The Internet of Food Things Network Plus has been established by EPSRC to champion interdisciplinary research into the technologies and business models that will enable the digitalisation of the food production supply chain. This conference brings together the people and ideas that have been part of the first phase of the project. Please do join us to learn more about these activities and we hope join us for the journey ahead.

Further information available on the website: https://foodchain.ac.uk/

Tuesday 17th September

11:00 – 12:00 – Registration

12:00 – 13:00 – Light lunch available

13:00 – 13:05 – Welcome - Mary Stuart, Vice Chancellor, University of Lincoln,

13:05 - 13:15 – Introductions – Prof Simon Pearson, Director of Lincoln Institute of Agri-Food Technology

13:15 – 14:00 – Keynote talk 1: Judith Batchelar, Director of Sainsbury’s Brand, Chair of the Food and Drink Sector Council Innovation Working Group.

14:00 – 14:20 – The Internet of Food Things Network Plus – the story so far...

14:20 – 14:45 – Keynote talk 2: Nathan Atkinson, Director Rethink Food - "Removing hunger as a barrier to learning."

14:45 - 15:00 - Keynote talk 3: Andrew McMillan, Partner, Pinsent Masons LLP - "Reflections on the outcomes of the OAI-funded ODI project on Data Trusts".

15:00 – 15:40 – Coffee break

15:40 – 15:55 – Digitalising the food chain, the role of digital collaboration: opportunities and challenges – presentation of the new report: Digital collaboration in the food and drink production supply chain

15:55 - 17:05 - Panel and plenary discussion: digitalising the food supply chain - challenges and opportunities (Simon Pearson, Henry Leveson-Gower, Gareth Roberts, Nathan Atkinson, Steve Brewer (chair))

17:05 - 17:15 - Introduction to the AI3SD Network+ (Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Intelligence for Automated Investigations for Scientific Discovery) - Samantha Kanza

17:15 - 17:30 - Introduction to the role of the Digital Catapult from Ben Ramsden

17:30 – 17:45 – Digital food chain and digital collaboration challenges – IoFT sandpit announcement: presentation and discussion: Simon Pearson

17:45 – 18:00 – Summing-up – Simon Pearson

18:00 – 18:15 – Coaches available to take to the International Bomber Command Centre

19:00 – 20:30 – Networking reception with bites and refreshments (IBCC tours available too)

20:30 – 21:00 – Coaches available to take attendees into Lincoln City centre

Wednesday 18th September

Coaches available at Lincoln City Centre - Unity Square LN2 5AW coaches leaving at 08:30

08:45 – 09:15 – welcome coffee and pastries available

09:15 – 09:30 – welcome back & introduction to Riseholme – Simon Pearson

09:30 - 09:40 - Geoff McBride and Donna Champion: STFC Food Network Sandpit event announcement

09:40 – 10:05 - Keynote talk 4: Dermot Lynch (Head of Business Development and Strategic Marketing), ABB Robotics - "What are the challenges for big tech companies wanting to engage with smaller businesses in the food production supply chain?"

10:05 - 10:30 – Keynote talk 5: Gareth Roberts, Regather Co-Op - "Setting up and running a democratically owned and governed co-operative established for the purpose of transforming food for Sheffield."

10:30 – 10:55 – Coffee break

10:55 – 11:20 – Keynote talk 6: Georgios Leontidis & George Onoufriou, University of Lincoln: "Nemesyst: A Hybrid Parallelism Deep Learning Framework Applied for Internet of Things Enabled Food Retailing Refrigeration Systems."

11:20 - 11:45 - Keynote 7: Nick Davies, HMRC: "Fine wine digital collaboration use case."

11:45 - 11:50 - Introduction to the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology, tour briefing

11:50 – 12:50 – Tour of Riseholme – robotics, AI and Internet of Things

12:50 – 14:00 – Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 – IoFT projects – presentations talks and discussion

15:30 – 16:00 – Coffee break

16:00 - 16:30 - Keynote talk: Industry 4.0 - TBC

16:30 - 17:00 - Keynote talk 8: Charles Fox, University of Lincoln: "Bayesian supply chain optimisation."

17:00 - 17:15 - Announcement: 2nd IoFT Call for Project Funding

17:15 - 18:00 - Panel and plenary discussion: Digital Collaboration - challenges and opportunities (Simon Pearson, Henry Leveson-Gower, Dermot Lynch, Gareth Roberts, Phil Godsiff, Steve Brewer (chair))

18:00 – 20:30 – Evening reception at Riseholme Hall

Thursday 19th September

08:45 – 09:15 – welcome coffee and pastries available

09:15 – 09:30 – welcome back & review of previous two days including announcement of winner of IoFT sandpit – Simon Pearson

09:30 – 10:00 – Keynote talk 9: Dr Firat Guder, Imperial College, London - "Food freshness packaging sensors to cut food waste."

10:00 - 10:30 - Keynote talk 10: Prof Bruce Grieve - "An IoT Sensor System as a Networked Bio-‘Fire Alarm’ for management of Crop and Food Pathogens."

10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee break

11:00 – 11:45 – Break out groups – future priorities - addressing the research questions (break out groups led by IoFT Co-Is)

11:45 – 13:00 - Co-Is – report back, plenary discussion on emergent themes

13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch available