March 16, 2020
780 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Building a sustainable, high-welfare livestock industry through innovation, collaboration and investment

350+ international livestock producers, animal health providers, feed companies and ingredients manufacturers will join technology providers, entrepreneurs and investors to share innovation and experiences.

Key themes:

• Smart livestock farming: Transforming data into meaningful, actionable, integrated insights;
• Precision breeding: Utilizing on-farm data, AI and traceability tools to facilitate phenotyping;
• Targeting the microbiome: Tailoring feed innovation at scale to boost performance and health;
• Alternative protein feeds: Commercializing and scaling sustainable production;
• Vaccines and diagnostics: Designing more effective tools to strengthen disease prevention;
• Gene editing: Overcoming the adoption hurdle and addressing new application opportunities;
• Biosecurity and food safety: Accelerating disease detection to build a safer food system;
• Traceability and transparency: Harnessing traceability tools to provide ‘food with a story’ and unlock value;
• Innovation models: Exploring creative corporate innovation strategies, business models and collaboration;
• Investment and finance: Scaling animal agtech to commercial viability – what can we learn from adjacent industries?