Dear Community Members,

We invite you to join us for the fourth session of our 2021 webinar series on The Extension Agent of the Future, "Analytics: How collective digital data can be turned into actionable data-driven agronomy insights". We will explore the role of new generation of agronomists using these tools and information. 

Traditionally, analytical-based agricultural decision-making relied on mathematical models that are not optimized for the complexity of agricultural systems with strong interactions across time and space. Newer data science approaches (e.g. data mining, AI, and geospatial statistics) can leverage newly available datasets and other sources of information (e.g. remote sensing, georeferenced ground data, social media, video, text, voice, and other mobile phone-based data) to make sense of the complexity and provide actionable recommendations towards agricultural extension.

In this webinar, we will explore how to move from collective digital information to data-driven agronomy insights, the role of analytics in providing decision support to extension programs, and how to decide what analytical tool is most appropriate to create context-specific content. 

The two speakers for this webinar are Alice Laborte, Unit Leader of Spatial Transformation of Landscapes at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), and Matt Miller, Lead Data Scientist at iSDA.

Daniel Jiménez, Leader of the Data-Driven Agronomy Community of Practice, and David Guerena, Research Strategist at the CGIAR Platform for Big Data, will host this session.