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Sumer Johal, CEO of Almanac – Interview Series
- Sumer Johal has spent the most recent decade of his professional career addressing systemic challenges in environmental stewardship and sustainability, food security, rural livelihoods and digital access equity.
- Almanac empowers farmers by delivering actionable insights through a suite of products and digital tools as the trusted source of global farm intelligence.
- Almanac's core product Semios leverages AI, big data analytics, and IoT to give specialty crop growers—farmers cultivating complex crops like almonds, apples, grapes, and citrus—real-time insights to manage their operations with precision.
- Mr. Johal's focus has been on guiding the company's evolution into an integrated, technology-driven platform for agriculture – for all its stakeholders, but with the farmer at its epicenter.
- At Almanac, we believe in balancing the wisdom of traditional farming with the power of technology. We see tech as a tool that enhances—not replaces—the expertise farmers already have.
- Alma is Almanac's connected intelligence and offers the most relevant insights from a farmer’s data, partner integrations, and the greater agricultural community. It helps farmers and advisors to spend less time sifting through reports and more time on the farm.
- Through Almanac’s interface, the insights generated by AI are presented in a user-friendly, visual format, coupled with specific recommendations.
- Almanac recently launched the Open Source Project Office (OSPO). The OSPO is designed to encourage open collaboration across agriculture and foster a global digital ecosystem where knowledge and technology flow freely and enable data interoperability and exchange standards.
- Open-source data has the potential to be a game-changer, especially for small and medium-scale farmers. By removing the high costs and restrictions of proprietary technology, we’re enabling a new level of access to advanced tools and insights.
- Looking ahead, Mr. Johal sees Almanac expanding its role to enable global food intelligence through data and relationships at scale, enhancing its applications to deliver clear ROI and consolidating all user data in one place.
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