Evogene to Present at Jefferies Virtual 2020 Industrials Conference

REHOVOT, Israel, July 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Evogene Ltd. EVGN EVGN, a leading artificial intelligence company targeting to revolutionize life-science product development across several market segments utilizing computational biology, announces today that Ofer Haviv, Evogene's President and CEO, will present at the Jefferies Virtual 2020 Industrials Conference taking place on August 5-6, 2020. Mr. Haviv's presentation will focus on the application of Evogene's technology, the CPB platform, in the area of ag-chemicals and ag-biologicals and will take place on Thursday, August 6, at 08:00 am, EST.

Investors attending the conference who wish to meet with Mr. Haviv, may contact Evogene's Investor Relations team at ir@evogene.com or through the conference's online meeting platform.

About Evogene Ltd.:

Evogene EVGNEVGN)) is a leading computational biology company targeting to revolutionize product development for life-science based industries, including human health, agriculture, and industrial applications. Incorporating a deep understanding of biology and leveraging Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, Evogene established its unique technology, the Computational Predictive Biology (CPB) platform. The CPB platform is designed to computationally discover and develop life-science products based on microbes, small molecules and genetic elements as the core components for such products. Evogene holds a number of subsidiaries utilizing the CPB platform, for the development of human microbiome-based therapeutics, medical cannabis, ag-biologicals, ag-chemicals, seed traits and ag-solutions for castor oil production.

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