AI for Agriculture Summit – A Visioning Conference
The AI for Agriculture visioning conference will bring together leading experts from both AI and Agriculture domains to showcase agriculture as an ideal platform to address foundational AI challenges while advancing critical global challenges facing agriculture.
The broad goal of this summit is to develop a long-term technical vision and a comprehensive implementation strategy for the utilization of AI advances to tackle challenges facing U.S. and world agriculture. A short-term outcome of this summit will be to produce a white paper with a set of recommendations based on the discussion held during the summit.
Showcase agricultural challenges as the ideal applications for foundational AI research advances
Highlight the role of public, private, and joining investment in AI for Agriculture
Discuss the significant policy concerns government officials must address to enable impactful research
National AI for Agriculture Institutes
This summit will be a collaboration between the five USDA AI Institutes (AIFARMS, AIFS, AgAID, AIIRA, AI-CLIMATE) and will bring together a diverse set of participants from academia, industry, NGOs, and government agencies.
The premise of the summit is to showcase the agricultural domain as an ideal platform to promote and test advances in foundational AI challenges while addressing global challenges. The summit will focus on big-picture ideas and challenges in ethical AI research relevant to agriculture and it will highlight the importance of investing resources into AI-for-Agriculture for the benefit of partners across disciplines.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grants 2231251 and 2332864 and USDA-NIFA (AFRI) grant no. 2024-03378. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.