AGRITECH DAY PAPER AWARD

Prize designated to reward the best full paper, awarded by our technical and scientific committee

For the second time, we are grant the AGRITECH DAY Paper Award, a prize designed to reward the best full paper. This prize will be awarded by our technical and scientific committee, constituted of professors, researchers and R&D managers, who will select the most innovative and impactful proposal according to the following criteria:

  • Scientific quality / theoretical content
  • Interest and relevance to current or future market or sector needs
  • Innovation and/or originality in relation to the state of the art
  • Interest and relevance to the agricultural engineering community
  • Writing skills, logical construction of facts and results, comprehensiveness, clarity

Florence Verpont Wins Agritech Day Paper Award 2025

Florence Verpont is the recipient of 2025 AGRITECH DAY Paper Award for his influential paper titled “New indoor system for measuring the performance of orchard sprayers.”

Florence Verpont is an engineer with a degree from Bordeaux Sciences Agro. She’s working at the CTIFL, Interprofessional Technical Centre for Fruits and Vegetables, on the Lanxade site in Dordogne (24).

Her research projects focus on Plant Protection Product application techniques in fruit growing and vegetable crops : efficiency and impact of spray application, development and assessment of new applications techniques, precision agriculture for crop protection.

She’s co-animator of the technical research unit (UMT) ECOTECH which brings together INRAE, IFV and CTIFL. The research of ECOTECH is devoted to crop protection equipment and processes for crops within IFV and CTIFL area of concern, which are grapevine, orchards and vegetables.

How to participate?

Submit your paper proposal for a chance to win the AGRITECH DAY Paper Award. This is an exceptional opportunity to highlight your work to the agri-equipment and agriculture ecosystem.

Submission deadline: April 23, 2026

Important dates

April 23, 2026

Abstract submission deadline

June 6, 2026

Abstract acceptance notification to the speakers

June 22, 2026

Program announcement

September 10, 2026

Full paper and poster speakers’ submission deadline