ABOUT
WHY SHOULD I GO?
BGI invites you to the Annual Event I-Danha FoodLab, which is an event sponsored along with Idanha City Hall, that will bring together investors, corporates, start-ups and entrepreneurs working in the CleanTech, FoodTech and AgriTech Industry.
This event will mark the end of the i-Danha Food Lab Accelerator located in Iberian Peninsula, based in one of the oldest Roman villages in Portugal: Monsanto.
One of the main purposes of this food lab is to make advances into a circular economy in food production, minimizing waste while facing a major problem: increase of the population and the necessity to feed them all with biological and non genetically modified seeds.
This year the event will be sponsored by EIT Food, from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.
Last year we had the 3rd Ed. of this Annual Event, where we had over 200 participants, between them 74 startups, 13 international speakers, 5 corporates, almost 30 press mentions and the presence of the Portuguese Ministry of Environment and the Secretary of State of Innovation, Technology and Higher Education.
+600
participants
107
Startups
30
Press Mentions
22 International Speakers
AGENDA
8th of November
13h00
Train leaves Santa Apolónia towards Monsanto - Historical train ride, alongside the beautiful Tagus River, deep forests and mountains heading to Idanha-a-Nova Municipality.
17h30
Welcome Note
Armindo Jacinto, Mayor of Idanha-a-Nova; Gonçalo Amorim, CEO at BGI; and the Secretary of State for Interior Valuation, Isabel Ferreira
18h00
i-Danha Food Lab meets EIT Food: Europe's Results
Juliet Bray, Start-Up Support Manager at EIT Food
18h15
EIT Food Results in Portugal
Cláudia Carocha, Food and Sustainability Project Manager at BGI
18h30
Roundtable: What it is like to be a startup in the Food Sector in Portugal?
João Noéme, CEO at TerraPro; João Cotter, CEO at Aquaponics Iberia; Sara Gonçalves, Co-Founder & COO at Trigger Systems, moderated by Sofia Fernandes, Head of Marketing and Projects at BGI
19h00
Networking Dinner
9th of November
09h00
Registration and Welcome coffee
09h30
Master of Ceremony
Sofia Fernandes, Head of Marketing and Projects at BGI
09h45
Idanha: the vision, the dream, the adventure
Armindo Jacinto, Idanha-a-Nova's Mayor
10h30
How is the Food Industry changing, and how is Idanha keeping up?
Gonçalo Amorim, Executive Director at BGI
11h10
Coffee Break
11h40
Roundtable: The inevitable bridge between small producers and Top notch Chefs
Joshua Harte; Sofia Fernandes, Head of Marketing and Projects at BGI; Arlindo Cardosa, CEO at Nature Fields, moderated by Karen Karp, President at Karen Karp & Partners
12h25
Roundtable: Women in the Food Industry: Inspiring the next generation
Helena Vinagre, Director at Aromas do Valado; Catarina Rocha, Co-Founder and CMO at NoWhey; moderated by Dulcineia Wessel, Professor at Instituto Politécnico de Viseu
13h30
Networking Lunch
14h30
Roundtable: The Future of food delivery
Christian Wimmler, CEO & Founder at Fair Meals; João Fernandes, Smart Farmer & OIKOS; moderated by Gonçalo Amorim, CEO at BGI
15h15
Roundtable: What is hot in the food industry? Mapping the agrifood investments
Karen Karp, President at Karen Karp & Partners; Juliet Bray, Start-Up Support Manager at EIT Food; Sara Gonçalves, Co-Founder & COO at Trigger Systems; moderated by Otito Dosumo, EIT Digital Project Manager at BGI
16h00
Coffee Break
16h20
Roundtable: Food is Medicine
Sónia Couto, Founder at MenuSano; Paurav Chudasam, Founder at FoodSay; Inês Brandão, Scientific Researcher at Cataa, moderated by Dina Pereira, Manager at UBI Medical
17h00
Session: The Opportunities of the use of industrial hemp
Tomas Persson, Founder and Owner at HealthTextiles
17h30
Roundtable: Linking industrial industrial hemp to sustainable development
Tomas Persson, Founder and Owner at HealthTextiles; Pedro Santos, CEO at Agrodrone; Humberto Nogueira, Expert in Hemp; moderated by Gonçalo Amorim, CEO at BGI
18h30
Presentation of i-Dare Challenge - Solving local problems through the audience;
20h00
Closing Session
State Secretary for Agriculture and Rural Development, Eng. Nuno Russo
20h30
Networking Dinner
11h40
Roundtable: How Are Consumption Habits Changing Our Food Systems within public entities?
Sofia Santos, Adjunta da Diretora do Programa Nacional para a Promoção da Alimentação Saudável; João Leitão, Professor at UBI Medical; moderated by Cláudia Carocha, Food and Sustainability Project Manager at BGI
12h25
Roundtable: Agriculture Cooperatives go digital
Domingos Godinho, Technical Staff at Confagri; Francisco Dinis, BioEco - Associação de Agricultura Biológica e AgroEcológica; Pedro Gaspar, UBI Medical; moderated by Rita Valério, Smart Farmer & Oikos
14h30
Roundtable: How to think in a circular economy future
Ricardo Vicente, Co-founder at Green Circle - Rethinking Waste; Ana Salcedo, Co-Founder at Zero Waste Lab; Rosário Palha, Food Iniciative Project Manager at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; moderated by Nuno Serra, Head of Operations at BGI
15h15
Roundtable: How to build consumer brand loyalty to bio in a world of fast food?
Luísa Almeida, Director at Quinta do Arneiro; Alice Piontek, Ecos do Vale; Luís Mendes, Direção na Agrobio; moderated by Susana Mendes, Diretora na Pepe Aromas
16h20
Roundtable: How have the organic products trends influence lifestyle? How to drive people into healthy and environmental conscientious lifestyle?
Sérgio Miranda, CEO at Pegada Verde; Nuno Matos Cabral, Author at the Blog Primeira Casa da Rua; moderated by Catarina Rocha, Co-Founder and CMO at NoWhey
17h00
Demoday i-Danha Food Lab Accelerator
Real Idanha, Mercado de Resíduos, Salys, Smart Farmer, Canábis d'Idanha
10th of November
09h00
Visit to Aromas do Valado
12h30
Networking lunch
15h20
Trip back to Lisbon Santa Apolónia