2026-12-08, 16:00–16:45 (Europe/Athens), Amphitheater III
Soil enzymatic activity is a term everyone hears but few actually measure. Yet, it is a key indicator of soil health and functionality—and one of the few biological indicators you can measure with minimal effort.
In this workshop, we will cover the essentials: what enzymes are, why you should measure their activity, and how it’s done. We are even bringing devices so we can run measurements right there in the room and show you exactly what to do with the data. We will explore the relationship between enzymatic activity and biodiversity, how it links to nutrient fluxes and pollution, how it changes over time, and the common challenges of interpretation.
"Interpretation can be as nasty as making sense out of your tax declaration, challenging as keeping your Monstera alive or finding the right star constellation on the sky among the many points. "
Jasmin Fetzer, PhD
Furthermore, we will demonstrate how to deploy field measurements effectively and translate that data into direct, actionable steps for your farming system.
What we won’t do is show you complex graphs with massive error bars. This will be a hands-on, application-oriented session suitable for any level of soil biology knowledge. You can even bring your own soil!
CTO & Co-Founder, Digit Soil
I’m a soil scientist turned founder. I started Digit Soil because I was tired of seeing brilliant biological research get stuck in laboratories while farmers were left waiting weeks for data that was already outdated.
My mission is to drop the jargon and provide the "biological ground truth" that agriculture actually needs. Whether I’m sampling 200 fields to validate our enzymatic models, building hardware prototypes in Switzerland, or pitching to tractor companies, my focus is always the same: making soil health actionable. I believe that if we can measure the soil’s nutrient release potential in 40 minutes instead of 40 days, we can finally close the loop on precision fertilization and climate protection.
Originally from Poland and now based in Zurich, I’m dedicated to building a network where technology actually serves the practitioner. If you’re looking for someone who can talk high-level biochemistry and then jump into a car with a power generator to run real-time field trials, that’s me. Let’s stop guessing and start measuring.
PhD in Soil Science - ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Masters in Biotechnology - Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland)
Projects: AI4SoilHealth, OptiFert, BodenPulse, GreenGrowth and more.