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Samuel Benin

Samuel Benin is the Acting Director for Africa in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He conducts research on national strategies and public investment for accelerating food systems transformation in Africa and provides analytical support to the African Union’s CAADP Biennial Review.

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IFPRI currently has more than 600 employees working in over 80 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

Big Data Agriculture Convention 2019: Trust: Humans, Machines & Ecosystems

Co-Organized by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

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Hyerabad, India

October 16 to 18, 2019

  • 8:30 – 6:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)
  • 11:00 – 9:00 am (US/Eastern)
  • 8:30 – 6:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is co-organizing the 2019 Big Data in Agriculture Convention.

Building resilient global food security requires us to navigate a complex net of interactions between the biosphere, economy, technology, and society. Machines and machine-to-machine systems shape and accelerate our social and economic lives, even as climates and ecosystems may seem destined to continue on a tragic path.

Our ethical frameworks, our human communities, and our institutions struggle to stay abreast the rate of change.

We can no longer consider distinct facets of food security in isolation; we need holistic solutions. To claim these potential solutions we need trust: in institutions, in firms, in dynamic and expanding human communities, and in the technologies themselves that can help us build the future

This year’s convention will bring together efforts in pursuit of holistic solutions to feed the future – byte by byte.

Welcome to the 2019 Convention (October 16, 2019 — 8:30am – 9:00am)

Introduction to the Communities of Practice (CoP) (October 16, 2019 — 11:30am – 11:45am)

Bonus Hour: AgroFIMS Demo (October 16, 2019 — 1:00pm – 2:00pm)

Leveraging Trust to Generate Insights from Data: The GARDIAN Ecosystem (October 16, 2019 — 4:15pm – 4:45pm)

Bonus Hour: GARDIAN Demo (October 17, 2019 — 1:00pm – 2:00pm)

CoP Engagement Session: Introducing the Digital Adaptation Atlas (October 17, 2019 — 4:00pm – 4:40pm)

CoP Engagement Session: The Ontologies CoP Needs You! (October 17, 2019 — 4:00pm – 4:40pm and 4:50pm – 5:30pm)

CoP Engagement Session: Geospatial Showcase (October 17, 2019 — 4:50 – 5:30pm)

Bonus Hour: AgroFIMS Demo (October 18, 2019 — 1:00pm – 2:00pm)