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Friday, October 5 • 10:45am - 11:30am
Digitizing Food Systems

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The world generates loads of data every day in the course of our social and economic lives, and this represents an unprecedented opportunity. The use of such data as transactions, mobile network metadata, supply chain traces—all anonymized—is unlocking the ability to observe and understand whole value chains and food systems in action, and engaging with a speed and scale in building the resilient food systems that the world needs.

In this session we will take a cross-sectional view of data in food systems, and unpack the opportunity together.
Moderators
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Inta Plostins

Business Development Manager, GeoPoll
Inta Plostins is a Business Development Manager with 5 years experience in the international development space. At GeoPoll she focuses on the intersection of digital tools with agriculture, food security, and health, working closely with partner organizations including the World Food... Read More →

Speakers
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Ranveer Chandra

Principal Researcher, Microsoft
Ranveer Chandra is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. He is leading an incubation on IoT Applications, with a focus in Agriculture. He is also leading research projects on white space networking, low-latency wireless, and improving battery life of mobile devices. Ranveer... Read More →

Friday October 5, 2018 10:45am - 11:30am EAT
Conference Hall
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