The 2027 Congress will be focused on the following themes:
- Low-risk pesticide products such as microorganisms, natural substances, ds-RNA, peptides and semiochemicals
- Ecotoxicology of low-risk pesticides
- Environmental exposure of low-risk pesticides
- Risk assessment and risk management innovation for low-risk pesticides
- Biostimulants
- Regulatory considerations and initiatives of low-risk pesticides
- Digital pesticide labels
- AI and computational design of new pesticide molecules.
- Challenges and risks associated with the Use of AI
- Real-Time detection, warning systems, economic thresholds, CRISPR–Cas9 diagnostics, forecasting, and assessment of pest and disease outbreak risks
- Hyperspectral and thermal Imaging, smart pest monitoring
- Remote sensing and precision, and drone application
- Discovery of crop protection products
- Fungicides, Insecticides, Herbicides, Nematicides
- Plant-Incorporated Protectants
- Genome-based technologies, precision breeding, genome-editing, CRISPR–Cas9
- Detection and management of pesticide resistance
- Navigating the risks of pesticide shortages to global agriculture
- Novel agricultural products, technologies, methodologies, and tools
- Formulation and application technologies
- Nanopesticides, drug delivery, microbial-based delivery systems, encapsulation
- Formulation additives, adjuvants, drift control agents, safeners and synergists
- Nitrification inhibitors: advances and interactions with pesticides
- Pesticide and nutrient use efficiency to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions
- Carbon farming and the role of crop protection
- Environmental fate, monitoring studies, and agroecosystem pollution
- Ecotoxicology and risk assessment
- Remediation technologies
- Interactions of pesticides with other soil pollutants such as veterinary drugs and microplastics
- Pharmacokinetics, transport and metabolism
- Regenerative agriculture and biodiversity protection goals
- Climate change implications for pesticide fate and environmental exposure
- Field exposure and risks to applicators and workers
- New approach methods for toxicity assessment
- Dietary and non-dietary human health hazard, exposure and risk assessment
- Exposomics analysis and biomarkers
- Alternatives to animal testing
- Risk communication and education
- Sampling and pesticide residue analytical techniques
- Food and feed quality and safety
- Monitoring studies
- Green and sustainable methods and laboratories
- Analysis of microbial and biopesticides
- PFAS and formulation adjuvants
- New approach methods
- Sensors and biosensors
- Novel agricultural products, technologies, methodologies, and tools.
- Formulation and application technologies.
- Nitrification inhibitors in modern agriculture (advances and interactions with pesticides).
- Nanopesticides, drug delivery, microbial-based delivery systems, encapsulation.
- Formulation additives, adjuvants, drift control agents, safeners, and synergists.
- Low-risk pesticides (e.g., microorganisms, natural substances, ds-RNA, peptides, semiochemicals).
- Biochemical pesticides.
- Biopesticides.
- Non-conventional pest control products.
- Biostimulants.
- Sampling and pesticide residue analytical techniques.
- Stewardship and communication.
- Food and feed quality and safety.
- Monitoring studies.
- PFSAs.
- New Approach Methods.
- Environmental fate, mathematical modeling, monitoring studies, and agroecosystem pollution.
- Ecotoxicology and risk assessment.
- Pollution remediation technologies.
- Interactions of pesticides with other soil pollutants (e.g., veterinary drugs, microplastics).
- Pharmacokinetics, transport, and metabolism within living organisms.
- Field exposure and risks to applicators and workers.
- New Approach Methods for toxicity assessment.
- Non-dietary human health hazard, exposure, and risk.
- Exposomic analysis, biomarkers.
- Alternative non-animal testing, QSAR.
- Digital labeling.
- AI and computational design of new pesticide molecules.
- Real-time detection, CRISPR diagnostics, forecasting and assessment of outbreak risks; Hyperspectral and thermal imaging.
- Smart pest monitoring (traps + cameras).
- Remote sensing and precision control.
- Discovery of crop protection products.
- Novel fungicides/insecticides/herbicides/other.
- Plant-incorporated protectants.
- Genome-based technologies, precision breeding, genome-editing (CRISPR–Cas9).
- Detection and management of pesticide resistance.
Pesticide Innovation and Sustainability
Mode of action, biochemistry, efficacy, and pesticide resistance
Low-risk and Biological Solutions
Human Health and Exposure Management
Environmental and Ecological Protection under the lens of climate change
Human Health and Exposure Management
Analytical and Regulatory Advances