May 2018. In Crete, enjoying Open Harvest once more. Small groups of people, getting lost in secret corners of Chania’s medieval town. Learning about how you tell data stories, using only 6 words. My work-group is busy developing their own [...]
On January 10th 1963, John F. Kennedy wrote in the foreword of a landmark report: “One of the major opportunities … lies in the improvement of our ability to communicate information about current research efforts and the results of [...]
Digital agriculture projects typically put in place software and hardware systems that perceive their environment through appropriate sensor devices, process the right variety and amount of environmental and historical data, and take actions that maximize the chances of successfully achieving [...]
Last week, I was introduced to an amazing ag-tech startup that is commercialising a deceptively simple idea: small robots not big tractors. The Small Robot Company is building robots that will seed and care for each individual plant in your [...]
I gave an inspirational speech at the European Commission's Net Futures 2017 conference about the way agriculture and food production will look like in 2027. It was one of the three industry speeches responding to the question "How will three [...]
This is the video of my talk at the at the 2016 Summit of the Open Data Institute (ODI). I presented the Chania declaration and emphasized on seeking ways to catalyze the creation of a global data ecosystem for agriculture [...]
As part of the Ontario Open Agri-Food Data meetup that we have co-organised in Canada earlier this year, we had the opportunity to meet with a range of academics from the University of Guelph and staff from Grey County to [...]
Right before the ODI Summit 2016 in London, I gave an interview at Hannah Foulds from the Open Data Institute, UK. She asked me how I think the world will look like in 10 years’ time, with advances in [...]
How do European officials working on agriculture and food topics deal with the emerging data revolution in the sector? How can they be aware of the recent developments in a way that may inform their thinking? And how can they [...]
One of the fun things we did during our visit to Ontario this September was our meeting with Canada’s first NSERC Industrial Research Chair for Colleges: Dr. Mike Duncan. With a specialization in Precision Agriculture and Environmental Technologies, the five-year [...]
Let’s take a step to the near future. A shared global data space for agriculture and food will propel the industry forward. Information will become available to all actors producing innovation. Analytical and decision making tools can incorporate a greater [...]
We believe that for a data revolution to happen, agriculture and food need a fabric of interoperable and interplaying infrastructure layers. Having such an infrastructure in place, will make data sharing and exchange as natural to us, as it is [...]