Presenters
CARTER Peter
Organisation
Data61 CSIRO
Presentation
What is Blockchain – cutting through the hype
Session
Session 10a Blockchain & what it could mean for agriculture
Presenting
Thursday August 09 at 11:15 am
Room
1b
Peter Carter is an agricultural economist and digital innovation advocate at CSIRO’s Data61 business unit. He has a farming systems background and is leading supply chain integrity and food provenance program activity involving industry partners and multidisciplinary teams across CSIRO. This involves on-farm and remote sensing, IoT and automation with computational systems teams developing big data analytics, machine learning and AI systems and tools. Peter is focused on smart and trustworthy agricultural supply chains, traceability and developing platforms that enable de-commoditisation and serialisation of everything. Moreover a future where trade and commerce is increasingly digital – driven by platform services, smart contracts and the automation of regulation and laws.

