MORNING PROGRAMME

WHEN

WHAT

WHERE

09:00 - 09:30

Registration, welcome with coffee &  tea

Podium lounge + Hal

09:30 - 09:40

Opening by moderator Inge Wallage (WUR)

Podium

09:40 - 10:00

Dialogue: SSG Director Joost de Laat & Inge Wallage (WUR) + Q&A

Podium

10:00 - 10:20

Impact Pitches:

Examples of roads to societal impact

• Nina de Roo (WUR): Roles of a Scientist
• Parallel sessions Pitches

Podium

10:20 - 10:40

Coffee & Tea break

Hall lounge

10:40 - 11:40

Parallel sessions: ‘Roads to Impact’

• Towards sustainable pig production systems: Robert Hoste (WUR)
• When Science Meets Politics: Polarization and Politicization of Science Communication: Margit van Wessel (WUR)
• Research that matters: Strategic Tools for Maximizing your Research Impact: Lotte de Lint (WUR)
• Unpacking the power of seed, the contribution of social sciences to guide seed sector transformation – Arnab Gupta & Johann Bonnand
• The power and the pulse of the informal economy – whose knowledge counts? – Ted Shrader & Thies Reemer
• Polarization around Planet-Altering Solar Geoengineering Technologies: Critical Scientists Must Speak Out – Aarti Gupta

Break-out rooms:

Momentum 1,2,3

Quantum 1,2,3,4

11:40 - 12:00

Plenary: Wrap up & Lessons learned from parallel sessions

Podium

AFTERNOON PROGRAMME

WHEN

WHAT

WHERE

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch & Networking

Lounge + Hall

13:00 - 13:15

Opening by Inge Wallage & Sjoukje Heimovaara (WUR)

Podium

13:15 - 14:00

Expert Panel: “From polarization to transformation from the perspective of science, policy and practice”

With: Prof. Francisco Alpizar (WUR), Prof. Dave Huitema (WUR), Marije Klever (BoerenNatuur), Prof. Sanne Kruikemeijer (WUR), Saskia Ligthart (Ministry of LVVN), Paulina Bizotto Molina (WUR)

Podium

14:00 - 14:15

Impact Pitches – Examples of impactful collaborations

Podium

14:15 - 14:45

Coffee, Tea, Snacks & Networking

Lounge + hall

14:45 - 15:45

Break-out Rooms: Impactful Collaborations

• Improving SSG’s practice of partnering with partners in Africa, Asia, and Latin America – Herman Brouwer (WUR) & Krista Kruft (WUR)
• AgrifoodTEF: Ethical AI and robotics in agrifood tech – Gohar Isakhanyan, Mireille Hilten, Atik Can & Georgios Tsagdis (WUR)
• How to make Dutch agricultural policy ready for the future? – Roel Jongeneel (WUR)
• Transforming finance for biodiversity and impactful collaborations – Maria Naranjo Barrantes (WUR) with Francisco Alpizar (WUR), Haki Pamuk (WUR), Bert Kramer (Ortec Finance) & Mieke Siebers (FSD)
• LCA based Ecolabel: A harmonized environmental score for each food item sold in Europe – Koen Boone (WUR) with Sanne Dekker (Friesland Campina) & Jasper Lok (Ministry LVVN)
• The Great Food Dilemma: What if…? – Sigrid Wertheim-Heck
• What is polarization? – Inge Wallage

Break-out rooms:

Momentum 1,2,3

Quantum 1,2,3,4

15:45 - 16:05

Plenary: Wrap up & Lessons learned from parallel sessions

Podium

16:05 - 16:30

Reflections & Closing of the day

Podium

16:30 - 18:00

Drinks, Bites & Networking

Lounge + hall