Presenting the Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP) and the IBP Breeding Management System at the Symposium on Crop Breeding Databases, held by
the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) and the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) for their Annual Meeting in Minneapolis.
Magni Bjarnason, IBP Breeding Specialist, presenting at Stuttgart-Hohenheim Symposium: "The Breeder’s eye, today and tomorrow: Innovations in Plant Breeding"
Seeding organic agriculture courses on Moodle: the agriMoodle CaseVassilis Protonotarios
Presentation on agriMoodle delivered at the "Life for Agriculture - Agriculture for Life" international Conference.
6/6/2014, USAMVB, Bucharest, Romania. More info at http://agricultureforlife.usamv.ro/index.php/en/
Enabling the Exchange and use of Data in AgricultureLIBER Europe
This presentation by Imma Subirats was part of the "Research Data Support Meets Disciplines: Opportunities & Challenges" workshop at LIBER's 2017 Annual Conference in Patras, Greece. For more information, see www.libereurope.eu
Presenting the Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP) and the IBP Breeding Management System at the Symposium on Crop Breeding Databases, held by
the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) and the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) for their Annual Meeting in Minneapolis.
Magni Bjarnason, IBP Breeding Specialist, presenting at Stuttgart-Hohenheim Symposium: "The Breeder’s eye, today and tomorrow: Innovations in Plant Breeding"
Seeding organic agriculture courses on Moodle: the agriMoodle CaseVassilis Protonotarios
Presentation on agriMoodle delivered at the "Life for Agriculture - Agriculture for Life" international Conference.
6/6/2014, USAMVB, Bucharest, Romania. More info at http://agricultureforlife.usamv.ro/index.php/en/
Enabling the Exchange and use of Data in AgricultureLIBER Europe
This presentation by Imma Subirats was part of the "Research Data Support Meets Disciplines: Opportunities & Challenges" workshop at LIBER's 2017 Annual Conference in Patras, Greece. For more information, see www.libereurope.eu
This is a presentation that outlined the ACAI project’s progress, the process of DSTs development and the status of the project and an overview of activities for the last three years of ACAI
Summary of the project - The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative aims at delivering agronomic technologies that improve cassava root yield and quality, and cassava supply to the processing sector, engaging 120,000 farming households through effective partnerships with development partners in Nigeria and Tanzania, supported by the National Agricultural Research Systems, and in collaboration with strategic research institutes. The project consists of six use cases, identified by development partners, and has developed decision support tools, supplying tailored or site-specific recommendations on fertilizer use, fertilizer blend formulations, tillage practices, intercropping and scheduled planting and harvest and high starch content.
The knowledge needed to develop these decision support tools is generated by applying the principles of “Agronomy at Scale”, combining field trials to test and develop best agronomic interventions, modelling to build prediction models, GIS and spatial modelling to extrapolate recommendations across the target intervention area, development of DSTs to supply recommendations through a practical field tool, and extension activities to scale the use of the tools within partner networks.
The implementation progress per six work streams: (i) strategic agronomy research and crop modelling, (ii) geospatial analysis and data management, (iii) DST development, (iv) facilitation of use of the DSTs, (v) Capacity development of national research institutions, (vi) Project governance, management, coordination, and M&E.
Agricultural Data Interest Group & Wheat Data Working Group of RDAVassilis Protonotarios
Presentation delivered during the "Engagement in RDA from Southern-Eastern Europe, Mediterranean and Caucasus region" Workshop. 25/6/2015, Athens, Greece
Developing open data tools and portals: experiences of impact deliverygodanSec
Nienke Beintema (IFPRI) presented at the 2nd International Workshop: Creating Impact with Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition in The Hague, 11 September 2015.
Presented by Yihenew Zewdie, Consultant for Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa, Environment and Production Technology Division (EPTD), IFPRI.
Reflections on making EFSA an open science organisationNikos Manouselis
Slides of talk at the Workshop on e-Infrastructures supporting Food Safety Risk Assessment, hosted by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Parma, May 13th, 2015.
The goal of the SC2 Pilot is to demonstrate the ability of Big Data technologies to complement existing community-driven systems (e.g. VITIS for the Viticulture Research Community) with efficient large-scale back-end processing workflows.
