Agenda transForm participated at the Agroglobal 2025 edition, held at CNEMA in Santarém, with the organization of the session “transForm(ing) the Forestry Sector”, which took place on the morning of 11 September.

This initiative aimed to give visibility to the actions of the Mobilising Agenda for the Digital Transformation of the Forestry Sector, highlighting the progress made and contributions to a more innovative, competitive, and sustainable sector.

The session opened with an institutional address by Miguel Silveira, Executive Board Member of Altri Florestal, the leading entity of the consortium, who presented the strategic vision and the main milestones achieved, underlining the cross-cutting impact of the transForm Agenda.

The highlight of the morning was a roundtable discussion that brought together representatives from various partner entities, enabling a broad debate on the contributions of the transForm Agenda to areas such as innovation, mechanisation, certification, digitalisation, and sustainable forest management.

The diversity of perspectives shared reflected the thematic breadth of the Agenda and its transformational potential.

Pedro Dominguinhos, President of the National Monitoring Committee of the PRR, closed the session by emphasising the role of the transForm Agenda as a driver of modernisation and competitiveness in Portugal’s forestry sector.
In the afternoon, a technical session was held on the GEOFOR project – Geographic Databases and Applications for the Forest, also part of the transForm Agenda. Organised by 2BForest, in collaboration with CoLAB ForestWISE, the session focused on digital innovation for forest management, with particular emphasis on the development of the new Territorial Information Portal (PoInT), led by the Directorate-General for Territory (DGT).

The interoperability of PoInT with digital tools such as ForestSIM®, e-Globulus, and the new ForestSIM Mobile® application, developed under the project, was explored in detail. Representatives from DGT, the Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests (ICNF), RAIZ, and the School of Agriculture (ISA – University of Lisbon) participated in a debate centred on the importance of open data availability, the adoption of OGC API standards (internationally recognised specifications designed to ensure interoperability between systems and enable efficient data exchange), and collaboration between public entities to strengthen the usefulness and integration of geographic data in forest management.

The presence of the transForm Agenda at Agroglobal highlighted its structural role in modernising the forestry sector by promoting digital, collaborative, and future-oriented solutions.