2026-07-17 –, Theatre Hall (S2)
How can you create open digital tools that run on both the Cloud and the Edge for small/medium farms across Greek vineyards, French cattle ranches, and Belgian potato fields? The OpenAgri project, funded by the EU Horizon program and now part of the Linux Foundation's AgStack, has developed reusable Python tools for this purpose. These building blocks, using Python Web frameworks such as Django and FastAPI, are already being tested in 14 real-world sustainability pilots across Europe.
In this presentation, we will show how Python is helping farmers, from camera-based scouting in vineyards to UHF RFID cattle monitoring, UAV pest detection, IoT smart irrigation, and compost production monitoring. We will talk about what works across different countries, the challenges that arise when your "data centre is a barn", and what still needs improvement.
Join us to hear farming stories from across Europe and learn practical lessons on deploying Python microservices on Edge devices to build a more democratised agritech landscape in Europe.
Felipe is currently a post-doc researcher at Maastricht University (Netherlands), with a background in Information Systems and more than 13 years of experience in software engineering, specialising in ecologically sustainable distributed computing, stream processing, uncertainty awareness, and computer vision. He is also an Open-Source enthusiast, having contributed to many popular projects over the years.