About GOFAR

GOFAR : Global Organization For Agricultural Robotics

Since 2016, FIRA has managed to establish itself as the leading event for professionals in the agricultural robotics sector. Launched and organized since then by Naïo Technologies, FIRA is now carried out by the association GOFAR – Global Organization for Agricultural Robotics.

An independent organization had to emerge to make the voice of the sector ring out and develop a promotional component that is lacking in the existing structures. This was the preamble to the creation of GOFAR in 2019 by Axema and Naïo Technologies, with the participation of RobAgri to the Executive Board as a member and the entrance of Capagro as treasorier in 2020.

MISSIONS

The GOFAR non-profit organization undertakes to promote and develop the agricultural robotics sector at international level. Like Robagri, whose objective is to facilitate the technical development of agricultural robots, GOFAR meets the increasing need for visibility and networking of the agricultural robotics sector.

GOFAR therefore aims to organize the meeting between the relevant stakeholders, and to support them by taking an active part in the development of the agricultural robotics market hence implementing a promotional campaign of international scale (organization of events, production of actions of communication and participation of trade fairs in France and abroad).

The GOFAR association focuses its activity on four main work streams:

  • Organizing annually the International Forum of Agricultural Robotics (FIRA), both Online and in-person in Toulouse (France);
  • Setting up international collaborations;
  • Development of an information platform around the Agricultural Robotics sector – www.agricultural-robotics.com;
  • Creation and animation of a network of leading international experts in agricultural robotics.

DIRECTORY

An Executive Board of experts in agricultural equipment and robotics

Executive Board

Aymeric Barthes

Co-Founder | Naïo Technologies
GOFAR : President

Marie-Flore Doutreleau

Agro-equipment and agroecology project manager | FRCUMA Occitanie
GOFAR : Treasurer

Camille Lemercier

Head of Trade Shows & Development | AXEMA
GOFAR : Secretary

Roland Lenain

Research Director | INRAE
GOFAR : Vice-President Delegate for scientific contents

Operationnal Team

Maialen Cazenave

GOFAR : Co-Director, Business Development

Gwendoline Legrand

GOFAR : Co-Director, Promotion & Marketing

Emma Fullagar

GOFAR : Event Manager

Elisa Abreu

GOFAR : Communication Officer