"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything..." (Richard Feynman)
In November 2017 I presented the eROSA project at the EOSC stakeholder workshop in Brussels. I gave a presentation about the Infrastructure needs of the Agri-Food community
During a Conference on the potential of big data in Agriculture, on wich keynotes were given by Takuji Kiura an myself, I was appointed Guest Professor at the Information and Documentation Center of the Chinese Academy of Science in Chengdu. I am proud of the collaboration with Chai Miaoling and her team and I am looki
Also in 2017 I represented GODAN at the G20 -MACS meeting (Meeting of Chief Agricultural Scientists). Together with Daniel Martini I gave a presentation about the results of working on open data in 2017, and especially on the Linked Open Data workshop organized by the Germann G20 presidency
In September 2009 I visited the Digital Research Institute of GKAH. GKAH is one of the biggest agricultural state companies in China. Particularly, it is among the 10 biggest Pig producers. GKAH aims to make their pig production more efficient and more sustainable. ERI is in charge to find worldwide state of the art methodologies. In 2017 ERI visited pig research institutions in UK, France and Denmark.
At the end of August 2017 I gave presentations on Agrisemantics and GACS at th 44th meeting of the Asian Pacific Advanced Network and at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science.
July 2015: I represented the GODAN initiative at the meeting of the European Federation of Information Technology in Agriculture. Parallel to the EFITA conference the first stakeholder workshop of the eROSA project took place, where I gave a presentation on different views on Infrastructure.
Since the APAN meeting 42 in Hongkong, there is engagement with GODAN. After my presentation at Hongkong to he APAN board, APAN joint GODAN. For APAN 43 in Delhi I was invited as a keynote speaker at the closing plenary