Agricultural biotechnology is an advanced technology that allows plant breeders to make precise genetic changes to impart beneficial traits to the crop plants we rely on for food and fiber. The safe and appropriate use of biotechnology to help to meet agricultural challenges and consumer needs of the 21st century is extremely important for human beings. Therefore, WCAB-2011 will bring together industry leaders, investors, policy makers, scientists, researchers and other professionals working in the area of AgBio and discuss the latest scientific advances in agricultural biotechnology and future directions of the technologies.
Highlights of WCAB-2011
20 Specific Sessions that Allow Leading International Experts to Exchange Ideas and Stimulate Innovation;
100+ Posters Present the Latest Developments and Achievements in AgBio
Provide Opportunities for Biotech Companies and Research Organizations to Meet with Industry Partners;
Link Major Investors in the AgBio Sector together with Biotech Companies and Research Organizations Seeking Funding to Develop their Innovations.
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Ilan Chet,
The 1998 Wolf Foundation Prize in Agriculture, Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Dr. Manfred Kern,
Global Head Business Relations, Bayer CropScience AG, Germany
Dr. Tong Zhu,
Senior Manager, Syngenta, USA
Event Report
BIT's 1st Annual World Congress of Agricultural Biotechnology (WCAB-2011), successfully held in Changchun Huatian Hotel on October 28-30, 2011. Totally, there were nearly 100 participants from more than 30 countries and areas have attended the WCAB-2011.
As the keynote speakers, Dr. Ilan Chet, The 1998 Wolf Foundation Prize in Agriculture, Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Dr. Manfred Kern, Head of Agriculture 2025/2050, Bayer CropScience AG, Germany; Dr. Tong Zhu, Senior Manager, Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc., USA and Mr. Peter Stevenson, Chief Policy Advisor, Compassion in World Farming, UK made excellent presentations and warmly discussed with the audiences at keynote forum.
11 sessions covered 10 fields including Transgenic Technology in Agriculture; Genetic Modification of Crops; Crop Improvement & Seed Breeding; Control of Crop Diseases and Weeds; Functional Foods and Bioactives; Feed, Biopesticides & Organic Fertilisers; Soilless Culture: Conversion of Solar into Economic Vegetable, Fruit Productivity; Agricultural Biofuel Resource, Food Safety and Human Health; Agricultural Biorefinery and Biomass Utilisation; Plant Biotechnology Development and so on. With the mission to initiate a sustainable platform for exchanging up-to-the-minute upstream and downstream achievements, industrial needs and research opportunities of industrial biotechnology fields in Asia Pacific Rim, participants from academic, industrial professionals and key-decision makers delivered the new achievement on their research, together discussed and analyzed the development of Agricultural Biotechnology. The conference has promoted the communication of colleagues and collaboration of partners from the upstream to the downstream of Agricultural Biotechnology.
Depending on the warmly support and good suggestions from all of the participants, we are confident in organizing WCAB-2012 which would be better and more successful than WCAB-2011.
