Brazilian Agribusiness Congress to discuss agro-alliances in São Paulo

Agro-alliances will be the central theme of the 24th Brazilian Agribusiness Congress, which will take place in São Paulo next Monday (August 11). For 8, the expectation is to receive 2025 participants at the Sheraton São Paulo WTC Hotel, in addition to three thousand viewers through the YouTube channel of the Brazilian Agribusiness Association (Abag), which is organizing the event in partnership with B800 - the Brazilian stock exchange. 

The conference aims to demonstrate ways to build and strengthen alliances in agriculture, overcoming national challenges and fostering sustainable growth for the sector. To this end, it brings together experts for an extensive program. One of the highlights will be the presentation of the document "Agribusiness in the Face of Climate Change," the official position statement of Brazilian agribusiness for COP30, which will be held in Belém, Pará, in November. 

Authorities such as the Vice President of the Republic, Geraldo Alckmin, the Governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas, and the Governor of Minas Gerais, Romeu Zema, are expected to attend the opening of the congress, which will be led by the President of Abag, Luiz Carlos Corrêa Carvalho, and the CEO of B3, Gilson Finkelsztain. 

Panel programming

After the opening ceremony, Ambassador Roberto Azevêdo, an ABAG consultant, will deliver the inaugural lecture "Agroalliances and the Future," which will assess the current geopolitical landscape and its impact on Brazilian agriculture. He will reaffirm the importance of building strategic partnerships for the sector's future amid numerous external challenges, particularly the imposition of tariffs by the United States.

Next, the "Food, Energy and Innovation" panel will feature analyses by Alfredo Miguel, Latam director at John Deere; Gilberto Tomazoni, Global CEO of JBS; Larissa Wachholz, Senior Fellow at the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI); and Marcio Santos, CEO of Bayer and president of the Crop Science Brazil division, on the impacts of the current geopolitical context and the role of technological innovation and digitalization in the sector's competitiveness. 

Kicking off the afternoon's program, the panel "Agrobrasil with Sustainable Growth: Financing and the Capital Market" will discuss the capital markets, sources of green financing, and rural credit offered by private institutions to foster the use of new technologies. Participants will include Bruno Gomes, Superintendent of Securitization and Agribusiness at the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM); Bruno Santana, CEO and founder of Kijani Investimentos; Flavia Palacios, Director of the Brazilian Association of Financial and Capital Market Entities (Anbima); Luiz Masagão, Vice President of Products and Clients at B3; and Raphael Silva de Santana, National Agribusiness Manager at Sicoob.

The Brazilian Agribusiness Congress will conclude with a roundtable discussion addressing key aspects of the "Energy Transition." Moderated by Ingo Plöger, vice president of ABAG, the panelists will include Anelcindo Souza, vice president of Seed Marketing at Corteva; Ambassador Alexandre Parola; Federal Representative Arnaldo Jardim; Luís Roberto Pogetti, chairman of the Board of Directors of Copersucar; and William Vella Nozaki, board member of Transpetro and Executive Manager of Integrated Energy Transition Management at Petrobras.

Awards

Abag will pay tribute to Ambassador Alexandre Parola, who will receive the Ney Bittencourt de Araújo Award – Agribusiness Personality, and to former Minister of the Environment Izabella Teixeira, who will receive the Norman Borlaug Award – Sustainability. 

The presentations of the tributes will be carried out by Luiz Carlos Corrêa Carvalho, president of the entity and Marcelo Ribeiral, president of the Agroceres Group and Eduardo Assad, consultant to the Bioeconomy Observatory of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), respectively.