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During the opening event of Nutreco's Garden of the Future, we aim to inspire you and increase your knowledge about phytotechnology and it's potential to change the way we look at animal performance. We have gathered professionals within Nutreco as well as esteemed guest speakers to introduce you to the power of plants.
Plenary session: Welcome and introduction
Upon arrival at Nutreco's Garden of the Future, you will be welcomed in the auditorium for a plenary session. During this first part of the programme, we will navigate you through our company strategy and our purpose of Feeding the Future, specifically focusing on the plant kingdom. You will discover the unlimited possibilities of the power of plants and how we can shape it to build a brighter and more sustainable future.
We invited the speakers below to welcome you to the event.
Workshop: Business intimacy
Co-development of market solutions at Nutreco
In everything we do within our Phytotechnology programme, your market needs and concerns are at the heart of our activities. During this workshop, we explain how we capture these needs, or animal performance challenges, and describe them as granular physiologic indications. We then gather information needed for the further selection of medicinal and functional plants by our discovery group. In this session, we also focus on the discovery-driven planning, unravelling the key steps to proper solution development.
To give you a perfect understanding and broader perspective, we are showcasing an example of our plant solution’s development process: from defining the need of today’s modern industry, to screening and selection of plant candidates, testing in animals up to commercialising a final solution.
The following speakers are looking forward to sharing their experiences with you.
Workshop: Integrated intelligence
Discovery - Phytochemistry - Complex machine learning
How do we go from the immense plant kingdom to only a few candidates to help solve industry problems? We will share our discovery strategy and explain how we utilise our phytotechnology knowledge to narrow down our scope to a few promising candidates.
You will learn how our phyto-analysis unit plays a pivotal role in defining plant identity and chemotypes by constantly developing new analytical standards and analysis methods for plants never used before. This key understanding will then be used as input for the definition of the phytocomplexes, the mathematical modelling, and the consecutive domestication work. This includes screening of accessions from all over the world.
The following speakers will be hosting this interactive session.
Workshop: End-to-End supply
Plant domestication and cultivation
Once we defined the unique candidates within the plant kingdom, it is important that our plant propagation steps and growing methods create exact replicas of the plant. How do we get from one single candidate to a million similar plants in the field?
During this workshop we touch back on the screening of accessions, and we will navigate through the development of the protocols and their execution. All these steps happen in close collaboration with plant nurseries, our network of growers, and establishment of global production locations. This workshop will end with a walk in our garden, where different botanical sections will illustrate the learnings of the day.
The following speakers are looking forward to explaining our vertical integration. We own the entire process, from discovery and development to scaling up production and stringent quality control.
Dr. Yanming Han
Nutreco
Yanming has been Discovery Director Microtechnology within the Nutreco Exploration team since May 2022. He leads the discovery activities for Nutreco’s Microtechnology program, which involves everything from the upstream activities of defining and discovering new solutions, all the way through to the development of these solutions into products.
Yanming joined Nutreco after completing a post-doctoral fellowship in molecular biotechnology, and spent over 20 years in Canada and the Netherlands, working across animal species and continents in feed additive and nutrition research and development, in close collaboration with leading academic groups all over the world. He holds a Ph.D. in animal nutrition with a focus on enzyme discovery and application.
Our commercial offering
Introduction to Fytera
After exploring the discovery and development process of our phytotechnology programme, get a chance to learn about our already available offering of phytogenic solutions: Fytera.
We have invited various world-renowned external guest speakers to address the science behind our phytocomplexes. Depending on your area of focus, we will divide the group per animal species (poultry, ruminant, or swine) to allow for intimate discussions with plenty of room for live interaction and questions.
The following guest speakers will be presenting.
Selko Fytera - meet the team
Under the Fytera brand, Selko markets novel phytogenics that help solve the complex challenges modern farm animals face. Selko has made a long-term commitment to developing the phytogenic space. During the opening ceremony of Nutreco's Garden of the Future our team of passionate Fytera team members is looking forward to connecting with you to discuss how Fytera can support your business.
Interested in Fytera?
At Selko, the feed additive brand of Trouw Nutrition, we harness the power of plants for animal production. Under the Fytera brand, we offer novel phytogenics, with validated mode of action, to support animal performance. Learn more about our product portfolio for poultry, swine and ruminants.
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