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You are invited to join us for part three of this Microsoft AI Series on Applied AI with the Chief Scientist of Microsoft Azure Global.

Title: Beneficial AI: Addressing Global Hunger with AI, Edge & IoT for Agriculture

Abstract: Several studies have demonstrated the need to significantly increase the world’s food production by 2050. However, there is limited amount of additional arable land, and water levels have also been receding. Although technology could help the farmer, its adoption is limited because the farms usually do not have power, or Internet connectivity, and the farmers are typically not technology savvy. Microsoft is working towards an end-to-end approach, from sensors to the cloud, to solve the problem.

The goal of FarmBeats is to enable data-driven farming based on the belief that data, coupled with the farmer’s knowledge and intuition about his or her farm, can help increase farm productivity, and also help reduce costs. However, getting data from the farm is extremely difficult since there is often no power in the field, or Internet in the farms. As part of FarmBeats, Microsoft is building several unique solutions to solve these problems using low-cost sensors, drones, and vision and machine learning algorithms.

About the speaker:

Bio: Ranveer Chandra is the Chief Scientist of Microsoft Azure Global, and Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research.

His research has shipped as part of multiple Microsoft products. He started the FarmBeats project at Microsoft in 2015 and this work was featured by Bill Gates in GatesNotes as well as selected by Satya Nadella as one of 10 projects that inspired him in 2017.

Ranveer has published more than 80 papers, and filed over 100 patents, more than 85 of which have been granted by the USPTO. Ranveer has an undergraduate degree from IIT Kharagpur, India and a PhD from Cornell University.

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Profiles of the host and presenter:
• Vik Pant – https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikpant
• Ranveer Chandra – https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranveer-chandra-79bb9b

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