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José Antonio currently serves as Director of Innovation, New Ventures and Small Farmers for Latin America at BAYER Crop Science; Its responsibilities focus on the development of new business models through innovation, digitalization and strategic alliances that contribute to increasing the agricultural and livestock productivity of small producers in our region.

He has been linked to Bayer Crop Science for more than 25 years. Prior to his current position, he served as Director of Agricultural Transformation and as Director of Crop Protection for Latin America North.

During his professional career he has held different positions in the Commercial, Strategy, Finance and New Business Development areas. He has been recognized twice with the Marketing Excellence Award for projects he authored. José Antonio, originally from Mexico City, is a Chemical Engineer graduated from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, he has a Master’s Degree in Business Management from IPADE, an Academic Certificate in Management and Leadership from the Kellogg School of Management and an Academic Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Stanford University.

He is passionate about agribusiness, Innovation and good ideas. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the EDUCAMPO Foundation and has also been a member of the Board of Directors of AMOCALI (Mexican Association of Organizations for a Clean Field A.C.) and PROCCYT (Crop Protection Science and Technology A.C.) of which he was president in the period 2018-2019.

CONFERENCE

Use of disruptive technologies in the challenge of feeding the World.

Relevance of the use of technology in the face of the challenge of feeding a growing population in the world. How to face major challenges such as climate change, the degradation of agricultural soils, the rational use of water, less arable land, insertion of small farmers; In short, the challenges are enormous and technology will be one of the vehicles that helps us be more productive and preserve the environment while we feed the world.