Friends of Digital Farming e.V.

Sovereign data ecosystems in the agricultural and food industry – seminar series

Creating transparency, enabling innovation: In eight sessions, practitioners from Germany and Europe will highlight how data spaces along the value chain create real benefits – from use cases to governance to business cases.

Dates & Topics

European and national initiatives such as JoinData (NL), AgrospAI (ES), DJustConnect (BEL), and the Common European Agricultural Data Space (CEADS) make it clear that structured data exchange creates transparency, innovation, and new business models.

With this seminar series, we offer a platform for combining knowledge, practice, and strategy along the agricultural and food value chain.

Key topics and added value

  • Promotion of sovereign, secure, and interoperable data spaces
  • Exchange between business, science, and administration
  • Best practices from European initiatives
  • Orientation on governance, standardization, and business models
  • Impulses for cooperation and strategic positioning Objectives

Goals

  • Make practical offers and initiatives visible (domestic and international)
  • Identify use cases and business cases – compact and comparable
  • Understanding governance: roles, decisions, participation
  • Creating a basis for cooperation and partnerships.

Expected Resultss

  • List of requirements for data rooms in agri-food.
  • Map of relevant platforms and initiatives (Germany/EU.
  • Comparison of business models and responsibilities.
  • Documented ideas for strategy and investment decisions

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Scope

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  • Which “data spaces” are there?:
    • Governance
    • Requirements
  • Why/how is data shared?:
    • Use Cases
    • AGBs

Organisors & Supportors

Moderation & Execution: Friends of Digital Farming e.V. – in cooperation with science, associations, and companies. Co-organized and supported by DLG, DRV, DBV, appellando, BVLH, and GS1

Friends of Digital Farming e.V. Logo DLG – Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft DRV – Deutscher Raiffeisenverband DBV – Deutscher Bauernverband Apellando GS1 BVLH

Dates & Topics

Date & Time Session Country Location / Format Speaker Access speaker profile company profile
01.10.2025
12:00–13:30		 AgrospAI ESP Online (MS Teams)
Language: English		 Roberto Garcia Gonzales recording Roberto Garcia AgrospAI
06.10.2025
15:00 – 16:30		 Digital Farm Wallet NZ NZ Anuga, Köln Boulevard 049/ Bundesverband des deutschen Lebensmittelhandels Language: german Klaeri Schelhowe on-site Klaeri Schelhowe Kontakt: Klaeri Schelhowe
16.10.2025
12:00–13:30		 DJust Connect BEL Online (MS Teams) Language: English Jurgen Vangeyte access link Jürgen Vangeyte DjustConnect
22.10.2025
12:00–13:30		 JoinData NL Online (MS Teams) Language: English Sener Celik access link Sener Celik JoinData
12.11.2025
12:00 – 13:30		 Landtechnik DE Agritechnika Hannover Convention Center Saal 17 Christian Hennig (ISO TC 347 „Feldatlas“ – VDMA), Norbert Schlingmann (AEF) on-site Christian Hennig Norbert Schlingmann AEF
20.11.2025
12:00 – 13:30		 QS Schwein (Chargenware) EU Online (MS Teams) Language: German Marie-Lisa Schmengler (QS GmbH) acces link Marie-Lisa Schmengler QS-Klimaplattform
25.11.2025
12:00 – 13:30		 Approaches for commodities DE Online (MS Teams)Language: German Simon Harnisch (MIV) acces link N.N N.N
03.12.2025
12:00 – 13:30		 Common European Agricultural Data Space (CEADS) EU Online (MS Teams) Joerg Doerr (Fraunhofer IESE) acces link Joerg Doerr Fraunhofer IESE
08.12.2025
12:00 – 13:30		 agrirouter EU Online (MS Teams) Johannes Sonnen (DKE Data) Access link Johannes Sonnen DKE Data

Subject to change. Details and additional sessions will be added on an ongoing basis.

Schedule per session (75 min.)

  1. Introduction (5 minutes): Goals, speakers, and panel
  2. Impulse (25 minutes): Solution, offer, benefits
  3. Discussion (25 minutes): Practical perspective on agri & food
  4. Conclusion (5 minutes): Takeaways and next steps

Language: German (with exceptions for international speakers). Use of MS Teams functions, recording for internal evaluation.

What is being compared?

  • Motivation & requirements from practice, market, regulations
  • Stakeholder, roles & governance
  • Functions, services & shared data (e.g., “product passport”)
  • Financing, contributions, business case & scaling

Contact

Questions about the seminar series, participation as a sponsor/speaker or press??
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