Innovation and SME Forum: Data-Driven Innovation in the Agritech Sector

Wed 10 Mar 2021 - 0:00 to Fri 12 Mar 2021 - 0:00

What to expect

You will dive deep into the world of data-driven innovation with a mix of high-level keynote presentations and hands-on sessions to discuss and interact with other companies, academics and ELIXIR partners. All this with an interactive virtual platform to offer you an immersive online experience

Who should attend

Researchers in academia and industry
Large and small companies that develop services for data management and analysis
Policymakers and funders
Anyone interested in the data-driven life sciences sector

Programme

Day one | Data integration and data management in the agritech sector

10:00	Welcome to the event. Introduction panel with: Catherine Sirven (Bayer) Frederik Coppens (ELIXIR Belgium) Anne-Francois Adam-Blondon (ELIXIR France) Chair: Katharina Lauer (ELIXIR Hub)
10:45	Keynote I: What's in a field? A Semantics driven approach towards integrating data and providing answers to the agri-food sector Monika Solanki (Agrimetrics)
11:10	AgDataHub, a modular approach for succeeding in data management in the agritech sector Sebastien Picardat (API-AGRO)
11:25	Short break
11:35	Workflow driven data integration for plant breeding Jan Taubert (KWS)
11:50	Management, visualization and analysis of phenotypic data at your fingertips Stijn Dhondt (VIB)
12:05	Pests, pathogens and weeds — The data integration challenges for novel control agent discovery Mike Csukai (Syngenta)
12:30	Break \| Meet the speakers
13:30	End of day one

Day two | From genotype to phenotype

10:00	Keynote II: Breeding 4.0: how integrated machine learning models will help us to address the global challenges of agriculture in the next 10 years Fred van Ex (INARI)
10:25	Application of linked data in a cross-species setup to enhance gene discovery in crops Klaas Vandepoele (VIB)
10:40	Testing the application of ELIXIR plant standards in the industry Ana Portugal Melo (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, ELIXIR-PT)
10:55	Short break
11:05	The ELIXIR plant portal for the integration of phenotyping and genotyping data Cyril Pommier (INRAe)
11:20	HIPHEN A state of the art of UAV use for field high throughput phenotyping (FHTPP) Alexis Comar (Hiphen)
11:35	Keynote III: From sensor data to organised and reusable phenomic information Francois Tardieu (INRA/EMPHASIS)
12:00	Break \| Meet the speakers
12:30	End of day two

Day three | Data-driven precision farming

09:30	Keynote IV: Use of data at farmers level, still a myth or a reality? Sten Guezennec (The Climate Corporation)
10:00	Towards a Predictive Field Testing Pipeline: How Data Science and Digital Technologies drive the Development of Future Crop Protection Products Philipp Senger (Bayer)
10:15	Anthony Gelibert (CarbonBee)
10:30	Reducing the use of herbicides by 80% with AI Aurelien Benoit-Levy (Bilberry)
10:45	Break \| Meet the speakers
11:30	Agri-semantics — Semantics for data in Agriculture and Nutrition Erick Antezana (Bayer) Cyril Pommier (INRA)	Public-private partnerships in the agritech sector — how can we improve the interactions? Catherine Sirven (Bayer)	Field High Throughput Plant Phenotyping — how to speed up adoption Alexis Cormar (Hyphen)
12:15	Feedback from the roundtables and closing of the event