Delivering systematic information on indigenous farm animal genetic resources...ILRI
Presented by Tadelle Dessie at the National Institute of Animal Science (NIAS) Meeting on Development of Genomic Characterization Protocols for Rational Conservation and Utilization of Avian Genetic Resources, South Korea, October 2011.
Dr Jean-Marcel Ribaut presents the GCP case study during the session on Developing World Crops at the CROPS conference, organised in May 2015 by the HudsonAlpha Institute for biotechnology, in Huntsville, Alabama, USA.
This presentation was provided by Mark Hahnel of Figshare, during the NISO Hot Topic Virtual Conference "Building Access, Openness, and Sharing." The event was held on Wednesday, September 28, 2022.
This is a presentation that outlined the ACAI project’s progress, the process of DSTs development and the status of the project and an overview of activities for the last three years of ACAI
Summary of the project - The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative aims at delivering agronomic technologies that improve cassava root yield and quality, and cassava supply to the processing sector, engaging 120,000 farming households through effective partnerships with development partners in Nigeria and Tanzania, supported by the National Agricultural Research Systems, and in collaboration with strategic research institutes. The project consists of six use cases, identified by development partners, and has developed decision support tools, supplying tailored or site-specific recommendations on fertilizer use, fertilizer blend formulations, tillage practices, intercropping and scheduled planting and harvest and high starch content.
The knowledge needed to develop these decision support tools is generated by applying the principles of “Agronomy at Scale”, combining field trials to test and develop best agronomic interventions, modelling to build prediction models, GIS and spatial modelling to extrapolate recommendations across the target intervention area, development of DSTs to supply recommendations through a practical field tool, and extension activities to scale the use of the tools within partner networks.
The implementation progress per six work streams: (i) strategic agronomy research and crop modelling, (ii) geospatial analysis and data management, (iii) DST development, (iv) facilitation of use of the DSTs, (v) Capacity development of national research institutions, (vi) Project governance, management, coordination, and M&E.
Agricultural Data Interest Group & Wheat Data Working Group of RDAVassilis Protonotarios
Presentation delivered during the "Engagement in RDA from Southern-Eastern Europe, Mediterranean and Caucasus region" Workshop. 25/6/2015, Athens, Greece
Developing open data tools and portals: experiences of impact deliverygodanSec
Nienke Beintema (IFPRI) presented at the 2nd International Workshop: Creating Impact with Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition in The Hague, 11 September 2015.
Presented by Yihenew Zewdie, Consultant for Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa, Environment and Production Technology Division (EPTD), IFPRI.
Reflections on making EFSA an open science organisationNikos Manouselis
Slides of talk at the Workshop on e-Infrastructures supporting Food Safety Risk Assessment, hosted by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Parma, May 13th, 2015.
The goal of the SC2 Pilot is to demonstrate the ability of Big Data technologies to complement existing community-driven systems (e.g. VITIS for the Viticulture Research Community) with efficient large-scale back-end processing workflows.
Delivering systematic information on indigenous farm animal genetic resources...ILRI
Presented by Tadelle Dessie at the National Institute of Animal Science (NIAS) Meeting on Development of Genomic Characterization Protocols for Rational Conservation and Utilization of Avian Genetic Resources, South Korea, October 2011.
Dr Jean-Marcel Ribaut presents the GCP case study during the session on Developing World Crops at the CROPS conference, organised in May 2015 by the HudsonAlpha Institute for biotechnology, in Huntsville, Alabama, USA.
This presentation was provided by Mark Hahnel of Figshare, during the NISO Hot Topic Virtual Conference "Building Access, Openness, and Sharing." The event was held on Wednesday, September 28, 2022.
