Crop Innovation in Business (CropIB) 2026 brings together leaders from breeding, AgBio and AgTech, alongside investors, researchers and innovators from across the global agri-food sector. The conference focuses on the technologies, data and business models shaping the future of sustainable crop development.
Participants benefit from:
High-level networking with international decision-makers
Insights into the latest scientific and technological advances
Opportunities for collaboration across industry, startups and academia
Market and regulatory updates relevant to plant breeding and AgBio
The programme covers the full innovation pipeline, including:
AI, data and next-generation breeding technologies
Speed breeding, phenotyping and novel crops
Disease resistance and biological crop management
Startup–corporate collaboration and investment trends
A pitch programme for emerging AgTech and AgBio companies
CropIB is a C-level conference with around 200 participants from more than 100 organisations, including CEOs, CSOs, R&D and biotech leaders, investors, policy makers, legal experts and leading scientists from the international AgBio and AgTech industry.
Join the CropIB 2026 conference to connect, learn, and collaborate with the brightest minds in the industry. Visit cropib.com for more information and register now to secure your place.
Crop Innovation & Business is an initiative of KeyGene, organised by Iventus in collaboration with VIB, CEPLAS and Wageningen University & Research.
Good opportunity to discuss common issues with fellow professionals and to get updates about the community.
Giuseppe Visimberga
Leiden University, Netherlands
ASTP's conference helped us to network with decision-makers in the technology transfer industry and provides a great platform to discuss future innovation in this sector.
Christopher Römer
Inventtory, Germany
ASTP corroborates the strong need for profound insights and exchanges on practices, instruments and competencies that cut across functional, organisational, institutional, sectorial and geographic boundaries.
Koenraad Debackere
KU Leuven, Belgium
The expert-panel discussion educated me in strategic and meritorious choice of inventions to approach investors and manage investment funds for establishing a spin off.
Ram Siddappa
Erasmus MC, Netherlands
ASTP brought the right structure and terminology to my knowledge of technology licensing.
René Widmer
ETH Transfer, Switzerland
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