SESSION III of the BIOTECH ATTRACTION conference cycle held

Yesterday Fruit Attraction LIVEConnect hosted the third session of the BIOTECH ATTRACTION conference cycle: “Management and public and private financing for the agrobiotechnology sector”.

The BIOTECH ATTRACTION cycle aims to show the technological trends that will mark the future of agriculture, as well as examples of innovative companies and projects that work on these topics. From BIOVEGEN, as a public-private association focused on supporting innovation in the sector and a collaborator of FRUIT ATTRACTION, we intend with this cycle to show the technological and financing opportunities that are opening up to the sector through technological innovation, which offers new products, varieties, new crop applications, new tools, greater efficiency in production, lower environmental impact... In short, show how technological innovation in the sector, enhanced by the tools that emerge from in-depth knowledge of plant biology, provides business opportunities and competitiveness to the entire value chain of the agri-food sector.”

In this third day, held yesterday under the heading “Management and public and private financing for the agrobiotechnology sector”,  different representatives of entities related to the financing of projects such as Ángeles Valbuena,  Foreign Technological Action CDTI; Alex Marin,  R&D Investment Manager Kaudal; Carla Ibáñez, Senior Analyst Major Key; Paula Álvarez Ameijeiras, Ecosystem Director Eatable Adventures; Myriam Martínez, director Business Development Incotec and Fernando Perez, Director of the National Programs Business Unit of Zabala.

Recording of SESSION III

Program and presentations of the Conference

11:00 a.m. Welcome and introduction

• IFEMA. Raul Calleja. Director FRUIT ATTRACTION
• BIOVEGEN. Gonzaga Ruiz de Gauna. Manager

11:10 a.m. PRESENTATIONS

• Support for International Technological Cooperation in R&D&i. CDTI. Angeles Valbuena. CDTI Foreign Technological Action

• Promotion of R&D&i with private investment: technological patronage. KAUDAL. Alex Marin. R&D Investment Manager

• Valuation of research in the AgBiotech sector. MAJOR KEY. Carla Ibáñez. Senior Analyst

• Spain Food Tech Startups' Program: Accelerating Agrifoodtech in Spain. EATABLE. Paula Álvarez Ameijeiras. Eatable Adventures Ecosystem Director

• INCOTEC. Myriam Martínez. Business Development Director

• Opportunities and public aid in the agri-food sector. ZABALA. Fernando Pérez Miguel. Director of the National Programs Business Unit

12:10 p.m. Colloquium and questions

12:30 p.m. Conclusions and closing