09:00 – 09:30 WELCOME ADDRESSES

09:30 – 10:15 OPENING KEYNOTES LECTURES
CHAIR: Roberto Tuberosa (University of Bologna, Italy)

09:30 – 09:50
New realities of Agri-Food R&D Worldwide: Implications for varietal innovations in wheat
Philip Pardey (University of Minnesota, USA)

09:55 – 10:15
Pathogen-informed strategies for wheat resistance breeding
Beat Keller (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

10:15 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK & POSTERS SET UP

11:00 – 13:00 Session 1
ENABLING SUSTAINABLE WHEAT PRODUCTION IN A BROAD CROPPING SYSTEM.
I: CROP MANAGEMENT, SOIL CONSERVATION AND HEALTH
CHAIR: De Oliveira Silva Amanda (Oklahoma St. University), Pierluigi Meriggi (Horta, Italy)

11:00 – 11:15
Translational digital agronomy for durum wheat sustainability
Michele Pisante (University of Teramo, Italy)

11:15 – 11:30
Toward 1M ha of conservation agricolture in Morocco: soils and crop resilience
Moussadek Rachid (INRA, Morocco)

11:30 – 11:45
BNI-Wheats – A new category of nitrogen-efficient low-nitrifying wheats
Subbarao Guntur (JIRCAS, Japan)

11:45 – 12:00
Assessing wheat nitrogen use efficiency
Amanda de Oliveira Silva (Oklahoma State University, USA)

12:00 – 12:15
Discussion

12:15 – 13:00
Selected short (5 min) talks

13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH

14:30 – 16:30 Session 2
ENABLING SUSTAINABLE WHEAT PRODUCTION IN A BROAD CROPPING SYSTEM.
II: PHENOMICS, ENVIROMICS, CROP MODELLING, DIGITAL AGRICULTURE
CHAIRS: Kerstin Neumann (Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Germany), Nicola Pecchioni (CREA, Italy)

14:30 – 14:45
Digital twins for the sustainability of cropping systems
Bruno Basso (Michigan State Univ, USA) 

14:45 – 15:00
The digital wheat revolution for more resilient wheat production
Andries Potgieter (QAAFI, Australia) 

15:00 – 15:15
Predicting wheat yield and production: considering climate change effects
Jean-Pierre Cohan (ARVALIS, France) 

15:15 – 15:30
Crop model-guided traits for global adaptation to climate warming
Senthold Asseng (TUM, Germany) 

15:30 – 14:45
Global needs for nitrogen fertiliser to improve wheat yield under climate change
Pierre Martre (INRAE, France)

15:45 – 16:00
Discussion

16:00 – 16:30
Selected short (5 min) talks

16:30 – 17:00 COFFEE BREAK

17:00 – 19:00 Session 3
CARBON FOOTPRINT OF WHEAT PRODUCTION TO REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS;
SATELLITE MONITORING OF WHEAT FARMING
CHAIRS: Jean-Pierre Cohan (ARVALIS, France), Laura Ercoli (Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies, Italy)

17:00 – 17:15
CO2-footprint of the wheat value chain from farmers to mills and bakers
Tobias Schuhmacher (Verband Deutscher Großbäckereien e.V., Germany) 

17:15 – 17:30
Carbon footprints and dynamics of wheat farming in India
Netrananda Sahu (University of Delhi, India) 

17:30 – 17:45
System synergies to build sustainable wheat yield frontiers in Australia
Kenton Porker (CSIRO – Australia)

17:45 – 18:00
Increasing sustainability of cereal crops using functional diversity
Tim George (James Hutton, UK)

18:00 – 18:15
Discussion

18:15 – 19:00
Selected short (5 min) talks