Inside the Ceva Swine Innovation Summit: Science, Strategy, and a Shared Vision for Global Swine Health

At Ceva’s global headquarters in France, industry leaders from across continents filled the modern amphitheater to capacity — more than a hundred veterinarians, researchers, producers, and decision-makers gathered with a shared purpose: to re-define how innovation drives swine health forward.

The 2025 Ceva Swine Innovation Summit wasn’t just another corporate meeting. It was a strategic exchange — where data met dialogue, and where Ceva’s global “One Health” philosophy came vividly to life.


A Global Hub of Expertise

Ceva Santé Animale ranks among the world’s top five animal-health companies and is France’s No. 1 in the field. With 7,000 employees in 47 countries, the company’s swine division alone includes more than 200 veterinarians, scientists, and technical specialists dedicated to advancing herd health and production efficiency.

From its headquarters in Libourne, Ceva has built a model that integrates vaccines, diagnostics, data systems, and biosecurity tools under one roof — demonstrating how innovation in animal health can directly serve food-chain security and global sustainability goals.


Innovation in Action

The Summit sessions focused on the challenges and opportunities shaping modern pork production:

  • Precision disease control through real-time diagnostics and vaccination strategies.

  • Data-driven decision making linking on-farm monitoring with herd-health analytics.

  • Sustainability and One Health — aligning animal-care solutions with climate and environmental responsibility.

  • Human-animal collaboration — fostering a generation of veterinarians and producers who see herd health as part of a global ecosystem.

Throughout the day, experts emphasized that technological progress alone isn’t enough; it must be paired with education, collaboration, and trust across the value chain.


A Message from Leadership

“We provide more than animal health. We take care of human health by contributing to feed the world: One Ceva. One Health. One Planet.
Dr. Marc Prikazsky, Chief Executive Officer, Ceva Santé Animale

Dr. Prikazsky’s words underscored the Summit’s broader mission: connecting science, people, and purpose to ensure the global pork industry is resilient, safe, and sustainable.


Beyond the Summit

The discussions extended well beyond the auditorium — from hallway exchanges about regional disease pressures to breakout sessions exploring next-generation biosecurity. Attendees left with a unified understanding that the future of swine health depends on partnership: researchers developing solutions, veterinarians implementing them, and producers applying innovation on-farm.

Ceva’s commitment to integrated solutions — from preventive medicine to field-level diagnostics — shows that leadership in animal health now requires both scale and sensitivity: scale to impact global systems, and sensitivity to understand each producer’s local reality.


Swine Web Perspective

Events like the Ceva Swine Innovation Summit are more than conferences — they are catalysts. They remind the industry that progress isn’t defined by products alone, but by the ideas, people, and collaboration that connect them.

For Ceva, innovation isn’t a headline — it’s a culture built across every continent, one herd at a time.