Scientific & Technical Committee

Committee’s missions

 

The AGRITECH DAY Scientific and Technical Committee is made up of some fifteen experts from industry, education and research whose mission is to assess the quality and relevance of the papers proposed by the speakers.
Drawing on their expertise and scientific culture, the committee members actively contribute to the development of the AGRITECH DAY program.

Philippe COLACICCO, AXEMA Technical Committee Chairman and Kubota’s Europe R&D Director

The Committee Chairman 

 

Philippe Colacicco holds generalist engineer degree and PhD of mechanics, he has first held various positions in Research and Development, Validation and Project Management in the automotive sector. Philippe then joined CLAAS Tractor in 2008, firstly in charge of developing the range of specialized tractors, before heading the Research and Development department for 6 years.

In 2016, he joined the Kubota Corporation Group to create the European R&D Tractors Center that he leads. Since 2018 Philippe Colacicco is the President of AXEMA’s Technical Committee.

 

Scientific & Technical committee 2023

Philippe COLACICCO

Kubota’s Europe R&D director

AXEMA Technical Committee Chairman

Christian ADLER

KUHN Group

Head of the Electronic department

Lionel LEVEILLÉ

BUREL Group

BUREL Innovation Director

David R WHITE

Harper Adams University (UK)

Senior lecturer in engineering

Julieta CONTRERAS

ACTA – agricultural technical institutes

Digital Agriculture Engineer
Head of the DIGIFERMES® network

Jean-Christophe ROUSSEAU

France Pulvé

Product Manager

Jean-Paul DOUZALS

INRAE

Spray R&D

Dieumet DENIS

SHERPA Engineering

Head of advanced autonomous systems

Marco MEDICI

Polytechnic Institute UniLaSalle

Associate Professor

Emmanuel PIRON

INRAE

Head of the Montoldre Technological Research Platform

Marie-Flore DOUTRELEAU

FRCUMA Occitanie

Agro-equipment and agroecology project manager

Marilys PRADEL

INRAE

Research engineer in environmental assessment

Eric COURTEILLE

INSA Rennes

Teacher / researcher in mechanics / robotics

Pascal BOUQUET

IN SITU Vensys Group

Technical and R&D Director

Arnaud JAOUEN

PICHON / SAMSON AGRO

Technical Director

Cédric SEGUINEAU

NAÏO TECHNOLOGIES

Director of Quality, Autonomy and Impact

Andrii YATSKUL

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE UNILASALLE

Teacher-researcher in Agricultural Equipment Engineering

Philippe-Samuel HERITIER

INRAE

Project Manager -Robotics and Systems for Agriculture

Xavier REBOUD

INRAE

Director of the division Plant Health and Environment