Bio Huma Netics hosts 2016 World Conference

Bio Huma Netics (BHN), hosted its 2016 World Conference on Oct. 25–28 in the cities of Mesa and Gilbert, Arizona. This edition of the biannual conference had over 150 attendees from 20 countries representing distributors, customers, and staff from BHN’s product lines of Huma Gro, Huma Gro Turf and Probiotic Solutions.

This year’s conference featured over 30 presentations, including from Mark Killian, director of the Arizona Department of Agriculture and member of BHN’s board of directors, and Mir Syedbagher, professor Emeritus, University of Idaho. Presented on screen in both English and Spanish, BHN also offered live translations of the presentations in seven languages that attendees could select and listen to from a smart-phone app. Many of the presentations were first-hand accounts of BHN product use by agriculture, turf and wastewater treatment professionals from around the world.

Another feature of the four-day event was the dedication of BHN’s new Alpha Synectics Laboratory facility. This expansion of BHN’s laboratory capabilities enables BHN to move completely in-house in terms of product development & improvement, quality control & verification, carbon extraction & characterization, and bioassay & microbial studies. The Alpha Synectics Laboratory staff includes two formulation chemists, an analytical chemist, a soil chemist and a phycologist. According to BHN Senior Director of Research & Development Rita Abi-Ghanem, “This world-class laboratory will better enable us to maintain the consistent high quality of our products.”

The conference also served as the official release of the Huma Gro smart-phone app for Android. The free Huma Gro app, available at Google Play, provides a foliar application calculator, a product document library, a product mixing guide, and the ability to save foliar application data by field. The app can also be used to contact Huma Gro sales representatives. The iOS version will be available in 2017.

During the Conference, attendees had the opportunity to participate in some uniquely Arizona activities, including attending a Phoenix Suns basketball game, golfing at the Apache Creek Golf Course, and going on a desert Hummer & UTV tour. Over 400 Conference photos are viewable on Flickr: bit.ly/BHNcon2016.