evokeAG. Down to Earth - 21-22 February 2023

The Government of South Australia is proud to host AgriFutures evoke^AG. 2023 in Adelaide.
South Australia’s agriculture, food, wine and forestry industries are a vital part of the state’s economy – both our largest export sector and a major employer.
The Government of South Australia is committed to the growth of our state’s agriculture industry – supporting innovative research and the adoption of new technologies to make this vital sector more efficient, profitable and sustainable.
Our state boasts strong capability in agriculture, food and wine research, with AgTech hubs providing tech test beds and proof of concept trials. The state also boasts the University of Adelaide’s Waite Research Institute with the largest concentration of agricultural research and teaching expertise in the Southern Hemisphere – and we’re seeing more local entrepreneurs translate this research into successful agritech start-ups.
With food security and the transition to net zero emissions two major issues of global concern, there is huge potential for leading South Australian agritech businesses to achieve success in the international marketplace.
Events that showcase local agritech innovations to interstate and international peers only help to cement our state’s reputation as an epicentre of agritech excellence.

The University of Adelaide is a world-class research and higher education institution situated in the heart of one of the world’s top 10 most liveable cities. Founded in 1874, we’re Australia’s third oldest university and consistently rank among the world’s elite—in the top one per cent globally and number one in South Australia.

Its reputation for excellence and breaking new ground has been forged by a continuous stream of exceptional people. The University of Adelaide proudly count among its distinguished alumni: five Nobel Laureates; more than 120 Fulbright Scholars; and over 100 Rhodes Scholars, including two female Indigenous Australian recipients. Australia’s first female prime minister and Supreme Court judge were also University of Adelaide graduates.

Today, its vibrant high-achieving culture continues to attract some of the world’s best and brightest—academic leaders from all corners of the globe and students from more than 90 countries.

Syngenta is one of the world’s leading agriculture companies, comprised of Syngenta Crop Protection and Syngenta Seeds. Our ambition is to help safely feed the world while taking care of the planet. We aim to improve the sustainability, quality and safety of agriculture with world-class science and innovative crop solutions. Our technologies enable millions of farmers around the world to make better use of limited agricultural resources. Through partnerships, collaboration and The Good Growth Plan, we are committed to accelerating innovation for farmers and nature, striving for carbon neutral agriculture, helping people stay safe and healthy, and partnering for impact. For more information visit www.syngenta.com.au

Sponsorship of the Future Young Leaders program is a collaboration between Australia’s Research & Development Corporations (RDCs) through the Council of RDCs.
The RDCs are a network of 15 organisations which have been formed between different agriculture, fisheries and forestry industries and the Australian government to drive innovation and improvement in and for rural industries. Each RDC is tasked with delivering tangible and practical improvements for their industries in terms of productivity and profitability, sustainability and the community. They do this through collaboration with government and industry stakeholders to determine strategy, invest in effective and relevant research and development, market access, market development and promotion.
Funding combines contributions from industry levies and from the Australian Government.
Each RDC is focused on specific commodities and sectors, with the collaboration important for addressing common issues and complex challenges.

Driven by its purpose of creating innovations for a better world, Bühler is committed to reduce energy, waste, and water in its customers’ value chains by 50% by 2025. Two billion people each day enjoy foods produced on Bühler equipment. Having this global relevance, Bühler is in a unique position to turn today’s global challenges into sustainable business. Bühler contributes to safely feeding the world and protecting the climate, producing solutions that make cars, buildings, and machinery more energy efficient.

UPL Ltd. (NSE: UPL & BSE: 512070, LSE: UPLL) is a global provider of sustainable agriculture products and solutions, with annual revenue exceeding $6b.
We are a purpose-led company. Through OpenAg®, UPL is focused on accelerating progress for the food system. We are building a network that is reimagining sustainability, redefining the way an entire industry thinks and works – open to fresh ideas, innovation, and new answers as we strive towards our mission to make every single food product more sustainable.
As one of the largest agriculture solutions companies worldwide, our robust portfolio consists of biologicals and traditional crop protection solutions with more than 14,000 registrations. We are present in more than 130 countries, represented by more than 10,000 colleagues globally.

For over three decades, The Lucas Group has been recruiting the right people for the right positions.

We're Australia's premier agri-industry recruitment firm. Providing human resource consulting services, executive search, and agribusiness recruitment across the industry. Our thorough search methods have no parallel. We combine a robust digital advertising campaign with direct contact, so you can be sure we've turned over every rock looking for your perfect fit.

The Lucas Group team comes from regional backgrounds, with many of us spending our weekends on-farm. We live agriculture, so we understand agriculture. Recruiting people in agribusiness takes more than just sitting in an office. This is why we're out and about at major industry events throughout the year, adding to our 60,000+ network of qualified candidates and keeping up with industry news.

We're here to help your agribusiness - if it involves your people, you need our people.

Rimfire Resources Pty Ltd (Rimfire) is an Australian privately owned human resources company committed to providing people, information, and business improvement services to agribusiness. Since 1998, Rimfire’s strategy has been straightforward - to establish and build dependable long-term relationships with clients and present real and cost-effective solutions.
In July 2021 Rimfire Resources joined the CGH Group, a leading provider of outsourced recruitment and human resources through specialist brands in 20+ offices around Australia. Brands operating are CoreStaff, Beilby Downing Teal, GOAL Indigenous Services, and Rimfire Resources.

