Date: Thursday 6th September
Venue: Heinrich Böll Foundation
Preliminary programme: NGO Conference
Conference language: English
8:30 Coffee and registration
9:30 Plenary Session 1 – Personal accounts
- Introduction Benny Haerlin
- Renate Künast a former Ag minister
- Gerald Miles a Welsh farmer
- Arnaud Apotheker a French activist
- Janet Maro a Tanzanian approach
- Victoria Kopeykina a Russian NGO
- Ivalyo Popov a new generation of activists
- Ignacio Chapela a US Berkely professor’s tale
- June Rebekka Bresson Danish perspective
- Michiyo Koketsu No! GMO in Japan
- Eva Gelinsky Switzerland, Moratorium
- Ulrich Loening Failed Scientific integrity
- Stephanie Howard News from New Zealand
- Tatjana Brankov Greetings from Serbia
10:40 Plenary Session 2 – What GMO Free stands for
- Christoph Fischer Bavarian rural community action
- Gebhard Rossmanith Organic seeds
- Antonio Onorati Family farmers united
- Kapil Shah Organic India
- Akiko Frid Swedish holistics
11:00 Plenary Session 3 – The Future of GMO – a horror show of challenges ahead
- Lili Fuhr Total sequencing – BioGenome
- Nina Holland Communication 4.0
- Ruth Tippe New patents in times of CRISPR
- Angelika Hilbeck The end of farming as we know it
12:00 Plenary Session 4 – Joint wrap up – where do we stand in 1 sentence
12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 Plenary Session 5 – Living with CRISPR Stig Tanzmann Moderator
- Mute Schimpf The political situation in Brussels
- Eric Gall The precautionary approach
- Discussion
14:40 Plenary Session 6 – Fighting Gene Drives
- Ricarda Steinbrecher What works – and what doesn’t
- Jim Thomas Global campaign for a moratorium (via skype) Campaign, IUCN, Gene drives in Agriculture
- Lili Fuhr Next steps in Sharm el Sheikh (CBD)
- Discussion The Gene Drive agenda
15:30 Walk for coffee & workshops – to Marienstrasse
16:00 – 18:00 Workshop Session
- Gene Drives and the CBD Lili Fuhr / Ricarda Steinbrecher
- Communication Strategies Nina Holland / Juliette Leroux
- The EU legal & political situation Mute Schimpf / Pauline Verrière
- Seed Strategy Benny Haerlin / Gebhard Rossmanith
- Bio economy / Digitisation Christof Potthof / Lazlo Maraz
18:00 Walk to the evening reception via Brandenburg gate
