The Business Case for Agile Data & DPI
Fayaz King
Digital Economy & Innovation Strategist (Former Assistant Secretary-General level) to the United Nations Secretary-General's envoy on technology)
Digital agriculture is no longer a pilot conversation – it is a balance sheet conversation.
As compliance tightens, traceability deepens, and markets demand proof, data and infrastructure are no longer operational back-office functions. They are strategic assets.
This keynote examines why Agile Data and Digital Public Infrastructure are not optional innovations, but core enablers of competitiveness, risk management, and long-term value creation.
When farmer-level insight is credible, standardised, and interoperable, it moves beyond reporting — it becomes advantage.
The question is no longer whether to invest in data systems.
It is whether your systems are built to deliver decisions that hold up at scale.