Vitartis, the Food Industry Association of Castilla y León, in collaboration with the Ebro Valley Food Cluster food+i, has organised a webinar under the title “Industrial application of IIoT and Data Analytics”. At this webinar, experts in IoT and Data Analytics have presented nine success stories on how these technologies have generated more competitive business models.

Juan Manuel Corchado during the Webinar organised by Vitartis

Juan Manuel Corchado, director of the BISITE Research Group and president of the AIR Institute, participated in the conference, in which he highlighted the importance of the application of disruptive technologies in the industrial and food sectors, as well as shared some of the projects we are developing in these areas.

One such example is Expand Intelwines, a project developed by the AIR Institute and the IoT Digital Innovation Hub in collaboration with the Pago de Carraovejas winery, thanks to the European initiative EXPAND SmartAgriHubs, for the development and implementation of new artificial intelligence techniques in the wine production process, to support decision-making and improve food safety.

Agri-food companies face the challenge of meeting the increasingly complex demands of consumers, while at the same time increasing control over the quality and origin of products. All these changes and trends would not be possible without the digital transformation of the industry. This is why this digital meeting was held within the framework of the DIGIDAT project, a Vitartis initiative to promote the implementation of digitalisation projects in the food industry and to provide its corporations with the tools needed to accelerate innovation and increase competitiveness through the application of data analysis technologies.

Posted by Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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