This document provides an agenda for the Plant Breeding Congress taking place from December 2-4, 2015 in Amsterdam. The congress will feature presentations, panel discussions, and interactive sessions on novel plant breeding techniques, ensuring protection of innovation, overcoming biotic and abiotic stresses, increasing genetic diversity, genome engineering, regulatory perspectives, big data challenges, and more. Speakers will represent companies like Dow, Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont Pioneer, as well as research institutions. The event aims to discover new breeding methods and strategies to produce crops with desirable traits while meeting regulatory requirements.

1. 2-4 December 2015
Hilton Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Discover novel breeding techniques to
produce the most desirable traits whilst
ensuring the protection of innovation
Plant Breeding
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Emilio Rodríguez Cerezo
Acting Head of Unit
DG Joint Research Centre (JRC)
European Commission, Spain
Tristan Coram
Trait Manager Group Leader
& Agronomic Traits Program Leader
Dow, USA
Renata Bolognesi
Insect Control Platform Lead
Monsanto, USA
Ana Atanassova
Global Regulatory Manager
Bayer CropScience, Belgium
Dave Warner
AgTraits Program Director
DuPont Pioneer, USA
Christine Gould
Head of Next Generation Innovation
and Engagement
Syngenta, USA
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2. Plant Breeding: Market Analysis
Morning of plenary sessions
09.00 The future of agriculture: Where will we be in 10 years
time?
• Foresight vs forecasting
• Encouraging people to think about the future and reflect on
their thought processes to prevent inaccurate predictions
• Horizon scanning for megatrends
• Visions of the future of agriculture and food systems
• Two global scenarios: alternative frames for looking into the
future -a fresh perspective compared to business as usual
• Seeing the future from different lenses gives clarity in the
discussion on new opportunities and what can be done
today
Freija Van Duijne, President, Dutch Future Society,
The Netherlands
09.40 Market review of biopesticides, seed treatments and plant
breeding technology
• What have we learnt and where are we headed?
• Exploring the market size and growth potential
• An overview of recent mergers and acquisitions
• Global trends and developments
• Market leaders for each sector
• Innovations in technology
• Future trends and predictions - where are the current gaps
in the market
John McDougall, Partner, Phillips McDougal, UK
10.20 What investors look for when investing in the biopesticide,
seed treatment and ag-biotech market?
• How to demonstrate that your business is worth investing in
• Investor focus for start up companies
• Investor focus during the growth stage
Eli Ziskind, Vice President, Investment Banking, Credit
Suisse, UK
11.00 Morning coffee networking breakDiscover How to Breed
for the Most Desirable Traits
11.30 Overcoming the challenges of abiotic and biotic stress
• Best approaches and strategies to breeding for stress
tolerance
• Taking a closer look at the importance of experimental
design
• Analysing modelling and systems biology of abiotic and
biotic stress tolerance
• Utilising the available biotechnology for combatting abiotic
and biotic stress
Arnaldo Ferreira, Geneticist, United States Department of
Agriculture - Forest Service, USA
12.00 Spotlight Session
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providers within the plant breeding field. For more information
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12.30 Lunch
14.00 Host plant resistance of banana to biotic stress: simply
complex.
• Major constraints to smallholder banana production across
sub-Saharan Africa
• Is genetic resistance the most economic and sustainable
solution
• Assessing a combination of conventional breeding and
biotechnology to overcome problems associated with
infertility barriers, high hybridity, ploidy and genome
configurations, complex host plant-pest interactions
Abdou Tenkouano, Regional Director, AVRDC - The World
Vegetable Center, West and Central Africa
14.30 A summary of native trait breeding and transgenic
approaches to maize drought tolerance in the industry:
Accomplishments and future trends.
• Global market demand for products - future challenges for
sustainable water use
• A historical view of progress made with conventional breeding
• Progress made with native trait technology – enabling
technologies, prediction modelling, phenotyping
• Transgenic approaches to drought tolerance – over a decade
of discovery and development of novel genetic variation
• Future trends and predictions – integrated approaches
Dave Warner, AgTraits Program Director, DuPont Pioneer,
USA
15.00 Hybrid wheat breeding: History, current status and future
perspectives
• Examining pollination control systems for wheat
• Assessing breeding methods of wheat males
• Heterotic pools in wheat
• Current future market perspectives
Mario Gils, Hybrid Wheat Breeding, Nordsaat Saatzucht,
Germany
15.30 Afternoon Break
16.00 Disease resistance traits for potato breeding
• Examining Simplot Plantsciences biotechnology process
Innate™
• How to implement Innate™ into your breeding programme
• RD process behind Innate™
Nicolas Champouret, Head of RD, Disease Resistant
Traits, Simplot Plantsciences, USA
16.30 Panel Discussion: Best approaches and strategies to
overcome environmental stresses.
