Welcome

Wireless and traditional telecommunications and information technologies, including cell towers and data storage facilities, are expensive, ugly, unsustainably proliferating, and often unavailable in parts of the world. 

What if we tapped into the inherent communication ability of plants for both telecommunication and information management? 

Existing and new communication pathways can be engineered into plants to harness short range and long-range plant-to-plant communication as the basis for a new communications and information network, “Green-G”. 

Across the Green-G network, local ecosystems can be designed for underground information networks (using fungal hyphal networks as physical cables), and these local networks can be wirelessly linked with other remote networks via volatile organic compound communication from plants-to-plants. 

Information “farms” can be realized, in which both processing and storage are handled. Ultimately such a concept can even be translated for inter-kingdom communication, such as plantae-to-fungi and plantae-to-animalia.

Invitation

Dear Scientific Community,

We are excited to announce the global congress on the concept of Green-G. This effort is supported fully or in part by the US Department of Defense.

The Congress will be a two-day public event hosted at LEAP 7Rios – Lisbon, Portugal, with virtual/hybrid option. 

The Congress will consist of presentations from government representatives and scientists working in relevant areas of research and will include plenary talks, panel sessions, breakout working groups and poster presentations from select attendees. The event will host c.a. 80 researchers and will feature a variety of activities that will include research presentations, working groups and road mapping groups:

• Plenary talks from government representatives and scientists working in relevant areas of research,
• Panel sessions and poster presentations from select attendees,
• Networking & brainstorming session.
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Session Topics May Include:

• Fundamentals of Plant Communications and Genetic Information Storage: How plants and fungi currently communicate and transduce signals; Identification of new signals and biomarkers enabled by plant engineering;
• Next-Generation Reconfigurable Hardware, Sensors, and Analytics: Sensor modalities for plant measurement and multiplexed analyses; Data with point-of-action intelligence; Microelectronics enabling distributed sensing and edge computing, etc.
• Planetary Health and Ecological Impacts of our Communications Infrastructure: Resource management and conservation; Infrastructure building; Regulatory consideration, etc.
• The Human-Green Connection: Cognition; Environmental monitoring with plants; Lifestyle and smart home management; Diet; Behavioral psychology; etc.
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Students and Researchers in the beginning of their careers in the above-mentioned fields are highly encouraged to actively participate in this conference by presenting their own research findings.