Report on the 2019 Workshop on Smart Farming and Data Analytics (SFDAI)
The 1st National workshop on Smart Farming and Data Analytics took place at Maynooth University in Ireland on June 12, 2019. The workshop included two invited keynote presentations, invited talks and breakout group discussions. The workshop attracted in the order of 50 participants, consisting of a mixture of computer scientists, general scientists, farmers, farm advisors, and agricultural business representatives. This allowed for lively discussion and cross-fertilization of ideas. And showed the significant interest in the smart farming domain, the many research challenges faced in the space and the potential for data analytics and information retrieval here.
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