Our flexible sponsorship plan offers range of opportunities at strengthening your corporate networking and outreach.  

Below some reasons on why supporting AgriBusiness Forum:

As Corporate:

• Speaker opportunities;
• Leading Partners opportunities;
• Extensive branding throughout AgriBusiness Forum on/offline materials;
• Corporate outreach and networking opportunities;
• Complimentary conference registration fees;
• Speakers’ interview to media sponsors
• One to One meetings with speakers and/or innovative scaleups;
• Exhibiting space;
• Social media campaigns

As Delegate

• Sharpen the saw and gain new contacts;
• Boost personal outreach and networking opportunities;
• Attire contacts from agribusiness leaders, agtech innovators, farmers and policy makers;
• Gain insights from first class speakers and influencers;
• Participate to vigorous dialogues and debates;
• Grasp cross-sectoral knowledge on the agrifood value chain;
• Be part of agrotechnology future developments;
• Identify new ideas from innovative businesses & scaleups;

AgriBusiness Forum work matters, being:

• International: with extensive networking across Europe, Asia and Americas
• Trusted: being independent, nonprofit, nongovernmental and non-partisan platform
• Credible: delivering objective studies, undergoing of rigorous peer review
• Relevant: providing content-driven arguments & data to the public discourse
• Transparent: rolling clear outputs to its audiences
• Evident: boasting content for impact overseen by experienced academics and businesses

We at AgriBusiness Forum, investing in farm to fork approach by:

• Providing content driven and multidisciplinary agenda
• Disseminating innovation, digitization and digital transformation across agrifood value chain
• Hosting first class speakers from education, research, businesses and policy makers
• Accommodating multidimensional audience from business, farming, financing, academia and the public sectors
• Boasting dialogue and debates between panels and the audience
• Integrating partnerships and cross-sectoral cooperation
• Fueling the competitive advantage of the agrifood systems in Greece and beyond
• Connecting layers of learning, challenging, conferencing, field-visiting and networking activities
• Supporting early stage innovative scaleups at reaching higher growth potentials
• Adopting high-scaling partnerships and conference proceedings

The policy applies to all kind of AgriBusiness Forum formats, inclusive in person, hybrid or virtual participation

Transparency is among AgriBusiness Forum (herein after referred to as ABF) priorities. AgriBusiness Forum herewith wishes to clearly explain on how it collects and processes your personal data about protecting your privacy upon using ABF products, services and website(s).

ABF is to the ownership and jurisdiction of Geo Routes Institute based in Athens-Greece (8 Vasileos Irakliou str. 10682) which only collects, uses, and processes your personal information in accordance with actual data protection legislation. This includes but not limited to, EU Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regards to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) and applicable national data protection legislation.

Your personal data are usually obtained directly from you. In this case, you provide your personal data on a voluntary basis. Specific cases of non-disclosure of personal data may affect the ability of ABF to properly provide services, or properly perform contractual obligations. ABF acts on behalf of its subscribers and other clients in the capacity of a data controller.

1. A) FOR WHAT PURPOSES ARE PERSONAL DATA PROCESSED?

ABF processes your personal data as needed for the following purposes:

1. Provision of services, including the delivery of digital content (legal basis: processing all necessary for contractual performance or for the implementation of measures taken before a contract is concluded);
2. Processing payments, including maintenance of payments, together with payment processors (legal basis: processing necessary for contractual performance);
3. Marketing activities, including the delivery of personalized content, targeting of advertising or the sending of newsletters (legal basis: legitimate interest);
4. Determination and enforcement of ABF ‘s legal claims (legal basis: legitimate interest);
5. Compliance with legislation: If necessary, ABF will ask you for permission to process your personal data.

B) WHAT CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA DO WE PROCESS?

Using the services provided by ABF may require the following data:

1. Name, surname, job title, company and industry;
2. Address, telephone number, mobile number and email;
3. Payment details (payment card information);
4. Your preferences and opinions on products and services;
5. Your browsing activity on our websites.

C) WHEN DO WE COLLECT DATA?

All data that we receive is obtained directly or indirectly from you when you choose to use our services. This includes the following situations:

1. When you subscribe to our newsletter;
2. When you pay for or use our services;
3. When you register to our events;
4. When you browse our website;
5. When you share content from our website; 
6. When you interact with us via social media platforms.

D) WHO DO WE SHARE PERSONAL DATA WITH

In order to provide you with the services you request, your personal data may be provided to:

1. Selected employees of ABF;
2. Service providers: those ensuring provision of the services provided by ABF, in particular software services providers, marketing providers, customer service providers, and distributors of marketing and other materials such as newsletters, including employees of such entities;
3. Tax advisors, professional advisors (e.g. auditors, lawyers), including employees of such entities;
4. Entities providing payment services;
5. Social media providers – using the services of ABF together with a social network may require ABF to share your personal data with social media providers.

E) INFORMATION WE DO NOT TRACK

We do not track or collect any sensitive information about you. This includes race, religion, ethnicity and political opinion.

F) HOW LONG ARE YOUR DATA RETAINED?

We keep your data for the period of time necessary to fulfil the purposes of processing as defined above; however, this data will be erased, when you stop interacting with ABF (i.e. after delivery of a particular service, unless ABF has a legitimate interest in keeping the personal data longer (for example to protecting ABF’s legal claims). This would be the case if ABF had a legal obligation to keep your data for a longer period of time (eg. applicable accounting rules), or in cases where applicable law obliges us to keep such records for a longer period.

G) ARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA SECURED?

We store electronic and in some cases physical copies of your personal data. In accordance with best practices, we maintain security safeguards that protect your data. We strictly limit who is allowed to access the information and we keep this number to a minimum. In addition, we maintain physical and cyber safeguards, server protection devices and software to minimize possible loss, misuse, or alteration of your data.

Your personal data may be stored and processed in countries where ABF carries out business or where its service providers are located. These countries may apply different privacy rules than the European Union, or the European Economic Area (EEA). In this case(s) ABF puts in place appropriate contractual and other measures to protect your personal data when personal data are transferred to related parties or third parties located in other countries.

In the case of cross-border transmission of data from the EEA to countries where the European Commission recognizes an insufficient level of protection of personal data, the controller ensures that those data recipients are bound by EU standard contractual clauses to protect your personal data.

H) WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS?

egarding your data, you have the following rights:

1. To request access in order to correct or delete your personal data, as well as to restrict its processing; however, your right to delete or restrict processing is applicable only if ABF is not required to process it on another legal basis (i.e. compliance with a legal obligation);
2. To object to the processing of your personal data processed with a legitimate interest, as well as against processing for marketing purposes.

If you wish to exercise your rights above or have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data, please contact us by email at abf@geo-routes.com using as subject “inquiry for personal data protection”.

The information that ABF is required to provide to you regarding the processing of your personal data may change over time or become outdated. For this reason, ABF reserves the right to modify and change these conditions at any time. These changes will be reflected in this statement, so you should check here regularly.

AgriBusiness Forum

c/o Geo Routes Institute

Athens, March 15, 2021