IC Squared have begun a series of Webinars named KnowFood, which will be covering issues related to food security, and will run on the third Thursday of every month, beginning January 21, 2021, at 9h00 PST / 12h00 EST / 17h00 UTC.

Organisers will be interviewing global scientists and thought leaders to foster collaboration and advance global food digitization efforts.

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Episode 1, January 21: Know COVID: COVID-19 impact on food systems

COVID has laid bare many fragilities of increasingly centralized local-to-global food systems, and the single points of failure associated with them. This episode will "lean into COVID"--that is, identify opportunities that exist for information technologies, and knowledge graphs--specifically, to begin addressing salient issues, indicators, resources, and strategies for improving resilience of food systems.

Confirmed guests include:

Damion Dooley, Developer of FoodOn, the world's most comprehensive, integrated, and open Food Ontology, and Chris Mungall, Scientist and former head at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory--perhaps the world's most prolific and cited biological ontologist, Dr Mungall leads development of the world's largest open knowledge graph about COVID.

Co-hosts include:

Matthew Lange, Food informatician and President/Co-founder of IC-FOODS, and

Courtney Riggle, Researcher with Food Systems Lab at UC Davis, and Co-founder of IC-FOODS