Our speaker lineup for F&A Next 2024

Keynote

Michael Jackson

Venture Capitalist

Keynote

Constantijn van Oranje

Special Envoy | Techleap

Keynote

Jeroen Smit

Author and investigative journalist

Keynote

Christine Gould

Founder | Thought for Food

Keynote

Frank Holleman

Co-Founder | Fork Ranger

Speaker

Laura Thissen

Director | StartLife

Speaker

Diane Boogaard

Head W&R Sustainability & Global Food System Transition | Rabobank

Speaker

Marjolein Brasz

CEO | Foodvalley NL

Speaker

Sjoukje Heimovaara

President of the Executive Board |
Wageningen University & Research

Host

Rens de Jong

Moderator

Next Heroes

Tom Williams

CEO & Co-Founder | Number 8 Bio

Next Heroes

Philip Sieber-Gasser

Founder & CEO | Besso

Next Heroes

Ilana Taub

CEO & Co-Founder | Bolder Foods

Next Heroes

Tess Bevers

Co-Founder | Novogaia

Next Heroes

Niek Savelkoul

CEO and Founder | Scope Biosciences

Next Heroes

Keri Carstens

CEO | Jord BioScience

Next Heroes

Patrick Asdaghi

CEO & Co-Founder | Carbon Maps

Next Heroes

Tom Foster-Carter

CherryPick

Next Heroes

Maija Itkonen

CEO and Co-Founder | OneGo Bio

Next Heroes

Birgit Dekkers

CEO & Co-Founder | Rival Foods

Moderator

Henry Gordon-Smith

CEO & Founder | Agritecture

Moderator

Charlotte Weston

Global Sustainability Director | EY

Moderator

Evangelos Kontos

Investor Partnership Manager | StartLife

Moderator

Marie Asano

Partner | ECBF

Moderator

Emmanuel Anom

Sr. Project Manager – Shared Facilities | Foodvalley NL

Moderator

Adam Anders

Managing Partner | Anterra Capital

Speaker

Anieke Wierenga

Founder | ScaleUpPractitioners

Moderator

Willem Ruster

Manager 'Sustainability Management in Agri & Food' program | Wageningen University & Research

Moderator

Anne Helfer

Start-up support manager | biotope by VIB

Moderator

Judith van der Horst

Lead Food & Health | Foodvalley NL

Moderator

Nadav Berger

Founder & Managing Director | Peakbridgde

Moderator

Taly Nechushtan

Co- Founder & Vice Chair | InnovoPro

Moderator

Oliviana Bailey

Ambassador Netherlands | Women in AI

Moderator

Natanja Slager

Corporate Investment Lead | ICL Group

Speaker

Florentine Fockema Andreae

Partner | SHIFT Invest

Speaker

Anker Sørensen

Vice President New Business | KeyGene

Speaker

Sanne Dekker

Manager Public Affairs - Corporate Sustainability | Royal FrieslandCampina

Speaker

Fons de Zeeuw

Director International | Oost NL, East Netherlands Development Agency

Speaker

William Pelton

CEO & Co-Founder | Phytoform

Speaker

Ziv Kohav

Open Innovation Lead | ICL

Speaker

Bradley Jones

Investment Director | Earth Capital

Speaker

Werner Fischer

Managing Consultant & Impact Investing Lead | Catalyze

Speaker

Katherine Dutmer

University of Amsterdam (UvA)

Moderator

Alla Idrisova

Managing Partner & Founder | BeeQueen

Moderator

Gerben Dijksterhuis

Startup & Scale-up Banker F&A | Rabobank

Moderator

Niels Snoep

Themelead Digital, Tech & Innovation | Rabobank

Speaker

Julia Buech

Senior Specialist – Consumer Foods | RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness

Moderator

Lotte Sluiter

Partner & Program Director | Plant FWD

Speaker

Ajay Varadharajan

CEO | GreenSwapp

Speaker

Sebastien Pascual

Director | Temasek

Moderator

Katarzyna Gil

Principal, Sustainable Food Systems | Icos Capital

Speaker

Martin Ullmann

CEO & Co-founder | Ullmanna

Speaker

Jeroen Willemsen

Lead Protein Transition | Foodvalley NL

Speaker

John Cherry

Farmer | Groundswell

Speaker

Darren Streiler

Vice President | ADM Ventures

Moderator

Richard Harrison

Managing Director Plant Sciences Group | Wageningen University & Research

Speaker

Katelijne Bekers

Co-Founder & CEO | MicroHarvest

Speaker

Chiara Molena

Co-Founder & Managing Director | Edera Lab

Speaker

Cindy van Rijswick

Global F&A Strategist Fresh Produce | Rabobank

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Fred Beekmans

Program Director Circular & Climate-neutral Society | Wageningen University & Research

Speaker

Paul Sellew

Founder & CEO | Little Leaf Farm

Speaker

Will Kletter

Vice President of Operations and Strategy | ClimateAI

Speaker

Pavlos Kalaitzoglou

Advisor | Astanor Ventures

Speaker

Derek Norman

Vice President | Leaps by Bayer

Speaker

Michiel Croes

Patent attorney in training | EP&C Patent Attorneys

Speaker

Erik Pekkeriet

Programme Manager Vision + Robotics | Wageningen University & Research

Speaker

Jolijn Zwart-van Kessel

Innovation Lead Circular Agrifood | FoodValley NL

Speaker

Manuella Cunha Brito

Senior Investment Manager | Mudcake

Speaker

Roland van der Vorst

Head of innovation & CEO Rabo Carbon Bank | Rabobank

Speaker

Richard Zaltzman

CEO | EIT Food

Speaker

Ioannis Athanasiadis

Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science | Wageningen University and Research

