Artificial Intelligence for Agriculture and Food Event Held at Boğaziçi University

The event held at Boğaziçi University’brought together public and private sector representatives working in the fields of agriculture and food with academics. The event titled “Artificial Intelligence and Business Intelligence in Agriculture and Food Sectors” was also attended by Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Dr. Ahmet Bağcı, and Deputy Ministers of Industry and Technology Zekeriya Coştu and Oruç Baba İnan.

An event titled “Artificial Intelligence and Business Intelligence in Agriculture and Food Sectors” was organized at Boğaziçi University. At the event held on November 1, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Dr. Ahmet Bağcı, and Deputy Ministers of Industry and Technology Zekeriya Coştu and Oruç Baba İnan came together with academics and sector representatives.

The Deputy Ministers talked about the work being carried out in the public sector and the projects they will implement in the coming period, and exchanged views with sector representatives. Deputy Minister of Industry and Technology Oruç Baba İnan stated, “We have a great need for social capital for the food and agriculture sectors. For this, we must raise awareness among and develop everyone in the sector.”

ASYÖNDER: “We want to be a bridge between academia and the sector”

Doğan Asil, Chairman of the Academy and Sector Executives Cooperation Association (ASYÖNDER), stated that those who are in the “know-why” process rather than following “know-how”, through cooperation between academia and the sector, will be the actors of the coming era. Stating that as ASYÖNDER they want to be a bridge between academia and the sector, Doğan Asil, who introduced the impact model that will form the association’s main working principles,

stated, “As ASYÖNDER, we held our first cooperation meeting in the field of agriculture and food. We benefited from the knowledge of both the private sector and the public sector regarding the sector. We evaluated what academia, universities, can do for the sector. From now on, we will also come together with representatives of other sectors to discuss what we can do to establish sectoral cooperations with academia.”

Bountarım: “We hope to untie the Gordian knot in agriculture”

Speaking at the event, Prof. Dr. Gökhan Özertan, one of the Founding Members of Bountarım (Boğaziçi University Innovative Agriculture and Food Business Platform), mentioned that such events are valuable in terms of bringing academia and the sector together.

Prof. Dr. Gökhan Özertan, who is also a Faculty Member of the Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University, said, “Agriculture is a sector with many different inputs and outputs. We liken this to a Gordian knot made up of dozens of different threads. We hope to effectively untie this knot together.”

Sector representatives want to meet more often

BÜYEM Chairman and Boğaziçi University Deputy Head of the Department of Business Administration Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Çoşkun touched upon the academia, public and private sector collaborations carried out by the university through BÜYEM (Boğaziçi University Lifelong Education Center), the TÜBİTAK Technology Transfer Office, as well as universities’ application and research centers.

Senior executives of the sector’s leading companies who attended the “Artificial Intelligence and Business Intelligence in Agriculture and Food Sectors” event at Boğaziçi University shared their views and suggestions, and stated that they wanted to come together more often with academia and public sector representatives in this model. The event ended after a commemorative photograph was taken.