Slides of my talk at European Commission's Day on "Digitising agriculture and food value chains", November 17th 2017. Talking about the need to facilitate the flow of data in various value chains. Sharing our experience from a big and heterogeneous data vineyard pilot, as part of the H2020 Big Data Europe project. And describing our plans for extending this pilot to demonstrate big data flows in grapevine-powered value chains, as part of the upcoming H2020 Big Data Grapes project that we coordinate.

1. How can we improve food
production and safety
through an open approach?
Big & heterogeneous data flows
in agri-food value chains
Nikos Manouselis, CEO Agroknow

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Why am I here?
1

4. We find, connect and deliver
agriculture & food information
worldwide.
(for almost 10 years)

6. 6
Data should flow
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9. Data
flows
across
the
chains
(a lot)
data value chains

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An example: R&I
powered by grapes
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11. Grapevine
&
vineyard
R&D
SALES
Distribution
to EU +
global
marketsWinery
facilities
Processing
factories /
facilities
Extremely large & heterogeneous data flows
Cultivating &
testing grape
varieties in
experimental
vineyards
Measuring +
analyzing
properties /
behavior of
grape varieties
Aging & Bottling
Producing
grapes for
winemaking
Processing
grapes for
other products
Drying grapes
for raisins
Packaging
etc.
Producing
grape juice
for food
Processing
factories &
Chemistry
laboratories
Processing
grapes/juice to distill
phenolic extract for
natural cosmetics
Production
vineyards

12. Grapevine
&
vineyard
R&D
SALES
Distribution
to EU +
global
marketsWinery
facilities
Processing
factories /
facilities
Extremely large & heterogeneous data flows
Cultivating &
testing grape
varieties in
experimental
vineyards
Measuring +
analyzing
properties /
behavior of
grape varieties
Aging & Bottling
Producing
grapes for
winemaking
Processing
grapes for
other products
Drying grapes
for raisins
Packaging
etc.
Producing
grape juice
for food
Processing
factories &
Chemistry
laboratories
Processing
grapes/juice to distill
phenolic extract for
natural cosmetics
Production
vineyards
DECISION:RAW
MATERIAL +
PRODUCTS
SELECTION
DECISION: EFFICIENT
MANAGEMENT OF
VINEYARD
DECISION: PRODUCT
QUALITY CONTROL
& ASSURANCE
DECISION: SELECTION
OF RAW MATERIALS &
EXTRACTS AS SIDE
PRODUCTS
DECISION: BRAND
DEVELOPMENT &
STORYTELLING
DECISION:
INFORMING
CONSUMER CHOICE
…and many other
critical decisions
powered by data

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What’s next?
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16. Explore trusted data flows

17. Disrupt traditional chains

18. “We seek to catalyze the creation of a
powerful ecosystem…to increase the
pace of knowledge production for
agricultural innovation”The Chania
Declaration
Develop the data ecosystem

19. “Agriculture would benefit
hugely from a common
data ecosystem. Produced
and used by diverse
stakeholders…a shared
global data space would
help build the
infrastructures that will
propel the industry
forward.”

20. How can we improve food
production and safety
through an open approach?
Thank you
nikosm@agroknow.com