Raffaele Giaffreda (FBK) acts as keynote speakers in the session on services and utilities for smart agriculture at the international scientific conference dedicated to artificial intelligence in the agri-food system.
AGENDA (Work in progress)
DAY 1: Thursday, 19th March 2026
- 08:30 – 09:00: Registration and collection of documentation.
- 09:00 – 09:30: Opening Ceremony.
- 09:30 – 11:30: Plenary Session 1: Sensing and Data Intelligence.
- Theme: From raw data acquisition to actionable agronomic intelligence.
- Keynote Speaker: Prof. Spyros Fountas (Agricultural Univ. of Athens, Greece).
- Keynote Speaker: Prof. Joaquim João Moreira de Sousa (INESC TEC, Portugal)
- Oral Communications
- 11:30 – 12:00: Coffee break and visit to the poster area.
- 12:00 – 14:00: Plenary Session 2: Services and utilities for an intelligent agriculture.
- Theme: Service-centric intelligent agriculture powered by virtual assistants, digital twins, and trusted data spaces-turning farm data into real-time, actionable operations.
- Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ignacio Antonio Ciampitti (Purdue University, USA).
- Keynote Speaker: Dr. Raffaele Giaffreda (Bruno Kessler Foundation-Trento, Italy).
- Oral Communications
- 14:00 – 15:30: Lunch.
- 15:30 – 16:30: Poster Session and Debate.
- 16:30 – 18:30: Plenary Session 3: Innovation Systems and Socioeconomic Implications.
- Theme: Economics, governance, ethics, and the institutional context of digitalisation.
- Keynote Speaker: Prof. Laurens Klerkx (Wageningen UR, Netherlands / Univ. Talca, Chile).
- Keynote Speaker: Mr. Frank Escandell (OdiseIA, Spain).
- Oral Communications
DAY 2: Friday, 20th March 2026
- 09:00 – 11:00: Plenary Session 4: Industry 4.0 and Sustainable Food Systems.
- Theme: AI in food processing, waste reduction, and circularity.
- Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dolores C. Pérez Marín (University of Cordoba, Spain)
- Keynote Speaker: Dr. Abdo Hassoun (SAFIR, France).
- Oral Communications
- 11:00 – 11:30: Coffee break.
- 11:30 – 13:30:Plenary Session 5: Strategic Synthesis – The Future Agenda.
- Theme: Ecosystems, interoperability, and the roadmap for large-scale digital transformation.
- Keynote Speaker: Dr. Raffaele Giaffreda (Bruno Kessler Foundation-Trento, Italy).
- Keynote Speaker: Dr. Federico Bert (Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura, Argentina).
- Keynote Speaker: Mr. José Luis Molina Zamora (Hispatec Agrointeligencia, Spain).
- Keynote Speaker: Prof. Laurens Klerkx (Wageningen UR, Netherlands / Univ. Talca, Chile).
- Open Debate & Q&A: Discussion with the audience and the Scientific Committee chairs.
- 13:30 – 14:00:Closing Ceremony and Final Synthesis.
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- Presentation of conclusions.
- Awards for best oral communications and posters.
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