Global Speakers

Topic: Australia’s First Fully Automated Vertical Farms

Topic: Using Blockchain To Help Small Farms Improve Access To Credit, Receive Early Payments And Fetch Higher Prices For Their Farm Products

Topic: Soil Moisture Mapping For Precision Agriculture

Topic: Smart Farms Of The Future: Harnessing Real Time Analytics, AI And Geospatial Technologies To Enhance Crop Performance

Topic: Start Up Disrupting Agtech Technology Showcase: New Start-Ups Presentation

Topic: Analytics To Facilitate Data-Driven Farming Practices For Small-Scale Farmers

Topic: Impact Of Climate Change On Australian Crop Yields Over The Next 20 Years

Topic: 21 Years Of Precision Agriculture On Branson Farms: Successes, Failures, Economics, And Lessons Learnt

Topic: Predictive Analytics In Farming: From Early Detection Of Disease To Making Accurate Crop Decisions Based On Uncertain Climate Conditions

Topic: Integration of AgTech Into Urban Areas Through Experience Design

Topic: Understanding Australia’s Climate Change Impact On Crop Yields Over The Next Decade

Topic: Water And Nutrient Assessments Using Advanced Hyperspectral Imaging From Airborne Aircraft And Drones

Prof. Pablo J.  Zarco-Tejada is jointly appointed between the School of Agriculture and the Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne. Leader of the HyperSens Laboratory, he is primarily focusing on remote sensing, precision agriculture, forestry and natural vegetation biotic and abiotic stress detection using hyperspectral and thermal images acquired by manned and unmanned aircraft systems. He was awarded an Engineering Degree from the University of Córdoba, Spain, MSc in Remote Sensing (UK), and PhD in Earth and Space Science (Canada). He has been Faculty member of the University of California, Davis, USA, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (IAS-CSIC), and leader of the Laboratory for Research Methods in Quantitative Remote Sensing (QuantaLab-CSIC). Since 2012, he has been Senior Scientist at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission leading the development of remote sensing algorithms for biosecurity using thermal and hyperspectral remote sensing imagery. He has been principal investigator of projects with the European Union (EU), European Space Agency (ESA) and industry-funded contracts focused on precision agriculture and forestry. Author of over a hundred papers published in international journals, he is Associate Editor of Remote Sensing of Environment (RSE), the European Journal of Agronomy (EJA), Remote Sensing (RS), and has been recipient of awards during his scientific career in Spain, United Kingdom and Canada.

Topic: Enabling STEM And Agtech In Education

Topic: Advances In Smart Farming Robots

Topic: Innovative Motion Generation For Versatile Edgecutting Applications, Such As Fruit Picking In Orchard

Topic: Keynote: Case Studies Of Precision Agriculture Development And Practices Worldwide

Topic: Precision Based Substrate Irrigation Management Utilizing Measured And Predictive Transpiration Rates

Topic: Remote and Rural Telecommunications Now Has Business Grade Satellite Services

Topic: Panel Discussion – Overcoming Rural Broadband Access And Digital Skill Shortages For Farming In Australia