EFITA 2017, European congress dedicated to the future use of ICT in the agricultural, agro-food, bio-resources and biomass sectors, will take place on the 2-6th of July 2017 in Montpellier. This 11th Congress of the European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture is organized by Irstea and Montpellier SupAgro.
It will also be an occasion to reunite companies and researchers around meetings and stands.
In the same time, EFITA will welcome 2 international workshops : “IN-OVIVE” and “Agrifood system: Process engineering”.

Themes of the Congress

ICT for agriculture
Internet, field, farm, companies
Remote sensing and planning
Sensors, robotics and electronics for agriculture
Simulation and models for agriculture
Food chain and ICT policies in agriculture
Semantic interoperability and knowledges management
Bid data, analysis and visualisation

For more details

Contact : efita2017@irstea.fr – Scientists > Orlane Gadet – Companies > Pierre Péré

EFITA 2017 hosts the international workshops “IN-OVIVE” and “Agrifood system : Process engineering”

Workshop IN-OVIVE 2017
Integration of diverse sources and data (agriculture, food, environment) with the help of ontologies.
Contacts #DigitAg : Patrice Buche (INRA, UMR IATE ) and Pascal Neveu (INRA, UMR MISTEA)

Workshop “Agrifood system : Process engineering”
Process engineering in agricultural and agro-food systems. This workshops seeks to promote dialogue between experts of agricultural and agri-food complex systems, process engineers and ICT engineers, in order to improve sustainable development.
Contacts : Monika Varga, Kaposvar University, Hungary – varga.monika@ke.hu et Catherine Azzaro-Pantel, Catherine, Ensiacet, France – catherine.azzaropantel@ensiacet.fr

The week’s schedule

Sunday, 2nd July : Welcoming the congressmen and congresswomen for the hackathon #DigitAg Challenge
Monday, 3th – Wednesday, 5th July : Scientific workshops
Wednesday 5th July, afternoon : Relationships research – companies. Presentation of new technologies, meetings between researchers and enterprises.
Thursday 6th : Technical tour of ICT actors in Occitanie region

For more information about the schedule