Towards digital agriculture: Expanding on the AI and IoT paradigm | Webinar

Achieving “zero hunger” is shared a global commitment, which encompasses the aim to build sustainable climate-resilient agriculture systems to curb food insecurity and malnutrition.

Digital technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), hold the potential to revolutionize agriculture and food production cycles, with the promise to increase yield, ensure environmental sustainability, and prevent or reduce food loss and waste.

This AI for Good webinar will explore the rise of “digital agriculture” and its role in supporting systems that ensure greater food security, inclusivity, profitability, and overall environmental sustainability through optimized resource usage. Technologies using AI and IoT solutions, along with digital twins, robots and drones have transformed the agro-based systems through improved real-time harvesting, traceability, and monitoring of various important parameters such as soil moisture, weed detection, yield quantity, and crop quality.

In Partnership with: @UNFAO

🎙 Speakers:
Karsten Berns, Professor, University of Kaiserslautern
Riad Meddeb, Director ad-interim, UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development (GC-TISD)
Long Hoang, Senior Mobile Data Engineer, Intelligent Solutions Group, John Deere
Zhongxin Chen, Senior Technical Officer of the Information Technology (IT) Services Division, Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
Ioannis Athanasiadis, Professor, Wageningen University & Research
Marco Brini, CTO, EnvEve SA
Verena Thiel, Transformation Adviser, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

🎙 Moderators:
Ramy Ahmed Fathy, Co-chairman, ITU/FAO FG-AI4A, Director, Digital Services Planning and Risk Assessment, National Telecom Regulatory Authority, Egypt
Sebastian Bosse, Head of the Interactive & Cognitive Systems Group, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI)
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
7:37 Digital public goods in Digital agriculture
12:17 Digital Agriculture in FAO
16:23 AI application in Digital Agriculture
31:36 AI for agricultural digital twins
1:18:15 Digital Agriculture and the SDGs
1:30:49 Automating the Agricultural Process
1:44:54 Smart agricultural equipment
1:56:03 End discussion

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