The third CYBELE plenary meeting took place in Brussels, Belgium on 26 and 27 November 2019. The progress of the project was assessed and next steps were planned. Among others, the following topic were discussed:

• Project Overview Status

• Administrative reporting

• Schedule and expected 6-month progression/milestones updates

• Status update & deliverables per WP

• Dissemination and Communication Plan & Industrial Clustering

• Data Management Planning

• Infrastructure and technical architecture status update and deliverables

• Technical presentation of CYBELE tools backends

• Demonstrators’ Progress

• Infrastructure Implementation

• Exploitation, business modelling, technological impact assessment and next steps

PSNC presented CYBELE at the event: "Digital innovations for agriculture - 4th Knowledge and Innovation Forum"  organised by the Agricultural Advisory Center Branch in Radom , under the honorary patronage of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski.

The conference was attended by science representatives, advisors, farmers, company representatives and the main topic of discussion were innovations in agriculture and development directions.

Two competitions were organised to promote the most interesting agriculture projects and solutions, and  CYBELE was awarded 2nd place in the competition for "the most interesting IT solutions for agriculture", including some monetary prize.

CERTH presented the CYBELE Common Semantic Model at the 7th International Workshop on Semantic Statistics; Auckland, New Zealand on 26-30/10/2019. The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is the premier venue for presenting fundamental research, innovative technology, and applications concerning semantics, data, and the Web. It is the most important international venue to discuss and present latest advances and applications of the semantic Web, knowledge graphs, linked data, ontologies and artificial intelligence (AI) on the Web. 

The CYBELE project participated to the Digital Excellence Forum - Proposer's Day in Helsinki, Finland 19-20 September 2019 as member of the projects represented by the the Big Data Value Public-Private Partnership (http://www.bdva.eu/PPP ) with a booth in the PPP Village (booth 2, hall 5). The event is a unique networking platform for ICT professionals discussing the main policy drivers of the digital transformation of European industry and society as well as exchanging research ideas and results. During the event the vision and scope of the CYBELE project was presented to participants as well as its current status and planned outcomes in the following months.

Wageningen University participated to the Global Agripreneurship Summit, where the main topic of discussion was the "future farmer 4.0". Dr. Ioannis Athanasiadis (first from the left in the picture) represented the CYBELE project participating in the panel discussion examining how Cloud and Quantum Computing can help feed the world. All over the world, software developers, data scientists, agronomists and farmers are joining forces to enhance food production with the use of technology and especially the cloud sometimes with very dramatic results. Quantum computer, a totally mind-bending machine that takes advantage of the fact that tiny particles like electrons can be in many states at the same time, would enable a faster and more accurate analysis of catalytic processes, among others. With the use of quantum computers, challenges such as this, do not require centuries to be resolved, but they can be addressed through a few experiments.

University of Copenhagen participated to the 9th European Conference on Precision Livestock, representing the CYBELE project. In the picture, you can see Dr Dan B Jensen presenting his work on automating monitoring of pen fouling in growing pigs using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) applied to images captured above the pens.

The main aims of the EAAP are to promote, by means of active co-operation between its members and other relevant international and national organisations, the advancement of scientific research, sustainable development and production systems; experimentation, application and extension; to improve the technical and economic conditions of the livestock sector; to promote the welfare of farm animals and the conservation of the rural environment; to control and optimise the use of natural resources in general and animal genetic resources in particular; to encourage the involvement of young scientists and technicians. 

The first CYBELE technical meeting took place in Stuttgart on 11 and 12 July 2019. The progress of the technical tasks of the project was assessed and next steps were planned. Among others, the following topic were discussed:
 

• Platform delivery & Testbed Deployement

• Setup of the CI/CD platform for CYBELE

• Kubernetes

• Network Security Strategy

• Experiment Composer

• Roadmap

• HPC & Big data Convergence

The 111th OGC Technical Committee (TC) Meeting was one of the biggest ever, with more than 280 people attending, including key standards leaders and regional experts from industry, academia, and government. In addition to the many Working Group meetings, this TC Meeting featured an Earth Observation (EO) Summit, a special Sharing Data in Agriculture Session, as well as special sessions on Innovation Program activities in Europe. OGC, also member of the CYBELE consortium represented the project,  participating in the sessions regarding the progress of ongoing work surrounding the OGC API family of standards.

RYAX participated in the AI & Big Data Expo Europe, representing the CYBELE and presenting the work related to the workflow created in the context of the project, combining the expertise and views of different personas: data collector, domain experts, data scientists, consultants and end-users (farmers).

Featured innovative minds and progressive organisations in the field of Earth Observation participated at ENGAGE. The event brought together the whole industry value chain, under a highly stimulating atmosphere. Evenflow SPRL participated in the conference, representing the CYBELE project.

Discussion on European Projects that advance Big Data and Machine Learning and offer services for SMEs.

The second plenary meeting for the CYBELE project was hosted by Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) in Dublin on 21-22/05/2019. The discussed topics included among others:

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• Project Overview Status

• Expected 6-month progression

• Dissemination and Communication Plan & Industrial Clustering

• Data Management Planning

• Demonstrators Requirements

• Initial Demo and Technical Requirements

• Infrastructure Kick-off discussions

• Security Strategy

• Exploitation kick-off discussion

BI-REX companies were invited to the workshops, aiming at the identification of common interests and at joining efforts in innovation projects that will be funded by the Italian Ministry. In this context, the contribution of CINECA to Cybele was presented.

From 28 to 30 January the Rectory of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Polytechnic University of Catalunya) hosted the kickoff meeting of the CYBELE project (Fostering precision agriculture and livestock farming through secure access to large-scale HPC-enabled virtual industrial experimentation environment empowering scalable big data analytics). The project consortium discussed, among others, the following topics:
 

• Technical Overview & Vision of each project Work Package

• Demonstrators content and plan

• Technical details about HPC and potential implementations in the CYBELE project

• Requirements & Scenarios gathering

• Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation Workshop