Company seeks to approach the producer of technology | Rural Canal – Canal Rural

In order to connect producers, entrepreneurs, academia, investors, government and technology companies, is born Plant Project. The company’s strategy – which is defined as a communication platform, events and agribusiness analysis – is to promote events to encourage the exchange of ideas and technological solutions for the field, such as applications for monitoring crops, drones, internet of things and intelligence artificial, for example.

the project is a partnership between the company and Datagro, a leading agricultural consultancies in Brazil and organizer of the Global agribusiness Forum, an international conference for leaders of agribusiness.

The first event of the Plant Project takes place on October 22, in São Paulo, and was named StartAgro. The initiative will bring together startups (new technology companies) agribusiness, investors, academia, government and large companies.

“More than an event, the StartAgro is a multiplatform content project to reveal the most modern face of the Brazilian and global agribusiness, the field interface with research and entrepreneurship,” said the journalist Luiz Fernando Sá, editorial director of Plant Project.

Through meetings, actions in digital media and a website , the StartAgro aims to show the technological and innovative side of agricultural production, encouraging the creation of businesses and approaching the gym investors.

Among the topics to be discussed at the meeting are what the Agtech revolution (technology for agribusiness) and as part of this movement, as the technology is transforming the farms, the most innovative companies in technology for agribusiness in Brazil and where are the opportunities for professional development in the agricultural world.

in addition to lectures and discussions, the StartAgro have a startup contest. The goal is to identify and reward some of the most innovative startups nowadays companies. Selected startups will make presentations before a panel of judges composed of investors, technology executives and successful entrepreneurs in technology and agribusiness market.

With the support of large technology companies, the StartAgro also plans to create hackathons. The intent of these marathons that will bring together programmers from different parts of Brazil is to stimulate the development of innovative and sustainable solutions for agriculture.

Platform

on the website of StartAgro, the first digital platform Agtech entrepreneurship in Brazil, there are reports on the main startups focused on the agribusiness and international, innovation, trends and interviews with the most important characters of technology and agriculture.

“From the point of view of business, StartAgro will interconnect all the innovation ecosystem in the agricultural world, opening up new relationship opportunities for technology companies that have solutions for agriculture,” says Phelipe Pedroso, director sales and marketing of Plant Project.

“All of our content is in digital channels, either in events, aims to inspire entrepreneurs and show which are the most innovative startups Agtech in Brazil in the world, “says the journalist Clayton Melo, platform leader and curator of StartAgro.