Acadia hosts Transformative Technologies for Agriculture event
On November 9, 2017, Acadia University co-hosted the third annual Harvest End Breakfast with partner, Horticulture Nova Scotia. Bringing together members of local industry with Acadia’s academic community, the goal of this event was to highlight innovative research with agricultural relevance and to encourage new research partnerships. The Harvest End Breakfast serves to strengthen Acadia’s connections to our local agri-food/agri-beverage/agriculture sectors. Acadia researchers and students working in this research area were encouraged to attend.
This year, the breakfast featured three presentations focused on transformative technologies for agriculture: 3D printing, drones, and robotics. In addition to one presentation from an Acadia researcher, two researchers from Acadia’s sister institutions were invited to participate:
Matt McSweeney, from Acadia’s School of Nutrition spoke about Using 3D Printing to Create Novel Food Products from Ugly Fruits and Vegetables
Bill Livingstone, Research Project Manager of NSCC’s Applied Geomatics Research Group, presented on Drone Applications in Agriculture
Thomas Trappenburg from Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Computer Science, and co-founder of Nexus Robotics, spoke about Deep Learning in Precision Ag
Fifty people attended the breakfast, which was co-sponsored by Springboard Atlantic, Acadia University, and Horticulture Nova Scotia.