Keynote, Invited and Panel Talks

P. Krishna Reddy has delivered a lead talk entitled, `Building a smart phone based field diagnosis guide for farmers by extending the concept of generalization', at Symposium on Artificial intelligence (AI) based smart plant protection- futuristic scenario, at XIX International Plant Protection Congress, IPPC2019, 10 - 14 Nov 2019, Hyderabad, India.

Delivered a panel talk entitled, Can DBMS technologies play a significant role in Big Data Analytics if so how? If not how not?, at 6th International Conference, BDA 2018, Warangal, India, December 18-21, 2018, NIT Warangal, India.

Delivered an invited talk entitled, “Buildiing Efficient Weather-based Agricultural Decision Support Systems”, at International Conference on Statistics & Big Data Bioinformatics in Agricultural Research, 21-23 November 2016 (celebrating 70th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics (ISAS)), ICRISAT, Patancheru, Telangana, India.

Delivered an invited talk entitled, “eSagu: Experiences of building an IT-based farm-specific and location-specific agro-advisory system”, at ICT for Future Agriculture organized by World Congress on Computers in Agriculture and Asian Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture (WCCA•AFITA 2016), at Sunchon National University, Sunchon, Korea, June 21-24, 2016.

Delivered a tutorial talk entitled, ``Building Information/Knowledge Based Decision Support Systems for Better Agriculture'', at The 8th Multi-Disciplinary International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (MIWAI'2014), 8-10 December 2014.

Delivered an invited talk, entitled ``An IT-based Framework for Climate Change Adaptation'', at Seminar on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security: Opportunities for Regional Collaboration, Organized by The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) South and South East Asia, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 19-21 November 2014.

Delivered a talk entitled ``Three Scalable IT-driven Engines for Better Indian Agriculture: eSagu, eAgromet and Virtual Crop Labs'', at IBM Regional Technical Exchange-India 2014, 18-19 September 2014.

Delivered a panel talk entitled ''Data Science Based Decision Support Systems for Better Agriculture'' at XRCI Open Symposium 2014, March 14, 2014.

Delivered invited talk entitled ''Three Scalable IT-driven Engines for Better Indian Agriculture: eSagu, eAgromet and Virtual Crop Labs, at the International Conference on Cloud, Big Data and Trust (ICCBDT - 2013), November 13 - 15, 2013, Organized by Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyala, Bhopal in collaboration with EMC^2.

Delivered a seminar talk entitled ''Empowering Indian Farmers by Building an IT-based Scalable and Location-specific Agro-advisory System'', May 9, 2013, Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems (RBCCPS) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

Delivered invited talk entitled ''Empowering Indian Farmers by Building an IT-based Scalable and Location-specific Agro-advisory System'', at the Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems: Applications and Open Challenges, March 22-23,2013, IIT Hyderabad Campus.

Delivered an invited talk entitled ''A Model of Virtual Crop Labs as a Cloud Computing Application for Enhancing Practical Agricultural Education'', at First International Conference on Big data Analytics (BDA 2012), New Delhi, India, December 24-26, 2012.

Delivered an invited talk entitled ``An IT-based Scalable System to Disseminate Location-specific Best Agriculture Practices to all Farmers'', Global Consultation on ''Innovative ICT and Knowledge Sharing Platforms for Revitalizing Agricultural Extension and Education: Opportunities and Challenges'', 3-4, December 2012, Infosys Campus, Hyderabad, India.

Delivered an invited talk entitled ``An IT-based Scalable System to Disseminate Location- specific Best Agriculture Practices to all Farmers'', FOOD 360: International Conference-Cum-Exhibition on Agribusiness and Food Processing on 5-6 November 2012 at Hyderabad, India.

Participated as a panel member at THE CHALLENGE TO PRODUCE MORE FOOD & ENERGY WITH LESS POLLUTION: TOWARDS A GLOBAL NITROGEN ASSESSMENT, 18 October 2012, at the side event of Eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP11), Hyderabad, India.

Delivered a talk entitled ``Knowledge Management in eSagu (IT-based Personalized Agro-Advisory System)'' at workshop on Knowledge Management and Documentation Skills Training for Public Servants, 7 February 2012, Institute of Management in Government, Trivandrum, Kerala, (Organized by Center for Innovations in Public Systems, Administrative Colledge of India, Hyderabad and Institute of Management in Government, Trivandrum, Kerala).

Delivered a talk entitled ``ICTs to Improve Agriculture Productivity: Experiences of eSagu and eAgromet'' at the Workshop on Innovations in Governance, 20 January 2012, Vikas Soudha, Bangalore, India

Delivered a talk entitled ``ICTs to Improve Agriculture Productivity: Experiences of eSagu and eAgromet'' at ACM SIGMOD-Japan Chapter Conference, 15 December 2011, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Japan.

Delivered a talk entitled ``eAgromet: ICT-enabled Agro-Meteorological Advisory System'' at Fifth Annual Review Meeting on Integrated Agromet Advisory Service, Agartala, Tripura, October 18-20, 2011.

Delivered a talk at ``Technology Vision 2035: Brain storming meeting on Information and Communication Technologies'', TIFAC, New Delhi, 1 September 2011.

Delivered an invited talk entitled ``ICTs to Improve Agriculture Productivity: eSagu and eAgromet'' at INDO-US Workshop on Precision Agricultural Techniques and Technologies, February 28 - March 3, 2011,Panjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana (India).

Delivered an invited talk entitled ``ICTs in Agriculture: Experiences of eSagu and a Way Forward'' at 14th National Conference on e-Goveranance, 10-11 February 2011, Aurangabad, Maharastra, India.

Delivered a panel talk entitled, ``ICT for Emerging Markets: Experiences, Challenges, Insights'', at The third International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS 2010), January 2010, Bangalore India.

Presented an invited talk on “eSagu: An IT-based Personalized Agro-Advisory System”, at “International Symposium Tech For Food 2009”, Paris, Feb 25, 2009.

Delivered an invited talk, on 23rd January 2008, entitled “eSagu: An IT-based Personalized Agro-Advisory System to Track Every Farm”, at National Seminar “Technology, Public Policy and Development: Shifting Contexts, Transforming Agendas” (22nd to 24th January, 2009), organized School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.

Delivered an invited talk entitled “eSagu: An IT-based Personalized Agro-Advisory System” in one day workshop on Neem on 5th December 2008 at Kochi, Kerala, organized by SPICEBOARD, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India, 5th December 2008.

Delivered two talks on 30-08-08, at Management Development Programme on Data Mining and GIS for Decision Support in Agriculture held at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, August 25-September 5, 2008.

Presented a talk on challenges on economic development at StockHolm Challenge Finalists Meet 2008, May 19-22, 2008.

Delivered invited talk on eSagu project was given at Electronics and Information Technology Exhibition (ELITEX 2007), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, January 10-11, 2007.

Delivered invited talk on eSagu project was delivered at National Workshop on ICT for Rural Financial Services - Feb 05-06, 2007, CAB, Pune.

Delivered invited talk on eSagu project at Buyer-Seller Meet and Conference on Fruit Industry of Himachal Pradesh, 29-30 November 2006, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, organized by Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals and Apple Growers' Association of India.