Innovation in plant breeding is imperative to meet the growing demand for staple food crops in developing countries. Modernizing breeding was therefore a major objective of the Generation Challenge Programme (GCP, http://www.generationcp.org). In this endeavor,the GCP createdthe Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP, https://www.integratedbreeding.net),to provide breeding material,knowledge and tools to assist researchers in their work,including custom-built software forreliable data management – the Breeding Management System (BMS Pro).These activities were sustained mainly through funding by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,which ended this last September after 10 years of direct collaboration. The IBP has proven to be agile, adaptable and bold over the years, and is now applying the same spirit and resolve to find revenue from both public and private sources to continue serving its broad basis of stakeholders, among which national programs in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remainfront and center. BMS Pro – a professional-grade software package distributed through LAN or cloud – is being used by close to 700 users in over 30 organizations of different types around the world (17 in SSA). We have learned that digitizing breeding is less about technology than it is about changing mindsets;it requires proper support on the ground,and thatmanagement commits to empower adoption within institutions. Although there is still some way to go before reaching routine adoption, a solid basis has been established and continues to be supported by a new generation of African breeders.Breeding digitization in Africa is well underway.
The overall food system nearly reached the next strategic inflection point. IoT technology, data sharing and consumers’ demand for sustainable production methods are pushing limits. More than ever, agricultural production needs to deploy knowledge intensive farming practices and increase data sharing. Existing data exchange platforms need to become open data exchange ecosystems managing data owners’ consent and facilitate dynamic collaboration of stakeholders. This shall increase productivity and reduce food loss and waste of the circular food system from Farm2Fork.
FIWARE open-source software and agri-food data models are a cornerstone to facilitate this development. New sources of data can be made accessible, while decreasing effort for aggregating, processing, providing, and accessing data. This session is presenting different practical examples for data usage at the farm site and of partners collaborating along the food supply chain towards consumers helping them to learn about their choices.
The session will also summarise challenges and opportunities of the future of connected agriculture. This is specifically considering a technological perspective. At the same time, you will have the opportunity to meet colleagues from different sectors and business domains, aiming at building the foundation of the future data economy for food systems. This will offer the opportunity to learn about synergies considering the close integration of agriculture in smart villages as well as advanced food production and delivery systems that are at the heart of smart cities.
Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Developmentiaaldafrika
Presentation made at the Second Conference of the IAALD Africa Chapter on the theme "Towards Opening Access to Information & Knowledge in the Agricultural Sciences and Technology in Africa" held at M Plaza Hotel, Accra, Ghana, 15th - 17th July 2009.
Presented at the High-Level Ministerial (HLM) Conference on Rice Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 25 September 2018
Dakar, Senegal
Abebe Haile-Gabriel
FAO Regional Programme Leader for Africa, RAF
Presented at the High-Level Ministerial (HLM) Conference on Rice Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 25 September 2018
Dakar, Senegal
Presented by Dr Harold Roy-Macauley
Director General, Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice)
Presented at the High-Level Ministerial (HLM) Conference on Rice Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 25 September 2018
Dakar, Senegal
Presented by Dr Amadou Beye, Seed Specialist,
Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice)
Recensement électronique et géo-référence des acteurs de la chaine de valeur riz: cas des pays TAAT
Aminou A. et Aboudou Rachidi
TAAT Rice Compact Launch and Knowledge Sharing Workshop
6 - 7 September 2018
M’be, Bouake
Cote d’Ivoire
Partnerships for efficient quality seed production and variety dissemination
Saidu Bah
Seed & Seed Systems Expert
The Africa Rice Center
TAAT Rice Compact Launch and Knowledge Sharing Workshop
6 - 7 September 2018
M’be, Bouake
Cote d’Ivoire
AfricaRice Director General Dr Harold Roy-Macauley made a presentation on “Achieving rice self-sufficiency in Africa,” which served as a basis for an in-depth discussion by a panel of speakers consisting of Mr Ade Adefeko, Vice President and Head of Corporate and Government Relations at Olam-Nigeria; Mr Pieter Grobler, Head of Land Development at Dangote Rice Limited; and Mr Busuyi Okeowo, Deputy Team Leader at Growth & Employment in States (GEMS 4), Nigeria.
The panel discussion was organized as part of the Third Edition of the Agra Innovate West Africa Conference, on 23 November 2016 in Lagos, Nigeria, with support from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) and the Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG).
