Congresses, Symposia and Workshops

Invited speaker

• Fresh Cow – Risiken und chancen. Was Sie darüber unbedingt wissen sollten! 2010. Presentation on Rinder-Gesundheitstag, Giesen, Germany.
• How we practitioners should implement our nutrition knowledge to help our farmers? 2011. Workshop on the 6th European Congress of Bovine Health Management, Liège, Belgium.
• Visualisation of fertility records in dairy herds. 2012. Preconference seminar for SIVAR, Cremona, Italy.
• Technology in dairy. 2012. Masterclasses for Zoetis, Cremona, Italy.
• HACCP approaches for fertility management in livestock. 2013. Workshop on the 17th ESDAR Conference, Bologna, Italy.
• Herd Health Management: The future for bovine practioners: challenge or opportunity. 2013. Masterclasses for Zoetis, Germany.
• Visualisation of heat detection and conception rates in small and large dairy herds. 2013. Masterclasses for Zoetis, The Netherlands.
• Transition management and its influence on fertility. 2013. Presentation for Proveto, The Netherlands.
• Pitfalls in the analysis of reproductive records in dairy herds. 2013. Presentation for Proveto, The Netherlands.
• Subclinical ketosis during the transition period. 2013. Launch Events Exxit Ketose, Elanco, Belgium.
• The use of dairy data in herd health management. 2014. Northeast Dairy Production Medicine Symposium, New York, United States.
• Masterclasses Fertility. 2014. Zoetis, The Netherlands.
• Visualisation and interpretation of reproductive herd records. 2014. International Cow Fertility Conference ‘New Science – New Practices’, Westport, Ireland.
• Masterclasses Fertility. 2015. Zoetis, Belgium.
• Bovi-Analytics: an e-learning platform to educate veterinary students big data in dairy cows. 2015. Voorjaarsdagen. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Masterclasses Transition Management. 2015. Zoetis, The Netherlands.
• The past, the present and the future of bovine herd health management. 2015. 10th meeting of the European College of Bovine Herd Health Management, Maribor, Slovenia.
• The economics of breeding protocols in dairy cows. 2015. Consensus conference on breeding protocols. Nice, France.
• Transforming Big Data into real world evidence for SARA. 2016. DairyCare Workshop on Sub-Acute Ruminal Acidosis, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
• Challenges for data-intensive projects. 2016. EU Commission workshop on animal genomics and breeding for sustainable production, Brussels, Belgium.
• From Big Data to Decisions in Dairy Cows, 2016. Spark Summit, Brussels, Belgium.
• Big Dairy in Dairy Cows, 2016. ADSA Discovery Conference on Big Data in Dairy Cows, Chicago, United States.
• Bovine herd health management. 2016. Workshop on the 20th ESDAR Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Visualisation and analysis of reproductive performance, 2017. Total Dairy Seminar, Keele, United Kingdom.
• Pitfalls in Dairy Analytics (advanced technical), 2017. Total Dairy Seminar, Keele, United Kingdom.
• Analysis of reproductive performance (farmer orientated), 2017. Total Dairy Seminar, Keele, United Kingdom.
• Transition management as a key to fertility success, 2017. Total Dairy Seminar, Keele, United Kingdom. 
• How to monitor productive performance on a small vs large dairy, 2017. Anembe congress, Pamplona, Spain.
• Common analytical data pitfalls every practitioner should know about, 2017. Anembe congress, Pamplona, Spain.
• Will semantics help disentangle the Gordian knot of Big Data in animal health, 2017. Semantics conference, Amsterdam, Belgium.
• Monitoring Fertility Control Programs in Small and Large Dairy Herds , 2017, The 7th National & 1st International Congress of Veterinary Gynecology, Marmaris, Turkey
• Opening Keynote: A Novel Approach to Data Mining And Prediction Modelling in Dairy Cows, 2017. Big Data Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania.
• Dairy data management, where to start. 2017. Workshop on the ANEMBE Conference, Pamplona, Spain.
• How to monitor reproductive performance, 2017. Workshop on ANEMBE Conference, Pamplona, Spain.
• General introduction to dairy data analytics. Vakdierenarts rund 2017-2018, Merelbeke, Belgium.
• Common analytical data pitfalls every practitioner should know about. Vakdierenarts rund 2017-2018, Merelbeke, Belgium.
• Monitoring production. Vakdierenarts rund 2017-2018, Merelbeke, Belgium.
• Monitoring reproduction. Vakdierenarts rund 2017-2018, Merelbeke, Belgium.
• Insemination strategy. Vakdierenarts rund 2018-2019, Merelbeke, Belgium.
• Conception strategy. Vakdierenarts rund 2018-2019, Merelbeke, Belgium.
• Improve dairy cow fertility. Vakdierenarts rund 2018-2019, Merelbeke, Belgium.
• Feeding the dairy cow –VEM DVE (Dutch). Vakdierenarts rund 2018-2019, Merelbeke, Belgium.
• Opening Keynote: BigData Moscow: A Novel Approach to Data Mining And Prediction Modelling in Dairy Cows, 2018. Moscow, Russia.
• Transforming Big Data into Value: Put Data to Work for Your Dairy, 2018. Connect Summit, Beaver Creek, USA. 
• Transforming Big Data into Value: Put Data to Work for Your Dairy, 2018. CDCB - 10 years of genomics, Reno, USA. 
• Feeding the dairy cow – Basics of high yielding dairy cows. Vakdierenarts rund 2018-2019, Merelbeke, Belgium.
• Feeding the dairy cow –Feeding high intake and milk composition. Vakdierenarts rund 2018-2019, Merelbeke, Belgium.
• Dechra – Truth about transition disease in dairy cows, 2017/2018. Tielt/Namur/Kasterlee, Belgium.
• First results of the GplusE project, 2017. Post-Education in Veterinary Medicine, Merelbeke, Belgium.
• Dyrlaeger & Ko, Vintermøde, 2018, Hovborg Kro, Denmark.
• Zoetis Advanced Fertilitiy Consulting 2018-2019
• Act, think and work like a datascientist. Bio-Informatics Course 2018, UCD Dublin, Ireland.
• GplusE Training School, 2018. Bucarest, Roumania/ Madrid, Spain
• Dairy Intelligence and Turning Data Into Information. 2019. Connect Summit, Beaver Creek, USA.
• Predicting the Moment of Birth using Sensor Data in Dairy Cows. 2019. Big Data Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania. 
• Put Data to Work for the Dairy Industry. 2020. National DHIA Leadership and Annual Meeting, Savannah, USA.
• Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative. AG2PI meeting 2020. Online meeting. Presentation link.
• Big Data for Dairy and Monitoring Cow Health and Performance. Global Dairy Series Phibro Academy 2020. Online meeting. Presentation link. 
• The veterinary toolbox for reproductive herd health management now and in the (near) future. Zoetis Poland 2020. Online meeting. Presentation link.
• Monitoring transition cows using novel techniques. ADSA Discovery meeting 2021. Online meeting. Presentation link.
• Het belang van sensoren tijdens de transitie. Alta Vet-to-vet webinar 2021. Online meeting. Presentation link.
• Detecting the subclinical diseased transition cow: how novel phenotyping strategies can help. Elanco Scientific Symposium 2021. Rotterdam. Presentation link.

