12 Jun

Loftet (Duhrevägen 8) , Campus Ultuna, Uppsala

SLU Digital Agriculture Symposium 2025

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The SLU Digital Agriculture Symposium 2025 will bring together researchers, start-ups, and industry professionals working in technology, software, and digitalization in agriculture to present their latest advancements.

Are you interested in the future of farming and how digital technologies are transforming agriculture? The first SLU Symposium on Digital Agriculture will take place on June 12, 2025, at Campus Ultuna in Uppsala.

Save the date and join us for a day of discovery featuring cutting-edge software, automation, and AI solutions revolutionizing farming. Gain insights into precision agriculture, robotics, and data-driven farming technologies. A key highlight of the event will be a demonstration of robots in field applications, showing the latest advancements in autonomous robots in agriculture.

Whether you’re a university researcher, an industry professional, a farmer, or a student curious about the digital revolution in farming, this event is for you!

Facts

Time: 2025-06-12 08:45 - 16:30
City: Uppsala
Location: Loftet (Duhrevägen 8) , Campus Ultuna
Organiser: Department of Energy and Technology
Last signup date: 15 May 2025
Additional info:

This event is free and open to all. Registration is required. Lunch will be provided for the first 100 registrants

Please note! The registration is now closed. The participation in the afternoon field session is however open to all and does not require prior registration.

 

Important information to all our participants:

Please note that filming and photography for promotional and archival purposes will take place at this event. The photographs and recordings are likely to appear on our website and social medias. If you would prefer not to be photographed please inform the photographer.


Programme

Morning session (Loftets Hörsal)

08:45-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:15 Welcome to SLU Digital Agriculture Symposium 2025, Abozar Nasirahmadi & Björn Vinnerås

9:15-9:30 Digital technology in Swedish agriculture: Past, present and future,  Per Frankelius

9:30-9:45 Autonomous robots, tomorrow’s crop care friend, Ard Nieuwenhuizen

9:45-11:00 Fika (for registered attendees) & poster session (Loftets Bankettsal)

11:00-11:15 Current advancements in weed recognition and drone-based site-specific herbicide applications in the USA, Muthu Bagavathiannan

11:15-11:30 Drones enable data-driven precision forestry, Olle Gelin

11:30-11:45 The Future of Forestry: 20 Years of Robotics and Beyond, Pedro La Hera

11:45-12:00 Soil sensing and digital soil mapping- possibilities with gamma-ray spectrometry, Mats Söderström

12:00-13:00 Lunch in Loftets Bankettsal (for registered attendees)

Afternoon session (The field) no registration needed

13:00-13:40 Agxeed

13:40-14:00 RISE

14:00-14:30 Naio

14:30-14:50 Maprosystems

14:50-15:10 UniKassel: E-hack

15:10-15:30 UniKassel: RoboZaun

15:30-16:30 Open to all

Fields by Ulltuna allé, Campus Ultuna, Uppsala (See location via QR code below)

QR code that goes to the location of the field visit in google maps