L’autosuffisance de l’Afrique en riz : opportunités et défis à l’échelledu continent africain by Dr Harold Roy-Macauley, Directeur général, AfricaRice. -- Table ronde, Montpellier, France, 28 septembre 2016 Organisée en marge de la 14ème symposium international sur la génomique fonctionnelle du riz
"Autosuffisance du riz en Côte d‘Ivoire Contribution d’AfricaRice" -- Harold Roy-Macauley's presentation the Ivorian dignitaries who met with the members of the AfricaRice Board of Trustees on 8 Sep 2016 during the 40th Board meeting at AfricaRice headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
Harold Roy-Macauley's presentation on "Global research partnership efforts: tackling food and environmental challenges in sub-Saharan Africa" at the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) Side Event organized by the World Bank on the “Future of Food in sub-Saharan Africa: Reviewing progress, charting next steps” held in Nairobi, Kenya, 26 August 2016.
Harold Roy-Macauley's presentation on "Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice): A CGIAR research center and pan-African association of member countries" to the World Bank delegation from Côte d'Ivoire led by Mr Pierre Laporte, World Bank Country Director for Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Togo based in Abidjan, visited AfricaRice headquarters on 15 July 2016. The other members of the delegation were Mr Abdoulaye Touré, Lead Agricultural Economist and Task Team Leader of WAAPP-World Bank (Africa Bureau); and Mr Taleb Ould Sid Ahmed, Senior Communications Officer. Mr Hiroshi Hiraoka, Senior Agriculture Economist, AFTA2, World Bank and member of the Coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) Steering Committee also accompanied the delegation.
AfricaRice Director General Dr Harold Roy-Macauley leading the panel discussion on "Africa Riceing : Mobilizing and applying science and complementary resources to achieve self–sufficiency in rice in Africa." at the 7th Africa Agriculture Science Week and FARA General Assembly, Kigali, Rwanda, on 14 June 2016
3rd Africa Rice Congress
Theme 5: Innovation systems and ICT tools for rice value chain
Mini symposium 4: Making science work: building innovation systems
Author: Berlin
Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation - Final Version - 5.23...John Andrews
SlideShare Description for "Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation"
Title: Chatty Kathy: Enhancing Physical Activity Among Older Adults
Description:
Discover how Chatty Kathy, an innovative project developed at the UNC Bootcamp, aims to tackle the challenge of low physical activity among older adults. Our AI-driven solution uses peer interaction to boost and sustain exercise levels, significantly improving health outcomes. This presentation covers our problem statement, the rationale behind Chatty Kathy, synthetic data and persona creation, model performance metrics, a visual demonstration of the project, and potential future developments. Join us for an insightful Q&A session to explore the potential of this groundbreaking project.
Project Team: Jay Requarth, Jana Avery, John Andrews, Dr. Dick Davis II, Nee Buntoum, Nam Yeongjin & Mat Nicholas
Adjusting OpenMP PageRank : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
For massive graphs that fit in RAM, but not in GPU memory, it is possible to take
advantage of a shared memory system with multiple CPUs, each with multiple cores, to
accelerate pagerank computation. If the NUMA architecture of the system is properly taken
into account with good vertex partitioning, the speedup can be significant. To take steps in
this direction, experiments are conducted to implement pagerank in OpenMP using two
different approaches, uniform and hybrid. The uniform approach runs all primitives required
for pagerank in OpenMP mode (with multiple threads). On the other hand, the hybrid
approach runs certain primitives in sequential mode (i.e., sumAt, multiply).
06-04-2024 - NYC Tech Week - Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
Round table discussion of vector databases, unstructured data, ai, big data, real-time, robots and Milvus.
A lively discussion with NJ Gen AI Meetup Lead, Prasad and Procure.FYI's Co-Found
06-04-2024 - NYC Tech Week - Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
https://www.meetup.com/unstructured-data-meetup-new-york/
This meetup is for people working in unstructured data. Speakers will come present about related topics such as vector databases, LLMs, and managing data at scale. The intended audience of this group includes roles like machine learning engineers, data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, and PMs.This meetup was formerly Milvus Meetup, and is sponsored by Zilliz maintainers of Milvus.
The Building Blocks of QuestDB, a Time Series Databasejavier ramirez
Talk Delivered at Valencia Codes Meetup 2024-06.
Traditionally, databases have treated timestamps just as another data type. However, when performing real-time analytics, timestamps should be first class citizens and we need rich time semantics to get the most out of our data. We also need to deal with ever growing datasets while keeping performant, which is as fun as it sounds.
