🍇Innovations for Regenerative Agriculture (English)

Date
Thu
29
Oct 2026
Location
📍 Changins, Route de Duillier 52, CH-1260 Nyon
🇫🇷 — Version française →

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🇬🇧 — English Version

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2nd Innovation Forum for Regenerative Agriculture & Viticulture

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Theme:
Measuring Nature at Work:
‍From Soil Life to Regenerative and Resilient Agriculture

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This event will spotlight innovative startup solutions and pilot projects accelerating the transition to regenerative agriculture.

It will also ignite discussions on the financial, regulatory, and structural shifts required to scale these innovations and align stakeholders around shared economic and environmental goals.

✨ What to expect:

  • Showcases from leading agritech startups and labs
  • Presentation of pilot projects outcomes
  • Themed workshops and roundtable discussions with multidisciplinary experts
  • Networking apéritif in a relaxed, scenic setting

👤 Who Should Attend:

  • Startups developing innovations for regenerative agriculture
  • Farmers and agricultural practitioners
  • Researchers and academic institutions
  • SMEs and corporate leaders
  • Policymakers and public institutions
  • Investors and ecosystem partners
  • NGOs and value chain stakeholders

🍇 The event is free, but registration is required:

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📅 Agenda & Speakers:

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13:30 | Doors Open & Registration
14:00 | Plenary session
— Welcome and Introductory remarks:
Marc Schmid
Director of Changins
Bertrand Klaiber
Program lead, Tech4Regen, EPFL Innovation Park

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— Keynote:
Regenerative agriculture — the challenge of scaling up
Obstacles and success factors, illustrated by examples of the first instances of scaling up in Europe
Bastien Sachet
CEO, Earthworm Foundation
Regenerating Soils and Forests with and for people. Working with businesses to find solutions to environmental and social challenges within value chains.

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14:45 — 18:00 | Exhibition of Startups and Innovations
  •  See the list of exhibitors below ↓

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14:45  — 15:45 | Workshops (session 1)
  •  See the list of the Worshops, here-below ↓

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15:45  — 16:45 | Workshops & Visits (session 2)
  • Guided tour of the Changins facility and laboratory
  •  See the list of the Worshops, here-below ↓

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16:45 | Networking Cocktail 🥂
  • Continue the conversation during the networking cocktail at the Innovations Booth, where cutting-edge technologies in agriculture and viticulture are on display!
  •  See the list of exhibitors below ↓

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Workshops

  • Some of the workshops are in English, some others are in French
  • Workshop registration is mandatory (through registration links below). Since space is limited, participation in the workshops is subject to confirmation of registration.

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Atelier 1.A ________________________________________________________________________________________________