Oral conference presentation

• The effect of marine algae supplementation in the ration of high yielding dairy cows during transition and its effect on metabolic parameters in the serum and follicular fluid around parturition. 2009. Oral presentation on the XI International Symposium on Ruminant Physiology, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
• On-farm evaluation of the effect of metabolic diseases on the shape of the lactation curve in dairy cows through the milkbot lactation model. 2012. Oral presentation on the 27th World Buiatrics Congress, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Potential for novel glycan measurements in milk as biomarker phenotypes for dairy traits. 2016. Oral presentation on 67th Annual Conference of the European Federation of Animal Science, Belfast, United Kingdom.
• Data mining and prediction modelling in the dairy industry using time series and sliding windows. Presentatation at the Spark Summit 2017, Dublin, Ireland.
• New mobile wearable during animal and herd checks CAN offer valuable tools to increase accuracy of the diagnosis. Presentation at the Food Safety 2020. Seinäjoki, Finland.
• Predicting the Moment of Birth using Sensor Data in Dairy Cows. 2019. Big Data Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania. 
• Predicting the next life event of cows by applying deep learning on sequential and pictorial streaming data. 2019. ICAR meeting, Prague, Czech Republic
• Predicting the next life event of cows by applying deep learning on sequential and pictorial streaming data. 2019. Annual meeting of the American Dairy Science Association, Cincinnati, USA. 
• Predicting the next life event of cows by applying deep learning on sequential and pictorial streaming data. 2019. European Association for Precision Livestock Farming, Cork, Ireland.

Institute for continued education at faculty of veterinary medicine (Ghent University)

• A practical approach to risk factors for transition cows, 2010.
• Ration balancing for dairy cows, more than VEM and DVE, 2012.
• Key performance indicators on dairy herds, 2013.
• To synch or not to synch dairy cows, 2013.
• Factors influencing reproduction and production results in dairy cows, 2014.
• Data management in high yielding dairy cows, 2015.
• Transition cow disease, 2016.
• Basic summer course on veterinary epidemiology, Big Data in Dairy Analytics, 2016.
• Case reports from herd health services, 2017.
• Dairy cow welfare, from concepts to practice, 2018.
• Short course ration balancing for dairy cows, 2018-2019.
• Short course ration balancing for dairy cows, 2019-2020.

• Bioinformatics and Biocomplexity
• Veterinary Medicine (Master)
• Veterinary Medicine (Bachelor)

• Animal movement sciences
• Academic skills level 3