The Seeds of Resilience Conference 2026

This list will be updated continuously

Beatrix Alsanius
Professor, SLU

Paul Neve
Professor, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Therese Bengtsson
Associate Professor in Plant Breeding, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Dag Røen
Breeder and Project Leader, Njøs næringsutvikling AS

Aakash Chawade
Chair of Plant Breeding Methodology, University of Göttingen

Marja Jalli
Principal Research Scientist, Natural Resources Institute Finland

Heli Fitzgerald
Horticulturist, University of Helsinki

Nils Stein
Head of Department Genebank, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), and Professor, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

Ilse Kranner
Professor of Plant Physiology, Universität Innsbruck

Muath Alsheikh
Head of Research and Development, Graminor AS

Jihad Orabi
Head of Molecular Plant Breeding, Nordic Seed A/S

Fiona Hay
Senior Researcher, Aarhus University 

Dagmar Janovská
Head of Gene Bank, Coordinator of National Program on PGRFA, Czech Agrifood Research Center