The UK Agri-Tech Centre joined hundreds of industry leaders at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in London, Europe’s premier networking event for agri-tech innovation. The summit provided a dynamic platform for meaningful discussions, expert insights and collaborative thinking around the future of food systems.
Throughout the two-day event, the UK Agri-Tech Centre engaged with agri-businesses, policymakers, technology leaders and start-ups, discussing the support and collaborative opportunities to drive forward cutting-edge, farmer-centric innovation.
The UK Agri-Tech Centre took part in an insightful roundtable discussion about aligning innovation with agri-tech growth. The conversations underscored the importance of collaboration across the ecosystem to accelerate the development and adoption of technologies.
On the day the UK Agri-Tech Centre was also joined by Lettus Grow, a UK tech company innovating in glasshouses.
Jack Farmer, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Lettus Grow, said: “It has been a really good event, attendance has been great with coverage of agri-tech start-ups, investors and corporate players in this space; it’s been a really good buzz this year.”
Hannah Senior, Interim Chief Executive Officer at the UK Agri-Tech Centre, said: “The World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit is a really important annual event in the UK agri-tech scene and brings together the investors, the established agri-tech businesses and entrepreneurs who are active in the agri-tech space. This creates a really exciting opportunity for understanding what trends are emerging and just getting a temperature check on the agri-tech ecosystem. We’ve been having lots of conversations with businesses of all sizes that are very active in the agri-tech world, to understand what’s on their mind.
We talked about the opportunity for us, as the UK Agri-Tech Centre, to interact with them and accelerate the commercialisation of their technologies, getting them into the hands of farmers, growers and aquaculturists, in the UK and around the world.
It’s been a really engaging couple of days and we are delighted to have been able to take part.”