‍Transition vers une agriculture régénérative : enseignements tirés d'un an d'expérience sur le terrain et le rôle des start-ups
  • Langue:
    • Français
  • Description:
    • Un an après le lancement de sa transition régénérative, menée en collaboration avec Edmond de Rothschild Systemic Regeneration, le Domaine des 30 Arpents partagera les enseignements concrets tirés de cette première année sur le terrain.
    • La table ronde explorera également le rôle des startups dans ces transformations, avec les témoignages du directeur du Domaine, du directeur du Pôle Nature d’EdR Heritage et le co-fondateur d'Edmond de Rothschild Systemic Regeneration.
  • Horaire:
    • 14h45 à 15h40
  • Salle: 
    • 114
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Workshop 1.B ________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Cognitive Vineyard Project
  • Language:
    • English
  • Description:
    • A vineyard is a living system. Soil biology, vines and insects interact and influence each other. What if we approached vineyard management as a collaboration with this living system?
    • Using The Cognitive Vineyard Project, an Innosuisse Innovation project, as a case study, this panel explores how sensors, soil and plant analysis, and AI can help us participate in that collaboration. These technologies help guide field management decisions using biological signals and feedback from the living system. The guests will discuss how this cycle of sensing, acting and learning connects human and biological cognition, and how it could support regenerative vineyard management.
  • Room: 
    • 116
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‍Data intelligence for a nature-positive ecosystem — holistic water (& pest) management at canton scale
  • Language:
    • English
  • Description:
    • Cantons face competing water demands across viticulture, orchards, field crops, forestry, inhabitants and industry. Fragmented monitoring means each sector optimizes alone.
    • This workshop shows how a shared sensor + model layer lets a canton plan across sectors — not silo by silo.
  • Moderator:
    • Dr Cara Tobin, Tech4Regen coach, Innosuisse Coach, Venture Partner and Impact Investor
  • Target audience:
    • Agricultural and forest land managers, irrigation and hydrology systems operators, head of conservation and regulations at public institutions, nature-based investors
  • Time:
    • 14h45 - 15h40
  • Room: 
    • 216
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‍Mesurer la qualité des sols : un levier technologique pour l'agriculture régénérative ?
  • Langue:
    • Français
  • Description:
    • L'agriculture régénérative peine encore à s'imposer dans les systèmes soumis à de fortes contraintes économiques, comme les grandes cultures et le maraîchage industriel. Manque-t-on de connaissances sur les bonnes pratiques ou plutôt d'outils fiables pour mesurer la qualité du sol et desplantes ? Y a-t-il d’autres freins majeurs, par exemple financiers ?
    • Cet atelier réunit une porteuse de technologies de mesure du sol et de la santé des cultures (Digit Soil), un expert du diagnostic de la santé des sols (FiBL), et un producteur confronté à ces contraintes à grande échelle, mais ayant quand même réussi à faire le pas vers l'agriculturerégénérative. Ensemble, ils débattront d'une question centrale : a-t-on encore besoin de nouvelles technologies pour assurer la transition vers une agriculture plus saine à grande échelle, ou le véritable enjeu est-il d'appliquer les pratiques déjà connues ? L’industrialisation de l’agriculture a souvent été critiquée pour avoir tenté de « trop » simplifier les systèmes agro-écologiques, au risque de les mettre en péril. Les nouvelles générations d'outils, comme les technologies pour analyser le sol (Digit Soil), la prédiction (par l'IA) et la détection (par l'ADN environant) de bioagresseurs et organismes nuisibles aux cultures (databaum, DecodeNAture), conçus pour optimiser les systèmes agro-écologiques plutôt que pour les intensifier, permettent-ils enfin des interventions plus ciblées et une gestion plus fine des intrants ? Ou restent-elles difficiles à intégrer dans les pratiques agricoles actuelles ?
  • Format:
    • Présentation des intervenants et débat (15-20 minutes), puis temps de questions ouvert à la salle (25 minutes)
  • Audience visée :
    • Agriculteurs, maraîchers et viticulteurs, entreprises de services et produits agricoles
  • Horaire:
    • 15h45 à 16h45
  • Salle: 
    • 114
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Workshop 2.B ________________________________________________________________________________________________

‍Investing in Resilience: Financing the Transition to Regenerative Agriculture
  • Langue:
    • French
  • Description:
    • Scaling regenerative agriculture requires new ways of mobilising and directing finance towards the agricultural transition. But what can be financed, through which mechanisms, and by whom?
    • This roundtable will bring together different perspectives on how finance can support the transition towards more regenerative and resilient agriculture. Through concrete approaches and examples, the discussion will explore the diversity of financing and investment pathways available, the opportunities they create, and the conditions needed to translate capital into meaningful impact on the ground.
    • Rather than looking for a single solution, the workshop will explore how different approaches can complement each other — and what is still needed to unlock finance and accelerate the transition at scale.
  • Time:
    • 15h45 - 16h45
  • Room: 
    • 116
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‍Building Circular Supply Chains: Turning By-Products into Value
  • Language:
    • English
  • Description:
    • How can waste streams become valuable resources?
    • ‍This interactive workshop brings together innovators from the fields of biogenic CO₂ recovery, bio-based packaging, and fermentation biomass waste valorization to explore practical approaches for building circular value chains. Through real-world examples, participants will discover how by-products from agriculture, food processing and fermentation can be transformed into high-value products and services, including renewable CO₂, sustainable packaging materials, and future functional ingredients. The session will highlight the technological, economic, and collaborative conditions required to scale circular solutions and accelerate the transition towards aregenerative and circular bioeconomy.
  • Target audience:
    • Entrepreneurs and professionals interested in developing business models based on the valorization of by-products and renewable resources, as well as researchers engaged in technology transfer of innovative solutions.
  • Time:
    • 15h45 - 16h45
  • Room: 
    • 216
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Interactive guided tour in the world of soils
  • Langue:
    • French
  • Description:
    • Which soil is the most resilient? Faced with drought, heavy rain, erosion or compaction, not all soils react in the same way.
    • But what clues help identify a soil that is better able towithstand stress and regenerate? Using real soil profiles, observe, compare and investigate: structure, rooting, water movement... It’s up to you to make your diagnosis!
    • A participatory workshop to learn how to read the soil and betterunderstand the mechanisms that support regenerative and resilient agriculture.
  • Tour Guide / Moderator:
    • Dorothea Noll, HES Lecturer in Soil and Environmental Sciences in Changins
  • Horaire:
    • 15h45 - 16h45
  • Emplacement: 
    • The tour begins at the counter at the entrance to the Forum
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Solutions Exhibition | Exposition

