• Mr QU Dongyu, Director-General, FAO
• H.E. Abdul Rahim Jassim Al-Shammari, Minister for Agriculture, Iraq 
• Ms Retno L.P. Marsudi, the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Water (video message)
• Ms Yvonne Pinto, Director General, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
• Mr Carlo Lambro, Vice-President, European Agricultural Machinery Association (CEMA) and Chief Executive Officer, CNH Industrial Italia
• Ms Fatmata Binta, Chef, FAO Regional Goodwill Ambassador for Africa
• Ms Jastine Mae Galang, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineer, Youth and Farmer Representatives, Philippines

Keynote speech: Ms Beth Bechdol, Deputy Director-General, FAO

Moderators: Mr Lifeng Li, Director, Land and Water Division, FAO, and Mr Yurdi Yasmi, Director, Plant Production and Protection Division, FAO.

• H.E. Abdul Rahim Jassim Al-Shammari, Minister for Agriculture, Iraq
• H.E. Salem Abdullah Issa Al-Soqtari, Minister for Agriculture, Irrigation and Fishery Wealth, Yemen
• H.E. Abdurahmonov Ibrohim Yulchievich, Minister for Agriculture, Uzbekistan (Virtual message)
• H.E. Zahra Yusuf IGE, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, Somalia
• Cleber Soares, Vice Minister for Agriculture and Livestock, Brazil (video message)
• Arif Satria, Head, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia (video message)
• Nunung Nuryartono, Deputy for Development Policy, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia
• H.E. Carla Barroso Carneiro, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Federative Republic of Brazil to FAO

Moderator: Ms Nora Berrahmouni, Deputy Director, Land and Water Division, FAO

Moderator

• Dongxin Feng, Director of the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre, FAO

Opening remarks

• Godfrey Magwenzi, Deputy Director-General and Director of the Cabinet, FAO

Real-time water stress detection

• Marianna Vezzone Tosta Rabello, Soil and Water Management and Crop Nutrition Lab, Joint FAO/IAEA Centre

Lightning Talk: Tiny AI: Small and Sustainable Machine Learning for Remote and Rural Communities

• Marco Zennaro, Unit Coordinator International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy

Smart plant health: From detection to decision

• Naeela Qureshi, Plant Breeding and Genetics Lab, Joint FAO/IAEA Centre

Smart Crops for Future Agriculture

• Tong Wei, Chief scientist of the Plant Omics Center, BGI-Research

Smart Food Safety

• Christina Vlachou, Food Safety and Control lab, Joint FAO/IAEA Centre

Lightning Talk: Nuclear, Isotopic and complementary techniques for the efficient screening of agricultural products to detect food fraud and adulteration in the supply chain

• Simon Kelly, Principal Scientist Food Authenticity and Safety, Fera Science

Key recommendations and takeaways

• Charles Spillane, Chief Scientist, FAO

Opening remarks

• Charles Spillane, Chief Scientist, FAO

Lightning talk 1: one finding from the field

• Paul van Zoggel, Senior Researcher, Wageningen University and Research

Round 1: Country experience round

• Yunpeng Cui, Director, Big Data Department, China Agriculture Academy of Science (CAAS)
• Claire Boshiman, Climate, Food Systems and Gender Lead, One Acre Fund's CGI 2025 Commitment to Action
• Paula Packer, Embrapa, Brazil
• Nicolas Paget, Researcher, French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD)

Lightning talk 2: a farmer's verdict

• Robinson Lopez, CEO, Identi, Peru (Video message)

Round 2: from field to policy: what must change?

• Yvonne Pinto, Director General, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
• Jacob van Etten, Principal Scientist and Director of the digital inclusion research program, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
• Pierluigi Londero, Head of the Data Governance Unit, European Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI)
• Rikin Ghandi, CEO, Digital Green

Lightning talk 3: a startup idea

• Alexander Firestine, Future Food Systems Challenge Winner, Agri-Immanence

High-level synthesis and closing commitments

• Lauren Phllips, Director of the Partnerships and UN Collaboration Division, FAO

Closing remarks

• Vincent Martin, Director of the Office of Innovation, FAO

Opening remarks

• Máximo Torero, Chief Economist, FAO

Setting the stage: Opportunities and challenges in governance of smart farming

• H.E. Salem Abdullah Issa Al-Soqtari, Minister for Agriculture, Irrigation and Fishery Wealth, Yemen
• Bram Govaerts, Director General, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

Different perspectives, common ground: rethinking governance for sustainable and inclusive smart farming

• Ousmane Badiane, Executive Chairperson, Akademiya2063
• Andrea Bianchi, Researcher, Smart AgriFood Observatory, Politecnico di Milano
• Francesca Hennig-Possenti, Assistant General Counsel Data and Artificial Intelligence, John Deere GmbH & Co KG
• Andrea Porro, Secretary General, World Farmers Organization (WFO)

From Dialogue to action

• Discussions and key takeaways

Closing remarks

• Máximo Torero, Chief Economist, FAO

Moderator: Lauren Phillips, Director of the Partnerships and UN Collaboration Division, FAO