Behind the mic with Tim Hunt: Meet the emcees of evoke^AG. 2025

Why me and why now?

I have always been drawn to the quest of understanding food systems, finding the ‘so what’, and harnessing this for the benefit of businesses and communities.

Twenty-five years plus down the road, I am finding more and more that the answers are usually already in the room. And that by guiding the conversations in the right direction we can together bring the solutions forward.

evoke^AG. provides a wonderful opportunity to play that role. We have the right people, in the right place, focused on the right issues.

I can’t wait to help bring out the magic!

The Common Ground we must make, and why it’s urgent…

We share (and even comprise) the supply chains that take our product through from idea to consumer. Yet so often, the relationships are transactional, or even confrontational, along that chain.

To solve todays challenges we must move from transactional to collaborative relationships. I work along the length of the supply chain; from input suppliers, through farmers, processors and to retail and food service.

Directly or indirectly, fostering collaboration is usually part of what I do. It is exciting to be part of a shift in mindset, and emergence of better pathways.

Our supply chains are Common Ground – realising and harnessing that is key.

evoke^AG. 2025 emcee Tim Hunt.

The most compelling thread to me is…and why I think this conversation is so important right now…

For me, its Economics and Trade.

I am not an optimist; I am a realist who thinks this industry happens to have a bright future.

And that the road to that future will be underwritten by profitable businesses.

So, amongst the innovation and tech, I am looking most for the sustainable economics that will underpin these ventures, and the opportunities to trade that are so often vital to that.

I want evoke^AG. 2025 delegates to….

Embrace real conversations. Explore how the person you are speaking to contributes to the sector and whether you could help each other (or connect them to someone who can).

And don’t leave a session with a question you wanted to ask still in your pocket – throw it into the ring!

Tim facilitating a session at evoke^AG. 2024.

About Tim Hunt

• Specialising in strategic analysis, communication, facilitation, and education in the Food & Agribusiness sector.
• More than 25 years of experience in analysing trends in international markets and F&A supply chains and advising processors, branded food companies, primary producers, and ag investors of the strategic implications for their businesses.
• Through his career, Tim has held roles as General Manager RaboResearch Australia and New Zealand, Global Dairy Strategist Rabobank, and senior analyst roles at ANZ and LMC International.
• Tim has a high level of expertise in the dairy sector, in particular. He worked for 16 years in the sector at Rabobank, including five years based on the U.S., from where he led the local and global Rabobank dairy research teams.
• He developed the bank’s short-term and long-term forecasting models and was responsible for leading engagement with the world’s largest dairy companies and US dairy farmers.
• Tim currently works with startups, traders, and suppliers to the dairy industry on market entry, distribution, strategy formulation and risk management.
• Tim has also worked as the joint Program Director of Rabobank’s Business Management Programmes.
• Tim is passionate about the role that food and agriculture can play in improving our impact on the earth, and the significant role of technology in this quest. He works with startups to help scope out market strategy and pitch for capital and is an investor in Mastaplex: a NZ based company whose diagnostic tools can significantly reduce the overuse of anti-biotics in the treatment of Bovine mastitis.
• He is an impactful keynote speaker with experience addressing conferences on five continents.
• Tim has worked in New York and Oxford, and as the Principal of Tim Hunt Consulting, now calls Melbourne home.