Speaker

Feike Sijbesma

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

Speaker

Olaf van der Veen

CEO & Founder | Orbisk

Speaker

Markus Linder

CEO & co-founder | inoqo

Speaker

Jan Groen

CEO & Founder | Green Organics

Speaker

Mark Kahn

Co-founder and Managing Partner | Omnivore

Speaker

Cliona Howie

CEO | Foundation Earth

Speaker

Alon Chen

CEO & Co-Founder | Tastewise

Speaker

Alex Datema

Director Food & Agri NL | Rabobank

Speaker

Ali Osman

CEO | PFx Biotech

Speaker

Francis Quint

Global Head Rabo Investments | Rabobank

Speaker

Bart van Hooland

Managing Partner | Thia Ventures

Speaker

Nina Waldhauer

Senior Business Development Manager Agrifood | Invest-NL

Speaker

Bill Graf

SVP Farm Deployment | Plenty

Speaker

Miriam Ueberall

Chief R&D Officer | Upfield Research & Development

Speaker

Stephan van Sint Fiet

CEO | Vivici

Speaker

Wilco Schoonderbeek

Director Investments | Horticoop

Speaker

Bosco Emparanza García

CEO & Founder | MOA Foods

Speaker

Jesus Hijas

Founder | Authoritas and Movimiento Actitud Emprendedora

Speaker

Mathias Müller

Senior Director | Corteva Catalyst™

Speaker

Koen Boone

Director Europe | The Sustainability Consortium

Speaker

Nadim El Khazen

Partner | PeakBridge

Speaker

Aviaja Riemann-Andersen

CEO & co-founder | Agrain by Circular Food Technology

Speaker

Anne Dingstad

CEO | Thorvald

Speaker

Michael Doane

Global Managing Director, Food & Freshwater Systems | The Nature Conservancy

Speaker

Rieks Smook

CEO | Grassa

Speaker

Laura Millroy

Partner | McKinsey & Company

Speaker

Niels van Stralen

CEO & Co-Founder | ChainCraft

Speaker

Bas Hetterscheid

Manager Partnerships | Wageningen University & Research

Speaker

Nadine Geiser

Principal | World Fund

Speaker

Marc Coloma

CEO, Co-founder and food activist | Heura

Speaker

Elke Evers

National Contact Point voor de EIC Transition, EIC accelerator & advisor Eurostars | RVO

Moderator

Annelies Schenk

Manager Innovation & Partnerships

Speaker

Prateek Srivastava

Vice President EMEA | Cropin

Speaker

Omer Davidi

Ceo & Co-Founder | Beehero

Speaker

Rogier Pieterse

Managing Partner | Pymwymic

Speaker

Dominik Ewald

Member of the Board

Speaker

Maarten Bosch

CEO | Mosa Meat

Speaker

Anouk Dutrée

Head of product | UbiOps

Speaker

Adam Wilson

Equity Private Placements | Rabobank

Speaker

Menno Holterman

President and CEO | Nijhuis Saur Industries

Speaker

Adrian Percy

Executive Director | N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative at North Carolina State University

Speaker

Wim van de Worp

Founder & Managing Partner | NoMilk2day

Speaker

Truke Smoor

Global Water Lead | Cargill

Speaker

Hanna Ojanen

Head of Carbon Markets and Policy | Carbo Culture

Speaker

Philippe Birker

Co-Founder | Climate Farmers

Speaker

Kees Aarts

Founder & CEO | Protix

Speaker

Philipp Lottes

CEO & Founder | Pheno-Inspect GmbH

Speaker

Steven Tuttle

President & CEO | 5Metis, Inc

Speaker

Arnout Asjes

CTO and founding member | Land Life Company

Speaker

Jan Burger

Senior Director Climate & Water Sustainability Europe | The Coca-Cola Company

Speaker

Serpil Tascioglu

Director Topsectors and Industrial Policy | Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate of The Netherlands

Speaker

Guido van den Ackerveken

Scientific Director | CropXR

Speaker

Annick Verween

Head | biotope by VIB

Speaker

Jonathan Berte

Founder | Robovision

Speaker

Furqan Meerza

R&D Chef, Gastronomic Consultant | Basque Culinary Center

Speaker

Marianne de Schutter

Manager Corporate Social Responsibility | Jumbo

Speaker

Vanessa Maire

Global Head of Regenerative Agriculture | Diageo

Speaker

Victor Friedberg

CEO & Founder | FoodShot Global

Speaker

Joshua Anthony

Founder and CEO | Nlumn

Judge

Arnout Dijkhuizen

Investment Principal | Astanor Ventures

Judge

James Caffyn

Partner | Lever VC

Judge

Maurien Olsthoorn

Senior Science Fellow | dsm-firmenich

Judge

Saskia Hoebée

Investment Principal | Five Season Ventures

Judge

Stéphane Roussel

Partner | European Circular Bioeconomy Fund