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Events

Effective tomato cultivation leveraging AI and crop-specific data

From the 28/07/2021
Online
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Tomato News, in partnership with Kagome is organising an online webinar on Wednesday 28 July 2021 at 15:00 CEST (22:00 JST)to present the CropScope service and artificial intelligence/data driven farming trends.

CropScope consists of a service that uses sensors and satellite photographs to visualize the growth status of tomatoes, as well as a service that provides farming advice using artificial intellingence (AI). The AI capitalizes on a wealth of know-how from experienced cultivators, enabling it to provide guidance on the optimum amount of water, fertilizer and the best time to apply them. This platform enables tomato producers, regardless of skill level, to stabilize their harvests and reduce cultivation costs, while implementing environmentally friendly farming.

Guests from AgriTech companies and researchers will discuss advantages and challenges of AI/data driven farming during a panel session.

Attendance to this two-hour webinar is free but requires pre-registration here

Program and Speakers:

Session 1: CropScope use case introduction
The panelists will talk about the processors/growers' challenges facing large scale farm management and how technology overcomes them.

Moderator:
Martin Stilwell, Kagome
After a PhD in Plant Breeding and Genetics at Cambridge University (UK), Martin Stilwell began his work experience in 1970 as Tomato Breeder for HJ Heinz. He then held several management position in the group he left in 1992 to join Boschi Luigi and Figli as CEO of their newly formed company in Portugal Italagro S.A. In 2007, with several partners he successfully purchased Italagro S.A and FIT S.A. from Boschi Luigi & Figli becoming CEO of the newly formed HIT Group. In 2013 was elected Executive Officer of Kagome Japan. Martin Stilwell is President of the Portuguese Tomato Processors Association AIT, President of Tomato News SAS and a past President of the WPTC.

Panelists:
Ana Duarte - Key Account manager, NEC Portugal
Ana Duarte is a NEC Portugal Key Account manager and an accelerator for CropScope service development to lead customer success. More than 6 years she has been dedicated to processing tomato industry as AgriTech supplier. Also, Ana is in charge of pre-sales support for CropScope global pre-sales leveraging her experience working closely with Portuguese/Spanish large scale growers and processing companies.

Hiro Tsutsumikawa - Smart Agriculture Business Department Manager, Kagome Co. Ltd
For more than 20 years, Hiro has been consistently engaged in Business Development as technology and business specialist. In the recent years, Hiro has initiated business incubation and development addressing social issues in global market. Hiro is also in charge of smart agriculture business department in Kagome which is leading new business establishment and industrial tomato customer success support together with strategic partner, NEC, a Japan based AI leading company.

Chris Taylor - General Manager Field Operation Kagome Australia
Chris Taylor has been involved in agriculture his entire life, completing a Bachelor of Farm Management in 2006, leading him to join the tomato industry in 2007 (Cedenco). Extensive experience in sprinkler irrigation and subsurface drip, design, operation, and management. He developed Kagome Australia’s carrot program from early small plot trials to full scale production exceeding 30,000 tonnes today, and now manages Kagome Australia’s entire field operations.

Stuart McColl- Kagome Farms Australia
Stuart Mc Coll worked in the agronomy department of Kagome Farms for the past 6 and half years across a range of crops including tomato, carrot, garlic, corn, and winter cereals. The focus of his role is to make continual improvements to the crop agronomy with the aim of increasing yield and removing risk from the farming side of our business. Prior to this he worked in agronomic research for 8 years, predominantly in broadacre cropping. As such he has a strong affinity for using data to drive decision making.He is also passionate about using technology to take the guesswork and the labour burden out of farming, and ultimately making the business of food production in Australia economically sustainable.

Coffee break

Session 2: AgriTech trend review
The invited AgriTech vendors will discuss AI/Data driven farming trends and challenges

Moderator:
Cosme Argerich, Research & Transference of Technology Specialist in processing tomatoes
After graduating with a MSc in Vegetable Crops from UC Davis in California, Cosme has been working for many years in field research at INTA La Consulta in Mendoza, Argentina on irrigation, fertilization, varieties studies in processing tomatoes. He created and managed Tomato 2000 Association which involves 162 growers, 9 processing companies and 5 nurseries. This Association has 12 extensionists that visit weekly each grower and make on-line reports of crop situation by cell phone app.

Panelists:
Michael Dowgert – Kagome Ag Tech Business Development Consultant
Michael Dowgert is an Ag Tech consultant with a focus on crop production, water and fertilizer. His work involves product design, functionality and marketing. Dowgert is former VP of Marketing for Cropx, an Ag Tech company involved in soil sensing and crop management. Before that he was the Director of Marketing for Netafim USA and Sales Operations Director for Netafim Global. He has held positions in farm management, technical sales and marketing, for both startups and established companies. He earned a doctorate in agronomy from Cornell University and a bachelor’s degree in plant and soil science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Steven Tompkins - Strategy & Development Leader at Inmarsat
Steven Tompkins leads on the strategy and development of Inmarsat's Enterprise markets, including Agriculture, Oil & Gas, Utilities, Mining and Transport. Agriculture is a major focus of Steven's work and he is responsible for utilizing the organisations global market leading satellite connectivity services to enable Precision Agriculture, Sensing and Process Automation applications across the world. Steven has been working in the Agriculture and Food industries for the past ten years, with a career spanning consultancy, agricultural research and commercial development of new products and services. His work has included commercialising precision irrigation and yield modelling tools for the fresh produce sector in crops such as potatoes, berries and onions.

Harmen Wollerich – Precision Agriculture Advisor, Dacom
After finishing his master’s degree in Agricultural and Bioresource Engineering at Wageningen University (The Netherlands) Harmen continued his passion for the agricultural sector. Due to his experience as a farmer himself he started helping farmers worldwide with their continues quest of turning agricultural data into understandable advice. Harmen has been working for several years now as team lead sales of Dacom Farm Intelligence. Dacom is providing cutting edge innovative data-driven solutions to the agricultural market focused on water management, fungal disease management and precision farming tools.

Session 3: Q&A session
Attendees will be able to ask questions to all panelists during the closing Q&A session.

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