WSGA CONFERENCE 2023

Thursday 9th November 2023


Thought leaders from horticulture, industry and academia will speak on the theme of 'Innovation, Automation, and Robotics' to give their insights into what technologies the commercial horticulture sector should be seeking to exploit now and in the near future.

The conference is open to representatives from across the horticultural sector, education, technology companies, academia, investors, influencers and policy makers.

The opening keynote will be from Minette Batters, President of the NFU.

AGENDA
There will be a brief Q&A after each speaker.

Coffee will be available from 9am.

TIME

SPEAKER

TITLE


10am

Richard Hopkins
WSGA Chairman

Welcome

10.10am

Minette Batters

“Driving growth in UK Horticulture”

10.40am

Simon Pearson

Recent advances in Automation, AI and Robotics

11.10am

Joshua Dalby, Ricardo’s

BIOCCUS, Biomass pyrolysis with Carbon Capture, Utilisation & Storage

11.40am

Dr Joshua Burnstone,
Fargro

Digital Agronomy: insights, inference, and deep learning

 

12.10am

Richard Hopkins

Lunch arrangements and housekeeping

12.15 – 1.15

LUNCH

1.15

Jeremy Kerswell, Plumpton

How Plumpton works to cater for the ever changing needs of the horticulture industry

1.45

Andy Allen, Oasthouse Ventures

The next generation of energy models for glasshouses

 

2.15

Kit Franklin,  Harper Adams

Autonomous Arable Farming

2.45pm

COFFEE AND TEA

3.15pm

Andy Hall,
Tortuga


Agricultural robots have been promised for the last 8 years. How close are we to having robots working on farms? What are the current barriers and what will be the benefits?

3.45pm

Mike Wilson,
MTC

Emerging technologies that are coming in other sectors: trends and opportunities in robotics 

4.15

Richard Hopkins
WSGA Chairman

Thank you & Close


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