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Programme
Exclusive presentations by keynote speakers, interactive sessions, live interviews and a networking drinks reception.
Tuesday, 23 May 2017, Eindhoven
- 9:25 am: Chairman’s Welcome
- 9:30 am: Light and crops: The fundamentals - From photochemical reactions and crop production to energy efficiency and operating costs, light is the single most critical factor impacting the success of a controlled environment farm. Beginning with the basics of ‘what is light?’ this session will include an overview on quantifying and qualifying lighting differentials – from white light to purple light and top light to side light. A crash course in applying photobiology to create a denser, healthier, greener crop of vegetables, fruit and flowers.
- 10:00 am: Understanding LEDs - LEDs are very different from traditional lighting sources. They’re solid-state devices that can be designed to deliver narrow-spectrum photon beams of defined wavelength. Now unique light-distribution techniques are possible with LEDs that have important implications for intracanopy, close-canopy and the targeted lighting of high-value crops.
- 10:30 am: LED and high-pressure sodium - The current reality of LED compared to traditional lighting technologies such as high-pressure sodium and metal halide sources. How do they compare in terms of photosynthetic active radiation, heat output and cost? Does a combination of the two technologies deliver the best of both worlds?
- 11:00 am: Coffee, networking and exhibition
- 11:30 am: How to assess horticultural lighting equipment: Metrics and methods - Lumens, colour temperature, lux and other common lighting terms and measurements all have one fault when it comes to horticultural lighting: they are all based on the human eye response. Plants have very different lighting needs, which calls for very different metrics. Our speaker walks us through the numbers.
- 12:00 pm: How to assess horticultural lighting equipment: Metrics and methods - The unique properties of LEDs allow them to be placed quite close to plant tissues, requiring significantly less electrical energy to achieve target photon flux at plant level. How do LEDs stack up against the alternatives in terms of energy and payback? How can we factor in the useful heat output of traditional sources such as high-pressure sodium? With current technology, what’s the payback period?
- 12:30 pm: How to use tunable LEDs to manipulate crop production - A combination of LEDs and lighting controls has the potential to change the way crops are grown in controlled environments. Because LEDs offer unprecedented opportunities to manipulate wavelength, pulse duration, synchrony and spectral output, they can modify the morphological and chemical characteristics of plants, enabling growers to extract greater value from crop production.
- 1:00 pm: Networking lunch and exhibition
- 2:00 pm: LEDs: What the research tells us - Light has been proven to control plant quality, morphology and flowering. LED lights hold the promise of being the tool for directing these plant attributes in a precise manner, while allowing for energy-savings and greater sustainability and pathogen control when contrasted to traditional greenhouse lighting.
- 2:30 pm: LEDs and tomatoes - What are the specific light requirements in terms of red, blue and infra-red light for improving tomato yield, sugar levels and quality? In this special presentation we will explore the benefits that are being achieved with tuned LED horticultural lighting on tomatoes, and examine a number of case studies.
- 3:00 pm: Pathogen control using LEDs - What role can light play in the management and control of plant diseases and pathogens? Can we exploit light-dependent mechanisms for the purposes of suppressing plant pathogens in controlled environments? What is the relationship between LED light and insects?
- 3:30 pm: Coffee, networking and exhibition
- 4:00 pm: Vertical farms and tiered growing - How to design and develop an LED lighting infrastructure for vertical farms, tiered growing installations and hydroponic vegetable facilities. What are the economics of these installations and how do they compare with more traditional methods? Includes in-depth exploration of results from real-world installations.
- 4:30 pm: Panel discussion: How science has boost business - Growers, scientists and manufacturers discuss the ways we can work together to maximise outcomes for growers in the horticulture industry.
- 5:00 pm: Networking drinks party
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