U.S.A. A resident of West Africa for nearly two decades, Julie resides in Singapore as of 2022.
Julie serves as Chairperson of the African Cotton Foundation and previously represented Olam on the boards of Better Cotton Initiative and ComCashew.
Julie Greene
CSO
OLAM Group
Professor Justin Rhodes
Born in the United States, Dr. Rhodes received a BS in Biology from Stanford University in 1995, an MS in Fisheries from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1998, an MS in Statistics and a PhD in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002. He received postdoctoral training at Oregon & Health & Science University before joining the faculty at Illinois in 2005.
He is currently managing two research programs. The first focuses on exercise-brain interactions using mice as a model organism. The second focuses on mechanisms underlying sex change from male to female in anemonefish. Dr. Rhodes has published over 100 research articles, reviews and book chapters. His research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and private industry.
Professor Justin Rhodes
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Prof. Dr. Katharina Riehn
As a specialist veterinarian for food safety and meat hygiene and professor for food microbiology and toxicology, Prof. Dr. Katharina Riehn has been active in scientific interface positions in food and agriculture for almost 20 years and has successfully completed numerous practice-relevant research projects at national and international level. Since 2019, she has also been able to successfully apply this experience to her honorary work as Vice President of the DLG and Chair of the DLG's Food Technical Centre. Her particular interest lies in the analysis of the future trends of the individual value-added stages of the food supply chain at the Germany and, based on this, the further development of the strategic orientation of the DLG, especially against the background of digitalisation and the shift of the relevant topics and business areas towards ecology, animal welfare and sustainability
Prof. Dr. Katharina Riehn
Vice President of the DLG and Chair of the DLG’s Food Technical Centre
Khoo Gek Hoon
As a specialist veterinarian for food safety and meat hygiene and professor for food microbiology and toxicology, Prof. Dr. Katharina Riehn has been active in scientific interface positions in food and agriculture for almost 20 years and has successfully completed numerous practice-relevant research projects at national and international level. Since 2019, she has also been able to successfully apply this experience to her honorary work as Vice President of the DLG and Chair of the DLG's Food Technical Centre. Her particular interest lies in the analysis of the future trends of the individual value-added stages of the food supply chain at the Germany and, based on this, the further development of the strategic orientation of the DLG, especially against the background of digitalisation and the shift of the relevant topics and business areas towards ecology, animal welfare and sustainability
Khoo Gek Hoon
Director
Industry Development and
Community Partnership Division
Singapore Food Agency
Dato’ Lee Mok Foong
Dato’ Lee Mok Foong is the CEO of Trans Eco Farm Sdn Bhd. He envisioned the rising popularity and opportunities in modern agriculture in Malaysia. With this vision, he founded Sky Ladder Pineapple Farm which is located in Lukut, Port Dickson.
He actively works with local authorities, universities and agriculture research centres to improve the sustainability of the agriculture sector. As he strongly believes in youth’s involvement in shaping sustainable modern agriculture in Malaysia, he collaborates with many local universities, namely Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), USAS, Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) and Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) in encouraging and training youth to develop their interest in this sector.
Dato' Lee is also an Adjunct Professor of the Centre for Research in Development, Social and Environment, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities in UKM. Besides that, he is also involved in publishing research papers with senior academicians from UKM regarding youth’s participation in modern agriculture, for instance smart agriculture.
Recently, he is appointed by USAS as the chairperson of a project which involves the process of designing a 250-acres land facilities for USAS agriculture incubator and laboratory centre for learning and research as well as commercialising sustainable agriculture products.
Dato’ Lee Mok Foong
CEO
Trans Eco Farm Sdn Bhd
Lee Chee Wee
Chee Wee, an academia and technopreneur, has more than 25 years of dynamic, hands-on experience and networking in providing technological innovation and solutions to enterprises across the globe. He received his BSc and MSc from McGill University, Canada, and PhD from the University of Alberta, Canada. He was a recipient of the Alberta Heritage Foundation Scholarship for Medical Research. Dr Lee had carried out his Post-doctoral Fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine, USA, before pursuing his academic career at the School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, where he is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor. He is an honoree of Singapore Spirit of Enterprise and a graduate of GMP Harvard Business School. He also serves as Scientific Advisor or Consultant to many life science companies and organisations.
