Program

Internet of Things for Food - Dublin 2018

Transforming Food Systems with Technology

Host organization: University College, Dublin

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2018

11h00 Plenary session

Chair: Dolores O’Riordan, UCD Institute of Food and Health

Welcome: Nicholas Holden UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering

Welcome to UCD: Orla Fealy UCD Vice-President for Research and Innovation UCD Institute of Food and Health

Housekeeping: Dolores O’Riordan

Matthew Lange, UC Davis: The vision of IC-FOODS - Why the Internet of Food and IoT4F?
Q&A

Edmond Harty, DairyMaster: IoT and the digital transformation of the dairy industry
Q&A


12h30 Lunch

14h00 Session 1: Observation and characterization of objects

Chair: Tom Tomich, UC Davis, Agricultural Sustainability Institute

Jettie Hoonhout, Philips Measuring things: the application of IoT by Philips
Q&A

Gregory O’Hare, UCD Sensor systems for crop production Tomas Norton, KU Leuven Sensor systems for animal production
Q&A

Chiara Cecchini, Future Foods Institute Hackers and Makers: innovation in food tech
Q&A

Chris Horn, Atlantic Bridge Which startup ideas are funded, and why?
Q&A


15h45 Coffee

16h15 Industry demonstrations

Chair: Aifric O’Sullivan, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science

  1. AgVis (livestock monitoring)

  2. Food Choice at Work (healthy eating)

  3. Think Biosolution Limited

  4. BlightLink (integrating social networks with disease forecasting)

  5. Living Offset (climate change) mitigation (blockchain)

  6. Nutritics (personalized nutrition)

  7. Keenan (the tech that feeds us)

    18h00 Welcome reception and Networking

  8. 19h00 Whiskey Tasting (Teeling Distillery)

  9. 20h30 Close

Thursday, march 22, 2018


08h45 Welcome and housekeeping

Session 2: Robotic devices and 3D printing of food

Chair: Aoife Gowen, UCD Biosystems and Food Engineering

Matthias Kuck, Biozoon 3D food printing – more than just a trend
Q&A

Conor McGinn, Trinity College Dublin Human - Robot interaction: implications for food
Q&A

Alexander Leonessa, Virginia Tech Autonomous robotics in the food system
Q&A

Lachlan Urquart, University of Nottingham Privacy, Security, Ethics & the Internet of Food
Q&A

Kieran Furlong, Finistere Ventures Funding new ideas: what are early-stage investors looking for?
Q&A


10h45 Coffee (and posters / coding challenge)

11h15 Volunteered work: sensors, applications and citizen engagement

Chair: Nicholas Holden, UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering

  • Alan O'Riordan

  • Suzanna Lewis

  • Sigurdur Bogason

  • Antonella Samoggia

  • Jorgen Lerfall

  • Anna Davies

  • Tom Curran

    13h00 Lunch (13h45: poster pop-up, 90 second summaries)

    14h15 Session 3: Digitizing IoT4F data

    Chair: Fionnuala Murphy, UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering

    Scott Rickard, Citadel and UCD Deep learning: what do all these data offer the food industry? Q&A

    Eileen Gibney, UCD Digitizing food intake/lifestyle data collection, analysis and feedback - implications for personalised nutrition. Q&A

    Andre Laperriere, GODAN Data standards for IoT4F
    Q&A

    Sjaak Wolfert, WUR, Internet of Food and Farm 2020: fostering the data ecosystem
    Q&A

    Conall Laverty, Wia The Future of IoT Platforms
    Q&A


    16h00 Coffee (and posters / coding challenge)

    16h30 Workshop sessions

  • Workshop 1: Impact Valuation
    Lead: Steven Lord, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford

  • Workshop 2: Personalised Nutrition
    Leads: Jacqueline van Oosten, FME Sjaak Wolfert, WUR Aifric O’Sullivan, UCD Institute of Food and Health and Jacqueline

  • Workshop 3: Food Waste
    Leads: James Clifford, Food Cloud Tom Oldfield, UCD


19h30 Conference dinner (Merry Ploughboy)


23h00 Close

friday, March 23, 2018


09h00 Welcome and housekeeping

Session 4: Applications for food safety, sustainability and security

Chair: Eileen Gibney, UCD Agriculture and Food Science

Lawrence Goodridge, McGill University and Seamus Fanning UCD How IoT4F will change food safety
Q&A

Damian O'Kelly, Nutritics Enabling personalized nutrition
Q&A

Jacqueline van Oosten, FME The food tech ecosystem in the Netherlands: towards personalised nutrition
Q&A

Andrew Mullins, Bord BiaData demands for food sustainability - the future of Origin Green
Q&A

Kieran Kelly, Arc-Net Blockchain for the food chain Liam Chambers, IBM Applications of blockchain in the food industry
Q&A


11h15 Coffee and networking


11h45 Plenary session

Tom Maher, The Academy of Code (+ students): Hackathon overview and results with winning team presentation


Scoping workshop feedback

  • Steven Lord

  • Aifric O’Sullivan

  • James Clifford

Closing summary: Matthew Lange, UC Davis Nicholas Holden, UCD

  • What have we learned?

  • What next? — H2020 and research networks / Company networking

  • IC-FOODS, November 2018

  • IoT4F-Dublin 2019

    12h30 Lunch

    14h00 All participants departed