Event schedule

	Podium room	Momentum (1+2+3)	Quantum 1	Quantum 2	Quantum 3	Quantum 4
8:30- 9:00	Walk-in
9:00- 9:20	Plenary (Podium room) Opening: Peter Ploegsma (WUR Executive Board)
9:30- 10:15	Strategic modelling infrastructure	The Digital Future Farm: Where data assimilation meets farm-level impact	1) FairGraph: Exploring and Managing Integrated Research Metadata 2) How to best annotate csv data for interoperability	DigiLab TK - connecting WR to the TO2 dataspace	From Research-software-idea to a reliable output: How to Get Your Software Managed, Monitored and Published	Ambivalence workshop: exploring value conflicts in futures of agriculture
10:15- 10:45	Coffee break
10:45- 11:30	Opening up the Greenhouse Data Platform	How do the neighbours do it? Model & data quality assurance across Dutch research institutes	Co-Creation in Action: Better Tools Through opensource Collaboration	Data integration for modular product environmental impact assessment tool	Searching for data and data reuse	Automatic data transfers
11:35- 12:15	Plenary (Podium room) Generative AI for Science at WUR: results and implications for navigating the AI transition Rutger Vlek, Vassilis Sitokonstantinou, Siamak Farshidi
12:15- 13:00	Lunch break/ info market
13:00- 13:45	National Agenda: Models for Digital Twins	VibeCode craft session: making Data Visualizations (dashboards) using Generative AI	Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA): Benefits and Necessity	Connecting the economic and bio-physical drivers of food security: Integrating the global and local scales through a multi-model collaboration	Modeling for Pandemic Preparedness: Research Software from WUR IDE for COVID-19 and Beyond (note: 20 minutes session)	Climate data for impact: applications and user perspectives
13:55- 14:40	A deep dive into foundation models	AI for Knowledge Discovery in Agricultural Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities	Agentic engineering: how to develop scientific software in the age of LLMs	Gender & Intersectionality Gaps in AI in AgriFood (note: 90 minutes session)	Research in the Connected Era	1) The Anunna Road: What do you need? 2) The future of Data & Compute @ WUR
14:40- 15:00	Coffee break
15:00- 15:45	Interpreting Explainable AI in practice	Hybrid Modelling Approaches for Prediction and Optimization in Food and Biobased Research		Gender & Intersectionality Gaps in AI in AgriFood (note: 90 minutes session)		FAIR Data Station
15:55- 16:30	Closing (Podium room) Jene van der Heide, Lingtong Gai, Joost Albers
16:30- 17:30	Networking (Drinks & bites)

Event schedule

WUR Model & Data Day 2026