The European Commission is organising the two-day EIP-AGRI seminar ‘Digital Innovation Hubs: mainstreaming digital agriculture’
It will take place on 1-2 June 2017 in Kilkenny, Ireland.
Universities, research technology organisations, farmers, farmer's organisations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, start-ups, incubators, investors, EU regions and member states, innovation brokers, agriculture advisory services, EU networks and platforms and anyone who may have relevant ideas or experience with engaging in, designing and/or developing ecosystems for the collaborative development of Digital Innovation Hubs in agriculture across Europe are invited to apply.
If you are interested to participate fill in the application form. Application period open from 14th of February until 8th of March 23:59 CET 2017.
Scope
The overall objective of the "Digitising European Industry" Communication (COM(2016)180) is to ensure that "any industry in Europe, big or small, wherever situated and in any sector can fully benefit from digital innovations to upgrade its products, improve its processes and adapt its business models to the digital change".
The farming sector have never stopped innovating and every farmer's generation brings new technological and organisational improvements and competencies. However, the pace of technological innovation is proceeding faster than ever before and it is a need to ensure that the agriculture sector is taking fully advantage of this "digital revolution".
ICT developers (SMEs, start-ups, entrepreneurs) and agriculture businesses would like to assess what technologies, including the most disruptive ones like Internet of Things, Big Data, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence etc., could bring to help the sector meeting the current challenge "to produce more with less". However, main actors in the agriculture sector and ICT developers have difficulties to see which and where is the real added value of those technologies, to decide when to invest, up to which level and in which technologies.