Day 1 – 18 December 2017

Session 1 – Opening session

• Phil Hogan, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development – Speech at EU Agricultural Outlook Conference 2017
• Marion Guillou, President, Agreenium – A holistic approach to EU agriculture

Session 2 – Research and innovation

• Jeroen Dewulf, Professor, University of Ghent – Reducing antibiotic use in pig farming
• Felix Wäckers, Director, R&D Biobest – Increase biodiversity and profitability
• Rachel Creamer, Professor, Wageningen University – Soil quality, LANDMARK project
• Baiba Rivza, Professor, Latvian University of Agriculture – Data Driven Dairy Decisions for Farmers
• Javier Brañas, Director, Fertiberia – Nutrient recovery from bio-based waste for fertiliser production

Session 3 – Farm resilience

• Alba Castañeda-Vera, Researcher, Madrid University (UPM) – Setting-the-scene: Which is the best risk management tool?
• Marine Raffray, Research Analyst, French Agricultural Chambers (APCA) – Creating savings
• Paola Grossi, Director-General, ASNACODI – Mutual funds, IPM and maize production in Italy
• Fernando de Antonio, Director, Cooperativas Agro-Alimentarias de España – 3 examples of cooperatives adding value to farmers’ production
• Ioannis Giannakopoulos, Press Office Manager, THESgala Cooperative – Short food supply chain, milk distributors in Greece
• Jef Colruyt, CEO, Colruyt Group – Adding value from retail to farmers

Session 4 – Enhancing the performance of EU policy and farming

• Tassos Haniotis, Director, Strategy, Simplification and Policy Analysis,DG Agriculture and Rural Development, EC – Common monitoring and evaluation framework of the CAP: lessons and challenges
• Hans Bruyninckx, Director, European Environment Agency (EEA) – Challenges of assessing actual results of policy action
• Mariana Kotzeva, Director-General (acting), DG Eurostat, EC – Changing CAP, changing statistics
• Thia Hennessy, Professor, Cork University Business School – How technology and big data can help
• Poul Henning Petersen, Senior Specialist Crop Innovation, Seges – The role of independent advice

Day 2 – 19 December 2017

Session 5 – Climate change and the EU agricultural outlook

• Tassos Haniotis, Director, Strategy, Simplification and Policy Analysis, DG Agriculture and Rural Development, EC – Climate change and EU agriculture adaptation

Session 6 – The EU agricultural outlook – agricultural income and labour

• Pierluigi Londero, Head of Unit, Analysis and Outlook, DG Agriculture and Rural Development, EC – Main drivers of EU agricultural market outlook
• Arnd Spahn, Agriculture Secretary, European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT) – The challenges of demographic change for agricultural employment

Session 7 – The EU agricultural outlook for specialised crops

• Marijke Van Schagen, Unit Analysis and Outlook, DG Agriculture and Rural Development, EC – EU agricultural outlook for wine, olive oil, apples and tomatoes
• Pascale Hébel, Director of Consumer and Business, Research Centre for Study and Monitoring of Living Standards (CREDOC) – Consumption trends for fruit, vegetables and wine