SmartAg International Symposium 2017Smart Technologies and Innovations for Enhancing Agro-food SystemsDecember 3-6, 2017, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

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Sunday, December 3, 20175:30-8:00pm Welcome Reception and Dinner, Lincoln Room

Monday, December 4, 20177:00-8:00am Breakfast, Lincoln Room

8:00-8:30am Welcome and Opening Remarks, Auditorium. Chair: John Verboncoeur Lou Anna K. Simon, President, Michigan State University; Marina Ruggieri, Vice President of Technical Activities, IEEE; Darrin Drollinger, Executive Director, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers; Doug Buhler, Director, MSU AgBioResearch & Asst. Vice President of Research and Graduate Studies.

8:30-10:00am General Session, Auditorium. Chair: Renfu Lu Smart Ag: Creating the Future in Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.

Norman Scott, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Talking Tech: Making a Good Farm Even Better. Terrence Pickett, Manager, Advanced Engineering, John Deere Company, Des Moines, IA.

Smart Agriculture − Its Scale, Size, Shape and Shades. Hongda Chen, National Program Leader, USDA/NIFA, Washington, D.C.

10:00-10:30am Coffee Break, Lincoln Room

10:30am-12:30pm Technical Session, Auditorium. Chair: Ajit Srivastava Biosensing Technology for Smart Agriculture: Opportunities and Challenges.

Yanbin Li, Distinguished Professor and Tyson Endowed Chair in Biosensing Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.

Advanced Technologies & Innovation for Poultry & Food Processing. Douglas Britton, Principal Engineer and Manager, Agricultural Technology Program, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.

Agricultural Robotics: The Need, Impact and Strategy. Qin Zhang, Director, Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems and Professor, Department of Biosystems Engineering, Washington State University, Prosser, WA.

Smart Irrigation Technology for Conservation Agriculture. Harminder Singh Sidhu, Senior Research Engineer, CIMMYI, Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA), Ludhiana, India.

Use of Climate Information to Support Agricultural Decision-Making. Jeffrey Andresen, Professor, Department of Geography, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

12:30-1:30pm Lunch, Lincoln Room

1:30-2:00pm Lightning Presentations, Auditorium. Moderator: S. Mason Dambrot2:00-3:30pm Breakout Session A – Food Availability, Room 103AB. Facilitators: Thomas

Burks, Xiaobo Tan Breakout Session B – Food Accessibility, Utilization and Stability, Room 104AB.

Facilitators: Kevin Keener, Dharmendra Saraswat

3:30-4:00pm Coffee Break, Lincoln Room

4:00-5:00pm Report Back and Discussion, Auditorium. Chair: Ajit Srivastava

6:00-7:30pm Dinner, Lincoln Room

SmartAg International Symposium East Lansing, MI December 3-6, 2017

AGENDA

Tuesday, December 5, 20177:00-8:00am Breakfast, Lincoln Room

8:00-8:30am Opening Remarks, Auditorium

8:30-10:00am General Session, Auditorium. Chair: Larry Walker Challenges and Opportunities in Developing and Applying Smart Technologies

for the Food Industry. Juming Tang, Regent’s Professor, Department Chair & Distinguished Chair of Food Engineering, Department of Biosystems Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

Plasma and Lasers in Agriculture. PJ Cullen, Professor of Processing Engineering, University of Nottingham, UK.

Precision Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities. Ken Sudduth, Agricultural Engineer, USDA/ARS Cropping Systems and Water Quality Research Unit, Columbia, MO.

10:00-10:30am Coffee Break, Lincoln Room

10:30am-12:30pm Technical Session, Auditorium. Chair: Shane Ward Internet of Agriculture. Vladimir Crnojevic, Director of BioSense Institute, Serbia. From Digital Models to Sector Capabilities. Brian King, Coordinator, CGIAR

Platform for Big Data in Agriculture, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Colombia.

