AgStack

AgStack, a project of The Linux Foundation, is building the world’s largest and first open-source digital public infrastructure for global agriculture. With 46 communities/repositories and over 1,500 commits from a growing contributor base in the last two years, it provides a community-driven stack for geospatial identity and decentralized data pipelines. By establishing a common "operating system" through active projects like the Asset Registry and OpenAgri, AgStack breaks down data silos to accelerate digital transformation. This scalable software architecture ensures transparent, shared technology improves economic outcomes across the entire agricultural value chain for global users.

Through its Palefire framework, AgStack integrates LLMs with agricultural knowledge graphs, enabling AI-native insights and interoperable agentic systems.

In this talk, Sumer gives an overview of AgStack and how Palefire helps achieve its goals.

Sumer Singh Johal is the Executive Director of the AgStack project at the Linux Foundation. Sumer is a seasoned technology executive with nearly 30 years of experience building digital-first organizations. An MIT graduate with a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, he possesses deep domain expertise in software, AI, and scalable data architectures.

Over the last decade, he has focused on the intersection of agriculture and technology, pioneering agentic AI systems, enterprise PaaS, and geospatial analytics. A champion of open-source models, he leads the development of global digital public infrastructure to address food security and sustainability through advanced computation and equitable data monetization strategies.