Our speaker lineup for F&A Next 2025

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Sebastiaan Berendse

Corporate Director Value Creation | WUR

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Bert-Jan Woertman

Managing Director | StartLife

Moderator

Adam Anders

Managing Partner | Anterra Capital

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Marjolein Brasz

CEO | Foodvalley NL

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Alex Datema

Director of Food & Agri Netherlands | Rabobank

Host

Rens de Jong

Moderator

Keynote

Josh Tickell

Director | Big Picture Ranch

Keynote

Emile van der Staak

Chef/owner | Restaurant de Nieuwe Winkel

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Richard Nugee

Lieutenant General (Retd)

Keynote

Nikki Trott

Founding partner | Barefoot Ventures, CEO Advisor, Author, and Brand Strategist

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Sjoukje Heimovaara

President of the Executive Board |
Wageningen University & Research

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Feike Sijbesma

Former CEO | DSM, Chair | Philips, Co-Chair | Global Centre on Adaptation, Founder | Darwin International

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Stephan van Sint Fiet

CEO | Vivici

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Joachim Kahler

CEO | Nofence

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Rieks Smook

CEO | Grassa

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Robert Gerlach

CEO | Klim

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Ross Hendron

CEO | Wild Bioscience

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Paul Rutten

CEO | Concert Bio

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Arnanda Scherner

CEO | Agrobiomics

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Justus Lauten

CEO | Foodforecast

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Casey Woodward

CEO | Agrisound

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Ajay Varadharajan

CEO | Greenswapp

Judge

Giulia Stellari

Director | Fall Line Capital

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Richie Gray

Vice President and Global Head | Mondelez SnackFutures

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Sebastiaan Masselink

Senior Investment Manager | Yanmar Ventures

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Maurien Olsthoorn

Senior Science Fellow | dsm-firmenich

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Carolina Villa

Principal | Nucleus Capital

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Arnout Dijkhuizen

Investment Principal | Astanor Ventures

Moderator

Charlotte Weston

Global Sustainability Director | EY

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Lucy Schroder

Associate | One planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B)

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Mark Drewell

Co-founder | New Foundation Farms

Moderator

Marie Asano

Partner | ECBF

Panellist

Valdemar Engel

Senior Investment Associate | The Export and Investment Fund of Denmark

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Nina Waldhauer

Senior Business Development Manager Agrifood | Invest-NL

Moderator

Louisa Burwood-Taylor

Head of Media & Research | Agfunder

Moderator

Judith van der Horst

Lead Food & Health | Foodvalley NL

Speaker

Joost de Laat

Managing Director Social Sciences Group, Professor of Economics | WUR

Moderator

Nadav Berger

Founder & Managing Director | Peakbridgde

Panellist

Martha Schlicher

CEO | Impetus Agriculture Inc.

Panellist

Bart van Hooland

Managing Partner | Thia Ventures

Panellist

Anthony Klemm

CEO | Enko Chem

Moderator

Laura Thissen

Venture Partner | Grey Silo Ventures

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Karin Verzijden

Partner | Axon Lawyers

Moderator

Ali Morrow

Partner | Clay Capital

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Christian Brix Tillegreen

Director Planetary Health | BioInnovation Institute

Panellist

Onno van Manen

Associate Director Program & Project Delivery | GAIN

Moderator

Marie Brueser

Corporate Venture Manager | EIT Food

Speaker

Elizabeth Lunik

Senior Sustainability Researcher | Rabobank

Speaker

Gert HJ Kema

Emiritius Professor, Former Head of the Laboratory for Phytopathology | WUR

Panellist

Béla Jankovich

Chair of the Board of Directors | Commonland

Speaker

Silla Scheepens

| Future Food Fund

Panellist

Cindy van Rijswick

Global F&A Strategist Fresh Produce | Rabobank

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Ying Shao

Co-founder & CEO | Plantik Biosciences

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Nikolaas Vles

CEO | NIZO

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Rutger Beens

Co-founder | Proba

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Samuel Rapolu

Investment Partnership Manager | StartLife

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Daan Wilms van Kersbergen

Investor | The Yield Lab Europe

Panellist

Julia Buech

Senior Specialist Food & Agribusiness - Consumer Foods | RaboResearch

Panellist

Betty Chang

Research Area Lead | European Food Information Council (EUFIC)

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Tzvi Zvirin

Co-founder & CEO | Bioarmix

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Céline Lévy

Investment Manager Greentech | European Investment Fund (EIF)

Panellist

Jacob Morén

COO | Improvin'

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Stijn Harms

Director Projects and Technology | Protix

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Martijn Bekker

Expertise Leader Fermentation | Wageningen University & Research

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Willem Ruster

Sustainability Management in Agri & Food | WUR

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Sanne Wiersma

Project leader and Scientist Microbial Cell Factories | Wageningen University & Research

Panellist

Thomas Verswyver

Business Unit Director Alternative Proteins | Plukon

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Gulsah Uysal

Region West Director | EIT Food

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Andrew D. Ive

General Managing Partner | Big Idea Ventures

Panellist

Mathias Müller

Senior Director | Corteva Catalyst™

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Ileen Wilke

Community Manager Regenerative Agriculture | Foodvalley NL

Panellist

Tomas Turner

CEO, co-founder | Cosaic

Panellist

Alexandre Bastos

Head of Front End Innovation, Ventures & Competitive Intelligence | Givaudan

Panellist

Henrike Langbroek

CEO | OneThird

Panellist

Jan Doldersum

Manager Chain & Retail | Rijk Zwaan

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Adam Wilson

Executive Director, Equity Private Placement | Rabobank Wholesale Banking North America

Panellist

Greg Whitaker

CEO | Agrigate One

Panellist

Ingrid van der Meer

Manager Business Unit Bioscience | WUR

Panellist

Cornelius Lahme

Marketing & Communications | BLUU Seafood

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Florentine Fockema Andreae

Partner | SHIFT Invest

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Sander Peltenburg

Startup & Scale-up Banker Food & Agri | Rabobank

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Tomer Tzach

CEO | CropX

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Karin Slobbe-Visser

Programme Manager Regenerative Agriculture | Foodvalley NL

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Angelique van Helvoort

Project Manager | Oost NL

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Suradj Hiralal

Project Manager | Oost NL

Panellist

Ana Piekarz

Global Head | ESG Nutrition

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Kevin Parekh

Co-founder | Proeeon

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Guus van Heijningen

Founder | Captain

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Darren Logan

VP Research | Mars

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Mike Poodt

Team leader Information Management R&D | Rijk Zwaan

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Peter Verhagen

Senior Portfolio Manager W&R | Rabobank

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Bastiaan de Wit

Co-founder | Zebra Legal

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Silke Hemming

Head Research Team Greenhouse Technology | WUR