(Track 5: Digital Solutions and Innovation)
The session aims to showcase ADB’s commitment to scaling innovation. The event will promote scalable solutions in livestock and agri-food systems. The session targets DMC policymakers and implementing agencies, innovation providers and researchers will engage on scale pathways.
MC: Monica Petri, Senior Agriculture and Natural Resources Specialist, ADB
Welcome Remarks
Shigeo Shimizu, Executive Director for Japan, ADB
Food System Transformation at Scale
Qingfeng Zhang, Senior Director Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, ADB
AIM for Scale's Vision
Paul Winters, Executive Director, AIM for Scale
MC: Monica Petri, Senior Agriculture and Natural Resources Specialist, ADB
Keynote Speech
Michael Kremer, Nobel Laureate, University of Chicago
Signature Event
Cooperation Agreement between ADB and AIM for Scale
Moderator: Imara Salas, Secretariat Director, AIM for Scale
Panel: Frontiers of innovation at scale in digital & weather advisory services to farmers
- Pramod Kumar Meherda, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, India (virtual)
- Diana Francis, Assistant Professor Earth Science, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates (virtual)
- Tomoko Harigaya, Chief Economist, Precision Development (PxD)
- Tim Krupnik, Director, CGIAR Scaling for Impact Program
Moderator: Imara Salas, Secretariat Director, AIM for Scale
Panel: Use cases and existing large-scale innovations in the livestock sector
- Tinni Sawhney, Chief Executive, Aga Khan Foundation in India
- Murphy Eoghan, Agriculture & Fisheries Counsellor, Embassy of Ireland in Japan
- Dustin Schinn, Water Resources Specialist, ADB
Closing Remark
Noelle O'Brien, Chief of the Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Thematic Group concurrently Director of the Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Division
