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Our colleague Virginia García Millán attended the Living Planet Symposium of the European Space Agency (ESA), one of the world's leading events on Earth Observation and Remote Sensing for Environmental Protection, in Vienna from 23 to 27 June 2025.The event brought together more than 6,900 participants from 119 countries, with more than 4,200 scientific sessions and posters, as well as 150 trainings.During the symposium, the latest news on the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem, future releases of the Copernicus Space Component, and advances in key applications such as Digital Twins, drones, ecosystem monitoring, agriculture and many others were presented. More information: https://lps25.esa.int/

From 10 to 12 June 2025, the Digital Enterprise Show (DES2025) (https://www.des-show.com/es/) took place at the Palacio de Ferias y Congresos de Málaga (FYCMA), one of the international events of reference in technological innovation and digital transformation. The Khaos Research Group was present through the participation of its director, José F. Aldana, who presented the Andalusian Agri-Food Data Space (EDAAn). During the event, several networking activities were also promoted among the working groups of the EDAAn project. Likewise, contacts were initiated with companies interested in establishing Proof of Concept (PoC) services in the framework of the AgrotechDIH project.

The Khaos group of the University of Malaga has received the Mediterranean Digital 2024 Award for its participation in the EnBiC2-Lab project, in recognition of its innovative nature and its impact on the conservation of Mediterranean ecosystems. Among the outstanding achievements of the project is the creation of the first map of Mediterranean forest species generated by Artificial Intelligence, with a reliability close to 80%, where more than 90 forest species are identified. In addition, the project has involved 23 researchers from 11 countries and has promoted scientific and training activities at international level.https://www.uma.es/sala-de-prensa/noticias/el-grupo-de-idi-khaos-galardonado-con-el-premio-mediterraneo-digital/You can read the full article at the following link: https://premiosdelmediterraneo.org/premio-mediterraneo-digital-2024/

José F. Aldana participated in the World Fair for the promotion and development of the Olive and Olive Oil Sector (EXPOLIVA 2025), which was held in Jaén from 14 to 17 May 2025.During the presentation, José F. Aldana presented the technological demonstrator of the Repilo del Olivar together with the rest of the use cases of the EDAAn proyect.  https://agora-datalab.eu/ 

Last May 14, 2025, our colleague Adrián Segura presented during the session Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at the III Andalusian bioinformatics conference (JABI 2025) held in Málaga, the work entitled: ‘Consensus optimisation of multiple gene regulatory network inference techniques from a holistic perspective guided by the biological context of the data.’ as part of his PhD thesis.

On 13 May 2025, our colleague María del Mar Roldán attended the Market-X & Tech-X 2025 event in Valencia, organised by Gaia-X. During her presentation at the Agriculture Ecosystem Panel session, she presented the ÁGORA Datalab (https://agora-datalab.eu/) in the context of the EDAAn project: Towards the creation of the Federated Data Space of the Andalusian Agri-Food Sector. https://gaia-x.eu/market-x-tech-x-2025/

On 17 March, a working day focused on interoperability in the data spaces of the agri-food sector was held in Madrid, organised by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA) together with the Directorate General for Data of the Ministry for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service, and in collaboration with the State Secretariat for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence (SEDIA).The meeting brought together representatives of various projects and initiatives with the aim of promoting synergies, exploring shared use cases and establishing common lines of action to improve interoperability between data spaces. During the session, the importance of connecting these digital ecosystems to promote the digitisation of the agri-food sector, optimise resource management and move towards greater sustainability was highlighted.Among the participating projects were AgrospAI (University of Lleida), RuralTech (Seresco…

The University of Málaga (UMA) and the INNOVA IRV Innovation Institute have taken an important step towards the creation of a Co-Innovation Laboratory in Artificial Intelligence, following a strategic meeting held at the Accenture facilities in Málaga TechPark. The aim is to establish a collaborative space between science, technology and business to address, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the current challenges of artificial intelligence. During the conference, possible lines of collaboration between UMA research groups and the business sector were explored, as well as opportunities for participation in projects with industrial impact. José F. Aldana, deputy director of ITIS UMA and director of ÁGORA Datalab (https://agora-datalab.eu/), participated on behalf of both entities, highlighting the value of knowledge transfer and open innovation. This laboratory aspires to become a benchmark in the responsible…

On 30 April, our colleague Antonio Manuel Burgueño defended his doctoral thesis entitled ‘MLOps applied to advanced remote sensing techniques’ under the supervision of José F. Aldana Montes and Cristóbal Barba González. The thesis, which obtained the international mention, was graded with the highest distinction: outstanding Cum Laude.The presentation and subsequent discussion were particularly interesting, and demonstrated the great work done by our colleague.Congratulations, AM!

Last 13th September took place the defence of the doctoral thesis of our colleague José Francisco Aldana Martín (Pepe) entitled ‘Automated Recommendation of Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms Using a Knowledge-Based Approach’, under the supervision of María del Mar Roldán and Antonio J. Nebro Urbaneja.  Both the defence and the subsequent discussion were very interesting and demonstrated the great work done by our colleague, which was rewarded with the International Mention and a grade of Outstanding Cum Laude. Congratulations, Pepe!