Animal AgTech South America Summit

• Where are the greatest opportunities to optimize animal health, welfare and environmental impact, anchoring South America as a sustainable and secure supplier of protein to the world?
• What challenges does the region face from changing global consumer demands, given the high volume of exports? What are international retailers looking for when choosing suppliers of meat and dairy products?
• How are animal health and nutrition companies applying and engaging with new technologies? How can an open innovation mindset be cultivated between academia, entrepreneurs, and the private sector to drive growth, scalability, and adoption?
• What can the ecosystem work on improving today in order to work towards the next decade’s technological aspirations?

• The size of livestock production in the region provides great opportunity to implement and scale on-farm digital solutions. How can the opportunity be realised in 2021 and beyond, adoption accelerated, and ROI demonstrated for precision farming and herd management technologies?
• How is on-farm automation beneficial to animal welfare as well as efficiency? How can integrated precision solutions combat multiple production challenges?
• How can technology solutions be better integrated to make the technology offering less fragmented and simpler to adopt?
• What role can data and the actionable insights gathered play in empowering livestock and dairy producers?

• Building transparency and traceability in the supply chain continues to be in high demand from consumers who want to know where their food comes from and what production and animal welfare systems are in place. How can the industry meet these demands? What collaboration is needed to make progress and share the cost and value from farm to fork?
• How do infrastructure and logistical challenges in the region impede the goal of better traceability?
• What technologies and partnerships are driving tangible change?
• What will it take to make transparency in animal production mainstream? What targets should the South American industry work towards?

• A predictive, preventative approach to animal health will help to ensure better outcomes in the future. What innovations in vaccines, diagnostics and feed are tackling disease and anti-microbial resistance?
• What new approaches in breeding and genetics are tackling the challenges of disease resistance, climate resiliency and animal welfare?
• How is biotech being used to enhance gut health and the microbiome?
• Which products and solutions are delivering real value to farmers? How can innovators work with animal health and nutrition companies to fill what’s missing?

Drill down into featured topics and share your insight and expertise with a small group of delegates. Come prepared for lively discussion and diverse debate.

• Sustainable livestock production is fundamental in 2021. How can the industry continue to improve its environmental impact, and integrate animal health, food safety and security for better planetary and human health?
• Which technologies and efforts have been successful in carbon emission reduction?
• What potential is there for the production matrix of integrated livestock, crop and forestry management to be rolled out further?
• How are growing trends and narratives around alternative proteins affecting the livestock industry?

• Technology solutions are often fragmented, and investment into these companies validates them but may not result in scaling to the level required to offer good ROI to producers or to deliver a profit for the technology providers. What role can investors play in creating more consolidated, holistic solutions?
• What successful partnership models for producers, technology providers and investors are seeing results? How do these partnerships address start-ups’ key challenges of capital, early-adoption, and scale-up strategy?
• What opportunities lie in external innovation implementation into the region? Conversely, how can local start-ups with knowledge of the region thrive? Where is the opportunity for collaboration?
• What can the industry learn from the more technologically advanced field of crop agriculture?