During the SmartCow final conference Florence Macherez from IDELE moderated the round table “Industry and academic needs for Research infrastructures in animal science”. The participants were: Arnaud Bouxin (FEFFAC), Ana Granados (EFFAB/ATF); Sven Dänicke (FLI); Nicolas Friggens (INRAE – GenTORE); Marc Vandeputte (INRAE – AquaExcel); Jaap van Milgen (INRAE – PigWEB). Enjoy this interesting presentation!