Women in Ag Award

Anna is a process engineer and a food quality expert for Grain Technik Pvt. Ltd. She founded and headed the International Rice Milling Academy in Bangalore. Anna has been relentlessly working on improving the food and feed safety and security situation worldwide. Her driving force is the desire to minimize all kind of losses during grain processing by improving the storage technology as well as educating customers, especially in tropical conditions where the storage losses are the highest.

Joana’s (PhD, Professor) work spans sustainability, disease prediction, medical devices, food quality and agrifood manufacturing. She collaborates with diverse academic teams, earning international and national scientific recognition. This includes nominations from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), Forbes’ “30 Under 30 in Science & Healthcare” recognition, and distinctions like “Women in Science, 2021” from FCT & Ciência Viva, the “2021 Women Entrepreneurship Award” from the Católica Business School of Economics, and the “2019 Born From Knowledge” award from ANI.

Joana has raised around 8 million euros in private investments and public grants, showcasing her ability to secure support for innovative projects. She actively fosters innovation and scientific curiosity among students and researchers, significantly advancing science on a broader scale.

Forget’s contribution to sustainable agriculture and food systems has opened both local and international doors, where she has been having high-level discussions and advocating for women and small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe and Africa at large. Currently, Forget is based in Wales, UK, where she is doing her graduate scheme program working as a sustainability consultant helping Small and Medium Enterprises in agriculture, manufacturing, retail, and the energy sector shape their sustainability goals and ambitions for net zero.

Alfiya is an entrepreneur and agritech expert with over 10 years of experience in business development, investment banking and agriculture. As the co-founder and CEO of Green Growth, she provides farmers with essential information about field performance and yield data, helping them solve the problem of inefficient use of inputs like fertilizers and seeds and thereby increase profitability.

Stefanie combines several functions in the company in one person: she is manager, chief scientist and mentor, as well as responsible for the integration of several departments. She plays a key role in promoting state-of-the-art scientific techniques in the field of potato breeding. With her commitment and innovative ideas, she plays a decisive role in making the potato fit for the future and strengthening it for the coming challenges in agriculture (climate change, drought, no pesticides, etc.).

Solveig is Managing Director at  Eye-Grain. A company that continues to introduce new technologies to the industry and were first-movers to monitor in-bin moisture concentration and monitoring of CO2-concentration to determine hot-spots and spoilage at an early stage caused by insects or fungi. She does research for Aalborg University, is named on numeral academic papers and promotes measures for her employees to heighten mental health and reduce stress.