Episode 58: Agriculture And Technology with Orlando Saez
Agriculture And Technology with Orlando Saez TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com. Guest Orlando Saez: Co-founder and CEO of Aker Technologies. Summary Our guest today is Orlando Saez. Orlando is the co-founder and CEO of Aker, a precision crop diagnostic data and service company. We're going to talk about what that means and more generally, about how technology and agriculture intersect. We'll talk about how Orlando got into the agriculture and technology space and who his customers are and what they learn from using specialized drones to monitor their crops. It's an interesting deep dive into a part of the technology world that I, for one, did not know very much about and I hope you enjoy it. Notes 01:44 - What Aker Does; The Tech/Agriculture Sector Becoming a Senior Engineer with Jamey Hampton 03:30 - Technology: IoT, Drones, and Machine Learning 08:55 - Aggregating Information + Shared Data 11:09 - Working with the Agriculture Sector and The Way Growers Work Precision Agriculture 17:14 - Differences Between Purchases and Users: Ways Products Are Used in the Field 20:40 - Aker as a Service Provider 21:53 - Drone Technology and Training Pilots GIS: Geographic Information System Mapping Technology Shapefiles 24:10 - Using General Machine Learning Techniques 25:51 - Looking Forward 28:21 - Orlando’s Background in Getting Involved in This Space Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food Food Evolution 31:18 - More Resources for People Interested in AgTech Thrive Salinas Valley Agricultural Technical Summit The Yield Lab Pro Farmer PrecisionAg Commodity Classic Farm Progress Show Special Guest: Orlando Saez.