PROGRAMME

INTERPERA 2025

All presentations will be translated into English and French, and, depending on the number of participants, into Spanish and Italian.

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Tuesday 24/06/25

  • 19.00 – Welcome gathering in the Governor’s House in Hasselt city center followed by a reception.
    Gouverneurswoning, Lombaardstraat 25, Hasselt 3500 – View on Google Maps

Wednesday 25/06/2025: Conference

  • 08.30 – Participant registration
  • 09.00 – Opening  remarks
  • 09.15 – Intro
  • 09.30 – Review on the previous season France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Italy: acreage, consumption, threats, alternatives, innovations, …
    Moderator: Luc Vanoirbeek, Secretary General, VBT
    Manel Simon, Director, Afrucat
    Vincent Guérin, Economic Affairs Manager, Association Nationale Pommes Poires
    Mark Vernooij, Director, Urfruit
    Barbara Brunello, CSO Italy
    Kris Jans, Manager Division Fruit, BelOrta
    Tomàs Ferreira, Director, ANP
  • 11.00 – Coffee break
  • 11.30 – Forecast France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Italy and state of play season
    Moderator: Dany Bylemans, General Director, pcfruit
    Serentill Joan, Vice-President Secretaire, Afrucat
    Vincent Guérin, Economic Affairs Manager, Association Nationale Pommes Poires
    Wilco van den Berg, Manager Data & Digitalization, GroentenFruit Huis
    Tomas Bosi, Production Expert, CSO Italy
    Laurent De Smedt, Head Division Pomefruit, BelOrta
    Tomàs Ferreira, Director, ANP
  • 13.00 – Lunch
  • 14.00 – BelOrta’s view on pear commercialisation
    Kris Jans, Manager Division Fruit, BelOrta
  • 14.20 – A concerted approach towards the future : the Eufrin Working Group Digital Orchards
    Dany Bylemans, General Director, pcfruit
  • 14.40 – Pear market evolution consumption
    Filip Fontaine, CEO, VLAM
  • 15.00 – Breakout rooms

Postharvest:

  • 15.30 – State of play postharvest research on pears
    Ann Schenk, Project Leader & Extension specialist, VCBT
  • 15.50 – From Post-Harvest to Pre-Harvest: Unlocking the Full Potential of our Original 1-MCP
    Ruud Van Enckevort, Account Manager, Agrofresh
  • 16.10 – Global FYSIUM®
    Janssen PMP
  • 16.30 – Postharvest image analysis
    Niels Bessemans, CEO, Optiflux

Technical issues:

  • 15.30 – From macro to micro: Enabling tree-level precision management in modern pear growing
    Peter Frans De Jong, Researcher Fruit, University of Waegeningen
  • 15.50 – State of the art of Stink bug control
    Gianfranco Anfora, Associate Professor in General and Applied Entomology, University of Trento
  • 16.10 – Better positioning of pear sucker control measures by modelling
    Tim Beliën, Head of department Zoology, pcfruit
  • 16.30 – DCM PEA-02® : Innovative and sustainable biocontrol product against fire blight
    Nele Van Camp, Business Development Manager, DCM
  • 16.50 – Unitec presentation
    Gianluca Vignoli, Sales engineer, Unitec

  • 17.00 – Closing remarks and reception
  • 19.00 – Walking dinner

Thursday 26/06/25: Technical visits

  • 08.00 – Departure from Corda campus or Century Hotel
  • 09.00 – Visit BelOrta sorting and storage – BelOrta, Kernielerweg 59, Borgloon 3840 – View on Google Maps
  • 10.30 – Departure to PCFruit, the Research Station for Fruit
  • 11.00 –  Visit PCFruit – Pcfruit, Fruittuinweg 1, Sint-Truiden 3800 – View on Google Maps
  • 12.30 – Sandwich Lunch at PCFruit
  • 13.30 Departure (eventual transport to railway station Landen – direct train to Brussels
    Airport)