Held Under the Patronage of H.H Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Presidential Court, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA)

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2025 SPEAKERS

Fatima Al Dhaheri

Head of AGWA Cluster

Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO)

Jose Francisco Fernandez Serna

CEO

E-motion Foods

Mohamad Rabih El Chaar

Managing Director

Smarkk

Daniel Bisley

CFO

Vivici

Samer Kirresh

Investment Expert

Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA)

Eng. Ali Al Shrouf

Lead Researcher

Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA)

Prof. Carine Platat

Professor

United Arab Emirates University

Eng. Aws Taha Ismail

Data Architecture and Artificial Intelligence Expert

Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA)

Soniya Ashar

Founder & CEO

NutriCal

Alena Kavalchuk

Supply Chain Director

ADCOOP

Theofilos Alevizos

Senior Director - Sustainability

Agthia PJSC

Dr. Ahmad Mukhtar

Representative in UAE AD Interim

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Dr. Hani Ahmed Zaher

Lead Researcher

Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA)

Dr. Yassir Eltahir Ali

Epidemiology & Zoonosis Expert

Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA)

Prof. Ir. Dr. Yus Aniza Yusof

Deputy Director

Halal Products Research Institute, Universiti Putra Malaysia

Rana Al Omari

Project Manager & Programme Policy Officer

World Food Programme (WFP)

Fadel Nasser AlSaedi

Member

Abu Dhabi Agricultural Club

Amath Path Sene

Managing Director

AFSF

Mansoor Al Marar

Vice President - Industrial Business Development

KEZAD Group

Sheikh Dr. Majid Sultan Al Qassimi

Founding Partner & CEO

Soma Mater

H.E Dr Obaid Al Zaabi

Board Chairman

Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and Development

Abdulrahman AlShamsi

Member

Abu Dhabi Agricultural Club

Prof. Saad Masry

Agriculture Research Expert

Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA)

Dr. Maria Michela Morese

Senior Natural Resources Officer & Head of the Energy Team

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Dr Andrew Lee

Operations Director

National Alternative Protein Innovation Centre (NAPIC)

Milana Boskovic

Director - Marketing and RD

Al Ain Farms Group

Andrew D. Ive

Founder / Managing General Partner

Big Idea Ventures

Magi El-Richani

CEO

Alpine Bio

Hassan Halawy

CEO

Elite AgriTech

Veena Hausen

Director - Innovation Acceleration

ASPIRE

Sean Robertson

Director of Strategic Partnerships and BD - GCC

Innovation and Insight FZ-LLC

Ghada Abdel Wahab

Microbiology Specialist

Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA)

Dr. Mohamed Aman Mulki

Plant Breeding Expert

Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA)

Karim Deen

Head of Business Development

Masdar City

Dr. Afkar Hilles

Food Security Expert

Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA)

Aktham Sawan

Data Management & Artificial Intelligence Specialist

Abu Dhabi Agriculture & Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA)

Dr. Eman Soliman

Water Resource Management Advisor

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Tanja Bogumil

CEO & Founder

New Path Bio

Jim Mellon

Executive Chairman

Agronomics

Jeremiah Hux

Chief Financial Officer

UPSIDE Foods

Edward Hamod

CEO & Founder

Switch Foods International

Dr. Simon Miller

Scientific and Regulatory Advisor

Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council

Dr. Michael Baum

Research Team Leader

ICARDA

Joseph Schmidhuber

Chief Sustainability Officer

Pure Harvest Smart Farms

Ramin Ebrahimnejad

Business Development Manager at the APGC

James Hutton Institute

Melvin Woodhouse

Senior International Development Officer

James Hutton Institute

Professor Ingo Hein

Head of Potato Genetics

James Hutton Institute

Dr Mohamed Jabloun

Senior Scientist

James Hutton Institute

Dr Raul Huertas

Research Leader and Deputy Head of the Plant Biochemistry and Food Quality Group

James Hutton Institute