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German-Japanese Smart Farming Symposium 2023 in Tokyo

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May 23rd, 2023 | Symposium | AgVenture Lab

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On behalf of Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI), the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan (AHK Japan) and the Agrotech Valley Forum (AVF) cordially invite interested parties to the German-Japanese Smart Farming Symposium 2023 in Tokyo. Topics include the status quo and outlook of the smart farming industry and smart farming technology adoption in Germany and Japan. Objective of the event is to connect Japanese and German companies and institutions dealing with the topic “agriculture of the future”. Participants get the chance to exchange with Japanese and German representatives from research and public institutions as well as technology departments of private companies.

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  • Tuesday, May 23rd 2023 | 13:30 ‐ 19:00 (JST)

  • AgVenture Lab | Otemachi Building 9F

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Introduction to Participating Companies & Institutions

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NameIntroduction 
Agravis Raiffeisen AGAGRAVIS Raiffeisen AG is a modern agricultural trading company in agricultural produce, animal feed, crop farming and agricultural technology. It is also active in the fields of energy, construction services and Raiffeisen DIY markets. With more than 6,600 employees, AGRAVIS Raiffeisen AG generates €9,4 billion revenue, making it one of the leading companies in the sector. AGRAVIS primarily operates in Germany and has more than 400 locations throughout the country. It conducts its international business activities through subsidiaries and affiliated companies in more than 20 countries and has export activities in more than 100 countries worldwide. The company’s main office is Münster. 
CLAAS KGaA mbHCLAAS is a family business founded in 1913 and one of the world’s leading manufacturers of agricultural engineering equipment. The company, with corporate headquarters in Harsewinkel, Germany, is the European market leader in combine harvesters. CLAAS is the world leader in another large product group, self-propelled forage harvesters. CLAAS is successfully represented around the world with tractors, agricultural balers and green crop harvesting machines. The CLAAS product portfolio also includes state-of-the-art farming information technology. 
DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) has operated as a non-profit, Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) since 1988. Today, it maintains sites in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen, Oldenburg, Osnabrück, laboratories in Berlin and Darmstadt, as well as branches in Lübeck and Trier. DFKI combines scientific excellence and commercially-oriented value creation with social awareness and is recognized as a major "Center of Excellence" by the international scientific community. In the field of artificial intelligence, DFKI has focused on the goal of human-centric AI for more than 30 years. Research is committed to essential, future-oriented areas of application and socially relevant topics. Currently, with a staff of about 1,460 employees from more than 65 countries, DFKI is developing the innovative software technologies of tomorrow. The financial budget was 76.3 million euros in 2021. 
ECOS Consult GmbH

ECOS is a project development, consulting and research company specialized on Germany and Japan. Since its foundation in 1988, ECOS strives to initiate and support economic cooperation with Japan especially in the field of environmental and energy technology.

ECOS has more than 30 years of experience in supporting German-Japanese industry connections. We support companies and public authorities in opening up new markets, exchange information and start bilateral projects. Our basis is sound knowledge, many years of experience and our well-maintained network.

ECOS is headquartered in Osnabrueck, Germany and has branch offices in Berlin and Tokyo.

 
GRIMME Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KGWith more than 150 machine types in the fields of potato, beet and vegetable technology, the GRIMME Group manufactures by far the widest and most comprehensive product range in these segments. The machines are sold through specialist dealers in over 120 countries around the world. Sales and service subsidiaries have been set up in the important growing regions in Great Britain, France, Denmark, Poland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Russia, the USA, China, Belgium and Turkey. The GRIMME Group employs over 2,850 people worldwide, 1,450 of them at the headquarter in Damme and generated sales volume of 557 million euros in 2021. 
Group Schumacher

GROUP SCHUMACHER is a global player in AG business. Having a mid-sized company structure and being independent, GROUP SCHUMACHER is specialized in components and systems for harvesting machines. Based on traditional German companies and brands, GROUP SCHUMACHER offers it's products and services worldwide: Customer specific cutting and baling solutions in all of the world's key harvest regions with the brands SCH®, EWM®, Rasspe® and Radura®.

With our experience and practical approach, we strive to provide innovative harvesting solutions to improve the productivity of manufacturers as well as farmers and contractors. Our products can be found wherever there are stalks to be cut, or straw to be chopped or collected. We enable a high-performance and secure harvest of the raw materials used in the production of food and energy.

 
IAV GmbH

As a global technology provider, IAV develops digital and sustainable solutions for different industry sectors: Automotive, Agriculture and Energy. In terms of Agriculture, we see the upcoming challenges: Rising food demand, climate change, resource depletion, skills shortage and environmental protection. With smart tech solutions, IAV wants to help meet those challenges – for the sake of future farming.

