Stewart Collis
Senior Program Officer, Digital Solutions, Agricultural Development
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GATES FOUNDATION
Stewart Collis is a Senior Officer for Digital Agriculture at the Gates Foundation where he focuses on artificial intelligence, earth observation, digital farmer services and digital public infrastructure in agriculture to benefit small scale crop and livestock producers in low and middle income countries. Mr. Collis has over 30 years’ experience in agricultural information technology in low and middle income countries. Mr Collis was co-founder and CTO at an Ag-Tech Benefit Corporation providing global ag-weather content, agricultural modeling and analytics to private and public sector partners. Previously Mr. Collis worked on climate-driven spatial crop simulation modeling and agricultural data management tools at Texas A&M University and the International Center for Research in Agroforestry. Mr. Collis has a Bachelors in Geomatic Engineering majoring in Computer Science and a Masters of Engineering majoring in Remote Sensing from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Sessions
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Fireside Chat // AI for Agri-Food and Food Security: Unlocking Regional Innovation09-Dec-2025Auditorium
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Shaping the Future of AI for Small-Scale Producers09-Dec-2025Breakout Room