2023

• June 2023: moderation of the GFAR session on "Ethical and legal issues around agricultural data" at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the IGAD Community of Practice in the Research Data Alliance (RDA)
• June 2023: moderation of the GFAR side event on "Mainstreaming land rights of the rural poor in the climate change discourse" at the 8th Afirica Agribusiness and Science Week in Durban, South Africa.
• November 2023: presentation at the cross-fertilization workshop of the Research Data Alliance.

2022

• November 2022: moderation of GFAR side event at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh: "Inclusive climate-smart digital technologies: can/will small-scale farmers  get on board?"
• October 2022: presentation on the GFAR Theory of Change and Collective Actions at the GFAR partnership and resource mobilization webinar
• October 2022: panelist at the side event "TAPipedia: Fostering knowledge sharing in support of agricultural innovation" at the FAO Science and Innovation Forum 2022 [recording]
• August 2022: presentation on the GFAR approach to Collective Actions and the mechanisms for sharing knowledge and learning among the regions at the launch of the Asia Pacific regional Collective Action on Inclusive Digital Agriculture
• April 2022: organization of the Annual Meeeting of the IGAD Community of Practice of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and moderation of the session on "Ethical and Legal Issues Around Agricultural Data" 

2021

• December 2021: virtual launch of the GFAR-facilitated Inter-regional Task Force on Inclusive Digital Agriculture at the KM4AgD final conference in Accra
• October 2021: short presentation of GFAR's Collective Action on Inclusive Digital Transformation of Agriculture at #OFE2021 conference
• October 2021: moderator at the webinar "Analysis of time series of Sentinel 1 and Sentinel 2 data – the new quality of information for Agriculture" organized by the IGAD Community of Practice of the Research Data Alliance (RDA)
• July 2021: chat moderation at various sessions at the UNFSS FAO Science Days, in particular session "3C - Capitalizing on models, data and communications revolution"
• March 2021: episode n. 3 of the KnowFOOD series: Know SWoF: the emerging semantic web of food data alignment and interoperability

2020

• December 2020: presentation of GFAR's perspective on the GODAN/GFAR/CTA "Codes of conduct toolkit" at the GODAN webinar on data ethics in the agricultural value chain
• June 2020: panelist in the discussion on "Future of digitalization in food value chains" at the IAMO Forum 2020
• April 2020: webinar on "Mobilizing Capacity Development in Agriculture for Smallholder Farmers - How to bridge the digital divide" organized by GODAN and Plan4all for the Kampala Hackathon.
• January 2020: presentation on the content and structure of the upcoming AGROVOC MOOC at the AGROVOC workshop organized by the FAO AIMS team.

2019

• October 2019: panel discussion at the FAO / CTA webinar "Reflection on Farmer Profiling, Data Management and Services for Farmers"
• October 2019: panel discussion at the NetHope "Transforming Agriculture Through Digital Financial Innovations" webinar
• July 2019: presentation at the GODAN / CTA / KTBL workshop on Codes of conduct for farm data held in Darmstadt, Germany
• June 2019: presentation and interview at the World Bank workshop "Digital Acceleration of Agricultural Transformation Workshop" in Washington, DC

2018

• November 2018: presentation at the PAFO/AGriCord/CTA Partnership 2016-2018 closing workshop in Brussels
• July 2018: coordination of the GFAR/GODAN/CTA/KTBL Expert consultation on ethical, legal and policy aspects of data sharing affecting farmers hosted by BLE in Bonn
• June 2018: participation in panel discussion on "Agri AI: Feeding the Algorithms to Feed Humanity" at AG/SUM 2018 in Tokyo
• June 2018: facilitation of online consultation on "Ethical, legal and policy aspects of data sharing affecting farmers" 
• March 2018: presentation on "(Weather) data standards assessed against the FAIR principles: some findings" at the pre-meeting of the RDA Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) in Berlin
• February - April 2018: facilitation of the webinar series on "Farmers' access to data": webinar 1, webinar 2, webinar 3. See webinar series on "Farmers' access to data".

2017

• November 2017: coordination and facilitation of training course and symposium on Farmers' access to data in Centurion, South Africa.
• September 2017: presentation on "Semantic challenges in sharing dataset metadata and creating federated dataset catalogs" at the G20 MACS Linked Open Data workshop in Berlin.
• September 2017: participation as external expert in the EFSA working group on data management in Parma.
• June 2017: presentation on "Data discovery through federated dataset catalogs" at the stakeholder consultation of the H2020 eROSA project in Montpellier.
• May 2017: panel presentation at Seeds&chips conference, session on "The Semantic Web of Food": in Milan
• March 2017: lecture on "Dataset description: DCAT and other vocabularies" for the DRTC/ISI-ICSU/CODATA International Workshop on Open Data Repositories.

2016

• November 2016: programme committee of the W3C / VRE4EIC "Smart Descriptions & Smarter Vocabularies (SDSVoc)" workshop in Amsterdam
• November 2016: plenary presentation at the IC-FOODS conference in Davis, California
• September 2016: organization of 2nd Big Data Europe workshop in Brussels
• June 2016: presentation of VEST map of standards use case at the AgroPortal hackathon in Montpellier
• May 2016: Presentation on the Big Data Europe project at the Open harvest workshop in Chania
• February 2016: participation in the Research Data Alliance 7th Plenary in Tokyo. In particular, co-chairing of the session on Agricultural data availability and interoperability in the IGAD pre-meeting and reporting to IGAD plenary session.

