Feeding the World with Unified Data: Syngenta's Data Mesh Strategy for Global Agricultural Intelligence

Agriculture generates some of the most complex and consequential data on the planet — from laboratory research and satellite imagery to factory sensors and farmers' mobile applications. The challenge is not capturing that data. It is unifying it across organizational silos into intelligence that can drive decisions in real time at global scale. Syngenta, one of the world's premier agricultural technology companies, is tackling this challenge using data mesh principles and Databricks, creating a foundation where disparate data — physical and digital, structured and unstructured — becomes connected, trustworthy insight. In this session, CDO Thomas Jung shows how breaking silos and democratizing data access is enabling proactive decisions that lift crop yields, strengthen agricultural resilience, and support global food security. For CDOs managing complex multi-domain, multi-geography data estates in regulated industries, Syngenta's approach to enterprise data governance at agricultural scale offers a model that translates across sectors.