Welcome to the EBS team, Red!
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Let us all give a warm welcome to Red, our newest Junior Software Engineer!
EBS design and development team attend industry conferences
![Marinell Ramirez, Neo Lapitan, and Jesa Lacambra win raffle prizes at SOFTCON 2023 held at the SMX Convention Center Aura on 25-27 October 2023](https://ebs.excellenceinbreeding.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Marinell-Ramirez-Neo-Lapitan-and-Jesa-Lacambra-win-raffle-prizes-at-SOFTCON-2023-held-at-the-SMX-Convention-Center-Aura-on-25-27-October-2023.png)
To stay abreast of industry standards and emerging practices, software developers and Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) designers attended the Philippine Software Industry Conference (SOFTCON) on October 25-27, 2023 at the SMX Convention Center Aura and Decode 2023, cybersecurity conference, organized at EDSA Shangri-La on November 14, 2023.
EBS participates in IRC 2023
![EBS and GSL team at the booth during IRC 2023](https://ebs.excellenceinbreeding.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/EBS-and-GSL-team-at-the-booth-during-IRC-2023.png)
The Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) booth was a hit at the 6th International Rice Congress (IRC) held on 16-19 October 2023 at the Philippine International Convention Center Reception Hall. Through IRC, EBS aimed to connect and network with leading rice researchers, partners, and representatives for a food-secure future.
CGIAR announces new breeding data strategy and endorses single data platform
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To boost the efficiency and sustainability of its data-driven breeding efforts, CGIAR has endorsed a new strategy ensuring all network partners use a single data system. The strategy also creates a new organizational unit to manage, develop, and maintain data management tools.
Building a platform for breeding IT across CGIAR
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The Enterprise Breeding System is set to be the only CGIAR breeding data management system. Learn how the transition will take place.
Development underway on EBS Milestone 6 functionalities
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Developers are working on over a hundred new or improved functionalities in the August 2022 to January 2023 period, following a series of global meetings that distilled user requirements into a realistic blueprint for the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) Milestone 6 release.
A transformational breeding data management system goes online at CGIAR centers
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The EBS project celebrated an important milestone as adoption started at IITA, IRRI and CIMMYT.