Progress, Potential, and Possibilities Podcast / Show · 2026-06-03 · 42 min
Send us Fan Mail For decades, agriculture and energy were treated as separate worlds. But what happens when farms become part of the global energy infrastructure? Ofer Haviv joins us to discuss the rise of castor as a next-generation industrial crop, the future of sustainable aviation fuel, and how AI-driven biology is transforming agriculture itself. Ofer Haviv is CEO of Casterra ( ) and longtime President and CEO of Evogene ( ), one of the pioneers in computational biology and AI-driven agricultural innovation. For more than two decades, Ofer has helped lead the transformation of crop science from traditional breeding into a data-driven discipline powered by predictive biology, artificial intelligence, and advanced genomics. He played a key role in Evogene’s spin-off from Compugen in 2002 and has guided the company through its evolution into a global computational biology platform with applications spanning agriculture, human health, industrial biotechnology, and sustainable materials. Today, Ofer also serves as CEO of Casterra, an Evogene subsidiary focused on transforming castor farming into a scalable industrial platform for the future bioeconomy.
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