Felipe Gainza, Researcher in Molecular Biology, traveled with Sofía Caldeiras, CRI thesis student, to participate in this instance of dialogue among grapevine specialists.

Dr. Keren Bindon, PhD in Viticulture from the University of Adelaide, Australia, is a researcher at the Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI). During her visit to Chile, she spoke with collaborators from the winery and visited the Center for Research and Innovation to share her experiences with the team.

One of the requirements of this career´s curriculum at Universidad Austral includes visits to different types of laboratories so that students can learn the real exercise of their profession.

The founder of Fruition Sciences, a company that applies Information Technology (IT) systems in different types of crops, will travel to Chile for the Vintage Report conference, which will include the participation of Sebastián Vargas, Viticulture & Enology Research Scientist of the CRI.

Opinion piece by Alejandro Donoso, Chief of Technological Management and Administration.

In order to know new areas and expand their employment opportunities, 23 students of this technical high school in Villa Alegre, VII Region, visited Viña Concha y Toro´s Center for Research and Innovation.

The Center for Research and Innovation (CRI) hosted the tasting with Maule producers and the closure with all the producers that participate of the Cometas Program.

In an action that highlights the value of the public-private partnership, the Center for Research and Innovation of Viña Concha y Toro, together with UC Davis Chile, Andrés Bello University and VSPT Wine Group, with the support of CORFO, presented the complete genome of the Carmenere strain.

The specialist in data science, who has developed algorithmic models in companies such as Google, Netflix and Facebook, spoke with professionals from the Center for Research and Innovation (CRI) about the changes generated by the digital transformation for companies, and their impact on the wine industry.

The teams of the Agricultural and Technical Management, who were able to see the progress made by the Center for Research and Innovation (CRI) in this matter, attended the activity.

With the aim of communicating the know-how about business innovation, INNSPIRAL – a corporate innovation accelerator – chose Viña Concha y Toro´s Center for Research and Innovation (CRI) as an example to transmit the impact of innovation inside the company.

A group of seven students, four professors and five parents visited the Center for Research and Innovation (CRI), where they learned about applied science in wine production.