Agriculture Data Space Event

An enormous digitalisation effort is underway in the agri-food sector. Agricultural and horticultural companies produce a tremendous amount of products every day, but more and more also a mass of data. It is generally known that this data only has value if it is shared, brought together and then converted into useful applications or advice.

Therefore, throughout the entire chain from farm to fork, traditional supply companies such as machinery constructors and agrochemists, as well as new players, are positioning themselves on this subject, as the data economy constitutes a new growth driver for them. They are deploying digital tools and new data-driven applications, aiming as end-user not only farmers or AgriFood business but also the consumers. To scale up and make optimal use of this data revolution in the near future, the willingness to share data between all AgriFood supply chain partners is crucial to keep innovating.

The Gaia-X framework allows for creating a sovereign and federated agricultural data space that can be deployed confidently and at scale. Moreover, the Gaia-X framework federates existing data initiatives and ensures data sharing over the full supply chain from Farm to Fork. So indeed, the European agriculture data space cannot be an isolated data space as agriculture and food are not isolated but connected to other domains like public sector, energy, mobility, health, and so forth. In this event, we want to understand their common needs and challenges and define how Gaia-X can support in taking steps toward this common agricultural data space.

Final Agenda: 

Chapter 1: General Session

The presentations are available here.

The event recording is available here.

• 10:00 -10:10 – Welcome & Opening – Francesco Bonfiglio, Gaia-X CEO
• 10:10 – 10:45 – (Panel): Overview of Agriculture dataspace in Europe & Needs and challenges of agriculture-food sector – representative of what’s happening in Europe – Moderator: Jurgen Vangeyte, Scientific Director, ILVO (Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food)
  • Farmers perspective – farmer cooperative – Peter Paree, Programme Leader, ZLTO Southern Farmers Union
  • Agricultural industry perspective – Klaus-Herbert Rolf, Head of Public Aiffairs, CLAAS KGaA
  • Academic, researchers perspective – Marko Turpeinen, CEO, 1001 Lakes and Raffaele Giaffreda, Chief IoT Scientist, FBK
  • Policy perspective – Maria Rautavirta, Director of Data Business Unit, The Ministry of Transport and Communications- Data Department
  • Agricultural Advisory Organization perspective – Adam Fojud, Consultancy Applications Developer, Greater Poland Regional Agriculture Advisory Center
• 10:45 – 11:00 – European Commission vision and mission towards Agri data space – Calls for project proposals and Fundings – Doris Marquardt, Programme Officer, European Commission, DG AGRI
• 11:00 – 11:10 – European Partnership for agriculture of data – Co-chair of the partnership – Nicola Pirrone, CNR Research Director and Adjunct Professor, Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research / University of Michigan
• 11:10 – 11:20 – Consortia for the agricultural data space – Sébastien Picardat, CEO, AGDATAHUB
• 11:20 – 11:30 – Present direction and main ideas from Agriculture position paper- Stefan Stiene, Professor, Hochschule Osnabrück
• 11:30 – 11:40 – Legal environment: Data Acts and Agri-data space – Natalie Bertels, Valorisation Manager, imec-CiTiP-KULeuven
• 11:40 – 11:50 – Agri Data Spaces’ relation with Federation Services –Andreas Weiss, GXFS-DE Project Lead and Head of Digital Business Models at eco, Association of the Internet Industry
• 11:50 – 12:00 – Wrap up Q&A

12:00 – 13:00 Break

Chapter 2: Use cases

The presentations are available here.

The event recording is available here.

• 13:00-14:15 – Use Cases Part 1  – Moderator: Jurgen Vangeyte, Scientific Director, ILVO (Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food)

1. Fair Data economy in agriculture – Marko Turpeinen, CEO, 1001 Lakes
2. Agri Gaia – Stefan Stiene, Professor, Hochschule Osnabrück
3. ZeroW project – Simon Dalmolen, Senior Researcher, TNO
4. Agro-meteorological real-time data collection over 26.000ha in Romania, with SysAgria sensor mesh network – Hannelore Valkanov, Founder, SysAgria

• 13:40 – 14:15 – Discussion Panel, Data Space Today
  • Speakers: Marko Turpeinen, CEO, 1001 Lakes; Stefan Stiene, Professor, Hochschule Osnabrück; Simon Dalmolen, Senior Researcher, TNO; Hannelore Valkanov, Founder, SysAgria; Natalie Bertels, Valorisation Manager, imec-CiTiP-KULeuven; Daniel Azevedo, Director of Commodities, Trade and Technology, Copa-Cogeca; Doris Marquardt, Programme Officer, European Commission, DG AGRI

• 14:15 – 15:30 – Use Cases Part 2 – Moderator: Jurgen Vangeyte, Scientific Director, ILVO (Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food)

1. Cooperation of Agdatahub & Djust Connect- “From regional data spaces towards a federated European dataspace” Data4Food2030 Case study – Sébastien Picardat, CEO, AGDATAHUB
2. Regional-oriented discussions (views from an Alpine region) – Raffaele Giaffreda, Chief IoT Scientist, FBK
3. National farm management platform (data-centric decision support services for farm management) – Maciej Zacharczuk, Project Leader, Greater Poland Regional Agriculture Advisory Center 
4. UDL Science and Research Portal – Roberto García, Associate Professor and Deputy Vicerector for Research and Transfer, Universitat de Lleida

Application of Gaia-X MVG portal to share agriculture datasets and algorithms, including Compute-to-Data, which guarantees data control by sending the computation to the data.

• 14:55-15:30 – Discussion Panel, Data Space Tomorrow
  • Speakers: Daniel Azevedo, Director of Commodities, Trade and Technology, Copa-Cogeca; Raffaele Giaffreda, Chief IoT Scientist, FBK; Roberto García, Associate Professor and Deputy Vicerector for Research and Transfer, Universitat de Lleida; Sébastien Picardat, CEO, AGDATAHUB; Jelle Hoedemaekers, Expert ICT Standardisation, Agoria; Doris Marquardt, Programme Officer, European Commission, DG AGRI