What: The 2025 Florida Technology & Innovation Solution Summit will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) will transform the state’s agriculture sector. Florida is poised to lead the nation in agricultural technology and AI, an area in which the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) is leading the way.
Developing agricultural technology will increase Florida’s ability to deal with labor shortages, foreign competition, pests and diseases. It will also boost the economy of Florida’s rural counties.
Featured Panel: Growing Smarter AgTech: What it Takes to Make Florida the Silicon Valley of Agriculture.
Time: 9:42 a.m. to 10:04 a.m. (the first breakout session), panelists include:
- Scott Angle, University of Florida senior vice president for agriculture and natural resources and leader of UF/IFAS. (moderator)
- Nathan Boyd, professor and associate director of the planned Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture (UF/IFAS).
- Gary Wishnatzki, owner, Wish Farms, co-founder, Harvest CROO Robotics.
- James Henningsen, president, College of Central Florida.
This panel will discuss the metamorphosis of Florida agriculture as a tech sector through academic- and industry-based development of an AI-literate, agricultural workforce. The Sunshine State will play a key role in feeding a world in which food production must virtually double by 2050.
Where: Grant Hyatt, Tampa Bay, 2900 Bayport Drive, Tampa.
When: The full summit runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., August 12.
Contact: For interviews, please contact Brad Buck, senior public relations specialist, UF/IFAS Communications, at 656-347-8422, or email bradbuck@ufl.edu.
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ABOUT UF/IFAS
The mission of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) is to develop knowledge relevant to agricultural, human and natural resources and to make that knowledge available to sustain and enhance the quality of human life. With more than a dozen research facilities, 67 county Extension offices, and award-winning students and faculty in the UF College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, UF/IFAS brings science-based solutions to the state’s agricultural and natural resources industries, and all Florida residents.
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