CROP Innovation & Business (CropIB) 2025
The international conference that combines science, technology innovation, and business in the field of plant breeding and innovative crops
On March 30 - April 1, 2025 the International CROP Innovation & Business (CropIB) conference will take place in Cologne, Germany.
This conference brings together breeding, AgBio and AgTech companies, academics, investors, startups and experts from the international agri-food industry. Innovations, technologies and business strategies for developing future crops that provide solutions to the sustainability challenges in agriculture will be discussed.
For the 14th time, more than 200 international participants will gather for a three-day conference that focuses on new technologies and business strategies for breeding innovative crops.
CropIB will also contribute to stimulating partnerships by connecting the industry to the world-class academic networks such as of Wageningen (the Netherlands), Ghent (Belgium) and CEPLAS (Germany).
Added to this year´s program is a dedicated pitch session in which 6 early stage companies will have the opportunity to give a short presentation of 7 minutes. The aim of this program part is to connect these startups to the breeding industry and perform pilot studies to validate their first product and/or service. In this way CropIB would like to decrease the time to market for new innovations that could be applied for crop improvement.
Some highlights of the CropIB 2025 program
- The Ag-Biotech investment landscape
- Consumer insights & market developments: impact on the breeding industry
- Independence and collaboration for a healthy seed industry
- Future crop protection: novel approaches and sustainable solutions
- How to accelerate breeding for a fast changing future
- Partnering & collaboration strategies in AgTech
- Pitch program for young AgTech/AgBio companies
Whom to meet
CropIB is a C-level conference for management, entrepreneurs, leading scientists, financial- and legal experts from the international AgBio and AgTech industry.
Around 200 delegates (CEOs, CSOs, Business executives, heads of R&D/Biotech, legal firms, key scientists, policy makers and financial experts) from the international AgBio industry will be present representing over 100 different organisations.
Flanders.bio member benefit
flanders.bio members benefit from a 10% discount on registration fees*. Contact us to obtain your promo code.
*Applicable on the full conference and day tickets and not valid in combination with other discounts e.g. Startup- and Academic fee.