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.
This course offers an opportunity to meet likeminded people, share tips and tricks, and dive into different approaches to help you set up and improve KTO processes.
Brechtje Vreenegoor
Radboud University, Netherlands
International presence is amazing, so many countries, universities... represented here!!
Christian Massus
SATT Aquitaine, France
The best opportunity to learn and discuss common issues and interests directly with peers.
Ian Nicoud
LURIS, Netherlands
ASTP brought the right structure and terminology to my knowledge of technology licensing.
René Widmer
ETH Transfer, Switzerland
Recent studies on both sides of the Atlantic, directed by either ASTP or AUTM, demonstrate the tremendous economic and societal benefit and value technology transfer has brought us.
Koenraad Debackere
KU Leuven, Belgium
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