Invited speakers

 

 

 

 

Opening Ceremony

• Pietro Laureano

  Architect and Urbanist, UNESCO consultant for arid areas and endangered ecosystems

  

• Eng. Felix Britz Reinders

  President ICID

  

• Rachael McDonnell

  Principal Researcher at International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

  

• Fathi Lebdi

  FAO

  

• Nicola Lamaddalena

  Head of Land and Water Dept presso CIHEAM IAM Bari

  

• Daniel Tsegai

  Programme Officer at United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

  

• Brent Clothier

  Principal Scientist with Plant & Food Research

  

Session 2: Non conventional water use: saline and urban wastewater

Keynote Speakers

• Arnon Dag

  ARO Senior Researcher

  

Session 3: Evapotranspiration, irrigation requirement and modeling

Keynote Speakers

• Richard L Snyder

  University of California, Davis | UCD · Department of Land, Air and Water Resources

  

Session 4: Water relations, Soil and plant water stress assessment

Keynote Speakers

• Elías Fereres Castiel

  MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION OF SOILS AND WATER

  

Session 5: Sensing technologies relevant to the precision irrigation

Keynote Speakers

• Alan Lasko

  Fruit crop physiologist - School of Integrative Plant Science, Horticulture Section

  

Session 6: Tree crop irrigation management (Drought and fruit quality)

Keynote Speakers

• Steve Green

  Plant and Food Research · systems modelling

  

Session 7: Vineyard irrigation: grape and wine quality

Keynote speaker:

• Simone Castellarin

  Canada Research Chair, ‎Viticulture‬ & Plant Genomics Assistant Professor, Wine Research Centre

  

Session 8: Irrigation of herbaceous crops and ornamental plants – open fields and greenhouses

Keynote speaker:

• Wim Voogt

  Senior researcher Wageningen University & Research