He currently serves as Technology Advisor for Temasek Polytechnic and Centre Director of Aquaculture Innovation Centre. He is also the Founder of Lynk Biotechnologies group of companies, focusing on transdermal drug-delivery technology.
Lee Chee Wee
PhD
Centre Director
Aquaculture Innovation Centre
Lena Tan
Head, Corporate Communications
Agrocorp International Pte Ltd
Malcolm Ong
Mr Malcolm Ong graduated from NUS with an engineering degree in 1988 and started his career as an IT engineer. Later, he joined a start-up company in 1996 and grew the company to $20 mil in revenue. In 2007, he sold all his shares in the IT Company to a big French group. After being in IT for nearly 20 years, Malcolm started looking for a career switch.
Even before he decided on a career switch, Malcolm loved taking a boat out to sea and along the way, he met several fish farmers who were willing to share their passion with him. At the same time there were several reports stating that our oceans are being depleted at an alarming rate. Moreover the world population is growing and people are getting more affluent, resulting in demand for fish which is seen as a healthy option. In addition, Singapore imports a staggering 96% of seafood from overseas. Malcolm decided there is an opportunity to provide consumers (especially Singapore consumers) a sustainable alternative to wild caught, imported fish. At the current moment, farming is the best option to providing fish sustainably for a world with growing demand.
Although there was opportunity, the risks are very high especially since Malcolm did not have any experience. It took about a year before he found two partners who had the common vision of providing fresh, safe and affordable fish to the local market. The two partners had several years of farming experience while Malcolm used his experience to elevate the status of the farm to a more professional level.
Malcolm Ong
CEO
The Fish Farmer Pte Ltd
Märt-Erik Martens
Märt-Erik Martens is the co-founder and CEO of Gelatex Technologies. Gelatex is a materials technology company that makes cultured meat available for everybody already today. Their edible plant-based 3D scaffold enables the industrial production of cell-cultured structured meat. Without their scaffold, the meat would just be mush. The innovation relies on a proprietary high-throughput cost-effective technology for nanofibers production that is used also for wound care, filtration, and other industries. Märt-Erik has MSc in materials science and has devoted his whole scientific career to nanofibers and bio-based materials. Besides that, he has engineered robots, satellites and is the main inventor of Gelatex's proprietary nanofiber production technology.
As a thematic for the pitch we propose : ''Scalable Scaffolding Solutions for the cell cultured meat industry. The case for HaloSpun Nanofibers'' ... Regarding the proposed title I would send you an update later on to confirm it , the focus though should be on Scaffolding solutions for the Cultivated meat industry. It's a part of the production pipeline where we bring significant innovation on the table solving many a lot of issues that were associated with this part of the process.
Märt-Erik Martens
Co-founder and CEO
Gelatex Technologies
Meiny Prins
Mrs. Meiny Prins is CEO and co-owner of Priva. She dedicates a significant part of her working life to promoting sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship. Meiny is a much sought-after international authority in this field. With a clear and inspiring message on sustainability, she builds bridges between companies, governments and sectors.
In her role as CEO, she was named Business Woman of the Year. Meiny is an honored alumnus of Erasmus University and was in 2015 recognized by AACSB International as an Influential Leader in the field of sustainability. In addition, Meiny received the first CleanTech Star from WWF (World Wildlife Fund) awarded to Priva. She has held various board positions focusing on water, energy transition and food security. Today, she is a member of the Committee for Entrepreneurship and Finance in the Netherlands.
Meiny is also the founder of the Sustainable Urban Delta Foundation. Due to climate change, huge food waste in the world and insufficient availability of healthy food, it is of great importance that megacities transform themselves into food producing cities. Integrating food production not only ensures that megacities are self-sufficient, but also means that more green space is created, water can be saved, energy sources can be optimally utilized, while reducing CO2 emissions and thus making a substantial contribution to a better climate.
The Foundation aims to inspire and help city councils, urban planners, architects, real estate developers, businesses, entrepreneurs and citizens to discover that in a food-producing city, new and promising connections will emerge on an economic, social and ecological level.
Meiny Prins
CEO of Priva Group
Founder of Sustainable Urban Delta
Melissa Ong
Melissa Ong
CEO
Southeast Asia, Thought for Food
Miguel Fernandes
Miguel Fernandes is a data science leader with over 15 years of experience. He has built and led data science teams for top consulting firms (BCG, Accenture, Deloitte) across two continents and has worked with some of the largest companies in the world to solve their data challenges.
