APAC Agri-Food Innovation Summit 2024 | ReThink Events | 18 November 2024 | Marina Bay Sands Singapore, 10 Bayfront Ave, Singapore 018956

Pitch sessions, happy hour networking, a menu featuring new and innovative products from the region’s start-ups, and a sophisticated 1-1 networking app made this a stand-out event for start-up discovery, investment and partnerships. Bringing together over global leaders to identify the strategic priorities as we build greater capacity, security, and resilience in Asia’s agri-food system.

Meet 800+ international stakeholders across the agri-food ecosystem focused on building agri-food capacity and resilience in Asia.

2024 Speakers

Dr Koh Poh Koon
Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Sustainability and The Environment

Atsushi Suginaka
Director-General, Farm Management Improvement Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (maff)

Adam Brennan
Chief Sustainability Officer, Thai Union Group

Yvonne Pinto
Director General, Irri

Ira Noviarti
Executive Vice President, Unilever

Marco Michielsen
Vp R&d Amea, Biscuit Category Leader, Mondelez International

Ren Hua Ho
Ceo, Thai Wah

Ard Van De Kreeke
Founder and Ceo, Growy

Stephan Weise
Managing Director for Asia, Alliance of Bioversity International and The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (ciat)

Flora Ji
Global Vice President, Nature Based Solutions, Shell

Dhruv Sawhney
Ceo, Rize

Claire Pribula
Managing Director & Co-Founder, the Yield Lab Asia Pacific

Martin Lemoine
Unit Head, Agribusiness, Asian Development Bank

Miguel De Andrés-Clavera
Group Product Manager, Partner Innovation, Google

John Baker
Chief Farming and China Business Officer, Perfection Fresh

Paul Gauthier
Professor of Controlled Environmental Agriculture, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (qaafi)

Karim Ghannam
Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer, 8 F Asset Management

Sze Tan
Executive Director Sifbi, A*star

Abhay Swarup Mittal
Ceo, Aetosky

John Friedman
Director, Asia, Agfunder

Henry Gordon-Smith
Founder & Ceo, Agritecture

Vishal Vijay
Ceo, Agrocorp International

Nick Hazell
Founder & Ceo, Algenie

Jeremy Lim
Consultant Surgeon, Public Health Physician and Ceo, Amili

Ritu Verma
Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Ankur Capital

Adam Anders
Managing Partner, a Nterra Capital

Maarten Goossens
Founding Partner, a Nterra Capital

Vaibhav Nagpal
Ceo, Aptimmune Biologics

Shane Hunter
Ceo, Aquabiotech Group

Rajamanohar Somasundaram
Founder and Ceo, Aquaconnect

Vincent Wei
Ceo, Archisen

Edwin Ong
Founder & Ceo, Arianetech

Utari Octavianty
Chief Sustainability Officer, Aruna

Aravindan Srinivasan
Executive Director Climate Action, Avpn

Simone Barg
Svp Agricultural Solutions Apac, Basf

Wasutee Poowuthichai
Ventures Investment Lead, Betagro Group

Michal Klar
Founding Partner, Better Bite Ventures

Renuka Diwan
Co-Founder & Ceo, Bioprime Agrisolutions

Matilda Ho
Founder & Managing Director, Bits X Bites

Hugh Bromley
Head of Food, Agriculture and Nature, Bloombergnef

Farshad Shishehchian
President & Ceo, Blue Aqua International Group

Michael Gordon
Ceo, Bluetree Technologies

René Benguerel
Founder and Ceo, Blueyou

Jay Desan
Co-Founder, Boomgrow

Jim Flatt
Co-Founder and Ceo, Brightseed

Ian Roberts
Cto, Bühler

Alex Shandrovsky
International Business Development, California Cultured

Simon Meijer
Ceo, Ce-Line

Sam Perkins
Ceo, Cellular Agriculture Australia

Dawn Chan
Ceo, Centre for Impact Investing and Practices

Joon Young Jung
Vp, Head of Bio R&d, Cj Cheiljedang

Safia Quereshi
Founder & Ceo, Clubzerø

Nick Hill
Ceo & Co-Founder, Coast 4 C

Valasubramanian Ramaiah
Apac Genome Editing Policy Leader, Corteva Agriscience

Peemdej Utsahajit
Director of Open Innovation, Cp Foods

Siang Hee Tan
Executive Director, Croplife Asia

Tao Zhang
Co-Founder, Dao Foods

Keechin Goh
Ceo, Datature

Dewi Suratty
Founder & Ceo, Dawn Horizon

Nana Kuenkel
Cluster Director Agriculture and Food, Deutsche Geseliscaft Fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (giz)

