MARS is a yearly event hosted by Amazon Founder and Executive Chair Jeff Bezos. MARS brings together innovative minds in Machine learning, Automation, Robotics, and Space to share new ideas across these rapidly advancing domains.
This invite-only conference embraces an optimistic vision for scientific discovery to advance a golden age of innovation. MARS attendees participate in hands-on learning, demos of emerging technology, and experiences where discovery leads to friendship.
MARS guests include experts across machine learning, automation, robotics, and space. Attendees from academia, start-ups, and Fortune 100 companies gather to learn, share, and further imagine how these four fields of study will shape the future.
Organised jointly by the Joint Research Centre of the EC, the Spanish Paying agency and the Ministry of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda of Catalonia, the MARS Conference brings together the community of technical experts in the field of administration and control of the area–based subsidy schemes.
The conference covers the technologies, methods and protocols that bring effectiveness and efficiency to the different area–based subsidy schemes. This year’s agenda focused on several different topics, including:
- The state of Copernicus–based technology
- The CAP new delivery and management model
- Introducing performance towards Environmental and Climate targets
- Using new technologies
- The land ahead: information on the management of land
As well as attending the conference, our colleague Chris Collins also delivered a presentation on the final day. His presentation was titled ‘The use of aerial imagery and a high–resolution DSM to predict the location of hedgerow features in and around Ireland’s LPIS parcels’.
Our colleagues thoroughly enjoyed their time in Barcelona and, in particular, the chance to meet and discuss their experiences with other area–based subsidy scheme community members.