He started off as a software developer and built a property valuation application that integrated with back end systems of banks and automatically valued property prices based on historical data.
At Deloitte he built their Africa Advanced Analytics team helping clients in banking, telco, energy and other sectors. He moved to Singapore in 2016 from South Africa and led the Financial Crime Analytics practice for Deloitte across South East Asia, helping clients deal with Money laundering and Fraud. He was also responsible for building a global data analytics platform and rolling that out to other Deloitte teams.
His latest role prior to joining Terrascope was at BCG Gamma where he worked for government, investment, insurance and other clients. During this time he has built models, deployed those into production and trained client teams on how to take these on.
Miguel Fernandes
Co-head of Data Science
Terrascope
Mike Borg
Founder & CEO
Index Biosystems
Nimesh Kedia
Nimesh leads the Haskell Singapore team as Country Director with special attention to interpersonal skills within the organization and client needs outside the organization. He also holds the role of Project Director and has led several projects in APAC, India, China, Europe, and North America. His experience in master planning, cost management, and budget control has helped many clients make the right capital investment decisions at the early stages of the project.
His experience and understanding of complex unit operations and their related cost structure with different demographics has helped clients in Asia, Europe, and North America, stay within budget and make balanced techno-commercial decisions.
Nimesh Kedia
Country Director,
Singapore, Haskell Pte Ltd.
Dr. Papia Sultana
Dr Papia Sultana has obtained PhD in Mechanical Engineering from National University of Singapore (NUS). She has 15 years of academic and research experience in Singapore. She has been demonstrating R&D capabilities to the energy industries, leading various advanced research projects in the areas of strategical improvement of energy efficiency of building air-conditioning system and low energy environmental solution for urban farming.
Dr. Papia Sultana
Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, Republic Polytechnic
Professor Paul P.S. Teng, Ph.D., Hon. D.Sc., FAAET
Professor Teng is Adjunct Senior Fellow, Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, and concurrently Managing Director & Dean, NIE International Pte. Ltd., both entities of Nanyang Technological University Singapore. He is also Senior Adviser (AgriFood) to A*STAR Singapore, and additionally advises several agtech startups. Paul previously held leadership positions in the Worldfish Centre, the International Rice Research Institute, Monsanto Company and U.S. universities. Professor Paul Teng is internationally recognized for his expertise in tropical agrifood systems, sustainable rural transformation and food security, with a focus on smallholder cropping systems like rice-based ecosystems. He is also expert in AGTECH (Agricultural technology), Biotechnology applications in agriculture, Digitalization in agrifood systems, Smart/Precision farming and Integrated Pest Management Additionally Paul has started, divested and is still involved in several agri-bio tech companies. He has researched and taught in North America, Africa and Asia, and has published over fifteen books and over two hundred technical papers. Paul obtained his B.Agric. Sc (Hons) and Ph.D. from Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, NZ. Paul has been recognized for his work through the Eriksson Prize in Plant Pathology, election as Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences and other professional societies and conferred an Honorary D.Sc. from Murdoch University, Australia.
Professor Paul P.S. Teng, Ph.D., Hon. D.Sc., FAAET
Managing Director & Dean NIE International Pte Ltd | National Institute of Education
Adjunct Senior Fellow, Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, RSIS
Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Dr Rachel Choi
As the Plant Science Lead at Ripe Fresh, Dr Rachel Choi heads Ripe’s agriculture & research team. PhD qualified in Biosciences, she has a demonstrated history of working in the research industry, with more than 10 years of research experience in molecular, proteomic, tissue culture and analytical laboratory techniques.
She carries out the collection and analysis of precision farming data in Ripe’s smart aeroponic farms. Her methodical research techniques and innovative problem solving has helped Ripe become the pioneer of aeroponics in Southeast Asia.
Dr Rachel Choi
Plant Science Lead
Ripe Fresh Pte Ltd
Rahul Gladwin Massey
Rahul Gladwin Massey
Founder, Culinarte – Cuisine Concepts &
President, Christian Chefs International – Delhi Chapter
Robin Vincent
As an entrepreneur with 30 years experience in big data systems, Robin Vincent wants to help build a future where tech innovation supports local, sustainable farming. His specialties include building and integrating hardware and software solutions for evolving businesses, and working in fast-paced, dynamic environments. Robin spent 30 years in IT and Infrastructure Architecture designing and managing data-centers, working with various technologies for scaling, cost reduction, and the implementation of Hybrid clouds. Then he launched his Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company for small businesses, focusing on developing a flexible, versatile business tools.
