This page about the previous edition of the Genomics in Business conference may give you an impression about what the conference has to offer.

Topics

• Genomics Business Analysis of the Agro-Food Industry
• New High Throughput Sequencing and Screening Technologies
• Agro-Food Industry and Business Models
• The Technology Frontier
• Intellectual Property Management
• Plant Based Economy
• Traits for the future

Speakers

• Roger Beachy – President – Donald Danforth plant Science Center
• Vanessa Bennett – Head of Program Genome Sequencing – Roche Diagnostics GmbH
• Thierry Bogaert – CEO – DevGen
• Eric Eisenstadt - Vice-President of Research – TIGR
• Robert Frostad – CEO – Lingvitea AS
• Oscar Godijn – Director Business Incubator – DSM
• Allen Good – SembioSys Genetics Inc.
• John Hammer – partner - Burill & Company
• Johan Vanhemelrijck – Secretary General – EuropaBio
• Adrian Huige – Limagrain
• Rob Janssen – Managing Director – Niaba
• Henk Joos – Plant Science & Agronomy Director – D1 Oils
• Pim Lindhout – Research Director – De Ruiter Seeds
• Robbert Nutter – Application Manager High Throughput – Applied Biosytems
• Omead Ostadan – Vice-President Marketing – Solexa
• Milena Ouzunova – Head Biotechnology Maize/Oilseed Rape – KWS Saat AG
• Wouter Pors - partner - Bird & Bird
• Ana Rath – Director of Business Development – Ceres
• Juergen Schweden – BASF Plant Science GmbH
• Arjen van Tunen – CEO – Keygene N.V.
• George Velarde – Senior director of Business Development – Illumina
• Martin van Vaals - Deputy Head Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory – Rabobank
• Rye Wagner – Vice President Plant Biotechnology - Exelixis

Participants

• Almost 150 participants from over 15 countries and from 4 continents
• 20 tabletop presentations

Represented companies and organisations

ABC consortium
Add2X Biosciences BV
Affymetrix
Agri Information Partners
Applied Biosystems
Asia bioBusiness Pte. Ltd
Avestah gengraine Technologies PVT. Ltd.
BASF Plant Science GmbH
Bayer BioScience N.V.
Beo Zaden B.V.
BioSeeds B.V.
BIOTECanada
Biotechnology Center of Georgia
Bird & Bird
Burill & Company
Centre for BioSystems Genomics
Ceres
CropDesign N.V.
Councel for Scientific and industrial Research
Dekker Chrysanten B.V.
D1 Oils
Donald Danford Plant Science Center
De Ruiter Seeds
DevGen
Doriane
DSM
Ekelmans & Meijer Lawyers
Enza Zaden
ETH Zurich
EuropaBio
Eversole Associates
Exelixis
Exter Polak & Charlouis B.V.
Food Valley
Fundacion Corparación Technológica de Andalucia
Genome Laboratory – John Innes Centre
Genetwister Technologies
George Mason University
Ghent University
IBEX Ltd.
Illumina
Japan Tobacco Inc.
Kempen & Co
Keygene Inc.
Keygene N.V.
KWS Saat AG
LemnaTec
Limagrain
LingVitea AS
LioniX B.V.
Malaysian Biotechnology Corp
Malaysia Biotechnological Co. SDN bhd.
Mibiton
Monsanto
Montgomery County Department of Economic Development
Naktuinbouw
National Health Research Institutes
Netherlands Genomics Initiative
Niaba
Plant Research International
PricewaterhouseCoopers N.V.
Promega Benelux B.V.
Publimarket
Rabobank Int’l
Rijk Zwaan
Roche Diagnostics GmbH
SemBiosys Genetics Inc
ServiceXS
Solexa
Syngenta
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
SW Seed
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs
The Institute for Genomic Research
TraitGenetics GmbH
Unilever R&D
United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service
VIB Dep. of Plant Systems Biology – University of Ghent
Vilmorin et Cie
Wageningen Business Generator
Wageningen University & research Center
Zeraim Gedera Ltd.