Berlin-based IAV has been developing innovative concepts and solutions for 40 years. With 7.600 employees, the company brings together the best from a wide variety of worlds: Automotive, Agriculture, Energy and IT, hardware and software as well as product and services.

 
Innovationszentrum Niedersachsen GmbH

The Innovation Center of Lower Saxony is an essential part of our state’s economic development strategy. Our goal is to support the economy by developing innovations in order to create and secure jobs.

We are the independent, strategic and technological consultancy of Lower Saxony's state government. We set up branch-specific and cross-sectoral economic promotion networks. This provides impetus to the economy, science and politics to develop and spread cutting-edge key technologies.

We optimize the technology transfer and assist Lower Saxony enterprises with the implementation and development of their technological and social innovation projects.

 
Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KGMaschinenfabrik Bernard KRONE GmbH & Co. KG, based in Spelle, Germany, is part of the KRONE Group and a proven specialist in forage harvesting technology. Our product range includes disc mowers, rotary tedders, rotary rakes, forage wagons and trailers, round balers and large square balers, the Premos pelleting press and the two self-propelled machines BiG M (high-performance mower conditioner) and BiG X (forage harvester). Our flagship is the BiG X 1180, which has a whopping 1156 hp. This means that we are currently building the most powerful agricultural machine in the world in Spelle. KRONE agriculture - Quality made in Spelle since 1906. 
Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences

The Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Landscape Architecture (AuL) is one of the faculties of the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. With the opening of the Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences of Horticulture (HGO) in 1949, the Osnabrück-Haste campus was founded. Since then it has developed into today's faculty with more than 2,700 students in 12 Bachelor's and 7 Master's degree program.

The Haste campus in the northern part of Osnabrück is the "green" campus of the university. The buildings are surrounded by a park. The campus includes numerous laboratories, agricultural experimental fields, greenhouses, the WABE Center, the Organic Research Farm Waldhof and the Teaching and Research Center for Food Studies.

 
Vogelsang GmbH & Co. KG

An innovative family company, founded in 1929 and located in Lower Saxony, Germany, Vogelsang GmbH & Co. KG today develops, produces, and sells modern high-quality machines and system solutions used in the wastewater, agricultural, biogas, industrial and transportation technology segments.

Vogelsang inventions – pumps, macerators, linkages, etc. - allow much more environment-friendly and economical operation of systems in biogas production, liquid manure spreading, sewage treatment, and others. Our system solutions are designed for reliable operation, making Vogelsang one of the technology and market leaders in many areas.

More than 1,300 employees working in over 50 locations worldwide contribute to Vogelsang receiving several awards, including “Germany’s innovation leader”.

 

Introduction to the Cluster

Agrotech Valley Forum e.V.

The region between Münster and Oldenburg is considered one of the most intensively farmed agricultural regions in Germany. Here in northwestern Germany, in the so-called Agrotech Valley, the entire value chain from primary production to agricultural technology to the food industry, including leading research institutions, is located in a high density. This economic region is unique in all of Europe and offers the best conditions for improvements in agricultural practice on a broad scale. At the same time, the region has powerful cooperation platforms with international visibility.

For example, the Agrotech Valley Forum e.V. (AVF), a community of companies from the agricultural and food industry as well as research and teaching institutions and regional authorities, was founded in 2019. This network institutionalizes a leading agricultural systems technology cluster of predominantly owner-operated companies that has been able to develop around agriculture in northwestern Germany over decades.

Against the background of the digital transformation of the agricultural and food industry, the AVF works together on the challenges facing the industry beyond the boundaries of business, science, and administration.

In doing so, the AVF is focused on innovation in agricultural research and agricultural technology and their efficient integration into future digital value chains. The AVF's fields of activity lie in the mediation of interests and establishment of cooperation between industry specialists and scientists as well as in the initiation, support, and implementation of research and development projects.

The AVF supports the transfer of innovative technologies from the labs into the fields at an early stage. To that end, the AVF maintains cooperation with national and international expert groups, economic promotion organizations, and business associations from the fields of agriculture and the food industry.

Organizers

A program of

Germany Trade and Invest (GTAI)

Economic Promotion Organization

Invest in Niedersachsen

Cluster

Agrotech Valley Forum e.V.

Organized by

German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan (AHK Japan)

Supporting Organizations

Hokkaido Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers Association
The Japanese Society of Agricultural Machinery and Food Engineers

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