Degas, a technology company that combines AI with on-the-ground operations to increase incomes of smallholder farmers in Africa and beyond, will participate in the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9), held as part of the TICAD Business Expo & Conference, from August 20 to 22, 2025, in Yokohama, Japan.
Since 1993, TICAD has been led by the Government of Japan in partnership with the United Nations, UNDP, the World Bank, and the African Union Commission, serving as a global platform to advance Africa’s sustainable growth. The Business Expo & Conference convenes leaders from business, technology, and development to explore solutions for the continent’s growth and resilience.
Represented by its founder and CEO, Doga Makiura, Degas will join:
TICAD 9 shows how AI is moving from promise to proof, predicting yields, monitoring floods, strengthening supply chains, and improving public services. Degas’ AI helps farmers boost productivity and incomes, and by combining high-quality field data with foundation models, we build scalable solutions that deliver inclusion, resilience, and measurable impact across Africa and beyond,” says Doga.
About Degas
Degas Ltd. runs farm operations and builds Frontier AI in emerging markets using proprietary field data. Its geospatial foundation model powers applications in agriculture, insurance, and infrastructure, with deployments ranging from AI-driven crop insurance in Ethiopia with JICA, to cassava disease detection in Thailand with Sojitz, to financing 20,000 farmers across 35,000 acres in Ghana. As the only geospatial AI company selected for Japan’s GENIAC program, a national initiative to accelerate global leadership in Generative AI, Degas combines field-driven AI with global partnerships to deliver scalable impact. CEO Doga has lived in Ghana for six years, leading development at the intersection of AI and real-world operations.
