Agenda
*Subject to change until closer to the date.
| Monday March 30, 2026 | ||
| 7:00 AM- 10:00 AM | Bus from hotels to Plant Sciences Building | Plant Sciences Building 840 Oval Drive |
| 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Multi-State Committee Meetings for S1090 (agenda) and S1098 (agenda) projects. Additional registration cost. | Plant Sciences Building 840 Oval Drive |
| 4:30 PM – 5:15 PM | Tour 1 of the Plant Sciences Building. 27-minute walk or 5 minute ride from the StateView Hotel. | Plant Sciences Building 840 Oval Drive |
| 5:30 PM – 6:15 PM | Tour 2 of the Plant Sciences Building. 27-minute walk or 5 minute ride from the StateView Hotel. | Plant Sciences Building 840 Oval Drive |
| 4:15 PM – 7:30 PM | Bus to hotels | Plant Sciences Building 840 Oval Drive |
Tuesday March 31, 2026 | ||
| 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM | Breakfast and Registration | StateView Hotel |
| 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Tour Syngenta and Lake Wheeler Road Field Lab | Research Triangle Park & NC State Campus |
| 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Concurrent Workshops | |
| Workshop 1: From AI Pest Detection to Scalable Deployment: Hands On YOLO & AWS for Agriculture | StateView Hotel, Synergy | |
| Workshop 2: Precision Sustainable Agriculture Tools: Production-Ready Decision Support | StateView Hotel, Fusion | |
| Workshop 3: Agricultural Analytics with SAS Viya: Scalable Data and Modeling (Academia only) | StateView Hotel, Viewpoint | |
| Workshop 4: AI‑Ready Pesticide Labels: Building the Digital Foundation for Smart Agriculture (Academia only, 20 spots) | Dorothy and Roy Park Alumni Center, Chancellor’s Reception Room | |
| 12:00 PM – 12:40 PM | Lunch and Networking | StateView Hotel, Fusion (Main), Synergy (Overflow, Livestream) |
| 12:40 PM – 1:00 PM | Welcome Remarks Dani Jones, Assistant Professor, Biological & Agricultural Engineering Department Garey Fox, Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) Benjamin Easter, Legislative Assistant, Senator Ted Budd (R-NC) | StateView Hotel, Fusion (Main), Synergy (Overflow, Livestream) |
| 1:00 PM – 1:40 PM | Keynote: Gyami Shrestha, Founder and Principal Consultant, Carboneers LLC From Policy to the Field: Rethinking AI for the Future of Agriculture | StateView Hotel, Fusion (Main), Synergy (Overflow, Livestream) |
| 1:40 PM – 2:20 PM | Digital Ag Institutes Panel | StateView Hotel, Fusion (Main), Synergy (Overflow, Livestream) |
| 2:20 PM – 2:40 PM | Coffee Break | |
| 2:40 PM – 3:10 PM | Joint Plenary: Linking Space to Farm Ignacio Ciampitti, Professor, Purdue University Kaiyu Guan, Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | StateView Hotel, Fusion (Main), Synergy (Overflow, Livestream) |
| 3:10 PM – 3:40 PM | Group Picture on the stairs of the Alumni Center | Dorothy and Roy Park Alumni Center |
| 3:40 PM – 4:45 PM | Poster Session Odd Numbers link | Dorothy and Roy Park Alumni Center, Great Reception Room |
| 4:45 PM – 4:55 PM | Break | |
| 4:55 PM – 6:00 PM | Poster Session Even Numbers link | Dorothy and Roy Park Alumni Center, Great Reception Room |
Wednesday April 1, 2026 | ||
| 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Breakfast and Registration | |
| 8:30 AM – 9:10 AM | Keynote: Sebastian Villegas, CEO, Asimetrix Closing the Loop: From Research to Real-Time Impact with AI in Commercial Livestock | StateView Hotel, Fusion (Main), Synergy (Overflow, Livestream) |
| 9:10 AM – 9:50 AM | Precision Livestock Panel | StateView Hotel, Fusion (Main), Synergy (Overflow, Livestream) |
| 9:50 AM – 10:10 AM | Coffee Break and Networking | |
| 10:10 AM – 11:40 AM | Concurrent Technical Sessions link and Hands-On AI for Extension Workshop | StateView Hotel, Fusion |
| 11:40 AM – 12:00 PM | Lunch and Networking | |
| 12:00 PM – 12:40 PM | Keynote: Jonathan Mueller, Engineering Leader, John Deere Unpack the Impact | StateView Hotel, Fusion (Main), Synergy (Overflow, Livestream) |
| 12:40 PM – 1:10 PM | Joint Plenary: Building the Farmer Network Chris Reberg-Horton, Professor, NC State University Steven Mirsky, Research Ecologist, USDA-ARS | StateView Hotel, Fusion (Main), Synergy (Overflow, Livestream) |
| 1:10 PM – 1:20 PM | Break and Networking | |
| 1:20 PM – 2:50 PM | Concurrent Technical Sessions link | StateView Hotel |
| 2:50 PM – 3:10 PM | Coffee Break and Networking | |
| 3:10 PM – 3:50 PM | Grower Perspectives Panel | StateView Hotel, Fusion (Main), Synergy (Overflow, Livestream) |
| 3:50 PM – 4:00 PM | Break and Networking | |
| 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM | Concurrent Technical Sessions link | StateView Hotel |
| 5:15 PM – 5:35 PM | Break | |
| 5:35 PM – 6:00 PM | Bus from hotels to dinner | |
| 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Dinner and Social Event | NC Museum of Natural Sciences |
| 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Transportation from Dinner (Buses will stop at both hotels. Last bus at 8:50PM.) | |
Thursday April 2, 2026 | ||
| 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Breakfast and Registration | |
| 8:30 AM – 9:10 AM | Keynote: Zach Marston, Cropwise AI Manager, Syngenta Beyond the Pilot: Scaling AI from the Lab to the Field | StateView Hotel, Fusion (Main), Synergy (Overflow, Livestream) |
| 9:10 AM – 9:50 AM | Investing in AI in Agriculture Panel | StateView Hotel, Fusion (Main), Synergy (Overflow, Livestream) |
| 9:50 AM – 10:10 AM | Coffee Break and Networking | |
| 10:10 AM – 11:25 AM | Concurrent Technical Sessions link | StateView Hotel |
| 11:25 AM – 11:35 AM | Break | |
| 11:35 AM – 12:50 PM | Concurrent Technical Sessions link | StateView Hotel |
| 12:50 PM– 1:00 PM | Break | |
| 1:00 PM – 1:35 PM | Lunch and Networking | |
| 1:35 PM – 2:00 PM | Award Ceremony and Closing Remarks | StateView Hotel |