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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