Past Events

The quest to improve nutrition and flavour through crop breeding is a long-standing challenge being accelerated due to novel breeding techniques and a better understanding of plant genetics and human and animal metabolism. From “Golden Rice” to purple tomatoes and better broccoli, this event will explore the potential for improvement of fruit, vegetables and cereals, ranging from products already hitting the supermarket shelves, to those a little further from market.

Café Synthetique is the monthly meetup for the Cambridge synthetic biology community with informal talks, discussion and pub snacks. This month's theme is Biology as Technology.

The conference, which is the sixth in this series, will provide a major platform for the dissemination of recent and possible future developments in crop protection and production research and practice with a focus on dissemination to advisers and practitioners. Papers are likely to range in content from those with a high biological science focus, to those that report new options for chemical or non-chemical control or address key practical issues for crop production.

With a growing demand for sustainable solutions to increasing food production, this seminar will assess progress and priorities as the UK Agricultural Technologies Strategy moves into its fourth year of implementation.

It will also be a timely opportunity for policymakers and stakeholders to discuss the future policy landscape, and prospective challenges for investment and creating commercial opportunities for UK businesses in light of the EU referendum.

Bringing together key policymakers and affected stakeholders to discuss the future of science and innovation policy, this timely conference is being held at a time of continuing uncertainty over the UK’s relationships with EU Science Programmes.

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.