Food and Data Workshop: Interoperability through the Food Pipeline

WHERE 

Coordinated Science Lab Auditorium (B02)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

WHEN

September 12-13, 2016

Abstract submission deadline: September 1

The increasing ability to capture data at the level of individual agricultural fields, individual culinary recipes, and individual food waste digesters is allowing analytics-based optimization within the distinct industries responsible for producing, transporting, trading, storing, processing, packaging, wholesaling, retailing, consuming, and disposing of food. Yet addressing the pressing national and global challenges in food security due to climate change, as well as public health challenges such as obesity and malnutrition, requires optimization across the food pipeline. This workshop is concerned with understanding the relationship between data and food, with a particular focus on questions of interoperable data ontologies, privacy, and analytic insights.

Sponsored by the NSF Midwest Big Data Hub and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)