11h00 Session 1: Data collection and data platforms for the primary sector
- Video pitch: Agriculture living labs ILVO
The ILVO Living Lab Agrifood Technology helps companies and sectors with engineering agri-food processes. Mechanization and digitalization are often the key. The objective is to improve a range of processes within horticulture, arable farming, livestock farming and food processing, making them more sustainable and more efficient. During the demo, the possibilities of hyperspectral imaging and robotics for crop quality analyses and control will be demonstrated.
Simon Cool, ILVO
- Video pitch: AgriFood Croatia
AgriFood Croatia is an innovation hub that brings together research, businesses and public stakeholders in Croatia for the common pursuit of digital transformations in the aquaculture, agriculture and food related sectors. The mission of AgriFood Croatia is to contribute towards achieving the vision outlined in the EU Declaration of ‘A smart and sustainable digital future for European agriculture and rural areas’ and strengthen the national and European technological infrastructure.
Matija Bumbak, AgriFood Croatia
- Video pitch: COISPA Italy
COISPA Tecnologia & Ricerca is a cooperative of researchers and technicians founded in Bari, Italy, in 1978. The cooperative is running according to the no-profit principles of mutuality. The Stazione Sperimentale per lo Studio delle Risorse del Mare is the operational HQ of COISPA. It is located near the marina of Torre a Mare - Bari, via Dei Trulli 18/20.
COISPA practices an interdisciplinary approach to carry out applied research to the study of living marine resources, marine environments, fisheries, aquaculture and production of eco-system services. The Stazione Sperimentale houses offices, laboratories and facilities: 1) Laboratory of Ichthyology and Marine Ecology (LIME); 2) Modelling Laboratory (MOL); 3) Experimental Aquaculture Laboratory (EAL); 4) Energetic Metab
Giuseppe Lembo, COISPA
13h30 Session 2: Data collection, data management and data infrastructures for the food processing industry
- Video pitch: ASINCAR Food 4.0 Living Lab: A multifunctional place for supporting the digital transformation of food SMEs
ASINCAR Food Pilot Plant is an area of ca. 500 m² that reproduces the environment of a common food SME, including the different areas, equipment and working flows. Within the industry 4.0 paradigm, this site could be used for multiple activities supporting the digital path of food industries, as training, awareness activities, co-design of digital solutions, validation-prototyping-upscaling of technologies, tech transfer workshops or investment feasibility. The pilot plant already possesses a relevant digital infrastructure, including advanced sensors (NIR, hyperspectral), basic sensors, as well as an ERP and a IoT framework. Multiple digital applications for addressing key food challenges (food safety, quality, process control, traceability, resource efficiency) are implemented.
Roberto Morán Ramallal, EU Project Manager, ASINCAR Agrifood Cluster of Asturias
- Video pitch: The Smart FOODFACTORY: Where Food Meets IT
The Smart FOODFACTORY is designed as living lab for smart food processing. It offers project rooms for R&D and coworking spaces. Training and meeting areas are also planned, providing space for technical and transfer events. The Living Lab is currently under construction and will start operations in summer 2022.
Dr. Andrea Davis, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Witte, Smart FOODFACTORY and smartFoodTechnologyOWL at the OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts
- FoodTechBrainport: Without waste, healthy food for everyone
With our network of technology providers, food processing companies and knowledge and research institutions, we work on a future proof food industry. We connect the food processing industry to innovative technologies, talent, research and funding.
Dirk Van Ledden, FoodTechBrainport
14h50 Session 3: Data further downstream - at the retailer, food service and the consumer – and data in the value chain
- Video pitch: Smart Gastronomy lab: Let's build the food of tomorrow together
The Smart Gastronomy Lab is unique in its kind in its desire to mobilize players in the food landscape (consumers, producers, entrepreneurs, scientists, designers, dieticians, etc.) in order to respond to current and future food challenges.
Dr Dorothée Goffin, Manager SGL
- Video pitch: LABe Digital Gastronomy Lab - A place for open-ended innovation in which to rethink and co-create the gastronomy of the future in digital terms.
A full gastronomic ecosystem in which to co-create, experiment and drive the Future of the whole sector. Made up of a living lab, a hub for startups and businesses and an environment in which to encourage collaboration between key players in gastronomy.
Erich Eichstetter, Head of Digital Transformation / LABe Digital Gastronomy Lab
- Video pitch: Supermarket of the future
Digital technology is changing the way customers shop for groceries. As Coop Italia’s innovation partner, Accenture set out to help the retail giant connect with this new generation of internet-savvy shoppers—fueled by new technologies and devices. To showcase its commitment to providing the very best shopping experience for its members, Coop Italia wanted to create a welcoming and informative retail environment using advanced digital technologies. After unveiling the Supermarket of the Future showcase at Expo Milano, Accenture and Coop Italia brought the concept into the real world with Coop’s first Supermarket of the Future store in Milan, Italy.
Andrea Pertegato, Coop Italia
- Video pitch: Frami Food Lab at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences:
Frami Food Labs brings together the whole food system from field to fork and grain to tap. Grain analysis, chemical assays to food production and testing restaurant/kitchen.
Karri Kallio, Markus Ojala, Ilkka Latomäki, SeAMK (Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Food and Agriculture)