Geert Hermans

Geert Hermans works as a business developer for Pixelfarming Robotics. He brings agronomic knowledge and network and contributes ideas to business processes that are relevant to the agricultural sector. Within this company, AI specialists, software developers and mechatronics specialists work together on an autonomous platform for plant care robot systems in outdoor cultivation. He also works for the TOG Foundation, where industrial vegetable growers and industrial vegetable processors work together to solve common bottlenecks in the areas of cultivation, sustainability, quality, food safety and profitability.

Geert supports entrepreneurs with their questions and ideas in the field of soil, fertilization, water, precision agricultural techniques, robotization and data. He helps entrepreneurs identify market opportunities, determine the value proposition and revenue model of your innovative idea, contribute to the business case, find collaboration partners and unlock networks and form consortia or partnerships with companies and /or knowledge institutions.

“My work is mainly in the background. Ultimately, it is the entrepreneur himself who realizes success. I recently brought a robotization company into contact with a company that has developed an actuator that could function well under the robot that has a developed by another company. The specialists spent a day linking the technology. That worked. Now the collaboration is being further developed so that the products can be properly deployed on the market.“