Program KIDA-KON 2025
| ZEIT | PROGRAM |
| 09:00 a.m. | Registration & guided tour |
| 10:00 a.m. | Salutation |
| 10:30 a.m. | Ghost in the machine: Applying corpus AI to risk assessment. Paul Devalier | European Food Safety Authority |
| 11:10 a.m. | Coffee break |
| Session 1 | Genereative AI applications in food & health risk assessment | |
| 11:40 a.m. | Information extraction for mechanistic toxicology using LLMs Aileen Bahl | Thünen-Institut |
| 12:00 p.m. | Implementation of AI-based support systems in the risk assessment of recipient and donor organisms for genetic engineering operations André Friedrich | Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit |
| 12:20 p.m. | Lunch break |
| 01:40 p.m. | Postersession |
| 02:40 p.m. | Coffee break |
| Session 2 | AI and remote sensing in agriculture | |
| 03:10 p.m. | Advancing agricultural monitoring: A modular and scalable ML framework for crop phenology analysis with remote sensing data Jennifer McClelland | Julius Kühn-Institut |
| 03:30 p.m. | Semantic segmentation of multitemporal very high-resolution satellite imagery for nation-wide hedgerow identification Lukas Blickensdörfer | Thünen-Institut |
| 03:50 p.m. | Earth observation and deep learning for area-wide mapping of agricultural land use and habitat diversity in germany Gideon Okpoti Tetteh | Thünen-Institut |
| 04:10 p.m. | Challenges of AI-based methods for spot- / site-specific spraying Stefan Paulus | Institut für Zuckerrübenforschung |
| 04:30 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 05:00 p.m. | Panel discussion: Combating Food Loss and Waste with AI |
| 06:30 p.m. | Evening program |
| ZEIT | PROGRAM |
| 09:00 a.m. | Data governance and data sovereignty for environmental data Prof. Dr. Ina Schiering | Ostfalia University of Applied Science |
| Session 3 | predictive modeling in economics and trade | |
| 09:45 a.m. | Predicting volatile energy prices Annemarie Kronhardt | Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum |
| 10:05 a.m. | An evaluation of gravity models and artificial neuronal networks on bilateral trade flows in wood markets Christian Morland | Thünen-Institut |
| 10:25 a.m. | Coffee break |
| 10:55 a.m. | Poster award presentation |
| Session 4 | Environmental monitoring | |
| 11:05 a.m. | Towards reliable soil horizon classification: A multimodal approach leveraging hierarchical taxonomy and graph-based representations Teodor Chiaburu | Berliner Hochschule für Technik |
| 11:25 a.m. | Efficient seasonal hydrological prediction with hydracastAI David Mengen | Forschungszentrum Juelich |
| 11:45 a.m. | Groun-truthing of satellite-based forest condition products using precise tree positions Amelie McKenna | Thünen-Institut |
| 12:05 p.m. | From study areas to a nationwide forest monitoring: rollout in germany in progress Jonathan Wolf | Thünen-Institut |
| 12:25 p.m. | Lunch break |
| Session 5 | AI for livestock & marine populations | |
| 01:30 p.m. | Detection of common starfish in underwater images from Sylt outer reef using YOLOv8 Carsten Meyer | Ostfalia Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften |
| 01:50 p.m. | AlphaFold-driven structural optimization of ligninase for enhanced lignocellulose degradation in transgenic livestock Aseem Tara | Friedrich-Löffler-Institut |
| 02:10 p.m. | Smart farming in action: Evaluating AI weight sensors for health and profitability in pig production Mavis Boimah | Thünen-Institut |
| 02:30 p.m. | Farewell ceremony |
| 03:00 p.m. | Ending of the event |
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