AgFoodTech Week aims to promote the awareness of current technologies within agriculture and the food processing industry and future issues that can be addressed between the collaboration of industry, academic, and agricultural leaders.
The week will kick off on March 1st, 2019 with a Frontiers in Technology Seminar by Dr. Matthew Lange from the University of California, Davis, titled, “A New Discipline for a New Technology: Food Information and the Internet of Food”. This will be followed by HackMerced, an annual 36-hour hackathon hosted at the UC Merced, where developers and designers can work together to solve pressing agricultural technology issues from March 1st to March 3rd. On March 5th, students can network with different companies within the agricultural industry and the internship and job opportunities they offer at the Career & Internship Fair on March 5th. On March 7th, CITRIS will host the AgFoodTech Executive Roundtable, to solicit feedback from key regional stakeholders engaged in agricultural production and food processing and to provide UC Merced administration and faculty about the future direction of their industries, research and training needs, and trends in technologies. AgFoodTech Week will conclude with the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Safety Course co-hosted by CITRIS and the University of California Extension on March 8th.
