Description

The dairy industry has done a decent job at innovating and the next step could include artificial intelligence. Former Microsoft Office employee and founder of Connecterra, Yasir Khokhar, shares what AI could look like on the farm, insight on ChatGPT and other applications, data security and AI regulations. Dairy Stream host Joanna Guza dives into the topics below with Yasir:

• 1:45: What does AI look like on the farm
• 3:56: Will the physical farm look different with AI
• 4:56: How ChatGPT or other AI applications fit into agriculture
• 7:20: How AI takes in outside factors like weather or markets
• 8:23: Where is the dairy industry at with implementing AI 
• 9:55: U.S. dairy involvement in AI compared to Europe 
• 11:12: How to integrate all data sources 
• 12:30: Simplicity of AI for the user 
• 13:50: Future careers in the dairy industry  
• 16:15: Basic security for AI data 
• 17:55: Who can help protect the data 
• 19:20: Cybersecurity insurance 
• 21:20: AI and regulations   
• 23:09: What farmers should be sharing with policymakers on AI 
• 24:14: Future of AI and how farmers can prepare themselves
• 26:01: Is agriculture inline with other industries using AI 

Special thanks to Connecterra for sponsoring this episode.

About the guest

• Meet Yasir Khokhar:

  Yasir Khokhar is a co-founder and CEO of Connecterra, the artificial intelligence company with a mission to empower the dairy industry to increase productivity while reducing impact on the planet. Yasir holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and an executive MBA. He launched two start-ups before joining Microsoft’s Dubai team. In his ten-year tenure, Yasir led the transformation of Microsoft Office into a cloud business for the Middle East before transferring to the Netherlands to lead the Microsoft Office business unit for Western Europe. Yasir co-founded Connecterra in 2014 with an idea on how use A.I. to help solve dairy's biggest challenges. Under his leadership, Connecterra has grown from that early idea to winning the Startup of the Year at the 2015 Web Summit to a global company. Yasir has built teams in the United States and Europe and has architected commercial deals with some of the biggest brands in the industry. In his down time, he occasionally writes a few lines of code. 

Check out Yasir's presentation at the annual Dairy Strong conference in 2023.

This podcast is co-produced by the Dairy Business Association and Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative, sister organizations that fight for effective dairy policy in Wisconsin and Washington, D.C. 

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