The organising committee is delighted to announce Professor Spyros Fontas as our next keynote speaker at the Biosystems Engineering 2026 conference. His speech will be focused on AI and robotics in the service of crop health.

Spyros Fountas is Professor and Dean in the School of Environment and Agricultural Engineering at the Agricultural University of Athens. He has been Editor-in-Chief in the journal Smart Agricultural Technology (2021-today), while he was Editor-in-Chief in the journal of Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (2014-2021). He holds a BSc in Agricultural Sciences from Greece, an MSc from Cranfield University, in the UK, and a PhD from Copenhagen University in Denmark. He was also Visiting Scholar at Purdue University, USA. He has been Keynote speaker in several conferences among others in the FIRA Conference on Agricultural Robotics in France 2021; International Horticultural Congress in Turkey in 2018, 17th European Weed Research Society (EWRS), in France in June 2015; European Conference on Precision Agriculture (ECPA) in Spain in 2013. He has coordinated 7 H2020 and Horizon Europe projects, Smart-AKIS, GATES, OPTIMA, BEATLES, ICAERUS, Oper-8, SmartDroplets, while he has participated in several other European, national and industry-based projects. He has more than 250 papers, including book chapters, journal papers and conference papers and 12,500 citations (Google scholar, January 2026). He is also Visiting Researcher at Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy in Lithuania.