Keynote Speakers

Day 1 Keynote: "Crop Adapted Spraying - Doing More With Less"

Jason Deveau, Ph.D. (@spray_guy)

Application Technology Specialist, OMAFRA
Jason studied biology & psychology at Mount Allison University, plant cell physiology at York University and plant cell electrophysiology at the University of Guelph. Based in Ontario’s Simcoe Resource Centre since 2008, he researches and develops practical methods to optimize productivity, spray effectiveness and reduce waste. Co-author of “Airblast101 – Your Guide to Effective and Efficient Spraying”, he also co-administers www.sprayers101.com.

Day 2 Keynote: "From Data to Recommendations for Practice"

Andrew Landers

Visiting Lecturer, Cornell University; Managing Director, Effective Spraying

Professor Andrew Landers studied and taught agricultural engineering in England. He joined the faculty at Cornell University in 1998, and was based at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva for twenty years. He directed the international application technology program and his teaching/extension/research appointment involved the use of engineering solutions to provide effective spraying. His research group worked with application systems in fruit production across the world and he believed in a multi-disciplinary approach to pesticide application, working with biologists to ensure engineering techniques were biologically effective. He retired from Cornell in 2018 and now runs the consultancy company Effective Spraying.

In 2007 he was presented with the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences at Cornell University award for outstanding accomplishments in extension and outreach. In 2010 the New York Wine and Grape foundation presented him with the Research award for major contributions in research and education. In 2011 he was presented with the NY IPM award for his research and extension. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers and a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.

Dr Andrew Landers is author of three books, Farm Machinery Investment and Management, Effective Vineyard Spraying and Effective Orchard Spraying, published by Effectivespraying.com. Dr. Landers is frequently invited to speak at orchard and vineyard conferences around the world. He is renowned for his informative presentations that are delivered with a captivating style.

Day 3 Keynote: "Pain in The Drift – Understanding The Impact of Pesticide Drift from a Holistic Viewpoint"

Emilio Gil Moya, Ph.D.

Emilio Gil Moya is Full Professor (accredited) of the Department of Agri-Food Engineering and Biotechnology of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and Director of Agricultural Mechanization Unit. Professor at PhD program in agriculture and forestry at the University of Turin, in Italy. Project Coordinator of the INNOSETA project that is part of the European Horizon 2020 R&D program. He has been advisor to different national and international research bodies and institutes, as well as to the Ministry of Agriculture in the implementation of Sustainable Use of Pesticides, and author of the Manual of Inspections of application equipment. Academic member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors. He is the first agricultural engineer in Europe to enter this academic institution.

Emilio Gil has also been a professor at Cornell University, in the United States, and is author of more than 50 scientific articles in international journals and more than 200 technical and popular articles, as well as different books in the field of engineering agri-food. He is an editor and expert reviewer of scientific journals in the sector and has given numerous international conferences. Member of different organizations in the field of agri-food engineering, the researcher has received different awards, such as the Wine Research Award Tecnovid (Zaragoza) in 2002, the 2002 award from the Centro y Canarias Agronomists Association and the award for the best doctoral thesis (accesit) Fertiberia in 2004. President of the international Award of FIMA and president of AESAVE (Asociación Española de Sanidad Vegetal).He has been director of the Aragon Government office in Brussels (2016) and member of the expert group "Ejea advances" for the management of the COVID-19 crisis in Ejea de los Caballeros (Zaragoza).

Professor Gil has given more than 60 invited lectures in all the countries of the EU and most of the countries of the American continent. He is also the author of the books Zarpazos en el Alma (Ed. Los libros del Gato Negro, 2017), Banda de música de Rivas - Conmemoración de un siglo y cuarto de andanzas musicales (Ed. DPZ, 2008), Historia del socialismo y sindicalismo en Rivas (Ed. DPZ, 2010) i Días de Campo (2019).

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