The CROWNEST’s and UTH’s scientific teams of the DS2 Project jointly attended the Panhellenic Exhibition for Agriculture and Livestock - Agrothessaly 2025, at the Covered Market of Neapoli, Larissa Greece, on March 6-9, 2025. This prestigious event served as an excellent platform for the DS2 teams to showcase their project’s objectives, ongoing activities, and anticipated outcomes to a wide audience of farmers, agribusiness professionals, researchers, and industry innovators. Their participation highlighted the project's potential to enhance data-driven solutions and technological advancements in the agricultural sector.
Highlights
Project Presentations and Outreach
The DS2 teams effectively communicated the project’s objectives, methodologies, and anticipated outcomes, sparking interest among industry professionals, researchers, and entrepreneurs. In their presentation, they emphasized the project’s key activities and achievements, focusing on the development of the inter-sectoral toolkit that enables secure, decentralized data exchange across various dataspaces. Additionally, the discussion showcased successful applications of DS2’s solutions in precision agriculture, environmental monitoring, and rural development, demonstrating their practical benefits and adaptability in addressing key challenges in the agriculture and livestock sectors.
Interactive Sessions
The team actively engaged in interactive sessions with attendees, discussing the challenges and opportunities of integrating dataspaces within the agriculture and livestock sectors. These discussions underscored the vital role of collaboration and data interoperability in driving sustainable farming practices and technological innovation. The team emphasized how secure and efficient data sharing can enhance precision agriculture, resource management, and overall agricultural sustainability.
Networking and Collaborations
The exhibition provided the DS2 teams with numerous opportunities to connect with agri-tech experts, policymakers, and business leaders, fostering discussions on potential collaborations and future applications of DS2 technologies. These valuable interactions laid the groundwork for potential collaborations and partnerships, further expanding the reach and impact of the DS2 project in advancing data-driven solutions for agriculture and other sectors.
Engagement with the Farming Community
The team interacted with farmers and agricultural professionals, gathering valuable feedback and exchanging ideas on how DS2 solutions can address real-world challenges in sustainable and data-driven farming.
Takeaways
The DS2 Project’s innovative data-sharing solutions captured the attention of attendees, sparking interest in future collaborations within the agriculture sector.
The project's toolkit and real-world implementations highlighted the value of federated dataspaces, showcasing their ability to support precision farming and smart agricultural technologies.
The exhibition underscored the significance of data security, seamless integration, and sovereignty in advancing digital innovation and sustainable agricultural practices.
Building on the momentum generated at the exhibition, the DS2 team is excited to further its mission of revolutionizing data sharing in agriculture and beyond, driving the adoption of sustainable, technology-driven solutions that empower the sector and support future innovation.
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