New Agriculture New Generation: TrophyFood 2024 is coming on Thursday, November 28, 2024

TrophyFood 2024 – The Event, the most important meeting for innovation in the critical sector of agri-food, will take place on Thursday, November 28, 2024, from 17:00 (arrival 16:30) until 20:30, in the “Aris Garoufalis” Hall of Athens Conservatory.

The event is the culmination of the annual TrophyFood initiative implemented by the organization “New Agriculture New Generation” continuously since 2019. This year the initiative included 10 highly successful TrophyFood Meet-Ups which took place in 8 Universities of the country, 5 different Regions, 7 cities and with a total of 600 participants and 85 speakers.

This year’s TrophyTrofi concludes with the event “The Next Day of the Agri-Food Sector”. The event will focus on critical industry issues, with particular emphasis on AI application, commercialisation of research, climate change and sustainability in the sector. Also as part of the event, the winning teams of the TrophyFood Meet-Ups 2024 will be presented and the top business idea of the year will be announced.

TrophyTrofi 2024 isorganized and implementedby the organization Nea Georgia Nea Genia, through the founding donation of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). It is under the auspices of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food, the Region of Central Macedonia and the Municipality of Thessaloniki.

As part of the event, discussion panels will be held with the participation of representatives from institutional bodies, industry companies, startups, VCs, research bodies and academic institutions, covering the challenges and opportunities that open before us in the next day of the industry.

The panels of the event TrophyFood 2024

  • Greek Universities, Research, Entrepreneurship and Spin-offs
  • AI and Technological developments in the Agri-Food sector
  • From university to the world of startups

There will also be discussions about:

  • The strategy for innovation in Greece – Elevate Greece 2.0.
  • Sustainability – Technology – Market Trends
  • Digital Transformation and Innovation in the Agri-Food Sector

The panels and discussions will be participated by: Frangiskos Theophylaktos, CEO of Elevate Greece, Thomas Bartzanas, Professor and Vice-Rector for Research, Finance and Development at the Agricultural University of Athens, Angelos Tsakanikas, Professor and Scientific Head of the Technology Transfer Office at the National Technical University of Athens, Evangelos Siokas, Scientific Associate of the Office of Technology Transfer at the University of Peloponnese, Zina Mavroidi, Managing Director of e-fresh.gr, Grigoris Moschopoulos, Head of Field Activation & Marketing Operations at BAYER Hellas, Dimitris Sakellariou, Head of Viticulture & Digital Excellence Manager at BASF Hellas, Georgia Datsi, Assistant Professor at GPA & CEO of Nutrisense, Katerina Papadouli, Head of InnovinAgri GPA, Dr. Mary Atzemi, Head of Sustainability at Break Even Consulting, Anastasis Stamatis, CEO of Dataphoria, Anastasia Sarchosoglou, Innovation Consultant EEN Hellas / Agri-Food Sector of EKT and Maria Gavriella Anagnostopoulou, Chief Operating Officer of Envolve Entrepreneurship.

In the second part of the event, the winning teams of the TrophyFood Meet-Ups for the year 2024 will be announced, where the top business idea of the year, which stood out for its creativity and innovation, will be awarded.

The teams competing in the Food Trophy 2024 will be evaluated by a committee of distinguished professionals, who come from the fields of education, innovation, agriculture and entrepreneurship.

The evaluation committee consists of Katerina Papadouli and Stella Karydogianni from InnovinAgri of the Agricultural University of Athens, Thekli Bourtzinou from BAYER Hellas, Konstantinos Psyllakis from Uni.Fund, Eleftheria Papanikolaou from the Technology Transfer Office of AUTH and Dimitris Sakellariou from BASF. This committee will highlight the top business idea of the year, based on its creativity, innovation and applicability to the agri-food sector.

Sponsors of TrophyFood 2024 are the companies BASF, BAYER Hellas, DS Smith and Break Even Consulting. The event is co-organized with the American School of Agriculture (AGS), Perrotis College, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), KEAGRO, Technology Transfer, WALK of AUTH, the University of Western Macedonia, the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Western Macedonia, the Agricultural University of Athens (GAA), the University of the Peloponnese, the University of Macedonia (PAMAK), the Environment Office of PAMAK, the International University and the University of Piraeus. The event is implemented with the support of efood, Envolve Entrepreneurship, the Chamber of Kavala, Nisos, KEMEL, LUX and Dirfys bottled waters.

View the detailed agenda of the event here.

Register for free to watch it here.