Past event — This event ended 24 days ago.
KINTalk: The AI That Grows. The Grower Who Leads.
About the event
AI is moving fast, including in horticulture. How can it coexist with decades of experience built up in the field?
Dutch greenhouses are some of the most advanced growing environments on earth. The people running them have spent decades — sometimes their whole lives — learning how a crop behaves, what it needs, when to push and when to hold back.
Join us for the KINTalk with [Saheli De](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sahelide/)[,](https://www.linkedin.com/in/timverm/) Data Scientist & Product Owner at Blue Radix. Saheli will talk about AI for autonomous greenhouse climate and irrigation control, and why building trust with growers was as much the job as building the algorithm.
She'll share how the system works, what it actually optimizes for, and what her team didn't expect: that building a good algorithm was only half the job. The other half was the conversation.
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📅 Date & time: 10 September, 17:15–19:00 📍 Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Main Building, Floor 3, Wing B, Agora 2
We’ll wrap up the [KINTalk](https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/research-institutes/kin-center-for-digital-innovation/more-about/kintalks) with networking, snacks, and drinks—because the best ideas often start over good conversations (and free drinks and snacks!). More information about the speaker
About the speaker
[Saheli De](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sahelide/) is a Senior Data Scientist & Product Owner at Blue Radix, a company specialising in autonomous growing solutions for greenhouses across 14 countries. A Top 3 finalist for the 2024 WAI Netherlands 'AI Impact Maker' award, she also mentors aspiring data scientists — particularly young women entering the field.
[!!!This event is in person - please click this link to register!!!](https://forms.gle/CYwSohqwXB3Bmi9o6)
