• The AgAID Institute for Transforming Workforce and Decision Support in Agriculture

    University of Georgia Georgia

    The newly established AgAID Institute, led by Washington State University, is a multi-institution, transdisciplinary coalition that will build partnerships between the Institute’s core members (six universities, two community/4-year colleges, and two tech companies) and a diverse range of key stakeholder groups. The overall approach will be guided by a cross-cutting mantra of adopt-adapt-amplify, i.e., adoption […]

  • AgTech – Lots of Promise, but Why do Growers care?

    WSU - Hamilton Hall Large Conference Room Prosser, WA

    Steve is the founder of innov8.ag, a Walla Walla-based agtech startup and Microsoft-partnered company.  Prior to embarking on the startup, Steve spent 12 years at Microsoft with a focus on cloud services. He envisions Walla Walla as the perfect base for ag startups given the convergence of progressive farmers and three colleges with strengths in […]

  • Systematic Inclusive Design

    Systematic Inclusive Design: From GenderMag to SocioeconomicMag How can software professionals systematically assess whether their software supports diverse users? And if they find problems, how can they fix them?  Our team's prior research revealed software's failures to support different genders' user experiences equitably and then produced the GenderMag method to address this problem, which is […]

  • AI Solutions to Tackle 21st Century Challenges in Agriculture

    The AgAID Institute: AI Solutions to Tackle 21st Century Challenges in Agriculture The AgAID Institute is a recently awarded National AI Institute led by Washington State University with OSU serving as the AI-lead organization involving over 13 OSU researchers. The goals of the institute are to study new and existing AI techniques for addressing some […]

  • AI Institute for Transforming Workforce & Decision Support (AgAID)

    The USDA-NIFA Institute for Agricultural AI for Transforming Workforce & Decision Support (AgAID) aims to integrate AI methods into agriculture operations for prediction, decision support, and robotics-enabled agriculture. AgAID faculty will provide an overview of the Institute's work, including their unique adopt-adapt-amplify approach to develop and deliver AI solutions to agriculture that address pressing challenges […]

  • AI Expo 2022

    NCW Tech Alliance has partnered with the North Central Educational Service District (NCESD) to bring an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Expo to the STEM Summit, a four-day professional learning opportunity designed […]

  • HiPC BOF on US-India Collaborative in Digital Agriculture

    HiPC 2022 is the 29th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. The meeting will be organized under two focus areas: High Performance Computing […]

  • Spring Drone Day

    Alexander Ranch, Hayden Orchard 8451 W Sagemoor Rd (46.37331° N, 119.23254° W), Pasco, WA

    Join us to learn more about Advances in Drone Technology and its transition into Washington agriculture. Where: Denny Hayden, Alexander Orchard.  Who will be there: WSU CPAAS Precision Ag Group – […]

  • 2023 Virtual Orchard Meetup Managing the Uncontrollable – Water

    Virtual WA, United States

    The summer Virtual Meetup program has brought together growers, researchers, government, and Extension agents to have an international conversation about important tree fruit topics, connecting industry leaders across North America. […]

  • 2023 Virtual Orchard Meetup Mitigating Heat Stress

    Virtual WA, United States

    Over the past decade, growers have been forced to confront wildly vacillating winter temperatures, uneven and often excessively heavy precipitation events, and extremely hot temperatures coupled with extended droughts. We […]

  • Smart Vineyard Field Day

    WSU Roza Farm 117814 West Kuhlman Road, Prosser, WA, United States

    We are pleased to invite you to join us for the Smart Vineyard Field Day on Friday, July 21st at 10 am. The primary focus of this event will revolve […]

  • Washington Fruit & Produce Co. Smart Orchard

    Grandview Smart Orchard 3124 N. County Line, Grandview, WA, United States

    We are excited to announce that we are continuing the legacy with the upcoming 2023 Smart Orchard Project Field Day, organized by innov8.ag, WTFRC, & WSU, which will take place […]