Good news: the AgriTech conferences last week in San Francisco were a big hit, and the exhibition hall was filled with high quality attendees from a mix of agricultural firms, venture capitalists, and ag-focused software startups. The bad news? Well, I must confess…

SWARM Engineering is a creation of our times; the company combines the latest Machine Learning and Operational Research algorithms with an advanced multi-agent approach to solve complex problems in highly disruptive environments, such as a supply chain in a pandemic. Ten years ago, humanity couldn’t have solved many of the challenges we tackle today because AI research wasn’t as advanced, and most organizations lacked the necessary data to train machine learning systems.

We’re excited to publish our inaugural SWARM Engineering Podcast! Our first guest is Claudia Roessler, Director at Microsoft Cloud for Industry. You can listen along as they talk about about sustainability and solving problems in the food value chain, using AI data science and machine learning.

IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, SWARM Engineering announced two additions to its distinguished Advisory Board. Vonnie Estes and Dr. Magarit Khachatryan will join the SWARM Advisory Board to provide key insights and guidance to the Board of Directors, committees of the Board, and the executive leadership.

SWARM’s CEO, Anthony Howcroft, grew up in a largely agricultural community in the center of England, where his first job was as a mainframe computer operator at Kraft Foods. Over his career, Anthony worked initially as a software engineer and then in various sales and marketing roles and is equally comfortable with art and science.

IRVINE, Calif., October 19, 2021 / -- SWARM Engineering, a next-generation, cognitive computing company and innovator in agri-food supply chain optimization, today announced it has achieved Co-Sell Ready partner status with Microsoft. This new achievement will allow Microsoft and SWARM to promote a disruptive and robust solution to tackle optimization challenges in the agri-food supply chain.

We’re pleased to share that we’ve been featured as the cover story on Analytics Insight, Big Data Analytics Companies of the Year issue! You can read an excerpt below and click through to the full digital magazine.

SWARM Engineering, a leader in food supply chain optimization, today announced its availability in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Microsoft Azure. SWARM customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management.

Lora Cecere, the founder of Supply Chain Insights interviews our CEO, Anthony Howcroft. Listen to the podcast here or read the full transcript below.

Everything is about hyper-efficiency these days. In our new world of back-to-back video calls and meetings, the faster we can do what needs to be done and exit the session, the more chance we have of carving out a few minutes for ourselves to do some real work! Meetings can be scheduled by bots, agendas and materials can be shared in advance, a chair can keep track of progress and mute or drop disruptive talkers with a button click, and we can ensure that everyone gets to have their say – including the introverts with their camera’s permanently turned off.

Every Wednesday morning, the planners at a food supply chain company dreaded the mass of spreadsheets, emails, and post-it notes awaiting them in the office. For the next few hours, all five members of the team would huddle together to figure out the next week’s purchases and the various transportation options to match a constrained supply to the inventory demands at their U.S. distribution centers, for more than thirty separate, perishable products.

Learn how to better leverage the wealth of data your organization is collecting, to optimize supply chain challenges and improve efficiency, saving you time and money. What could you achieve if you had the power of:

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IRVINE, Calif., April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SWARM Engineering, Inc, the next generation of cognitive software for the food supply chain, announced today it has closed funding for a $2.7 million seed round.

Over the last decade the food and agriculture industry has seen a virtual explosion of information and data from sensor and IoT devices. While the good news that we have an abundance of data like never before, the bad news is that we can’t hope to process it in a meaningful fashion.

IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 2, 2020 -- SWARM Engineering, INC, the next generation of cognitive software for the food supply chain, announced today an expanded strategic committee of advisors.

The Advisory Board includes a diverse array of distinguished artificial intelligence, machine learning, agriculture and tech industry leaders who will provide guidance to help support and shape continuing innovation at SWARM.

Anthony Howcroft, SWARM CEO, interviewed by Holly Self on the launch of his book Questions - A User’s Guide

Irvine, CA: SWARM Engineering, INC, the innovative provider of food supply chain optimization software, announced two strategic hires to its leadership team.

Andy Mouacdie joins SWARM as Chief Revenue Officer and Shiyi Pickrell joins as Chief Data Scientist. As SWARM continues to scale its business, Mouacdie and Pickrell will play critical roles in furthering SWARM’s mission to optimize the food supply chain industry using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

FoodBytes! ran a webinar with pilot alums Michael Lee (Meat & Livestock Australia), James Bello (Shameless Pets), along with Chamidu Karunathilake (GrainCorp) and SWARM’s CEO, Anthony Howcroft , to discuss their learnings about how to maximize ROI from corporate-startup collaboration. There were some great points and interesting discussions, and the webinar managed to be ‘zoom-bombed’ by the regulation barking dog, and even a gardener with a leaf blower!

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