Schedule
Day 1
4th November 2021
*All times are Eastern Daylight Savings time (GMT-4).
Welcome and Introductions, led by Simon Parsons (9.00-9.30am) [Session Chair: Simon Parsons]
Keynote Speaker: "Blockchain and distributed ledgers in agri-food", Peter McBurney, King's College London (9.30-10.30am) [Session Chair: Simon Parsons]
BREAK & DISCUSSION (10:30-11:00am)
"Topic modeling of soil microbiomes in droughted corn", presented by Anastasiia Kim (11:00-11:30am) [Session Chair: Audrey Reinert ]
"Toward an AI-based Framework for Accelerated Discovery of Climate Impacts on Agriculture", presented by Lav Varshney (11:30-12:00pm) [Session Chair: Audrey Reinert ]
BREAK & DISCUSSION (12:00-12:30pm)
"Market-based Mechanisms for Allocating Harvesting Tasks", presented by Helen Harman (12:30-1:00pm) [Session Chair: Petra Bosilj]
Towards scalable, efficient and decentralized coordination of automated agricultural vehicle fleets", presented by Marin Lujak (1:00-1:30pm) [Session Chair: Petra Bosilj]
BREAK & DISCUSSION (1:30-2:00pm)
Invited Chat with Industry: Earth Sense / Girish Chowdhary and Thomas Aref (2:00-3:00pm) [Session Chair: Elizabeth Sklar ]
Practical Object Detection for Weed Spraying", presented by Madeleine Darbyshire (3:00-3:30pm) [Session Chair: Elizabeth Sklar]
BREAK & DISCUSSION (3:30-4:00pm)
DAILY WRAP-UP: Challenges identified, possible approaches, next steps (4:00-5:00pm)[Session Chair: Simon Parsons]
Day 2
5th November 2021
*All times are Eastern Daylight Savings time (GMT-4).
"Wheat ear detection: past, present and future", presented by Karthik Seemakurthy (9.00-9.30am) [Session Chair: Elizabeth Sklar]
Keynote Speaker: Nicola Cannon, Royal Agricultural University (9.30-10.30am) [Session Chair: Elizabeth Sklar] Link to Talk Abstract
BREAK & DISCUSSION (10:30-11:00am)
"Predicting the Maturity and Quality of Strawberries in Greenhouse", presented by Junhan Wen (11:00-11:30am)[Session Chair: Helen Harman]
"Physics-informed Machine Learning for Soil Sensing", presented by S Chandra Mouli (11:30-12:00pm)[Session Chair: Helen Harman]
BREAK & DISCUSSION (12:00-12:30pm)
"Machine Learning aided Crop Yield Optimization", presented by Chace Ashcraft (12:30-1:00pm) [Session Chair: Juan Antonio Rodriguez]
"AI challenges to achieve deployable solutions for agricultural producer problems", David Ebert (1:00-1:30pm)[Session Chair: Juan Antonio Rodriguez]
BREAK & DISCUSSION (1:30-2:00pm)
Invited Chat with Industry: Bowery Farming / Henry Sztul (2:00-3:00pm)[Session Chair: Elizabeth Sklar]
"Argumentation-based Approach to Scientific Investigation: The Role of Cover Crops in Weed Suppression", presented by Gheorghe Tecuci (3:00-3:30pm)[Session Chair: Elizabeth Sklar]
BREAK & DISCUSSION (3:30-4:00pm)
DAILY WRAP-UP: Challenges identified, possible approaches, next steps (4:00-5:00pm)[Session Chair: Elizabeth Sklar]
Day 3
6th November 2021 (half day)
*All times are Eastern Daylight Savings time (GMT-4).
Birds-of-a-feather Discussion Sessions (via Discord) (9:00am-1:00pm)
Links will be posted here during the first two days of the workshop, as discussions evolve and themes of interest emerge.