Speaker Details

Mr Daniel Pagliano

Biography

Daniel Pagliano was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Pagliano has a degree in Agronomy Engineering from the University of the Republic, Uruguay (1985) and a Master of Sciences from the Free University of Brussels (VIB), Belgium (1989). He is a Director-Founder of Nidetec (www.nidetec.com), a company related to plant biotechnology and agribusiness, and of Scutia (www.scutia.com), a company which is specialized in consulting. Pagliano is in the Board of the National Chamber of Commerce and Services (www.cncs.com.uy) and he is Director of the Union of Fruit and Vegetables Producers and Exporters of Uruguay. He is in the Board of the Latin American Federation of Biotechnology Companies Associations (FELAEB). He was the first President of the REDBIO Foundation, a NGO sponsored by FAO (www.fundacionredbio.org). He founded Biotec Plaza, a biotech platform in Zonamerica Business & Technology Park (www.zonamerica.com). He founded companies as Quiniman (www.quiniman.com), which is the in bovine embryos area, and Calister (www.calister.com.uy) which produce microbial inoculants. He was an Assistant Professor of Microbiology in the Agronomy School and founder of the Biotechnology Unit in the National Institute of Agricultural Research, where he developed projects for the European Union, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture and the Inter American Development Bank. He is a member of Rotary International and Fellow from the Eisenhower Fellowships (www.eef.org).

Abstract

Private-Government-Academia: Triangle Leadership in a Bio-intelligent Agriculture

The application of new knowledge from science-related platforms as informatics, biochemistry, biology and agronomy, are leading a dynamic revolution in social and economics development in many Latin American countries. The new emerging technologies and economic opportunities coming from the increased demand of agriculture products, are making an evolution in the regional agriculture production to a new one, which is more involved with good agriculture practices, and the characteristic of being social inclusive and environmentally sustainable. In this new model, the agriculture sector reconverts itself from being a “receiving sector” to a “generating sector” of intelligence and innovation. The biotechnology contributes to the incorporation of knowledge in this new time and it is defined as an important tool to support new strategies of Development. The Private-Government-Academia partnerships are flourishing in the region, following the agreement that the domain in this area of the knowledge has already proven to improve the progress of their communities. The vision of to consolidate existing clusters or to development new integrated competitive bio-intelligent ones, is a special result of these convergence process. This is not only related with economic and sustainable issues, it has the paramount importance of giving to the local communities the sense that it is possible to design and to contribute to a more prosperous future.