iTWire Tuesday, 11 May 2021 11:48 The biggest names in innovation to convene at T50 Melbourne
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The World’s Top 50 Innovators 2021 (T50 Melbourne) conference will bring the cream of the crop names in innovation, business, science, technology, politics, media, and academia.
World leading organisations including Pfizer and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are set to take centre stage at the World’s Top 50 Innovators 2021 (T50 Melbourne) to be held in Melbourne on October 14-22, co-hosted by Swinburne University of Technology and Codex.
For the first time, the event will take place outside London since it launched in 2005. The T50 Melbourne presented by Swinburne and Codex will gather some of the biggest names in innovation, business, science, technology, politics, media, and academia to Victoria in a unique and accessible conference.
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC-ANR) and
University of California Santa Barbara SmartFarm Project.
“The global agriculture ecosystem desperately needs a digital makeover. There is too much loss of productivity and innovation due to the absence of re-usable tools and data. I’m excited to lead this community of leaders, contributors and members – from across sectors and countries – to help build this common and re-usable resource – AgStack – that will help every stakeholder in global agriculture with free and open digital tools and data,” said Sumer Johal, Executive Director of AgStack.
Linux Foundation noted in its official AgStack announcement on Wednesday that 33 percent of all food produced is wasted, while nine percent of the people in the world are hungry or undernourished. These societal drivers are compounded with legacy technology systems that are too slow and inefficient and can’t work across the growing and more complex
Herbicide spraying is one of the least efficient agricultural activities, with over 80 percent wasted on bare ground and another 15 percent falling on the crop.
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