Challenges and Opportunities In Modeling and Predicting Crop Production. Gerrit Hoogenboom, Preeminent Scholar, Institute for Sustainable Food Systems; Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

Challenges and Opportunities in Mainstreaming Climate Smart Agriculture with Special Reference to Semiarid Regions in India. Shalander Kumar, Principal Scientist, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India.

Ground-based Remote Sensing and its Application for Site Specific Irrigation Management. Susan O’Shaughnessy, Research Agricultural Engineer, USDA/ARS, Bushland, Texas.

12:30-1:30pm Lunch, Lincoln Room

1:30-2:00pm Lightning Presentations, Auditorium. Moderator: Paul Heinemann2:00-3:30pm Breakout Session A – Food Availability, Room 103AB. Facilitators: Clyde

Fraisse, Shufeng Han Breakout Session B – Food Accessibility, Utilization and Stability, Room 104AB.

Facilitators: PJ Cullen, Dharmendra Saraswat3:30-4:00pm Coffee Break, Lincoln Room

4:00-5:00pm Report Back and Discussion, Auditorium. Chair: Ajit Srivastava

Wednesday, December 67:00-8:00am Breakfast, Lincoln Room

8:00-10:00am Workshop on Development of Blueprint for Future Activities, Room 103AB. Chair: John Verboncoeur

10:00-10:30am Coffee Break, Lincoln Room

10:30-11:30am Wrap up for the Workshop

SmartAg International Symposium East Lansing, MI December 3-6, 2017

AGENDA

SmartAg International Symposium 2017Smart Technologies and Innovations

Advisory Committee ChairDr. Norman Scott, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Committee ChairsExecutive Committee and IEEE SmartAg Ad-Hoc Committee ChairDr. John Verboncoeur, Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

Symposium Committee General ChairDr. Renfu Lu, Research Leader, U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA/ARS), East Lansing, MI.

Invited Speakers

Technical Session

• Jeffrey Andresen, Professor, Department of Geography, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

• Dr. Douglas Britton, Principal Engineer and Manager, Agricultural Technology Program, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.

• Dr. Vladimir Crnojevic, Director, BioSense Institute, Serbia.

• Dr. Gerrit Hoogenboom, Preeminent Scholar, Institute for Sustainable Food Systems; Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

• Brian King, Coordinator, CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Colombia.

• Dr. Shalander Kumar, Principal Scientist, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India.

• Dr. Yanbin Li, Distinguished Professor and Tyson Endowed Chair in Biosensing Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.

• Dr. Susan O’Shaughnessy, Research Agricultural Engineer, USDA/ARS, Bushland, TX.

• Dr. Harminder Singh Sidhu, Senior Research Engineer, CMMYT, Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA), Ludhiana, India.

• Dr. Qin Zhang, Professor and Director, Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems, Washington State University, Prosser, WA.

Technical Program Committee Chair Dr. Ajit Srivastava, Professor, Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

General Session

• Dr. Hongda Chen, National Program Leader, USDA/NIFA, Washington, D.C.

• Dr. Patrick Cullen, Professor, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

• Mr. Terrence Pickett, Manager of Advanced Engineering, John Deere Company, Des Moines, IA.

• Dr. Norman Scott, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

• Dr. Ken Sudduth, Agricultural Engineer, USDA/ARS, Columbia, MO.

• Dr. Juming Tang, Regent’s Professor and Distinguished Chair of Food Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

Moderators & Facilitators

• Dr. Tom Burks, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

• Dr. PJ Cullen, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

• Dr. S. Mason Dambrot, IEEE SMC (Systems, Man, and Cybernetics), NJ.

• Dr. Cylde Fraisse, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

• Dr. Shufeng Han, John Deere Intelligent Solutions Group, Urbandale, IA.

• Dr. Paul Heinemann, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.

• Dr. Kevin Keener, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.

• Dharmendra Saraswat, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

• Dr. Xiaobo Tan, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

• Dr. Larry Walker, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

• Dr. Shane Ward, University College Dublin, Ireland.