Programme

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

The Steering Committee are already hard at work on this year’s speaker programme and a provisional programme will be released soon. As always, the floor is open for delegates to present their work, research and commercial developments and there is still time to submit a talk for ABIM 2019.

The call for offered oral presentations in sessions 3, 4, 5 and 8 will be open until 6 June 2019.

If you have a subject that you believe will be of interest to delegates please provide details* of the name of the speaker, company or institution, title and topic, relevant session and a short 10 – 20 word summary of the proposal. Presentations could include but is not limited to for example, new products, applications, production, testing and must be of interest to delegates attending ABIM 2019.

Proposed talks will be assessed initially within the IBMA Professional Group Steering Committees and later the ABIM Steering Group, as to suitability. Speakers will be advised in good time to arrange and take advantage of the early bird registration, as offered talks require the speaker to register and pay for attending the event.

While no scientific proceedings are published, presentations will be made available as pdf files on the ABIM website immediately after the conference and will stay available in the publicly accessible archive.

*Send in the first instance, to Isabelle Pinzauti Babrzyński

14th Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting ABIM Basel, Switzerland, 21 - 23 October 2019

Monday 21 October 2019

From - To	Programme
07:30	Doors open
	Parallel meetings
Room	Montreal	Singapore	Osaka
09:00 - 10:30	IBMA Regulatory Affairs Seminar (IBMA members only) Will be repeated at 11:00	IBMA Natural Substances Professional Group Meeting (IBMA members only)	IBMA Macrobials, Invertebrate Biocontrol Agents Professional Group Meeting (IBMA members only)
10:30 - 11:00 Exhibition hall 4.1	Coffee break supported by
	Parallel meetings
Room	Montreal	Singapore	Osaka
11:00 - 12:30	IBMA Regulatory Affairs Seminar (IBMA members only) Repeat of 9:00 session	IBMA Microbial Biocontrol Agents Professional Group Meeting (IBMA members only)	IBMA Semiochemicals Professional Group Meeting (IBMA members only)
12:30 - 14:00 Exhibition hall 4.1	Lunch break supported by
13:30 - 14:00 Montreal	Registration for Annual General Meeting - IBMA Please register early.
14:00 - 16:00 Montreal	Annual General Meeting IBMA members only and prospective members upon prior request to the IBMA Brussels office.
16:00 - 17:00 Exhibition hall 4.1	Coffee break supported by BIOLINE Agrosciences
17:00 - 17:45 Montreal	Welcome to ABIM 2019 Lucius Tamm (ABIM Steering committee): Welcome on behalf of the organising committee. Sylvia Plak (President IBMA). IBMA Bernard Blum Award - presented by Owen Jones and David Cary. 2019 Bernard Blum Award Winning presentation.
17:45 - 18:30 Montreal	Pre-Aperitif Keynote Address TBA: Title to be advised. Timeslot supported by
18:30 - 20:00 Exhibition hall 4.1	Aperitif supported by CBC (Europe) S.r.l.
13:00 - 19:00 Exhibition hall 4.1	Exhibition
13:00 - 19:00 Foyer	Poster Exhibition supported by Lallemand Plant Care
12:00 - 18:00 Foyer	1-to-1 meetings event 1-to-1 meetings supported by Syngenta Crop Protection AG
12:00 -19:00 Foyer	Ad-hoc meeting rooms

Tuesday 22 October 20189

From - to	Programme
07:30	Doors open
08:30 - 10:00 Montreal	Plenary session 1 Chair: Sylvia Plak, President IBMA EU Plant Protection Regulatory Issues TBA, DG Sante Pesticides Unit: New initiatives in regulating biocontrol. TBA, EFSA: Developments within EFSA relevant to biocontrol and opportunities for interaction with applicants. Ulf Heilig, IBMA: Uniform Principles and Data Requirements relevant to Biocontrol. Session 1 supported by knoell Germany GmbH
10:00 - 10:30 Exhibition hall 4.1	Coffee break supported by Andermatt Biocontrol
10:30 - 12:00 Montreal	Plenary session 2 Chair: Roma Gwynn, IBMA Vice-President Global Regulatory Issues 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 areas still needing change. Session 2 supported by
12:00 - 13:30 Exhibition hall 4.1	Lunch break supported by Oro Agri B.V.
13:30 - 14:10 Montreal	Plenary session 3 Chair: Lieselot van der Veken, Macrobials PG Invertebrate Biocontrol Agents Professional Group Talks Session 3 is supported by Exponent International Limited
14:10 - 15:10 Montreal	Plenary session 4 Chair: Lara Ramaekers, Natural Substances PG Natural Substances Professional Group Talks Session 4 supported by Janssen PMP, a division of Janssen Pharmaceutica NV
15:10 - 15:30 Montreal	Plenary Session 5 Chair: Alessandra Moccia, Semiochemicals PG Semiochemicals Professional Group Talks
15:30 - 16:30 Exhibition hall 4.1	Coffee break supported by Koppert Biological Systems
16:30 - 18:00 Montreal	Plenary session 6 Chair: Karine Grosbeau, IBMA Treasurer A Panel discussion: Bt giving effective pest control while allowing human pathogen free produce to be marketed TBA, Industry: An industry view on the issue of Bt use in food production. TBA, Member State: An EU Member State view on the use of Bt in EU agriculture. TBA, WUR: Testing for Presumptive Bc in EU food chain. TBA, Test Laboratory: Use of the tests and results obtained. TBA, Communication of the issue.
18:00 - 18:30 Montreal	Pre-Aperitif Keynote Address TBA: Title to be advised. Timeslot supported by
18:30 - 19:30 Exhibition hall 4.1	Aperitif supported by Biobest Group NV
08:00 - 19:00 Hall 4.1	Exhibition
07:30 - 19:00 Foyer	Poster Exhibition supported by Lallemand Plant Care
09:00 - 17:00 Foyer	1-to-1 meetings event 1-to-1 meetings supported by Syngenta Crop Protection AG
07:30 - 19:00 Foyer	Ad-hoc meeting rooms

Wednesday 23 October 2019

From - To	Programme
08:00	Doors open
09:00 - 11:30 Montreal	Plenary Session 7 Chair: David Cary, Executive Director, IBMA New technologies, their acceptance and use TBA, Young Farmers Representative: Aspirations of young farmers. Haissam Jijakli, University Liege: Bioherbicide development. TBA, UASSIG: Drones in Agriculture. TBA, : Use of sustainable co-formulants. Panel discussion with presenters as above.
11:30 - 12:30 Exhibition hall 4.1	Lunch break supported by
12:30 - 14:00 Montreal	Plenary Session 8 Chair: Matthias von Erffa, Microbials PG Microbial Biocontrol Agents Professional Group Talks Session 8 supported by Chr. Hansen
14:00 - 14:30 Montreal	Closing remarks and end of conference David Cary and Lucius Tamm
14:30 - 17:00 Osaka	Meeting for Bioprotection Global (BPG): Open to Board Members, Executive Committee Members and Executives of Member Associations.
08:00 - 13:00 Hall 4.1	Exhibition
08:00 - 14:00 Foyer	Poster Exhibition supported by Lallemand Plant Care
09:00 - 13:00 Foyer	1-to-1 meetings event 1-to-1 meetings supported by Syngenta Crop Protection AG
08:00 - 14:00 Foyer	Ad-hoc meeting rooms

Access to the archive

All programmes and presentations for previous ABIM are available to review, back to the very first Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting which was held at the KKL Culture and Convention Center Lucerne, Switzerland on October 23rd-24th 2006.

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