{"id":9096,"date":"2023-01-16T18:12:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T01:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=9096"},"modified":"2023-01-16T18:12:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T01:12:30","slug":"mfre-speaker-tomas-nilsson-technology-climate-change-and-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-9096","title":{"rendered":"MFRE Speaker: Tomas Nilsson: Technology, Climate Change and Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for a thought-provoking seminar on the intersection of technology, climate change, and agriculture. Dr.\u00a0Tomas Nilsson\u00a0will speak to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=mfre&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7020908724277968896\">#MFRE<\/a> students this Friday, Jan 20, 2023. check out the details in the post below.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/events\/technology-climate-change-and-agriculture\">TECHNOLOGY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND AGRICULTURE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date: Friday, January 20, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Time: 3:00- 4:30 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Location: MCML 160<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tomas Nilsson has a doctorate from Purdue University, a master&#8217;s degree from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and holds a Certified Analytics Professional designation from INFORMS. Before joining Olds College of Agriculture and Technology, he worked in the private and public sectors in Canada, the U.S. and Sweden. Tomas teaches courses in the Agriculture Technology Integration and Precision Agriculture programs and researches digital agriculture technologies at the college. Tomas is also involved in developing the new Bachelor of Digital Agriculture Degree. He has been on the faculty since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>For information about the upcoming MFRE Speakers, Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/speaker-series\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Olivier Ntwali, BSc Ag. Econ, MFRE<\/strong><br \/>\nAcademic Program Manager<br \/>\nMaster of Food and Resource Economics| Land and Food System<br \/>\nThe University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory<br \/>\nMacmillan Building \u2013 348A- 2357 Main Mall\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver BC\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z4 Canada<br \/>\nPhone: 6047718961| <a href=\"mailto:olivier.ntwali@ubc.ca%7C\">olivier.ntwali@ubc.ca|<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/\">http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for a thought-provoking seminar on the intersection of technology, climate change, and agriculture. Dr.\u00a0Tomas Nilsson\u00a0will speak to the\u00a0#MFRE students this Friday, Jan 20, 2023. check out the details in the post below. TECHNOLOGY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND AGRICULTURE Date: Friday, January 20, 2023 Time: 3:00- 4:30 PM Location: MCML 160 Tomas Nilsson has a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9097,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096\/revisions\/9097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}