Pierre C. Sibiry Traore is a systems scientist specialized in agricultural risk control and value chain orchestration. He is, by training, a physical geographer and a remote sensing expert. With Manobi Africa, he developed agCelerant and the concept of phygital agriculture, which captures the emergent opportunity for robust, physically based, digitally driven solutions to secure the sustainability, transparency, and honorable sourcing of tomorrow’s food systems. Sibiry co-designed and co-led several innovative projects such as SERVIR West Africa, HEURISTICS, NADiRA and STARS, raising R&D grants from USAID, DARPA, ESA, the European Commission, the World Bank, IsDB, BMGF and others. Sibiry published over 60 peer-reviewed papers and developed novel partnerships involving the CGIAR, national agricultural research systems (NARS), NGOs, the private sector and academia. More recently, he developed a vibrant partnership with AIMS-NEI, creating internship and employment opportunities for AI/ML graduates in the agriculture and space sectors. Seconded to the private sector as in-business researcher, Sibiry leads the Digital Agriculture Global Cluster at ICRISAT and is the User Engagement Lead for SERVIR West Africa. As a HEURISTICS project co-PI, Sibiry contributes to the development of next-gen predictive methods combining Artificial Intelligence (AI), Earth Observation (EO), Natural Language Processing (NLP) / Large Language Models and process-based models, which are being applied to agricultural value chains and illegal mining.