AI in Ag Tech: Session Two, Michael DeChellis
Agenda, led by Michael DeChellis:
- Outputs (20 min): real things built with AI for organizations/teams. How to do a presentation built with AI. An AI "back office" that drafts, summarizes and files for a small nonprofit team. A way to take current knowledge and repackage it so it presents better. Glossary-based translation that keeps the vocabulary producers actually use. Voice memos turned into structured field notes. The shared collaboration website the hub network uses.
- Process (20 min): two principles, Feed AI Context and Check AI Work. Then how I set things up: a working folder with standing instructions (AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md), reusable skills, and starting with a task you already do that takes too much time.
- Q&A (20 min)
About the Series:
Over the course of five sessions in November, we will explore and discuss how AI is being used in the open-source agriculture space. We aim to bring together practitioners, developers, organizers, farmers and technologists in the GOAT/Farm Hack/OpenTEAM orbit (anyone is welcome!) This series is strategically set ahead of GOAT 2026 to invite discussion on this topic ahead of the event. The series is hosted as a GOAT community collaboration, organized by Greg Austic, Dorn Cox, and Anna Lynton.
Tuesdays in November @ 11am EST
In each session, a different speaker will demo what they are working on, share how they did it, and invite discussion from the participants. Interested in presenting? Reach out to an.lynton@gmail.com