AraFest’24 – Thanks for joining us! See highlights from the event here.
August 24 – 27, 2024
Ames, Iowa
Call for Contribution:
AraFest’24 is designed for fostering broad community collaboration in ARA-enabled research, education, and innovation. There are ample opportunities to help co-shape the program including:
- Participate in keynotes, panels, talks, demos, and/or poster sessions – ARA will organize these activities during August 26 – 27 centered around topics such as Open RAN, 6G, real-time communications for cyber-physical-human systems, rural broadband, advanced wireless applications (e.g., XR, teleoperation, tactile Internet, precision agriculture, advanced manufacturing, micro energy grid), open source / data / innovation, public-private partnership, innovation and ecosystem building. If you are interested in contributing to the keynotes, panels, talks, demos, and/or posters of AraFest’24 (e.g., as speakers and/or organizers), please contact Hongwei Zhang at [email protected].
- Train on ARA – ARA will organize an ARA User Training Workshop and Hackathon during August 24 – 25. If you are interested in participating in these activities, please contact the ARA team at [email protected].
AraFest’24 will also be co-located with the Farm Progress Show, a premier AgTech event. ARA demos will take place at the Farm Progress Show on August 27.
Fun facts about the Farm Progress Show can be found here. Fun facts about the Iowa State University campus and the City of Ames can be found here.
See the program from last year’s AraFest’23 here.