Meet different stakeholders of the innovation ecosystem, from support programs to startups with cutting-edge technologies and solutions

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   • Tech4Regen startups
Digit Soil Restore soil health and optimize nutrient cycles by making soil biology measurable and actionable for farmers.
Swiss Soil Replace input-driven agriculture with intelligence-led action. Connects diagnostics, decision-making, and biologically aligned treatments into one outcome-focused system.
databaum AI-powered farming tech combining data from field sensors and weather stations to provide disease forecast.
DecodeNAture Enable rapid, field-deployable DNA identification and builds the biological data infrastructure needed for decision-making across agriculture, biosecurity, and biodiversity monitoring.
Techponics Enable resource-efficient, sustainable agriculture by automating hydroponic systems that reduce water use, labor, and operational complexity while increasing productivity.
Aquascope Environmental intelligence for natural capital asset management: providing land managers and stewards with the 'waterprint' of land use and water consumptions data and insights required to measure, verify, and optimise the ecosystem services.
Open Forest Protocol NatureGrid helps carbon, biodiversity, restoration, and conservation teams collect field data offline, centralize remote monitoring inputs, track validation, and generate reporting-ready datasets.
Nettle Circle Turn wild nettles into circular textile fibers that restore soils, support farmers, and replace resource-intensive imports with local, low-impact materials.
PeelPack Transform agricultural waste into valuable resources while restoring natural systems and eliminating the need for fossil-based packaging.
CIRCEA Capture and repurpose biogenic CO₂ emissions, closing the carbon loop and replacing fossil-based CO₂ in agri-food and chemical systems.
Sixteen44 Remove atmospheric methane at scale, reducing near-term climate risk and restoring balance to the planet’s atmosphere.
Windworks Windworks builds innovative compact turbines that bring affordable, locally captured wind power to farms, factories and municipalities.


   • EPFL startups
Apolarion Develop a product to protect seeds and plants with air and electricity using plasmas at a fraction of the cost of standard organic treatments, without leaving long-term chemical residues.


   • ETH spin-off
NeoChemurgy Develop innovative concepts for the industrial valorization of biomass and agricultural by-products, through creative solutions that enable to work responsibly and sustainably with and for chemical products.

   • Solar Impulse Foundation & labelled Solutions
Solar Impulse Foundation To address sustainability challenges, Bertrand Piccard and the Solar Impulse Foundation have identified 1000+ clean and profitable solutions.
VunaNexus Preserve water by transforming urine into fertiliser.
Real Naturation A land management system that rewards soil and biodiversity restoration by regularly producing valuable harvest.

   • Swiss Food Research
Pixtell FieldCopilot is the collaborative platform for drone and satellite imagery: order a flight or upload your own data, then share, annotate and analyse it with ready-made or custom AI. For farmers, researchers, companies and public authorities.
GreenMind GmbH Low-cost sensors that measure the bioelectric signals of plants. Using machine learning, we detect plant stress early so that growers can adjust irrigation and climate to what the plant actually needs, for healthier plants, better fruit and less use of water and energy.

   • Vivent Biosignals
Vivent Biosignals We decode electrical signals from plants using AI to detect stress, disease, and treatment response before visible symptoms appear.

   • Earthworm Foundation
Earthworm Foundation We are an impact-driven global non-profit working on the ground to create scalable solutions for nature and people to thrive. In the field, we create, test, and scale new ways of production and doing business.

   • GIREB — Groupe Indépendant Recherche Expertise Bio
GIREB We are farmers and researchers from French-speaking Switzerland who have been producing organic produce since 2016, united by a common goal: to test, validate and ensure the safety of innovative agricultural techniques that are as yet unknown or little known, whilst prioritising the protection of soil and water.

   • AgroImpact
AgroImpact AgroImpact supports farmers and businesses in adapting their practices, reducing their carbon footprint and accelerating the climate transition in agriculture.

   • WIPO GREEN
WIPO GREEN WIPO GREEN is a global marketplace that facilitates the spread of environmentally friendly technologies by connecting technology and service providers with those seeking innovative solutions.

   • Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
IPI The Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI) is an agency of the federal administration of Switzerland responsible for patents, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs and copyright.

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