Conference News: Reuters does Food from Afar; SXSW Sydney CFP; Watching WEF
Fodder for Food & Farm Folks: After the success of their US event, Reuters will be hosting their Transform Food & Agriculture in Europe for the first time in 2025. They plan to gather sustainability, commercial, government affairs, agriculture, commodities, R&D, and procurement leaders (director and above) from midstream (CPG, food manufacturer, food processors) and downstream (grocers, restaurants, etc) companies to discuss the latest trends, challenges, and solutions facing European food and agriculture organizations. The conference will be held on 3 – 4 June in Amsterdam.
Dynamic Data Duo: In 2025 Dataversity announced that the Data Governance & Information Quality (DGIQ) Conference which has been dedicated entirely to Data Governance and Information Quality and the and Enterprise Data World (EDW) Conference, which has been one of the most comprehensive gatherings on Data Management since 1996, will be joining forces this spring. From 5 – 9 May, the DGIQ +EDW Conference will take place at the Westin Anaheim Resort in Anaheim, California. The organizers promise to have several relevant sessions on topics such as AI Governance, Data Architecture, Enterprise Semantics, Getting Business Buy-In, New Ideas and Technologies, Risk Management …and much more!
Submission Opportunity: SXSW Sydney is back for a third year and will host more than a thousand speakers across the festival’s conference at the ICC Sydney and in the Darling Harbour precinct from 13-17 October. Like the Austin festival, the conference spans topics ranging from Tech & Innovation, Games, Music, Screen, Food, Fashion, Fintech, and Marketing. Another similarity to SXSW Austin is the session submission process. Interested speakers can submit talks, panels, workshops, and meet-ups now through 23 March. The SXSW Sydney public voting period will remain open from 17 – 31 March.
Lunchtime Learning: The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum concluded a few weeks ago giving the residents of Davos-Klosters their town back for another twelve months. The theme of this year’s meeting was “Collaboration for the Intelligent Age” and sessions were generally aligned. If you were not able to attend, you can still see what happened on stage here. These include topics such as Renewing the Promise of Democracy; Getting EV Supply Chains Right; Beginning of the End of AIDS; Where are Interest Rates Going?; Cutting through Cyber Complexity; AI Governance; and New Agreement on Plastics: What Will it Take?
Coming Up Next Week: ViVE (16-19 February; Nashville) merges the leadership of CHIME and the marketplace of HLTH to create a digital health event focused on the business of transformation in healthcare – bringing together C-suite executives, senior digital health leaders and buyers, health startups and investors, policymakers, the patient community, and solution providers. ViVe 2025 offers newly expanded programming for nurses, startups, and provider-payer connections. DevNetwork’s AI DevWorld will run a virtual edition of its session from 18-20 February, mirroring the content featured onsite in Santa Clara earlier in February. Produced by Training magazine, the 48th annual Training Conference promises attendees skill-building content, covering train-the-trainer essentials, e-learning, and behavioral analytics. And on 20 February, a virtual session from Parks Associates on Smart Spaces: Looking Forward: Growth for Multifamily Tech delves into the latest advancements in property management technologies, energy efficiency, connectivity, and access control.