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Produced by: Paul Stahl, Executive, c21Virtual

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Moderated by: Prateep Basu, CEO, SatSure

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Session 1:               14:00 - 15:30

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• Introductory video: What is Precision Agriculture? Why it is a Likely Answer to Climate Change and Food Security?

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• Opening Remarks: Setting the Context

               

Prateep Basu, CEO, SatSure

 

• It’s Not About the Technology

David Burr, VP Business Development, Satellite Operators and Mobility, Comtech EF Data

 

“Too often our industry starts with the technology, rather than the customer”.  David’s presentation draws on practical experience of the Connected Farm Network and will examine a Brazilian case study… from the customers’ needs and motivations.

 

• Precision Agriculture and How Satellite IoT Plays a Critical Role

 

Suzanne Palmini, Director Satellite Solution Sales, Speedcast

 

Over the next decade, existing connectivity technologies will evolve, and new ones will emerge. Connectivity will be key to enabling IoT tools for transforming the agriculture industry, with applications ranging from smart-crop monitoring, drone farming, smart-livestock monitoring, autonomous-farming machinery, as well as accessing IoT platforms with data analytics needed for prescriptive maintenance and equipment management. This presentation will discuss how satellite connectivity – from traditional to emerging new LEO constellations – can provide mission-critical services and enable IoT tools for automation and digitalization that farmers need to increase productivity, improve health and safety measures, and unlock new business value.

 

• Leveraging SatIoT for Agriculture and Livestock

Fabien Jordan, Founder and CEO, Astrocast

 

Keeping track of livestock on an open range or crops in faraway fields is challenging. These are critical assets and companies need detailed information about their health. Unfortunately, connectivity in remote areas is rare. Knowing when it’s time to call your cattle in or when a silo is getting low, helps make important decisions that keep business running smoothly. SatIoT delivers a unique service specifically designed for tracking, monitoring and communicating with assets in remote regions. Fabien Jordan CEO of Astrocast will discuss how SatIoT can deliver a cost-effective way to keep remote assets close to headquarters.

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• High Frequency Satellite Imagery for Precision Farming

Zara Khan, Director Business Development, Planet

 

Planet's presentation will be referencing a number of use case scenarios within the precision farming framework, including Soil Preparation, Selective Seeding, Crop Health Monitoring, Issue Detection and Alerting, Directed Scouting, Localised Prescription Treatments, Harvest Planning and Management, Productivity Analysis and Management Zone Delineation.  

 

Session 2:               15:30 - 17:00

 

• Unlock the Full Potential with Satellite IoT

Jean-Michel Rouylou, Head of Enterprise and Broadband, ST Engineering iDirect

 

IoT-enabled farming is becoming more technology and connectivity driven. Yet the geographic scale of farming limits the use of many terrestrial and wireless connectivity options, so satellite connectivity in many cases is key to spurring an array of use cases for precision farming.  Service providers that want to build a new IoT service offering spanning all use cases from low, medium and high data rates require a highly efficient, cost-effective solution and in many cases flexible business models as they are entering this market for the first time. That’s why at ST Engineering iDirect we have launched flexible IoT Solutions to supplement our highly successful platforms and to ease the entry of service providers into the IoT market.

 

• Tech Livestock: the New Era 

Jaume Sanpera, Founder and CEO, Sateliot

 

Sateliot is the first Satellite Telecommunications Operator that provides full coverage IoT connectivity in NB- IoT standard (4G/5G) based on a LEO constellation of Nano satellites working as cell towers from space.  The focus of this presentation will be - A new era has come: How IoT will act as the catalyst for the livestock industry the improve the cattle heads life conditions.  Technology, efficiency and sustainability, the brand-new way.

 

• Agriculture 4.0

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Dinesh Singh, Group Leader, Digital Farming Initiative (Fisheries and Livestock), Tata Consultancy Services

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Referencing the "Agriculture 4.0 – The Future of Farming Technology", launched by the World Government Summit in collaboration with Oliver Wyman, for the 2018 edition of the international event, Dinesh will be focusing on the Digital Age and its Forces, Challenges of Agriculture, Agriculture 4.0 Core, Agriculture 4.0 Services, the Startups Ecosystem and the Challenges and Success Mantra.

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• Remote Sensing for Crop Monitoring

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Dr. Ramin Azar, CEO, Planetary Remote Sensing Inc.

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Precision agriculture using remote sensing technology provides farmers with scientific and applied methodologies to monitor fields and project the future of their harvest.  PRS offers services to agricultural industries in crop mapping, yield estimation, and nutrition and fertilizer implementation.  Dr. Azar will be speaking about crop monitoring, using optical and SAR data fusion, ERMES a European Project for Rice yield estimation and how crop yield estimation translates into food security.

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