Food Security Workshop
Secure a nutritious future
Location: Virtual
Microsoft Research Summit (opens in new tab) is a premier forum for the global research community to gather and discuss advances that could empower people in new ways and positively impact our world. This workshop was an extension of the event, where invited select individuals dove deeper to discuss collaboration opportunities related to food security and R&D in food production. The session on November 9 focused on modern R&D, while the session on November 10 walked through the various elements of FarmVibes.AI. All presentation slides and recordings can be found in the agenda below.
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Speakers
Ranveer Chandra
Managing Director, Research for Industry; Partner Manager, Networking Research; CTO, Agri-Food
Microsoft Research Redmond
Roberto Estevao
Research Software Engineer
Microsoft Research
Eduardo Rodrigues
Senior Research Software Engineer
Microsoft Research
Ronit Mandal
Post-Doctoral Scientist
Plant Protein Innovation Center
Agenda
Wednesday, November 9: Modern R&D
This session of the workshop focused on the challenges the Food R&D industry faces in efficiently transforming data-driven insights and technology advances into food products R&D. These talks focus on agriculture R&D related to genomics, computation chemistry, and ML techniques in R&D functions, to transform and ‘Modernize’ the R&D that leverages technology to enable agility, reduce cost, and deliver better outcomes.
| Time (Pacific Time) | Session |
|---|---|
| 5:00 PM | Opening | video (opens in new tab) Jiang Biang, Microsoft Research Asia |
| 5:05 PM | Recent AI advances for accelerating R&D | slides | video (opens in new tab) Jiang Biang, Microsoft Research Asia |
| 5:20 PM | Confidential clean rooms for Compliant AI | slides | video (opens in new tab) Satya Lokam, Microsoft Research India |
| 5:35 PM | Developing ML models to approximate and predict food protein digestibility | slides | video (opens in new tab) Sara Malvar, Microsoft Research |
| 5:55 PM | Applications of AI and ML in food process engineering: state of the art | slides | video (opens in new tab) Ronit Mandal, Plant Protein Innovation Center (PPIC) |
| 6:20 PM | Generative models and transformers for chemistry | slides | video (opens in new tab) Morris Sharp, Microsoft Research Redmond |
| 6:35 PM | Break |
| 6:45 PM | Introduction to ag-genomics | slides | video (opens in new tab) Angels de Luis Balaguer, Microsoft Research Redmond |
| 7:15 PM | Harnessing the power of AI for animal phenotyping | slides | video (opens in new tab) Joao Dorea, University of Wisconsin Madison |
| 7:55 PM | Leveraging AI to improve crop production | slides | video (opens in new tab) Swati Sharma, Microsoft Research Redmond |
| 8:25 PM | Trustworthy supply chains using DNA tags | slides | video (opens in new tab) Yuan-Jyue Chen, Microsoft |
| 8:40 PM | Closing | video (opens in new tab) Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Research Redmond |
Thursday, November 10: FarmVibes.AI Overview & Training
Microsoft Research recently released a new suite of farm-focused technologies into open-source. The Project FarmVibes.AI will help and empower researchers/data scientists to innovate and build their own AI Models. Using our cutting-edge research, we built and shared workflows that take some of the mundane tasks out, as well as sample workflows to get you jump-started, to use their expertise to build domain/scenario specific workflows and AI models. These workshop talks focused on providing introduction and training to these workflows and algorithms.
| Time (Pacific Time) | Session |
|---|---|
| 8:00 AM | Opening | video (opens in new tab) Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Research Redmond |
| 8:10 AM | FarmVibes.AI Intro | slides | video (opens in new tab) Leonardo Nunes, Microsoft Research |
| 8:40 AM | FarmVibes.AI OSS Overview and how to setup | slides | video (opens in new tab) Renato Luiz de Freitas Cunha, Microsoft Research Bruno Silva, Microsoft Research |
| 9:30 AM | Break |
| 9:35 AM | Model training notebook in FarmVibes.AI | slides | video (opens in new tab) Rafael Padilha, Microsoft Research |
| 10:25 AM | Weed Detection workflow | slides | video (opens in new tab) Alex Crown, Microsoft Research Redmond |
| 10:55 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM | SpaceEye in FarmVibes.AI | slides | video (opens in new tab) Roberto Estevao, Microsoft Research |
| 11:30 AM | Sustainability Practices/Land Degradation Workflows | slides | video (opens in new tab) Eduardo Rodrigues, Microsoft Research Roberto Santos, Microsoft Research |
| 11:55 AM | Closing | video (opens in new tab) Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Research Redmond |
Workshop organizers
Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Research Redmond
B. Ashok, Microsoft Research India
Jiang Bian, Microsoft Research Asia
Riyaz Pishori (opens in new tab), Microsoft Research Redmond
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