"Eradicating poverty” and "No hunger” are the primary goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and humankind’s common aspiration. Sustainable food production effectively addresses global challenges, such as climate change and land degradation as well as the prerequisites for poverty eradication, as the basis for achieving food security. International cooperation is an important means for achieving the goal of global zero hunger. Tracking, monitoring, and evaluating the sustainability of food production and its temporal and spatial changes is an important means of addressing the problem of poverty. Currently, there is a data gap in the monitoring and evaluation of food production and a lack of global poverty assessment and attribution. Relying on big data, conducting the cross-integration of multidisciplinary models, and condensing multidisciplinary data is an important way to form comprehensive solutions around sustainable food production, ensure food security, and achieve poverty reduction in multiple fields and at multiple levels.
Co-Chairs: Prof. Wu Bingfang, Prof. Liu Yansui
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Speaker: Elibio Rech
Title/Affiliation: Professor, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Brazil
Short Bio: Elibio Rech is the Director of the National Institute of Science and Technology in Synthetic Biology.
Topic：Iniquity, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
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Speaker: Igor Savin
Title/Affiliation: Academician, V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Short Bio: Igor Savin works at the V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute as head of Unit of Soil Mapping since 2011.
Topic：Soil Degradation Monitoring Based on Remote Sensing Data in Support of Food Security
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Speaker: Yurii Orlov
Title/Affiliation: Professor, Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Short Bio: Yurii Orlov is the head of the Department of Computational Physics and Kinetic Equations.
Topic：Digital Personalized Nutrition: the Problems and Solutions
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Speaker: Dharmendra Singh
Title/Affiliation: Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Short Bio: Dharmendra Singh is Senior Professor in Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Joint Faculty and Former Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India.
Topic：Satellite Based Agriculture Information System: Role of Big Data for Agriculture
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Speaker: Jai Singh Parihar
Title/Affiliation: Professor, Space Applications Centre of Indian Space Research Organisation, India
Short Bio: Jai Singh Parihar served at Space Applications Centre of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Ahmedabad from 1974 to 2014 in various capacities reaching up to Outstanding Scientist, Dy. Director, Earth, Ocean, Atmosphere, Planetary Sciences and Applications Area (EPSA), and Mission Director, Earth Observations Applications Mission (EOAM).
Topic：Strengthening of Agricultural Monitoring by Including Big Data Analytics in Geomatics
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Speaker: Shiladitya Chatterjee
Title/Affiliation: Head of the Poverty Unit and Poverty Practice Leader, Asian Development Bank
Short Bio: Shiladitya Chatterjee is Head of the Poverty Unit and Poverty Practice Leader in Asian Development Bank.
Topic：Data Gaps in Achieving Poverty, Hunger and Social SDG Targets: Is Big Data the Answer?