Shusaku Ogawa
Vice President Agriculture, Farmland, Forestry and Natural Capital Investment, Development Bank of Japan

Chinmay Soman
Co-Founder & Ceo, Earthsense

Gunhild Anker Stordalen
Founder and Executive Chair, Eat Foundation

Sharon Tay
Director, Food Manufacturing and Agri-Technology, Enterprise Singapore

Kaushal Shah
Founder & Ceo, Envopap

Gary Scattergood
Editor in Chief, Foodnavigator Asia

Corine Tap
President Asia, Frieslandcampina

Frederieke Reiners
Vice President Business Line New Food, Gea

Ling Min Hoon
Investment Director, Genzero

Anita Neville
Chief Sustainability & Communications Officer, Golden Agri-Resources

Mirte Gosker
Managing Director, Good Food Institute Apac

Kelvin Ng
Managing Partner – Asia, Green Bridge Partners

Amy Melissa Chua
Head, Partnerships, Grow Asia

Eun Mi Kim
Head of Center, Medical Convergence Fibre Centre, Gyeongbuk Technopark

Binu Cherian
Country Manager, Harvestplus

Charles Johnson
Emergency Physician & Certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician, Hope Medflight Asia

Katrina Hayter
Global Head Sustainable Land Use & Supply Chains, Hsbc

Mandy Hon
Ceo, Impacfat

Jang K Kim
Professor, Incheon National University

Kai-Ning Chua
Co-Founder, Insectta

Elyssa Kaur Ludher
Visiting Fellow, Iseas Yusof Isak Institute

Ziva Hamama
Head of Food Risk Management, the National Food Service, Israel Ministry of Health

Megumi Avigail Yoshitomi
President, Japan Association for Cellular Agriculture (jaca)

David Mc Lellan
Co-Founder & Ceo, Jooules

Adeline Bartoletti
Founder, Kelvius

Toshiharu Tanaka
R&d Planning Specialist, Kewpie Corporation

Tegan Nock
Co-Founder and Coo, Loam Bio

Andrew Lee
Ceo, Lytegro

Oliver Jobling
Managing Director, Macrovesta

Phil Morle
Partner, Main Sequence Ventures

Sofie De Meyer
Co-Founder & Ceo, Maldiid

Patti Chu
Managing Director, Mana Impact Partners

Jeff Tripician
Ceo, Meatable

Chisa Ogura
Managing Director, Meros Consulting

Nguyen Hoang Liem
Vice General Director & Chairman, Minh Phu Seafood Export Company/otanics Technology

Chitnucha Buddhaboon
Deputy Director General of The Rice Departments, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperative

Hong Ju Kim
Head of Special Economic Zones Innovation Planning, Ministry of Sm Es and Startups (mss)

Devdut Dalal
Co-Founder, Mitti Labs

Alrik Tan
Chief Scientific Officer, Natural Trace

Jennifer Woolford
Director and Founder, Neon Leaders/unstuck

Sanjiv Louis
Director, Investments, New Forests Asia

Xiuling Guo
Ceo, Nurasa

Tingmin Koe
Editor, Nutraingredients-Asia

Toby Lane
Ceo, Nutrition from Water (nxw)

Shailendra Mishra
Global Head of Sustainability, Olam Agri

Laurence Jassogne
Head of Nature and Climate Solutions, Olam Agri

Subhadeep Sanyal
Partner, Omnivore

Aaron Huang
Co-Founder & Ceo, Oonee

Lyndal Hugo
Co-Founder, Orlar

Adam Lyle
Executive Chairman, Padang & Co

Erich Sieber
Founding General Partner, Peakbridge

Jake Berber
Co-Founder & Ceo, Prefer

Sky Kurtz
Founder & Ceo, Pure Harvest Smart Farms

Perpetua George
Managing Director, Asia Pacific Sustainability – Biodiversity, Pwc

