It has never been so exciting to be an Agricultural Engineer! The government’s Agri-tech strategy and the new Agri-EPI Innovation Centre has put the spotlight on engineering and technological solutions to address the challenges of feeding the ever expanding global population. New partners are looking at Agriculture and its associated engineering excellence as never before with an eye to developing novel approaches and fresh technologies.
Business start-ups, new partnerships, re-engineering of existing applications, and new ways of looking at the world is fostering collaboration in a way unheard of for a generation.
With that comes challenges...
- How do you deal with the challenge of ensuring your new idea remains with you and is not stolen by a competitor?
- How do you work with others in an open way at the same time as retaining all of that intellectual property?
- What business challenges will you need to consider if you are to avoid the obstacles to economic exploitation, and what funding can you access?
The Conference held on Wednesday 16 November sought to address all these issues and we were delighted to have a team of experts in their fields to deliver a fantastic programme.
You can get a taste of this year's IAgrE conference by watching a short video summary on our YouTube page
You can access the presentations from the Conference by following the links below. They are large PDF files so may take sometime to load.
Dave Ross Bsc (Hons) PDip, AMIMechE, AIAgrE, FRAgS CEO AgriEPI Centre - Aspiration, Activity & Opportunities
Dr Mark Moore, FIAgrE, Agricultural Development Manager, AGCO Ltd, Africa & Middle East - Experiences from the Future Farm Project
Gary Townley, Business Outreach Manager, Intellectual Property Office - How does Intellectual Property affect me?
Calum Murray, Programme Leader - AgriFood, Innovate UK - Innovation doesn't just happen
Four Engineers, Four Stories, Discussion & Questions lead by IAgrE Past President Andy Newbold CEng MIAgrE
Professor Toby Mottram FREng FIAgrE, eCow - A history of eCow: concepts to cash
Rob Morrison, Product Manager, Fullwood Ltd - Product Development - Risks, lessons and pitfalls
Brian Knight MIAgrE, Knight Farm Machinery - Patenting & Licensing and Knight Farm Machinery
Richard Robinson CEng HonFIAgrE, Autoguide Equipment - Good Patents, Bad Patents, No Patents
Three "out there" Innovations - Case Studies
Dr Andrew R Edwards, Ritchie UK - Beef Monitor
Alex Baylis, Big Bale Co (South) Ltd - Big Bale Transtacker & Controlled Traffic Farming
Stephen Pattenden, Telemetry Associated Ltd - AUTOPIC
Post Conference HAU Alumni Technical Talk
Rich Walker, Shadow Robot Company - Turning Ideas into Profit
These presentations will be available on this page until the new year when they will be moved to the archive in the members logged in area of the website
Thank you to our sponsors for helping to make this a successful event:
