Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting - ABIM 2019, 21 ─ 23 October 2019, Congress Center Basel, Switzerland

Lunch break supported by UPL

Coffee break supported by BIOLINE Agrosciences

Welcome to ABIM 2019

• Sylvia Plak (President IBMA) and Lucius Tamm (ABIM Steering committee): Welcome on behalf of the organising committee.
• IBMA Bernard Blum Award  - presented by Owen Jones and David Cary.
• 2019 Bernard Blum Award Winning presentation.

Pre-Aperitif Keynote Address

Urs Niggli, Director FiBL
Can agriculture as practiced today deliver for the future?

Timeslot supported by SUMITOMO CHEMICAL Valent BioSciences Joint sponsors

Aperitif supported by CBC (Europe) S.r.l.

Plenary session 1
Chair: Sylvia Plak, President IBMA

EU Plant Protection Regulatory Issues

• Domenico Deserio, DG Sante Pesticides Unit: New initiatives in regulating biocontrol.
• Chris Lythgo, EFSA: Developments The General Food Law and implications for biocontrol.
• Ulf Heilig, IBMA: Uniform Principles and Data Requirements relevant to Biocontrol.
• Bas Drukker, DG Agri: Biocontrol in Organic farming.

Plenary session 2
Chair: Roma Gwynn, IBMA Vice-President

Global Regulatory Issues and Market Information

• Jeroen Meeussen, OECD EGBP: Activities of EGBP and the Bioinformatics Seminar.
• Fabio Domingues, Vigna Brasil: Reforms to the Brazilian regulatory system, the good and the bad areas.
• Bojana Zgonec, Artemisa: Progress and hurdles in biocontrol regulation in Eastern Europe.
• Mark Trimmer, 2B Monthly & Dunham Trimmer: The Biocontrol market and its participant.

12:00 - 13:30
Exhibition hall 4.1

Plenary session 3
Chair: Lieselot van der Veken, Macrobials PG

Invertebrate Biocontrol Agents Professional Group Talks

• John Sutton, Bee Vectoring Technologies International: Bee Vectoring of Biologicals is a highly effective and efficient Crop Protection Tool.
• Caroline Reid, Bioline: Tricholine vitis a new solution to managing grape pests.
• Felix Wäckers, Biobest: Tydeidae: small mites, big potential?

14:10 - 15:10
Montreal

Plenary session 4
Chair: Lara Ramaekers, Natural Substances PG

Natural Substances Professional Group Talks

• Cedric Bertrand, Akinao: Botanicals for bioherbicide development and metabolomics tools for E-fate evaluation of complex mixtures.
• An Vanden Bosch, Arche Consulting: Data requirements for Natural substances – putting in place a tiered approach.
• Jean-Luc Souche, Amoeba: Willaertia magna C2c Makylysate – a new large spectrum biocontrol agent against plant diseases.
• Patrice Sellès, AgroSavfe: AGROBODY biofungicide Bio Fun-1 for effective, sustainable protection against fungal pests.
• Ben Cicora, Vestaron: The power of synthetics, the safety and sustainability of biologicals.
• Richard Milling, Agronaturalis: ECHIQIER - a new biofungicide for use against Fusarium ear blight in cereals.

15:10 - 15:30
Montreal

Plenary Session 5
Chair: Alessandra Moccia, Semiochemicals PG

Semiochemicals Professional Group Talks

• Andrea Iodice, CBC Europe Biogard Division: BIOOTWIN L new biodegradable dispensers for the control of Lobesia botrana in grapes.
• Alessandra Moccia, Suterra Europe: When biocontrol and biodiversity go hand in hand – the success in the Albufera natural park.

Plenary session 6
Chair: Karine Grosbeau, Board of Directors IBMA

A dossier quality improvement exercise for biocontrol applicants with two leading National Competent Authorities

Facilitators:

• Jacobijn van Etten, Ctgb
• Anne Steenbergh, Ctgb
• Lisa Moakes, HSE CRD
• Tom Fisher, HSE CRD
• John Dale, HSE CRD
• Valérie Pavillard-Swaine, HSE CRD

1-to-1 meetings event supported by Syngenta Crop Protection AG

Plenary Session 7
Chair: Jennifer Lewis, Executive Director, IBMA

Innovations relevant to bioprotection, their acceptance and use

• Haïssam Jijakli, University Liege: Bioherbicide development.
• Eckhard Koch, JKI: SaatMaisPlus – developing non-chemical seed treatments for maize.
• Johannes Fahrentrapp, ZHAW University of Applied Sciences: Drosophila suzukii, its identification, trapping and control.
• David Calvert, iFormulate: Advances in bioprotection formulations and use of sustainable co-formulants.
• Lucius Tamm, FiBL: The European inputs evaluation: a collaboration of the organic sector and the industry to ensure quality and to prevent scandals.
• Kim Mueller Christensen, Chr. Hansen: Continuous improvement in microbial development for biotic and abiotic stresses.
• Wiesław Ciecierski, Intermag: BioSafeFood – developing technology intended for production of consumer safe fruits and vegetables with the use of new bio-fungicides.

Q and A session with presenters as above.

Session 7 supported by SCC Scientific Consulting Company GmbH

Plenary Session 8
Chair: Matthias von Erffa, Microbials PG

Microbial Biocontrol Agents Professional Group Talks 

• Jürgen Köhl, Wageningen University & Research: The microbial modes of action against plant pathogens.
• Marisé Borja, GAB: The Precautionary Principle application in the microbial biopesticides risk assesment.
• Patrick Kabouw, BASF: Biologicals – everybody seems to like them just where are the regulatory actions?
• Christina Donat, Bioferm: Microbial bioprotectant for post-harvest treatments.
• Erhard Halmschlager, Biohelp / BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences: Ailantex - a biocontrol product, based on V. nonalfalfae, to control the invasive tree Ailanthus altissima.
• Tommaso del Giudice, Evonik: Sustainable surfactants for biological pesticides.

Session 8 supported by Chr. Hansen