Robin founded Canobi AgTech to connect with indoor farmers, greenhouse developers, and agricultural device and systems manufacturers. He wants to help them integrate data visualization into their best-in-class business practices and add SaaS-based platforms to their products. Robin believes that innovation in high-density, controlled-environment farming is key to building more resilience into the food supply chain, and solving both local and global food security issues.
Robin Vincent
CEO/CINNO
Canobi AgTech
Sha G P
Sha is a technophile with a background in Economics from the University of Manchester. He is a firm believer of open-sourced learning via the internet and has spent most of his time exploring frontier technologies. Being one of the early adopters of crypto-currency technologies in 2014, he has an eye for trending and viable technologies from early-on. Self-taught and self-sufficient, his knowledge on Indoor Farming technologies were acquired primarily through research and experimentation, along with open-sourced collaborations with a global network of experts.
Sha G P
Co-Founder
Future Farms Sdn Bhd
Simone Schiller
Simone Schiller completed a butcher apprenticeship in the family business and then studied Food Technology in Berlin. In the interdisciplinary course of Health Sciences at the Technical University of Berlin she expanded her expertise. In 1997, she become the Managing Director of the Butcher Association Berlin-Brandenburg and head of the Meat Trade College Berlin. Since October 2011 she has been employed by the DLG e.V., first as a project manager for quality inspections for convenience products and since December 2012 she is responsible as Managing Director of the Competence Center Food.
Simone Schiller
DLG e.V.
Managing Director Competence Center Food
Swee Cheng Wei
Cheng Wei is a Senior Manager from AlphaBeta, a Singapore-based practice under Access Partnership. He has expertise in technology and sustainability issues and has worked on a range of topics including sustainable packaging and food waste.
Swee Cheng Wei
Senior Manager,
AlphaBeta (Part of Access Partnership)
Tan Chong Hui
Tan Chong Hui is the CEO and Co-Founder of JAH Tech, the parent company of deep tech firms JAH Cultura, JAH Life, JAH Materials and JAH Gaia. He leads the overall operations of the JAH Tech group, including JAH Cultura. JAH Tech holds and manages the commercial rights to a wide portfolio of cutting-edge technologies and works actively with partners globally to apply these technologies for a positive, lasting impact on everyday life and the environment.
Tan Chong Hui
CEO and Co-Founder,
JAH Cultura
Teo Jie Ling
Jie Ling is a Regulatory Affairs Executive at Food Industry Asia, specialising in food labelling, novel foods and genetically modified/gene-edited food. Jie Ling has taken lead in developing regulatory landscapes reports and position papers to help with stakeholder advocacy, such as the Digital Labelling report that she will be sharing on.
Teo Jie Ling
Regulatory Affairs Executive
Food Industry Asia
V Ramkrishnan
V Ramkrishnan
Managing Director
AAR KAY Management Consultants
Wierd Vonk
Wierd Vonk
General Manager
Hoogendoorn Asia
Widya Putra
Widya Putra
CEO
Mushome
Yeap Soon Ming
Mr Yeap Soon Ming is a QA Lead at Chew’s Agriculture Pte Ltd. Chew’s Agriculture Pte Ltd is one of Singapore’s most trusted producers of fresh eggs. The range of nutritious Designer Eggs, from Kampong to King Sized, are well-loved for their unbeatable freshness and quality. They are a staple food of many families, through generations.
Yeap Soon Ming
QA Lead
Chew’s Agriculture Pte Ltd
Yoav Dagan
In 1989, Yoav and his brother Nitay Goldman, co- founded MAOF Developments, which has since become the platform for several aquaculture and technology businesses, including Aquamaof Aquaculture Technologies Ltd.
A well-known figure in the global aquaculture industry, Yoav holds nearly 30 years of professional, International experience in the field of fish farming. Yoav's expertise covers the many disciplines involved in the design, construction, commissioning and management of fish production facilities.
In his personal capacity, Yoav himself been a fish farm owner since 1989, and is also a board member of the Fish Breeders Association of Israel.
Yoav Dagan
Co-founder and VP Business Development
Aquamaof Aquaculture Technologies Ltd
Yohannes Sugihtononugroho
Yohannes Sugihtononugroho
CEO
Crowde