It is no wonder time-series databases are now more popular than ever before. Join me in this session to learn about the internal architecture and building blocks of QuestDB, an open source time-series database designed for speed. We will also review a history of some of the changes we have gone over the past two years to deal with late and unordered data, non-blocking writes, read-replicas, or faster batch ingestion.
Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
1. Overview of CGIAR’s Big Data
Platform
Medha Devare
Sr. Research Fellow – IFPRI
[Big Data Platform Module Lead]
Ibnou Dieng
AfricaRice
February 15, 2019
2. The goal of the Big Data Platform is to harness the capabilities
of data to accelerate and enhance the impact of international
agricultural research.
5. Journals increasingly require data underlying publications to be shared
or deposited within an accessible database or repository – as a
condition for publication.
…and there are a growing number of data journals, that provide
citations similar to those for publications – may be used as KPIs…
Why share data? Journal requirements
6. Piwowar, H.A et al.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone
.0000308
Why share data? Citation advantages
Publicly available data was significantly (p = 0.006)
associated with a 69% increase in citations, independently
of journal impact factor, date of publication, and author
country of origin ...
7. “The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.”
– Carly Fiorina, former executive, president, and chair of Hewlett-Packard
8. Hey Cigi, should I direct seed or transplant my rice?
How should I manage my crop?
Real-time decision support for farmers
Easy natural language as an interface
Smart artificial intelligence trained by
CGIAR and partners
Leveraging open, harmonized and
interoperable “small” data into
queriable large data pool
9.
10. 1. Making data FAIR: Technical support towards CGIAR Center and partner
efforts to make data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
2. Enabling data discovery: Enable the contextually-linked discovery of
resources (research outputs, experts, geographies) across CGIAR.
3. Building capacity: Facilitate FAIR data and comfort with Big Data technologies
- the power and the risks (in-person; guidance materials; webinars).
4. Enabling data exploration, analysis, visualization: Leverage interoperability
and reusability to allow semantic exploration and seamless “plug and play”
with analytical and visualization tools.
How is the Platform helping with CGIAR’s FAIRy tale?
11. Support for Center repositories to implement CG Core Metadata Schema; tools
to facilitate repository and data-level metadata entry using CG Core elements,
AGROVOC, ontologies
Refine and develop Crop Ontology, AgrO, SociO; invest in tools to enable data
annotation
Facilitate standardization of agronomic trial data at collection rather than at
archiving, via ontology-based field book (field-testing starts early 2019)
Support for Interoperability...
12. Support for Reusability (best practices in privacy/ethics)……
https://bigdata.cgiar.org/responsible-data-guidelines/
13. Getting to (and leveraging) FAIR…
http://gardian.bigdata.cgiar.org/
21. Zoom in on map and drop pin for pop-
up summary of “rice rainfed yield” for
the country (Benin) – from SPAM 2005;
data from 2010 and 2015 coming soon
22. …or use polygon feature for summary
of “rice rainfed yield” in a particular
area of interest…
23. Collaborate and convene around data and
agricultural R4D
Developing Technical Partnerships
Providing Shared Services (data and tools)
Providing Technical Training
Supporting six Communities of Practice
Mini-Grants for Key Datasets
Convene
CommunitiesofPractice
Data-Driven Agronomy | CIAT
Crop Modeling | CIMMYT
Geospatial Analysis | IFPRI
Livestock Data | Univ. Edinburgh
Ontologies | Bioversity Int’l
Socio-Economic Data | CIMMYT
Plus…?
24.
25. Innovation process to enhance data
science research in CRPs
Competition
5 pilots (100K ea); 1 scale-up (250K)
Criteria
- Data use
- Scale
- Impact
- Sustainability
- Innovation
Inspire
Topics
- Revealing Food System Flows
- Monitoring Pests & Diseases
- Disrupting Impact Assessment
- Empowering Data-Driven Farming
26. S. Mohapatra: Head, Marketing & Communications
C. Kacou: Interim Head of ICT Unit
M. Bernard: Head Knowledge Management
P. Kouame: Data Manager
AfricaRice Contributors