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Harvesting tomorrow: Agrotopia's vision for 2084
February 14, 2024 from 10:45 am - February 14, 2025 from 12:00
Free
Kathy Steppe – Ghent University
Ghent, 2084… Will residents enjoy delicious, high-quality food produced in state-of-the-art crop production systems and biodiverse green community spaces, seamlessly integrated throughout the city? Are you hungry for knowledge and eager to learn more about how we integrate research across domains and develop visionary concepts and technologies within Ghent University's Agrotopia endowed chair, aimed at addressing the pressing global challenge of producing more food with dwindling land and resources? We will explore how pioneering technologies, such as advanced plant sensors, mechanistic plant models, imaging, and artificial intelligence, empower us to tackle this challenge like never before.