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AI for Good Global Summit

Programme

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ITU/FAO Workshop on "Digital Agriculture at Scale: Sustainable Food Systems with IoT and AI"
Seongnam, Korea (Rep. of)​​


24 August 2022​ (10:00 - 17:00 KST)

10:00 - 10:15

Welcome Remarks
10:15 - 12:00

Session 1: Digital Agriculture: Risks and Opportunities

This session will underscore the emerging issues relevant to digital transformation within the agricultural domain and will examine how IoT, AI and other modern technologies can support precision agriculture to facilitate decision-making relating to agricultural production process.

Moderator: Ramy Ahmed FathyFG-AI4A Co-Chair | Director, Digital Services Planning and Risk Assessment, National Telecom Regulatory Authority, Egypt​
12:00 - 14:00​
Lunch Break​​ - Kindly supported by:
14:00 - 15:30
Session 2: Bridging the digital divide in agriculture: Feeding the future

This session will explore how digital technologies can be leveraged to play a role in waste dynamics and reducing food loss across food production and supply chains.
 
Moderator: Sebastian Bosse, FG-AI4A Co-Chair​ | Head of Interactive & Cognitive Systems Group, Fraunhofer HHI
​15:30 - 15:45
Coffee Break - Kindly supported by:
15:45 - 17:00
Session 3: Agriculture 4.0: Paving the way to the Sustainable Development Goals

This session will examine how the concept of Agriculture 4.0 can be the cornerstone for revolutionizing how to boost agricultural productivity, allocate resources, ensure equitable distribution of food and harvesting data on meteorological information, crop properties, soil conditions, arability of land, pest identification, etc to​ assist farmers in making appropriate decisions in real-time to facilitate the attainment of SDG 2 and SDG12.

Moderator: Mythili Menon​, Project Officer, International Telecommunication Union
​17:00

​Concluding Remarks