Agrimetrics: The World'€™s First Big Data Center for the Agri-Food Industry

Friday, February 17, 2017: 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
Room 311 (Hynes Convention Center)
Richard Tiffin, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
Agrimetrics is a new data centre providing a single point of access for publicly available and other datasets across the whole agri-food chain in the UK. The centre will encourage wider and better use of data to enable innovation in the industry. Chief scientist, Richard Tiffin, will talk about the opportunities and challenges of data integration to maximize benefits for the entire food system.