This interactive session will allow attendees to discuss particular
challenges encountered with dealing with environmental stresses
that affect plant breeding processes and direct specific questions
to our panel of speakers. As well as addressing the below points:
• What key points to consider when breeding for
environment resistant traits?
• Is there a one size fits all technique to combat
environmental stresses?
• Current innovations on the market that show great promise
at dealing with environmental stresses
Dave Warner, AgTraits Program Director, DuPont Pioneer,
USA
Mario Gils, Hybrid Wheat Breeding, Nordsaat Saatzucht,
Germany
Abdou Tenkouano, Regional Director, AVRDC - The World
Vegetable Center, West and Central Africa
The Plant Microbiome
17.00 Is the next big thing the plant microbiome?
• Exploring tools to understand microorganisms in
soil: determining the precise composition of complex
microbial communities
• Understanding of the critical interactions between the
microbial ecosystems that coexist with plants, and in
particular within the rhizosphere
• Applications of the soil microbiome for improving crop
yield: results from research and commercial trails
• Future directions for this rapidly growing field
Douglas Ry Wagner, Chief Executive Officer, Agrinos, USA
17.30 End of plant breeding stream: Day one
17.30 Gala reception sponsored by
Day One Wednesday
2nd December 2015
RD: INVESTING IN THE FUTURE AND
LEARNING FROM THE PRESENT
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3. Day Two
Thursday
3rd December 2015
BRINGING TOGETHER
REGULATION AND SCIENCE
Regulatory Perspective on Plant Breeding
09.00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Key factors and challenges to
consider when dealing with regulatory approval barriers
An in depth analysis on whether a number of new breeding
techniques (NBT) could fall within the scope of the GM
legislation in particular focusing on the following new
breeding techniques:
• Oligonucleotide Directed Mutagenesis (ODM)
• Zinc Finger Nuclease Technology (ZFN)
• Cisgenesis and Intragenesis
• Grafting
• Agro-infiltration
• RNA-dependent DNA methylation (RdDM)
• Reverse breeding
• Synthetic genomics
Emilio Rodríguez Cerezo, Acting Head of Unit, DG Joint
Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, Spain
09.40 Bayer CropScience’s view on NBTs and their regulation
• Strategic relevance of new breeding technologies
• Bayer’s research on directed genome engineering
• Multiple ways to look at the NBTs from a regulatory
perspective
Ana Atanassova, Global Regulatory Manager, Bayer
CropScience, Belgium
10.20 International licensing platform for vegetables
• How can we have both incentives for innovation and open
access to innovation?
• Maintaining and defending a monopolistic use of IP
• Shaping a new use of IP that both rewards invention and
also encourages openness following the principle of “free
access but not access for free”
• Examining the International Licensing Platform Vegetables
(ILP) and Syngenta’s TraitAbility
Christine Gould, Head of Next Generation Innovation and
Engagement, Syngenta, Switzerland
11.00 Break
11.30 Interactive “simulating the campfire” session:
Come together in an informal environment to discuss the
acceptance of new breeding techniques (NBT):
The facilitator will drive the discussion and participating
delegates will drive the following content:
• Is the current regulation of borderline new breeding
techniques the best approach?
• The likelihood of being of CRISPR-Cas9 considered as a
GM Technology
• The implication this could have on industry
• The challenged and benefits of the EU accepting GM
technologies
Facilitator: Emilio Rodríguez Cerezo, Acting Head of Unit,
DG Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission,
Spain
12.00 Spotlight Session
Spotlight presentations are hosted by leading service
providers within the plant breeding field. For more information
on hosting a spotlight session please contact Chamatkar
Sandhu E: chamatkar.sandhu@informa.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7017 7278
12.30 Lunch
Genetic Diversity Genome Engineering
14:00 Dual Dialogue: Innovative strategies to increase genetic
diversity
• Examining the best approaches and strategies to produce
genetic variation
• What is conservation seeking to achieve from a genetic
standpoint?
