CSIR SARI strengthens breeding data skills, helping crop teams use EBS and Bioflow, share knowledge, and apply learning in practice.
ICRISAT staff strengthen practical EBS skills, preparing them to support colleagues and apply shared knowledge within their crop programs.
CIAT Bean staff strengthen their EBS skills through practical training, preparing them to support colleagues and breeding teams across CIAT.
EBS expands its Train-the-Trainer approach with IITA Cassava, strengthening local expertise and sustainable support for integrated multi-crop breeding workflows.
Digital Solutions team members reflect on UX+AI 2026, exploring how AI, human judgment, and user understanding shape meaningful digital experiences.
AWS serverless training equipped Digital Solutions to identify EBS functions for migration, improving scalability, resilience, cost efficiency, and reducing infrastructure dependencies.
Digital Solutions explores agentic AI to accelerate automated testing and strengthen test-driven development, improving software quality, efficiency, and test coverage.
IITA’s yam breeding program transitions from YamBase to the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS), establishing shared data management for root, tuber, and banana (RTB) crops.
Digital Solutions representatives joined an AWS forum on AI, where Jack Lagare highlighted a practical approach to adoption focused on people, processes, real needs, and sustainable value.
Digital Solutions showcased its people, priorities, measurable impact, and growing digital portfolio to the CGIAR’s Data Transformation Accelerator Director.
Digital Solutions strengthens knowledge management through shared learning, improved documentation, and collaborative practices that support organizational excellence, innovation, and sustainability.
AI is becoming part of everyday delivery, empowering the team to work smarter while keeping human expertise at the center of decisions.
Following the insights shared in “Building an AI-Ready Organization: Lessons from Our Team’s Adoption Journey“, where the Digital Solutions team highlighted how successful AI adoption depends on continuous learning, collaboration,
The Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) was showcased through the IRRI Kenya exhibition booth during KALRO Science Week 2026, engaging over 30 stakeholders from the agricultural research community. The event increased EBS visibility, fostered new partnerships, and highlighted how digital solutions are supporting modern breeding programs and data-driven agricultural research.
From software development to workflow automation, AI is helping Digital Solutions teams work smarter, faster, and more effectively.
The Enterprise Breeding System (EBS), through its Global User Support (GUS) initiative, successfully conducted a two-week Train-the-Trainer (TtT) program for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)-Yam team from May
The EBS Hackathon 2026 successfully concluded after a week of intensive collaboration among 31 invited participants from diverse disciplines, including developers, breeders, data scientists, and global support teams, focused on
The Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) team delivered a one-week promotional training for VACS Professionals at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) BeCA Campus in Nairobi, Kenya, from April 20–24, 2026.
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The EBS Global User Support team concluded the CIMMYT-VACS Train-the-Trainer program with strong participation and effective delivery. Twelve participants completed all requirements and were certified. Follow-up initiatives, including continued guidance and additional training, aim to strengthen local capacity for independent EBS training execution.
From 12–23 January 2026, the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) Knowledge Exchange Program (KEP) was successfully conducted at IRRI Headquarters, Philippines, convening partners from the International Potato Center (CIP)–Kenya and CIMMYT–Ethiopia for an intensive, hands-on training on centralized process operations and EBS core breeding workflows.
The Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) Knowledge Exchange Program was held 1–12 December 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya, to strengthen wheat breeding capacity for the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR). Structured, hands-on sessions enabled participants to apply EBS for data management, enhance collaboration, and support standardized, data-driven breeding across regional research programs.