ThinkAg
Harvesting
Tomorrow
Summit 2024
Sept 25th - 26th 2024 | Goa, India
Deepen
perspectives
Define
challenges
Develop
partnerships
Discover the future
of agri-food
Develop
partnerships
Discover the future
of agri-food
Highlights from ThinkAg Harvesting Tomorrow Summit 2023
The first edition of the ThinkAg Harvesting Tomorrow Summit, India’s first AgFoodTech conference, welcomed diverse stakeholders to exchange insights and experiences, explore new partnerships and brainstorm innovative approaches to achieving the desired future for agri-food in India.
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Highlights from the Summit Stage
SMALLHODLER-CENTRIC INNOVATION
DATA-DRIVEN AGFINANCING
ADVANCES IN AGBIOTECH
SMALLHODLER-CENTRIC INNOVATION
Agriculture in general has long cycle times, so any innovation, especially in crop agriculture, you try it out and the end of the season assess what worked or didn’t and then come back next season saying let’s do something better. There is also a large trust deficit between folks providing the technology and end users – farmers. Building that trust is a hard problem to solve and does take time.
Siddharth Tata, Product Leader – Amazon Fresh Supply Chain & Amazon Kisan
We realized that standalone information won’t help the farmer, so every single piece of information has a follow-on action – be it related to input, advisory, financial access etc. If they are selling produce, they don’t just want to sell A or B grade, they want a solution for all quality grades. Otherwise, we will not be able to replace the conventional channels.
Shashank Kumar, Dehaat
DATA-DRIVEN AGFINANCING
What we need is ‘harder’ partnerships with banks where AgFinTechs focus more on the supply chain and getting the last mile connected, and banks can take on the role of product innovation, which needs a significant boost, and the government along with the private sector can play the role of building the data stack.
Himanshu Bansal, Mastercard
Obtaining the necessary data and information to identify climate vulnerabilities – estimating the change, monitoring the impacts is very tough. The lack of this affects financial institutions’ ability to channelize capital into these sectors. The struggle is [also] to navigate climate risks. There are, today, tools available which give you weather patterns, heat maps and scenarios but that is not telling me [as a financier] what my pricing needs to be. It is not telling me what risk mitigation I need to put in place, it’s not telling me what tenor [is needed].
Namita Vikas, auctusESG
ADVANCES IN AGBIOTECH
“The support that the government has put in has been absolutely instrumental and crucial. The Department of BioTechnology has laid out a separate program that gives proof-of-concept funding for transformative technologies and their commercialization.
Incubators [too] have gave us access to access to a lot of infrastructure on a pay-per-use basis [that helps by] de-risking [product] development.
Dr. Renuka Diwan, BioPrime Agrisolutions
I think the bottleneck has shifted from discovery and R&D to commercialization. Nontechnological barriers which may include commercialization, value-sharing protocols, regulatory protocols – have been barriers to speedy deployment of technology. We need to think out of the box, to [find] ways we can work with value chain partners to create value capture for the R&D scientist or come together as an industry to make deployment much easier.
Ravishankar Cherukuri, Bayer CropScience
INNOVATION SHOWCASE
SMALLHODLER-CENTRIC INNOVATION
Featured solutions
- Crop-intelligence platform
- Full-stack agri-food processing platform
- Omni-channel agri-inputs platform
- Weather and agri-risk monitoring platform
DATA-DRIVEN AGFINANCING
Featured solutions
- Climate-specialized parametric InsurTech platform
- Satellite-data based agri & climate decision intelligence platform
- Agriculture and climate risk management platform
ADVANCES IN AGBIOTECH
Featured solutions
- Bio-informatics platform for seed trait optimization
- Full-stack agri-food processing platform
- Omni-channel agri-inputs platform
- Weather and agri-risk monitoring platform
India's first AgFoodTech conference
ThinkAg Harvesting Tomorrow Summit
The Harvesting Tomorrow Summit is an annual forum for advancing innovation, entrepreneurship, and better outcomes in Indian agri-food, convening diverse stakeholders, Indian and global, critical to Indian agri-food – innovators, investors, industry leaders, financial institutions, development financing organizations, and policymakers.
The two-day conference will take placed in Goa, India between 11th – 12th October and will feature insightful speakers, compelling conversations, cutting-edge innovations, and curated networking opportunities with like-minded decision makers.
Recognizing that agri-food ecosystems encompass broad imperatives for our shared future – building climate resilience, enhancing smallholder livelihoods, achieving universal nutrition security, and furthering gender equity – the summit’s programming will highlight multiple facets of each innovation area and identify the enabling institutions, investments, and infrastructure is key to accelerating them.
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to develop connections, explore collaborations with fellow leaders and pioneers, and shape the future of innovation and climate resilience in Indian agri-food.
Title Partner
Themes
Summit Innovation Tracks
Smallholder-centric innovation
Enhancing value chains, income stability and sustainable practices
Data-driven AgFinancing
Enabling precise, productive and climate-smart agriculture
Advances in AgBioTech
Towards a resilient and regenerative agri-food system
Bridging India's Protein Gap
Furthering equitable, and climate-adaptive protein sufficiency
The Venue
ThinkAg Harvesting Tomorrow Summit 2023 will be held at The Westin Goa
Steeped amidst sun-kissed beaches and verdant green hills, the Westin Goa will be idyllic setting for an immersive two days of meaningful networking, impactful innovations and discovering the future of agri-food in India