Agriculture And Technology with Orlando Saez

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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.