Second meeting of the Global Initiative on AI for Agri-Food Systems held at India Mobile Congress 2026

10 October 2026

The second meeting of GI-AI4FS, the United Nations global initiative on artificial intelligence for agri-food systems, was held in New Delhi on 10 October 2026.
The initiative is coordinated by the International Telecommunication Union along with the Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food Programme.
The Telecommunication Engineering Centre of the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, hosted the meeting alongside India Mobile Congress 2026, and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research under the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare co-organised it.
About 70 participants attended in person and 25 joined online, from international organisations, government departments, agricultural research institutes, academia, industry and standards development organisations.
Speakers at the opening session included Dr. Sebastian Bosse, chair of GI-AI4FS, Mr. Krishnan Pallassana of the Food and Agriculture Organization, Dr. Bilel Jamoussi of the International Telecommunication Union, Dr. A. K. Nayak of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Mr. Syed Tauseef Abbas of the Telecommunication Engineering Centre.
The agenda covered a proposed governance and coordination structure, nomination of chairs, co-chairs and members of working groups, the scope of those working groups and their priority areas and initial tasks.
A two-day international artificial intelligence hackathon for agri-food systems was held at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research campus in New Delhi on 8 and 9 October 2026, and selected teams presented their solutions at the meeting.