2015

• December 2015: part of the team of experts meeting at the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore for a brainstorming session on the draft UNESCO Guidelines for Open Data and FOSS
• December 2015: moderation of the GODAN panel on open data at the GFIA Africa conference in Durban, South Africa
• December 2015: part of the panel of judges for the CTA AgriHack challenge at GFIA Africa, especially for assigning the GODAN prize
• September 2015: INRA, Paris: first workshop of the societal challenge 2 (food and agriculture) of the Big Data Europe H2020 project: presentation on "An inter-linked infrastructure for open data in agriculture"and facilitation of discussions
• September 2015: INRA, Paris: pre-meeting of the Agricultural Data Interoperability Interest Group of the Research Data Alliance: presentation on "How to describe a dataset. Interoperability issues" and facilitation of discussions
• March 2016: European Commission, Brussels: agINFRA final review: presentation on interoperability and Linked Data layer
• February 2015: Brussels: public launch of the H2020 Big Data Europe project: panel for societal challenge 2 (food and agriculture)
• January 2015: Wageningen University: GODAN partners meeting: presentation on the CIARD RING

2014

• September 2014: 4th Research Data Alliance Plenary Meeting in Amsterdam, Netherlands: presentations in the Agriculture Data Interoperability Interest Group:
  • "The new CIARD RING, a machine-readable directory of datasets for agriculture"
  • "The agINFRA Linked Data layer"
• August 2014: University of UC Davis, California: introduction to open data activities in FAO and GFAR and global open data initiatives in agriculture (CIARD, GODAN), preliminary to discussions on possible collaborations between the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis and FAO / CIARD
• April 2014: facilitation of parallel sessions at the GODAN / CIARD Consultation in Rome
• January 2014: agINFRA 5th project meeting in Budapest: presentation on the status of Work Package 5

2013

• December 2013: 1st International e-Conference on Germplasm Data Interoperability, on line: presentation on “Publishing Germplasm Vocabularies as Linked Data”
• December 2013: agINFRA project review in Athens, Greece: presentation of the role of the RING in the project and introduction to components leveraging data from the RING
• November 2013: SWIB Conference in Hamburg, Germany: invited talk on “AgriVIVO: A Global Ontology-Driven RDF Store Based on a Distributed Architecture” (video)
• August 2013: VIVO 2013 Conference In St. Louis, United States: moderation of panel discussion on “Issues related to the adoption and adaptation of VIVO in a domain-specific community at the institutional, national and global level”
• July 2013: IAALD Congress 2013 in Ithaca NY, United States: moderation of post-event session on potential collaborations on VIVO
• May 2013: agINFRA Open Stakeholder Day in Budapest, Hungary: presentation of FAO and GFAR contribution to and expectations from the project
• April 2013: CIARD global consultation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: presentation on possible areas of expansion in the CIARD content management task force: Linked Data and the RING

2012

• August 2012: VIVO 2012 Conference in Miami, United States: presentation of a poster on AgriVIVO
• April 2012: agINFRA 2^nd project meeting in Alcala, Spain: presentation of the requirements of the AgriDrupal and RING components
• March 2012: Global Rangelands launch in Tucson, United States: presentation of FAO activities for agricultural information

2011

• October 2011: agINFRA kickoff meeting in Rome, Italy: presentation of the CIARD RING and the AgriVIVO concept
• June 2011: CIARD global consultation in Beijing, China: presentation of the new CIARD RING concept together with John Fereira (Cornell University)
• May 2011: Sub-regional Workshop on National Agricultural Information Systems in Dhaka, Bangladesh: presentation of the CIARD RING and training
• March 2011: training for the ZAR4DIN project in Lusaka, Zambia

2010

• September 2010: APARIS workshop on National Agricultural Information Systems in Bangkok, Thailand: presentation of the CIARD RING
• September 2010: Rangelands West project meeting in Tucson AZ, USA
• April 2010: IAALD Congress 2010 in Montpellier, France:
  • Presentation of the CIARD RING in the Integrated Information Systems session
  • Rapporteur for the Integrated Information Systems session
  • Presentation on Information / software architectures based on Content Management Systems (CMS) in the Workshop on Information Systems Architectures

2009

• December 2009: CIARD global consultation in Hyderabad, India: presentation of the  CIARD RING
• November 2009: CIARD regional workshop for Latin America in Lima, Peru: presentation of the CIARD Pathways and CIARD RING
• September 2009: Share Fair in Rome, Italy: presentation of the EGFAR website
• May 2009: AARINENA Workshop on National Agricultural Information Systems in Cairo, Egypt: presentation of the CIARD RING and AgriFeeds
• March 2009: CIARD Content Management Task Force meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2008

• August 2008: IAALD Congress 2008 in Atsugi, Japan:
  • Presentation of the Web RING concept
  • Presentation of AgriFeeds together with Gauri Salokhe (FAO)

2007

• September 2007: Web4Dev conference in Rome, Italy: presentation of the new EGFAR web platform
• September 2007: MTSR 2007 in Corfu, Greece: poster on a distributed architecture for a registry of agricultural organizations
• March 2007: AGRIS Content Management Task Force meeting in Wageningen, Netherlands: presentation of a proposed distributed architecture for a registry of agricultural organizations