Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting - ABIM 2021, 19-20 October 2021

IBMA Professional Group Meeting
Semiochemicals (Room Delhi)

IBMA Professional Group Meeting
Macrobials (Room Lima)

Session 1 (Chair person: Karine Grosbeau)
Policies enabling biocontrol from around the globe

Bruno Ferreira, General Director for Food – French Ministry of agriculture and food
Presentation French Ministry for Agriculture and Food

Italo Delalibera Jr., Professor Department of Entomology and Acarology, University of São Paulo in Piracicaba-SP, Brazil
Policies enabling biocontrol in Brazil

Session 2 (Chair person: Owen Jones)
Innovation enabling technologies related to biocontrol

Alberto Acedo, Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer at Biome Makers
Plant-soil microbiome as a predictive system to biocontrol efficiency

Karel Bolckmans, Chief Operating Officer at Biobest N.V.
Data-driven precision IPM in greenhouse crops, from vision to execution

Peter Lüth, Board member of The Toothpick Project
Kichawi Kill, a new biologigal herbizide in Kenya

Susan Nijsingh, Business Partnership Specialist, Semios
Bits, bytes, and bugs: putting sensibility front and center in the digitization of biocontrol

Lars Mølbak, Director of Plant Health Innovation at Chr. Hansen
A biocontrol model for the bionematicide effect of bacillus FMCH001

Tom Vroegop, Product Manager Natutec at Koppert Biological Systems
UAV and autonomous application and monitoring technologies for determination of pest and diseases. A new way of applications for beneficial insects and biological agents

Keynote address (Chair person: Jennifer Lewis)
Christiane Lambert, President of COPA COGECA
The role of biocontrol in the transformation of agriculture

Edouard Lehmann, Research and Innovation Manager at COLEACP
Biocontrol: opportunities and challenges in tropical horticulture

Newsreel/Panel discussion
The TV style event will feature debates, short video clips, international audience interactions and panel discussions on core topics for the biocontrol industry.

• What is the role of biocontrol in transforming agriculture?
• How can we speed up market access for biocontrol?
• How do we ensure that the value chain understands the contribution of biocontrol to their environmental, social and governance objectives?

with
Herman Van Mellaert, IBMA President
Lucius Tamm, Head of Department of Crop Sciences FiBL
Christian Huyghe, Scientific Director INRAE
Ulrich Kuhlmann, Executive Director, Global Operations CABI
Roma Gwynn, Vice-president IBMA
Karine Grosbeau, EU and France Regulatory Manager CBC Biogard
Peter Maes, Director of Corporate Marketing Koppert Biological Systems 
Corey Huck, Head of Global Biologicals Syngenta
Marc De Nale, CEO Tomorrow the Earth
Nick Mole, Policy Officer PAN UK
Rick Melnick, Vice President Global Business Dunham Trimmer
Hans Jöhr, Former Corporate Head of Agriculture – Nestlé

Bernard Blum Award Presentation
David Cary, Member of the ABIM Executive Board and Owen Jones (Chair of the Bernard Blum Award judging panel) present the 2021 Bernard Blum Award short list success stories and the winning entry presentation.
There will be informative presentations by the finalists in the Bernard Blum Award for biocontrol innovation.

Owen Jones, Chair of the Bernard Blum Award judging panel
Assessing Biocontrol Innovations and what the judges are looking for

Caroline Reid, Senior Technical Support, Bioline Agrosciences
A new, innovative system for fast, easy, mechanised application of beneficial wasps

Ashish Malik, CEO
Bee Vectoring Technology

Céline Ramponi Bur, Portfolio Development Manager, Certis Europe
Protect your crops with the natural power of lupine

Shimon Steinberg, Chief Scientific Officer, BioBee and Arnon Tabic, R&D Entomologist, BioBee
Slow-release Sachets of Phytoseiulus persimilis: A Dream Come True

Session 3 (Chair person: Roma Gwynn)
Case studies on emerging global pest problems and for outdoor crops (Asia)

Alison Watson, Head of the ASEAN Action Plan on Fall Armyworm Control Secretariat
GROWASIA FAW project

Session 4 (Chair person: Ulf Heilig)
The changing European regulatory environment 

Barbara Edler, MUCF Coordinator, MinorUses
Update on Minor Uses relevant for biocontrol

Session 4 continued (Chair person: Ulf Heilig)
The changing European regulatory environment

Domenico Deserio, Policy Officer in the Directorate General for Health and Food Safety of the European Commission (DG SANTE)
and Eric Liegeois, Policy Officer Pesticides, European Commission
Update on Microbial data requirements

Andrew Owen-Griffiths, European Commission
Update on SUD

Wolfgang Reinert, Policy Officer Plant Health, European Commission Directorate General for Health and Food Safety
Update on commission study on invertebrate biological control agents

Session 3 continued (Chair person: Jennifer Lewis)
Case studies on emerging global pest problems in Colombia 

José Estevez, President Asobiocol (Colombian Association of Biocontrol Manufacturers) and Country Manager STK Bio Ag Technologies
Camilo Villalobos, CEO and founder of BIOSERVIAM GROUP
Biocontrol, partnerships, and food systems transformation: a case study from Colombia
Claudia Martínez, Executive Director E3 - Ecology, Economics and Ethics
FOLU Colombia: transforming food systems from the territories