To ensure a comprehensive study of every application, the panel is composed of the best French and international specialists. More than 20 members, scientific directors, senior research fellow, engineers, professors as well as repeat users of equipment, gather their knowledge to elect a unique prize list!
To examine every application, the panel members also call on the expertise of technical specialists and users from their network. Almost one hundred experts bring their advices and knowledge to elect the awards list.
Thanks to them, each successive roll of honour of the SITEVI Innovation Awards serves as a reference in the sectors of equipment and know-how for vine-wine, olive and fruit & vegetable production.
Chairmen of the panel
CEO
IFV (French Vine and Wine Institute)
An international perspective
Four leading specialists from top vine-wine, olive and fruit & vegetable production regions.
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Agricultural and Earth-Moving Machines (IMAMOTER – CNR)
Expert in reduction of the environmental impact of agriculture through improvement of sustainable management practices, soil protection, alternative organic fertilizer and application of new technologies.
Italy
Phytopathologist – The Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (DEFR)
Agroscope, row crop and vine protection research department.
Science Fellow in epidemiology of grapevine diseases, disease models and decision support systems.
Expert in control strategies, application techniques, evaluation of the efficacy and side effects of fungicides for grapevine.
Switzerland
Professor of Research– Dto Ingenieria Rural y Alimentaria, University of Valencia
Former Director of the IVIA (Agricultural Research Institute of Valencia).
Former president of EurAgEng (the European Society of Agricultural Engineering).
Spain
Precision vine-growing world renowned specialist
Senior Research Fellow, Precision Agriculture, Irstea (National Institute for Environmental and Agricultural Science and Research).
Project monitoring experience in Australia, United-Kingdom, China, United States, Vietnam and France.
Australia
A unique expertise
In addition to the international panel members, many leading French specialists gather their knowledge.
Agricultural machinery expert
Independent consultant
Research, Innovation and Expertise Division - Fruits program deputy
Ctifl (Technical joint trade Centre for Fruit and Vegetables)
Consultant engineer, Technical division manager
AXEMA (the trade association of the Agricultural Equipment industry)
Independent consultant, Fruit & Vegetable sector expert
Former Director of the Creman (agricultural machinery research and experimentation center)
Head of the agro-equipment department
FNCUMA (National Federation of the Cooperatives for the Utilization of Agricultural Machinery)
Consultant engineer, Technical division member
AXEMA (the trade association of the Agricultural Equipment industry)
Engineer, wine equipment and process division manager
IFV (French Vine and Wine Institute)
Engineer, international packaging expert
Consultant, international packaging expert for the United Nations, Member of the European Packaging Institutes Consortium, former IFEC (French Institute of Packaging) Director
Lecturer in Automation and Machinery Engineering, precision agriculture expert
Author of the reference book about precision agriculture: “Agriculture de précision. Les nouvelles technologies au service d’une agriculture écologiquement intensive". Bordeaux Sciences Agro
Deputy Director for scientific and technical programs at IFV
Engineer oenologist, expert in the optimization of the vinification, the oenological inputs, the sanitary quality of wines, the valorization of the by-products and agroecology. IFV (French Vine and Wine Institute)
Agricultural engineer, project manager "Innovation & agricultural equipment"
Agri Sud-Ouest Innovation competitiveness cluster
Oenologist, Chief Executive
French Oenologist Union
Agricultural machinery expert, consultant, 25 years of experience in agro-equipment
UTAC - OTC Pulvés
Director
VINSEO (cluster, Occitanie vine-wine suppliers)