Dirk Jan Kennes
Head of Food & Agriculture Research Asia, Rabobank

Diane Boogaard
Head of Sustainability W&r and Global Head of Food System Transition, Rabobank

Suneet Shipvaprasa
Co-Founder & Cto, Rare Earth Global

Matthew Welch
Founder & Ceo, Red Earth Pollen

Thanh My Nguyen
Founder & Chairman, Rynan Technologies

Kazuki Sakamoto
Head of Asean Business, Sagri

Minako Sumiyoshi
Department Manager, Sanatech Lifescience

Andy Hamilton
Cco, Sapro-Tech

Francisco Codoñer
Ceo, Scaleup Bio

Nelson Vadassery
Ceo & Co-Founder, Sea6 Energy

Simon Davis
Founder, Seadling

Tom Puddy
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Seastock

Albert Tay
Md & Founder, Seatobag

Leow Li-Vern
Director, Investments, Seviora Capital

Michael Voigtmann
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Singapore Aquaculture Technologies

Troels Nørgaard
Chief Strategy Officer, Solar Foods

Max Han
Ceo & Managing Director, Sopoong Ventures

Sandhya Sriram
Ceo, Sprout Agritech

Amith Agarwal
Co-Founder and Ceo, Star Agri

Ezhil Subbian
Ceo, String Bio

Yujiro Okuni
Head of Agri-Innovation Unit, Sumitomo Corporation

Eleanor Choong
Founder and Coo, Sunway Xfarms

Mona Manghani
Consultant Rheumatologist & Certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician, Tan Tock Seng Hospital

Anuj Maheshwari
Managing Director and Head of Agri-Food, Temasek

Ryan Rakestraw
Director, Agri-Food, Temasek

Sarah Nolet
Co-Founder and General Partner, Tenacious Ventures

Rishita Changede
Ceo and Founder, Teora

Bruce Friedrich
Co-Founder and President, the Good Food Institute Usa

Su-E Yap
Director of Corporate Engagement, the Nature Conservancy

Zachary Lee
Senior Investment Principal, the Radical Fund

Bart Van Hooland
Managing Director, Thia Ventures

Jen Kiang
Head of Investor Relations, Turtle Tree Labs

Timothy Loh
Regional Director, S.E. Asia & Oceania, U.S. Soybean Export Council (ussec)

Masa Yamada
Co-Founder & President, Umitron

Amy Chen
Chief Operating Officer, Upside Foods

Brian Tsuyoshi Takeda
Founder/ Advisor, Urchinomics/kelp Forest Foundation

James Yin
Ceo, V-Plus Agritech

Jamie Burrows
Founder & Ceo, Vertical Future

Bo Zhang
Associate Professor and Soybean Breeding Lead, Virginia Tech

Andrew Janis
Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, Vow

Marie Cheong
Founding Partner, Wavemaker Impact

Lesly Goh
Senior Technology Advisor, World Bank Group

Steve Wildisen
Co-Founder & Ceo, Xsights Digitalm

Marisa Soares
Svp (innovation & Impact – Africa & Asia), Yara International

Jesper Hansen
Cco, Yeshealth Group

2024 Partners

HEADLINE PARTNER:
• Temasek

PLATINUM PARTNERS:
• Buhler
• Gea
• Olam Agri

GOLD PARTNERS:
• Build Your BioFuture
• CH4 Global
• Enterprise Singapore
• Invest & Trade
• Nurasa
• Peakbridge
• Rabobank
• ScaleUp Bio
• Singapore Food Agency
• Thai Wah

INNOVATION PARTNERS:
• Dao Foods
• Hatch
• Innovate UK
• Mars Petcare
• Bullspang Re Food
• Sprout
• The Yield Lab

SILVER PARTNERS:
• Brevel
• CE Line
• EarthDaily Agro
• Growy
• Meatable
• StarAgri
• String
• Vertical Future

NETWORKING PARTNER:
• Ferrero