(Track 5: Digital Solutions and Innovation)
The session aims to demonstrate ADB’s capacity to finance and support large scale agricultural digital public infrastructure (DPI) and registries, showcase global best practices that inform ADB supported solutions, and stimulate demand from DMCs for future DPI investments. It targets senior government officials, ADB staff, and development partners, and is designed to strengthen policy dialogue and pipeline development for upcoming ADB financed DPI projects.
Welcome Remarks
Takeshi Ueda, Director, Director of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, ADB
Antonio García Zaballos, Director, Digital Sector Office, ADB
Moderator: Monica Petri, Senior Agriculture and Natural Resources Specialist
- Agri Stack, a success story
Shri Rajeev Chawla, Chief Knowledge Officer & Advisor, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, India (online) - Korean agricultural registration system for a data-driven agricultural policy
Professor Hanpil Moon, Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, South Korea - CropWatch, a global crop monitoring system for government use
Professor Wu Bingfang, Aerospace Information research Institute Chinese Academy of Sciences, PRC - WAGRI, development of national level AI powered advisories to farmers
Dr. Murakami Noriyuki, Executive Director, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan (online) - From Policy to Delivery: Agri Stack Deployment and Implementation
Sarita Tirumala, Ernst & Young Private Limited. India - A birth-eye view on ADB activities on digital public infrastructures beyond the agricultural sector
Carolyn Florey, Digital Development Specialist (Digital Public Infrastructure and Digital Government) at ADB
Questions and Discussion
Closing Remarks
Mio Oka, Country Director India, ADB