• Identifiying and utilising gentic diversity to breed desired
traits
• Can molecular markers be used to determine which of a
species’ populations are conservation priorities?
Rodomiro Ortiz, Faculty [Chair] Professor, Genetics Plant
Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
(SLU), Sweden
Bert Visser, Director Centre for Genetic Resources,
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
14.30 Targeting meiotic recombination to unlock genetic
diversity
• Meiotic recombination and role in plant breeding
• How we can target meiotic recombination and which are
the factors at play
• Impact and applications
Giacomo Bastianelli, Co-Founder CEO, Meiogenix, Italy
15.00 Genome engineering - from site-directed mutagenesis to
precise genome editing
• Understanding principle mechanisms of customisable
endonucleases
• Comparison of zinc-finger nuclease, TALEN and RGEN
(CRISPR/Cas9) platforms
• Establishment of methodology for plants
• Current and future applications
Jochen Kumlehn, Head, Plant Reproductive Biology, Leibniz
Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)
Germany
15.30 Afternoon Break
16.00 Performance, stability and uniformity of precise genome
modification in maize using zinc-finger nucleases
• Demonstrated targeted insertion into maize IPK1 locus
using EXZACT™ Precision Technology
● • Demonstrated stability and uniformity of “replicate events”
• Study supports case for novel registration approach
Tristan Coram, Trait Manager Group Leader Agronomic
Traits Program Leader, Dow, USA
Innovations in Breeding
16.30 Trait delivery via Seed Treatment: A game changer in
breeding
• How TraitUp can enhance plants with desired traits, via
post-breeding pre-sawing seed treatment
• Trait delivery process - scientific breakthrough in transient
non-transgenic trait delivery, and potential applications
• How far are we in the commercialisation process?
• What are the next steps for TraitUp technology
Dotan Peleg, C.E.O, Morflora, Israel
17.00 The Two Blades foundation, harnessing technological
advances to combat crop disease
• Who are we and what is our mission?
• Examples of 2Blades technology activities
• Cross-species transfer of plant immune receptors
Peter van Esse, Group Leader, The Sainsbury Laboratory,
UK
17.30 End of plant breeding stream: Day two
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Presentation
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Discussions

4. Day Two
Day Three
Thursday
3rd December 2015
Friday
4th December 2015
EVENING
SEMINAR
BIG
DATA
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The Emergence of RNA interference (RNAi)
Evening Seminar: Thursday 3rd December 2015
Register: 18.15 • Start 18.30 • Finish 20.30 • Networking Dinner Included
The breakthrough technology of RNA Interference (RNAi) in recent years has changed the way researchers examine the
genome and their role in disease. Consequently RNAi applications holds promise for many areas of agriculture including
management of weeds, insects, diseases and other uses. This workshop examines the impact this breakthrough technology
has had across the agricultural landscape, predicting what the future may hold for RNAi as well as addressing the below
points:
• A closer look at RNAi – Understanding the mechanism
• Utilising RNAi silencing technology across crop improvement
• The challenges involved in getting RNAi molecules into the
target site
• Safety issues involved with RNAi technology
Workshop leader
Renata Bolognesi, Insect Control Platform Lead
Monsanto, USA
After hearing the discussion on day 1 and day 2 on various breeding methods and innovations in technology, this day
focuses on the copious amounts of complex data that is produced in the next stage of the plant breeding process. Learn the
best strategies and approaches to overcome the vast amounts of data produced from genomic analysis.
Topics addressed include:
Tackling the Challenges that Come with Big Data
Registration 09.00 • Start 09.30 • Finish 15.30 • Morning, lunch and afternoon refreshments will be included
Session 1:
Turn your complex data into useful and meaningful
information
• How to prioritise and use specific data on certain traits
• How to use this information to better exploit my genome
• How to deal with integrating private data and data from a
public repository
Richard Finkers, Senior Researcher
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Session 2:
Data handling for predictive phenomics
• Solutions to correlate and make accessible high velocity
data
• Coordinating large, geographically dispersed breeding
research groups and their datasets
Carolyn J. Lawrence-Dill, Associate Professor, Department
of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology and Department
of Agronomy, Iowa State University, USA
Session 3:
Interactive discussion session
Our speakers of the day will go around the room and ask
attendees what they’re biggest challenges and fears are with
big data and what insight they have on this topic. This allows
for and accurate learning experience through sharing of
perspectives and challenges in an informal environment.

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