Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.

This congress aims to provide a forum for agriculture related professionals to exchange information on applications and developments in the use of Information Technologies. It will explore a variety of topics including both new applications of well established and understood technologies and innovative, entrepreneurial applications of emerging technologies. It will also address issues related to policy and knowledge dissemination.

Professionals working in Agricultural Information Technology and related areas are invited to submit an abstract for consideration to be presented at the conference. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Adoption and Extension
• Decision support Systems
• Education/Training, Distance Learning and Professional Accreditation
• e-AgBusiness and Production Chain Management
• Field Data Acquisition and Recording
• Food Safety Control/Tracking-Tracing
• Global Information Systems
• Grid Applications
• Information Systems and Databases
• Instrumentation and Control
• Web Services, Portals and Internet Applications
• Library Science and Knowledge Representation
• Modeling and Simulation
• Packaging Science and Technology
• Portable and Nomadic Computing
• Precision Agriculture
• Rural and Environmental Development and Policy
• Wireless and Sensor Networks

Deadlines for abstracts is January 30 2006.

Registration fees are US$425/ $475 for members of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers , US$550/ $600 for non-members and US$200/$250 for students. The fee includes conference access, two lunches, one dinner, four full coffee breaks and one evening reception.

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