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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

PROGRAM - DAY1

PROGRAM - DAY2

08:00 – 09:00	Welcome Reception For Attendees
09:00 – 09:15	Opening remarks
Agri 4.0 Mindset
09:15 – 09:45	How would Google farm? Dr. Alex Thomasson
09:45 – 10:15	Investment in new technologies by large agricultural companies and investors Ms. Vonnie Estes
10:15 – 10:30	Phd pitch (1-2-3)
Coffee Break
10:50 – 11:20	The use of Big data in precision agriculture Dr. Steve Phillips
11:20 – 11:50	Hands-on Agronomy» – the key to ensuring «big data» adds value to farmers Mr. Jeremy Cordingley
11:50 – 12:20	Information systems for decision support in agriculture Dr Riad Balaghi
12:20 – 12:35	Phd pitch (4-5-6)
Lunch
	Crop Productivity	Soil Analytics
14:00 – 14:25	Nitrogen management: site-specific strategies to balance agronomic and environmental goals Dr. Tai McClellan Maaz	Introduction to digital soil mapping techniques Dr. Gabor Kereszturi
14:30 – 14:55	Agri analytics for in-season nutrient management Dr. Aicam Laacouri	Taking agronomy to scale with dry soil-plant spectroscopy Dr Keith Shepherd
15:00 – 15:25	Opportunities for maximizing crop productivity – insights from agronomic data : Use cases from Kenya and Tanzania Dr. Kihara Job	Big data and digital soil mapping responding to the contemporary environmental issues of our time Dr Brendan Malone
Coffee Break
	Innovative Technologies	Water & Weather Analytics
15:50 – 16:15	Precision Farming Services, Drones, Satellites and state of the art technology for agriculture Dr Cobus Burger	Weather Analytics: Making the most of our weather Dr David Coville
16:20 – 16:45	Data from airborne imagery. Barriers and advances for an efficient application in agri-environmental engineering Dr Hassan Boukcim	The use of big data in agro meteorology and precision farming with a special focus on remote sensing data Dr Bernard Tychon
16:50 – 17:15	Data from airborne imagery. Barriers and advances for an efficient application in agri-environmental engineering Dr Kun-Mean Hou	Latest Fertility management practices – Fertigation monitoring and water managment Dr Jorge Bazo
12:20 – 12:35	Discussion Pane
17:25 – 17:55	University visit
Diner cocktail

08:15 – 09:15	Welcome Reception For Attendees
09:00 – 09:15	Opening remarks
Data Driven Approches
09:15 – 09:45	How can big data transform smallholder lives and livelihoods ? Dr. Andre Laperriere
09:50 – 10:15	Data-driven approaches for transforming agriculture in Africa Dr Achim Dobermann
10:20 – 10:45	A new social enterprise providing decision-support tools for enhancing smallholder agriculture in Africa Dr Jonathan Crouch
Coffee Break
11:05 – 11:30	Artificial Intelligence and Big data for impacting small holder African farmer livelihoods Dr Ernest Mwebaze
11:35 – 12:00	Implementation of Big Data for smallholder Moroccan farmer Dr. Faouzi Bekkaoui
12:05 – 12:20	Phd pitch (7-8-9)
Lunch
	Seeds Analytics	Analytics for Sustainable Agriculture
13:50 – 14:15	Use of Big Data to develop rapidly and timely portfolio of crop varieties Dr Abdallah Bari	Digital diffusion for targeting ecological intensification for resilient agroecosystems Dr Chandrashekhar Biradar
14:20 – 14:45	The use of high-throughput sequencing technologies and bioinformatics to study soil and crop microbiomes Dr Hassan Boukcim	Usage of Artificial Neural Network in Sustainable Agriculture Dr Ali Reza Nejadmohammad Namaghi
14:50 – 15:15	Digitalizing data along the crop value chains: from genebank to farmers’ fields Dr Jean Marcel Ribout	Big data innovations in agriculture development : use case about African Green Revolution Dr. Araba, Adebisi
15:20 – 15:45	Using environmental, phenotypic and molecular data for an efficient use of genebank genetic variation Dr Zakaria Kehel	How Big Data can improve the process of decision-making? Dr Aziz Yasri
15:50 – 16:15	Panel Discussion and Road Map
Goodbye Cocktail