The livestock sector globally is highly dynamic but in the future production will increasingly be affected by competition for land and water, competition between food and feed and by the need to operate in a carbon-constrained economy. The latest developments in breeding, nutrition and animal health must be followed to answer these challenges and these are some of the key issues that we are looking at as well. How to increase potential production and efficiency by the utilization of advanced reproductive technologies and genomic selections? How biotechnology, reduced emissions intensity and adaptation will shape the future of animal production?