Past Events

Science, politics, knowledge management, innovation and markets all play a role in climate change action, but what is the role of the University of Cambridge as an ‘anchor institution’ for these? Bringing together speakers spanning the worlds of research and policy, the seminar series will explore how the multifaceted aspects of climate change action can come together to help us make the right decisions for the long run.

One of our first Pollinators, way back in January 2014, was a “Focus on Funding”, where members of the farming, tech development and research community came together to hear about local, regional and national funding available in the public and private sector, for R&D, innovation and business growth. Two year later, the way entrepreneurs can choose to fund projects has changed, and new models such as crowd-funding have become more common-place to make ideas a reality.

We’ll be hearing from experts about the public and private funding community and how you can access it – any strings that are attached, and how quickly you can expect to be able to spend the money.

The European action Health NCP Net 2.0 and Croatian Agency for SMEs, Innovations and Investments, member of Enterprise Europe Network, are pleased to announce the next Horizon 2020 Health Brokerage Event in Zagreb.

What does the industry want to see in 2017 for agri-tech?
Given a genie in the bottle many farmers and growers would uses their 3 wishes to help make them more profitable, productive and sustainable. We are asking our experts from the worlds of plant breeding, agronomy and agri-engineering look into the crystal ball and visualise the developments that they would like to see in their sector.

Christmas is coming and what does the industry want to see Santa deliver for agri-tech? We’ll be hearing from experts from the plant breeding, agronomy and agri-engineering industries about what they would like to see being routinely adopted by farmers and growers to help make them more profitable, productive and sustainable. It might be the banishing of panto villain Count Blackgrass from the kingdom, or access to a handful of seeds to grow a beanstalk that fixes nitrogen AND gives great yields. Or would you prefer to sleep for 100 years while your farm runs via the Internet of Things?!

The conference is organized by the Centre for
the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) and cosponsored
by the Future of Life Institute and
the Templeton World Charity Foundation as
part of the ‘Managing Extreme Technological
Risk’ research programme.
This conference aims to bring distinct but yet
complimentary communities together, to ask
how we can best work together and where our
efforts should be directed, over the rest of the
decade and beyond in mitigating the most
severe potential hazards from human
activities. Dedicated sessions, led by invited
speakers, will focus on artificial intelligence,
depreciation of earth systems, and
bioengineering. The opening session will give
broader consideration to how to better
combine our communities’ contributions to
efforts for the management of catastrophic
risk.

A GARNet international workshop on natural variation in plants entitled 'Natural Variation as a Tool for Gene Discovery and Crop Improvement'.

The programme conveners Professor David Salt and Dr Ian Henderson have put together an outstanding selection of world leading scientists in the area of Natural Variation who will provide presentation in the following scientific sessions:

Natural Variation and QTL Analysis
Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS)
Breakthrough Technologies
Epigenetic Variation
Genetics of Adaptation
Ecology and Population
Translational Studies

Celebrate the holidays with other post-docs and graduate students interested in global food systems!

International agreements, increasing urbanization and climate change are putting pressure on the global food system. The annual Chatham House food conference will address the specific challenges that need to be overcome to improve sustainability and food security, deliver carbon reductions in the food system, and the role of policy, industry and civil society in achieving these goals. - See more at: https://www.chathamhouse.org/conferences/sustainable-food-future-2016#st...