AI for food industry: from data to AI applications
Digitisation is necessary if food companies are to remain competitive, but traditional technologies are reaching their limits in terms of the efficiency, quality, etc., that they can realistically add to manufacturing. In addition, many companies in the food industry now have a large amount of data available, but it is hard to exploit this effectively in data-driven applications.
During the masterclass, we (Sirris, Imec and Flanders' FOOD) will guide you step-by-step in setting up your first AI applications from your available data. By using examples of AI applications, reference architectures for data, inspiring business cases from industry and best practices, we ensure that you can take your company’s first steps towards AI. In addition, we provide a 1.5-hour meeting for each participant with experts from Sirris and Imec, to guide you in setting up your own AI cases.
The masterclass consists of a half-day interactive group session and an individual follow-up session:
- The interactive group session takes place on location. It is preceded by a sandwich lunch and ends with a short networking drink.
- The individual follow-up session will be planned with you afterward and will take place online (1.5 hours). We will discuss the specific steps you will need to get started within your own company.
Group session program
| 12:00 | Reception and sandwich lunch | |
| 12:30 | Introduction to the AI PathFinder project (Flanders' FOOD) | |
| 12:35 | Overview of the value chain and AI applications in the food industry (Sirris / Flanders' FOOD) | |
| 12:55 | AI barometer and maturity model for companies (Imec) | |
| 13:05 | Business cases from the food industry | |
| 14:35 | Break | |
| 15:00 | Data architecture for AI applications (Sirris) | |
| 15:45 | Self, integrator or via platform? (Sirris) | |
| 16:00 | An AI business case (techno-economic approach) (Imec) | |
| 16:30 | AI checklist (Imec) | |
| 16:45 | Financial side, testing platform, research opportunities (Flanders' FOOD) | |
| 17:00 | Networking reception | |
| 18:00 | End of the masterclass |
For whom?
Food companies that want to start with AI or data-driven applications. The masterclass focuses on the people within the company who play a driving or guiding role in the design of data-driven applications in production processes: R&D manager, digital manager, production manager, etc.
Participation fee
The participation fee for this masterclass (half-day group session + individual session) is € 375 (excl. VAT) for companies established in Flanders. This is thanks to support from VLAIO (Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship) provided under the Industry partnership.
(This cannot be combined with subsidies via kmo-portefeuille.)
75 euro support from Alimento per participant, max. 3 participants per company for companies residing in PC 118 and 220.
Contact person
Partners
Date
Location
Technologiepark - Sirris Zwijnaarde, vergaderzaal 1.16
Zwijnaarde 48
9052 Gent
Belgium