FFA2020 Day 2 Highlights: Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad?
Thank you for joining us for Day 2 of Future Food Asia. If you missed any of the panels or start-up pitches they are now available for replay on our platform. Here are the highlights of Day 3:
  • Our second day began with a discussion on the two agricultural powerhouse – India and China – and how COVID has accelerated trends in agri-innovation, featuring Xinyi Lim, Mark Kahn and Beverley Postma
    • “I have worked in this agri industry for the last 13 years and I think I have seen more change in the sector in the last 13 months” – Mark Kahn
  • Followed by an insightful discussion on the Elephant in the Room – animal health in China, joined by Wanmeng Li, Ian Lahiffe and Echo Bao.
    • “The biggest opportunity will be in technology …. the more technology and digitization we can bring into the animal industry the better, because it will improve efficiency and also enables a connection between food and its consumers.” – Ian Lahiffe
  • And we ended the day with a discussion on corporate governance, with Adrian Percy, Denis Lucquin and Kathryn Sheridan on why start-ups in the agrifood industry should look to make more efficient board of directors, and how they can go about doing it. 
    • “A good entrepreneur is one capable of knowing what they don’t know” – Denis Lucquin
Innovation Corner
In line with the theme of animal health, our three finalists featured today presented their innovative solutions to enhancing productivity and sustainability in the animal farming and aquaculture industries.
  • ProAgni (Australia): developing ruminant feeds and supplements to achieve greater efficiency, safety and sustainability
  • Soos (Israel): poultry embryo sex determination technology promoting more sustainable, ethical and efficient practices in the egg-production industry
  • Aqua Development (South Korea): developer of organic shrimp production technology leveraging aqumimicry to increase productivity and to obviate the need for chemical and antibiotics
Stay Tuned For….
A deep dive into animal health, the Asia’s two agricultural powerhouses (India and China), and tips on corporate governance, featuring :
  • Our highly anticipated Protein Masterclass hosted by experts from Bühler and Givaudan.
  • Pitches by our two winners of Bühler and Givaudan’s Plant Protein Award: Daiz (Japan), and Let’s Plant Meat (Thailand). Let’s Plant Meat will be coming in live from our satellite venue in Bangkok, where our partners Thai Wah are hosting a panel discussion and a plant based meat cooking session.
  • Pitches by three more FFA finalists: AgriSea, FluroSat and Fyto Foods.