ICAR 2026 Annual Conference: Shaping the Future of Sustainable Livestock

Sessions

 Auditorium RoomCommercio RoomTurismo RoomIndustria RoomArtigianato RoomCredito and Ass. RoomAgricoltura Room
08:30–16:00  Interbull Technical Committee (ITC) (closed meeting)    
Auditorium Room Commercio Room Turismo Room Industria Room Artigianato Room Credito and Ass. Room Agricoltura Room
08:30–10:00
ICAR Board (closed meeting) Interbull Steering Committee
(closed meeting)
10:00–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:30
ICAR Board (closed meeting)
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:30
ICAR Board (closed meeting)
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–17:30
ICAR Board (closed meeting)
Interbull Gala Dinner
Auditorium Room Commercio Room Turismo Room Industria Room Artigianato Room Credito and Ass. Room Agricoltura Room
08:30–10:00 Interbull Open Meeting ICAR Board (closed meeting)
10:00–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:30 Interbull Business Meeting ICAR Board (closed meeting)
12:30–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:30 Interbull Open Meeting ICAR Board and SCs/WGs Chairs (closed meeting)
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–17:30 Interbull Open Meeting ICAR Board and SCs/WGs Chairs (closed meeting)
Interbull Gala Dinner
 Auditorium RoomCommercio RoomTurismo RoomIndustria RoomArtigianato RoomCredito and Ass. RoomAgricoltura Room
08:30–10:00Interbull Open MeetingICAR/IDF ExtraMIRConformation Recording WG (closed meeting)    
10:00–11:00Coffee Break
11:00–12:30Interbull Open MeetingICAR/IDF ExtraMIRCertificate of Quality EAG (closed meeting)    
12:30–14:00Lunch
14:00–15:30Interbull Business meetingMilk Analysis SC ICAR/IDF sensor initiative
(closed meeting)		  iDDEN
(closed meeting)
15:30–16:00Coffee Break
16:00–17:30Interbull Open Meeting
Guidelines to include external MACE proofs

(closed meeting) 

Artificial Insemination WG ICAR/IDF sensor initiative
(closed meeting)		  iDDEN
(closed meeting)
Auditorium Room Commercio Room Turismo Room Industria Room Artigianato Room Credito and Ass. Room Agricoltura Room
08:30–09:30 ICAR FT/IDF Workshop on the Use of Sensor Data to Monitor and Manage Welfare (1) Measuring Recording and Sampling Devices SC (closed meeting) Interbull Technical Committee (ITC) (closed meeting)   Animal Identification SC (closed meeting) iDDEN (closed meeting)
09:30–10:30 Interbull Steering Committee (SC) (closed meeting) M3GE (PPP) (closed meeting)
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–13:00 ICAR FT/IDF Workshop on the Use of Sensor Data to Monitor and Manage Welfare (2) Measuring Recording and Sampling Devices SC (closed meeting) Sheep, Goats and Camelids WG   Animal Identification SC (closed meeting) (Tentative) Beef on Dairy Task Force iDDEN (closed meeting)
13:00–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:30 Measuring Recording and Sampling Devices SC and Manufacturers  Functional
traits WG
(closed meeting)		 Feed and Gas WG Animal Identification SC and Manufacturers Interbeef Evaluation User Group (closed meeting)
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–18:00 Measuring Recording and Sampling Devices SC and Manufacturers Animal Data Exchange WG DNA WG (closed meeting) Anmimal Identification SC and Manufacturers Dairy Cattle Milk Recording WG Beef WG
  Auditorium Room Commercio Room Turismo Room Industria Room Artigianato Room Credito and Ass. Room Agricoltura Room
08:30–10:00 ICAR General Assembly            
10:00–10:30 Coffee Break
10:30–13:00 ICAR Plenary Session            
13:00–14:00 Lunch ICAR Board
14:00–16:00

TS 1 — 
ICAR / Interbull joint session on “Advances in Genetics and Phenotyping”

Chairs: Carolina Markey (Vaxa) & Daniel Lefebvre (Lactanet)

TS 3 — Animal Identification National database.

Chair: Ken Evers (ICAR)

  

TS 7 — New developments in Sheep, Goat and Camelids within ICAR.

Chair: Jean-Michel Astruc (IDELE)

(from 14:00 to 17:00 with coffee break)

      
16:00–16:30 Coffee Break
16:30–18:00 Manufacturers Technical Session            
19:00–20:00 Welcome reception
 Auditorium RoomCommercio RoomTurismo RoomIndustria RoomArtigianato RoomCredito and Ass. RoomAgricoltura Room
08:00–10:30

TS 2 — Validation related to Use and Usability of Data.

Chair: Steven Sievert (DHIA) and Jonas Persson (SEGES)

TS 5 — From Milk Analysis to Decision Support: Unlocking Insights for Sustainable dairy management.

Chair: J. Bordeleau (Lactanet) and Maria Frizzarin (Agroscope)

 

TS 4 — Heat stress, health and welfare: genetics and management.

Chairs: Christa Egger-Danner (ZuchtData) & Marie Haskell (SRUC)

   
10:30–11:00Coffee Break
11:00–13:00

TS 6 — Milk Recording in a Technology World: Value-Added DHI Services for Farms with Robots and Sensors.

Chair: Robert Fourdraine
(DRMS)

TS 9 — Milk Analyses
round table
(11:00-12:00)

 

TS 8 — From Measurement to Genetics: Methane Emission and Feed Efficiency.

Chairs: Raffaella Finocchiaro (ANAFIBJ) & Rasmus Bak Stephansen (Arhus Univ.)

   

 

 

 

13:00–14:00Lunch
14:00–16:00

TS 10 — Adoption and Incentives to Breed for Methane Mitigation.

Chairs: Birgit Gredler-Grandl and Roel Veerkamp (WUR-ABG)

TS 13 — Exploring current and future needs for livestock science and farming community.

Chair: Ana Granados (ICAR) and Raffaella Finocchiaro (ANAFIBJ)

 

TS 12 — Part 1: From Guidelines to the Barn: Implementing section 2 of ICAR’s Milk Recording Guidelines – Updates and Lessons from the Field.
Part 2: Buffalo DHI recording.

Chairs: Miel Hostens (Cornell Univ.) and Angela Salzano (Univ. of Naples Federico II)

   
16:00–16:30Coffee Break
16:30–18:00Round table of the
TS 10
(16.30-17.30)

TS 11 — Milk Recording Supporting Sustainability Initiatives.

Chair: Tone Roalkvam
(TINE)

 

TS 14 — Beef cattle – genetic evaluation and recording.

Chair: Kim Matthews
(EBLEX)

   
20:00–24:00Gala Dinner
 

 

Technical Tours

The day is reserved to the three technical tours available to the participants upon registration