As part of the GODAN Open Data Challenge 2016, young entrepreneurs will gather to build prototype products and services that utilise open data to improve our food system in a significant, yet practical, way. Conference delegates are welcome to join the hackathon to observe and contribute to the team’s work.
For more information contact: godan@tffchallenge.comJoin the Initiative for Open Ag Funding and Agricultural Sector Package Working Group to explore the priority use-cases and open datasets on farming and funding. This hands-on and participatory workshop session will dig down to explore the particular fields, vocabularies and publishing practices needed to make data high-impact, interoperable and accessible.
Welcome by Andre Laperriere, Executive Director, GODAN Secretariat
Welcome by Amir Dossal, GODAN Summit Master of Ceremonies
Remarks by Catherine Brown, Chief Executive, UK Food Standards Agency
Remarks by Ian Boyd, Chief Scientific Adviser, UK DEFRA
Panel: Universities and the Open Data Revolution
*Moderated by Brady Deaton, BIFAD Chair & PUSH Steering Committee
*Lightning Presentation by University of Illinois
-- Amy Marshall-Colon, Assistant Professor
-- AJ Christensen, Visualization Programmer
* Glenda Humiston, Vice President, University of California
* Robert Jones, incoming Chancellor Univeristy of Illinois
* Sumantra Ray, NNEdPro Founding Chair, University of Cambridge and Honorary Professor
* Ignacio Pena, Founder, Surfing Tsunamis
Remarks by Tom Vilsack, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Panel: Leveraging Agriculture and Nutrition Open Data to Improve Investment
Moderated by: Steve Dauphin, Director, Kirchner Impact Foundation
*Dexter Paine, CEO, Paine + Partners
*Stephan Tanda, Executive Managing Board Director, DSM Royal
*Ann Aerts, Head, Novartis Foundation
*Rebecca Middleton, Executive Director, Alliance to End Hunger
Data collection and analysis are being refereed as one of the most important factors in communication of information. Data visualisation refers to the use of visualisations such as maps, dials, graphs, charts, etc. to communicate information in order to enable the audience to absorb and interpret data quickly and easily. For the agricultural sector, the use of data visualisation tools can help reveal important trends and different variables such as environmental factors, geographic location yield percentage, types of products, seed care data that effect changes to crop and yields. Nowadays, there are many data visualisation tools and software programmes open source and free that can give decision support for policy-makers, researchers, farmers for better planning. This session will outline some of the agriculture open data visualisation tools providing information on agricultural science and technology.
2016 GODAN High-Level Forum
United National Headquarters
ECOSOC Chamber
4:00pm Welcome Remarks
Mr. Amir Dossal, Global Partnerships Forum, Chair
4:05pm Voices of United Nations System
H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations (invited)
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the SDGs
Mr. Amir Abdulla, Deputy Executive Director, World Food Programme
Mr. Thomas Gass, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, UN DESA
4:25pm Presentation of the GODAN Petition
Ms. Judith Rowland, Head of U.S. Policy and Advocacy, Global Citizen
4:30pm Voices of GODAN Summit Visionaries
The Honorable Thomas Vilsack, Secretary, Department of Agriculture, United States of America
The Honorable Willy Bett, Minister, Ministry of Agriculture, Kenya
Dr. Mark Keenum, Chair, PUSH Steering Committee
Ms. Rachel Lambert, Interim Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for International Development, United Kingdom
4:50pm Call to Action
Mr. Amir Dossal, Global Partnerships Forum, Chair
4:55pm Open Intervention
Anyone in attendance may make interventions.
Please limit interventions to no more than 2 minutes.
5:25pm Closing Remarks
Mr. Amir Dossal, Global Partnerships Forum, Chair