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Agriculture - Q&A Session

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Event
  • Session
  • Wednesday, 26 June 2019
  • 12:26 - 12:26
  • Duration: 22 mins
  • Publication date: 12 Jul 2019
  • Location: Rosalind Franklin, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Cambridge Wireless 2019

About the session

Agriculture - Q&A Session

With the world’s resources running thin, the human population on track to be reaching 10Bn by 2050, and 800M people already estimated to have insufficient food, agricultural optimisation is a difficult but necessary task. Doing so in a manner that doesn’t damage the planet is even harder. New technologies are transforming the process of crop and animal management, with drones offering real-time visual insights into flock management and plant health, sensors constantly monitoring soil quality, advanced robotics starting to grow foods without human input and artificial intelligence optimising the use of resources. This track will present cutting-edge use cases of technology deployment in agriculture and consider what could be done to make food production more efficient – and more sustainable.

Keywords:
  • aeroponics
  • agriculture
  • crop yield
  • food
  • food production
  • greenhouse
  • harvest
  • manufacturing
  • supply chain
  • technology

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  • Steve Archer

    Steve Archer

    30MHz

    Steve is a Business development manager at 30MHz, a Dutch Agri-tech company. They help businesses in the agri-food chain drive productivity with data. From seed companies through cultivators to food retailers, they provide cloud-based software to access real-time data generated by their own scalable wireless sensing technology. Steve works closely with growers on a daily basis to understand their problems, to learn how we can use our system to solve them and to understand how to drive strong ROI for customers as well as passing feedback for 30MHz product development team enabling a rapid customer driven approach to product development.
  • Ben Crowther

    Ben Crowther

    Ben Crowther is the CTO and one of three founding members of LettUs Grow, a Bristol-based indoor farming technology company. He's been deploying his systems engineering background to the development of highly efficient irrigation systems in order to build the farms of the future for the past 3 years. LettUs Grow has been expanding rapidly. Ben has been recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering for his role and recently has been awarded an Industrial Fellowship with the SWCTN to explore automation within vertical farming.
  • Ian Wheal

    Ian Wheal

    Ian Wheal is co-founder and CEO of Breedr, a data app for livestock farmers. Ian grew up on a family farm in South Australia and passionately believes that better informed farmers – coupled with an integrated, transparent supply chain – can revolutionise the productivity, quality and sustainability of the entire livestock industry. Breedr recently raised £2M Seed investment to re-think the way we track, measure and trade livestock globally.
  • Andrew Pockson

    Andrew Pockson

    Anglia, Divisional Marketing Manager

    An experienced and proven Marketing Manager and Applications Engineer for a range of semiconductor partners in both digital, analog and power products along with passive and electro-mechanical components.
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