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Liz has enjoyed a varied clinical career, including mixed practice, small animal internship, small animal GP, ECC and shelter medicine.
Throughout her career, she has always been curious about challenges facing the profession. Liz joined VET.CT as Head of Communications in 2021, which provides remote specialist support to veterinary teams globally through technology. Both as a clinician and as part of her role, she has explored themes around the future of veterinary practice and responsible advancement of the profession, including co-authoring a white paper on artificial intelligence in veterinary medicine. She has since spoken and written globally on a range of AI topics, including ethics, responsible development and adoption, applications in clinical practice, and the potential impacts on sustainability and team wellbeing.
LIZ BARTON
Jude L. Capper, PhD DSc (h.c.) FRAgS is the ABP Chair and Professor of Sustainable Beef and Sheep Systems at Harper Adams University; and is an independent Livestock Sustainability Consultant.
Jude's research focuses on modeling the sustainability of livestock production systems, specifically dairy, beef and sheep. She is currently working on projects relating to on-farm greenhouse gas emissions from UK beef and sheep production and the impacts of livestock health on system sustainability. Jude is a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Butchers; Vice-Chair of the National Beef Association and Chair of the Route Panel for Agriculture, Environment and Animal Care at IfATE. In 2021, Jude was awarded an honorary doctorate (DSc honoris causa) by HAU; and the Sir John Hammond Award by the British Society of Animal Science and British Cattle Breeders Club, both in recognition of her contributions to the UK livestock industry.
JUDE CAPPER
Keith is a Director at Huddlestone Farmers Ltd. having begun his career outside of agriculture with Imperial Tobacco and at Genus ABS before moving home. He is currently responsible for 700 milking cows across two robotic milking herds in West Sussex, within the family business. ​
In the past three years Keith has installed 12 Lely Milking Robots and 3 Lely Manure Collectors. Performance has significantly improved following the adoption of new technologies, with average yields of 40+kgs/cow/day & over 3kgs CFP/cow/day whilst successfully reducing the number of low skilled roles within the team. Consistently at the top of the PLI genetic rankings; genetics remains a cornerstone of the dairy. The aim of the dairies at Huddlestone is to help the cows to express themselves to the best of their ability. The Huddlestone philosophy is that cows do what they want to do, when they want to do it. We are just here to support them as well as we possibly can.
KEITH GUE
Dr Edward Thomas Jones comes from a farming family background and grew up on a beef and sheep farm on Anglesey, North Wales. .
He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Bangor Business School, Bangor University, with professional experience of working in the private and public sector at a senior level. Edward is Director of the Institute of European Finance (IEF) research centre, a Non-Executive Director at Wales only dedicated science park (M-SParc), and Chairman of Cymdeithas Elusennol Ynys Mon, an Anglesey-based grant-making charity. He is a 2020 Nuffield Scholar (sponsored by Royal Welsh Agricultural Society) and his study explored and evaluated the AgriTech vision of investors, entrepreneurs, farmers, and policymakers.
EDWARD JONES
Johnny is the Stakeholder Engagement Lead for MSD Animal Health in GB. ​
Johnny joined the Allflex business in 2017 as National Sales Manager following an 18-year career focussed on the Scottish livestock and red meat industries, including roles with NFU Scotland, Quality Meat Scotland and the Luing Cattle Society. Following the acquisition of Allflex by MSD Animal Health in 2019, Johnny’s role covered After-Sales, Market Access and Public Policy. He is a graduate of Aberdeen University in Biological Sciences of Agriculture. Johnny lives in Blairgowrie, Perthshire with his wife Susie and their three teenage sons Fergie, Sandy and Euan. They run a commercial beef and sheep breeding farm and in his spare time Johnny enjoys distance running and following the mighty Dundee United FC.
JOHNNY MACKEY
Grace is Head of External Affairs at the UK Agri-Tech Centre (UKATC) where her role is focused on policy and engagement with government, industry and academia to accelerate the development and adoption of agri-tech innovation.
This involves working with innovative businesses to support their growth and deliver solutions to market that support resilient and sustainable agricultural systems.
Grace has experience across agriculture including livestock health and welfare, the veterinary medicines sector and the research and innovation landscape. She qualified with a PhD in animal functional genomics and a degree in Veterinary Medicine from University College Dublin and is a Nuffield Farming Scholar. Her previously roles included Head of Innovation and Animal Health Specialist at the Centre for Innovation Excellence in Livestock (CIEL) and Senior Technical Policy Manager at the National Office of Animal Health (NOAH), representing the UK veterinary medicine sector.
DR GRACE O'GORMAN
From a varied agricultural background in cropping, David moved into poultry farming when he purchased a broiler farm in 2004. ​
David successfully scaled his poultry business and has since gone on to establish a global artificial intelligence (Ai) business, Optifarm, focusing on why both poultry and pigs around the world do what they do on farm.
David is passionate in applying AI to the management a wide range of flocks and herds, helping producers to understand how artificial intelligence allows us to take readily available, simple, farm sensor data and understand the root cause of issues. David uses AI to deliver meaningful insights that are understood, accepted and can be actioned by staff on farms, but also deliver value for the wider agricultural sector and its stakeholders.
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