RSM Australia is a leading audit, tax and consulting provider uniquely positioned to offer businesses in agribusiness the support they need to flourish anywhere in Australia and beyond.
RSM offer a distinct blend of personal connection to land and community combined with a forward-thinking mindset which has enabled us to provide Australian agribusinesses with expert advice for over 100 years.
We have remained on the cutting edge of innovations to adapt our advice to instil confidence in world of change. We help clients find opportunities, so that we can grow together.
RSM Australia provides complete business solutions. Our specialist services include:
- ESG and carbon farming
- R&D tax incentive solutions
- Assistance with accessing grants and funding
- Technology advisory services
- Mergers & acquisitions and capital raising
- Risk and governance
With a national footprint spanning 32 offices we can help clients anywhere in Australia prepare for the future of food and farming.

CommBank has been supporting the Ag industry for over 100 years. Our Agribusiness specialists are locals with strong connections to farming communities and we have the expertise & agri-specific banking solutions to support Agribusiness of all types and sizes.

Find out how we can support your Agribusiness commbank.com.au/agribusiness

CSIRO applies world class multidisciplinary science, technology and facilities, relevant IP and global networks across the value chain to create healthier, trusted, safer and more sustainable food and fibre for the future.

Our research from gene to plate increases productivity and efficiencies at the farm level, improves the quality and yield of Australian crops, develops innovative food processing technologies, creates new value-added foods, and is growing the nation’s livestock, aquaculture and fishery industries.

We have a diverse range of people and partnerships that span Australia and 25 countries, fostering a shared vision to create measurable economic, environmental and social impact.

The Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) is a partnership between Australian grain growers and the Australian government.
Our purpose is to invest in research, development and extension (RD&E) to create enduring profitability for Australian grain growers.
We are responsible for planning, investing in and overseeing RD&E for 25 leviable grain crops and invest around $190 million a year in this space to enhance growers' productivity, profitability and sustainability.
Our world-class partners deliver innovative RD&E across a diverse portfolio of over 700 projects, with the benefits from these projects flowing beyond growers to the broader grains industry and Australian community.
For more information about us, our investments, and our priorities, visit www.grdc.com.au

The nbn® network was built to lift Australia’s digital capability – from everyday streaming, to crucial connectivity in a crisis. A digital backbone, providing flexible products, solutions and essential services for people, businesses and communities in every corner of the country.

For us the build was just the beginning. We’re enhancing and optimising as we go and working with your providers to ensure the network is there to meet your needs today and helping you get the most out of it.

But we won’t stop there. Times change; needs increase; technology advances. So we’ll always be one step ahead, exploring and employing innovative products and solutions to make your network even better. Because we’re committed to delivering a network that evolves for you and provides the connectivity you need; that Australia needs – now, and into the future.

NEM is the leading Australian owned producer of biofertiliser, biostimulant and biocontrol products for agriculture. We harness the best Australian and global science to support sustainable farming and a healthier planet.

NEM’s scientifically proven biological products help farmers reduce their reliance on synthetic fertiliser inputs, reduce costs, increase soil organic matter, and provide improved soil and plant health.

We do this by harnessing the goodness of beneficial, naturally occurring microbes, and packaging them up in formats that farmers can easily incorporate into their crop management practices.

The SunRice Group is an ASX-listed, global food business and one of Australia’s leading branded food exporters.
With roots in Australia’s food bowl, the company was formed in 1950 when a group of rice growers pooled their resources in the Riverina region of New South Wales to build a single rice mill. Today, we have grown into one of the largest rice food companies in the world, comprising multiple businesses, assets and operations across Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, the United States, the Pacific Islands and Asia.
For over 70 years, the SunRice Group has been transforming nature’s goodness into healthy, enjoyable and nutritious foods that meet the needs of discerning consumers around the world. In addition to its much-loved rice foods, the company offers a diverse portfolio of gourmet, ‘free from’ food products and animal feeds and nutrition.
The SunRice Group’s ̴ 35 major brands are sold in ̴ 50 global markets and it holds leading brand positions in 14 countries.
The company’s 2,000+ employees around the world have a strong focus on delivering value and are passionate about making a difference to places and lives everywhere through its more than 1,500 nourishing and delicious products.
The SunRice Group is a major employer in the Riverina, operating three rice processing mills in Deniliquin and Leeton, and a network of more than 70 storage facilities, CopRice animal ruminant facilities and other value-add facilities in Leeton.

At Telstra we believe it’s people who give purpose to our technology. That's why our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. Our team of experts and technology partners have helped customers harness the power of digital solutions to transform their business, improving operations, increasing worker safety, and reducing environmental impacts.
Our commitment to regional areas is about more than just giving people a good network to stream movies on, it’s about making sure everyone can benefit and thrive in the new digital age.

The Centre for Entrepreneurial Agri-Technology is driven by the desire to build an agritech innovation ecosystem where world-class research and technology is targeted to agricultural challenges independent of traditional discipline boundaries.

Planet is the leading provider of global, daily satellite imagery and geospatial solutions. Planet is driven by a mission to image all of Earth’s landmass every day, and make global change visible, accessible and actionable. Planet provides mission-critical data, advanced insights, and software solutions to over 800 customers, comprising the world’s leading agriculture, forestry, intelligence, education and finance companies and government agencies, enabling users to simply and effectively derive unique value from satellite imagery. To learn more visit www.planet.com and follow us on Twitter at @planet.

The Trade Council of Denmark Oceania is responsible for facilitating trade relations between Denmark and the Oceania region.
Denmark is known as a global leader on sustainable food production and innovation, having a strong track record for resource efficiency. In partnership with the Danish Agriculture & Food Council (DAFC), the Council is excited to bring together a group of Danish companies to participate at evoke^AG. 2023.
Along with sharing sustainable solutions in food and beverage processing, agricultural and farming technology and food manufacturing innovation, we will be working to connect with business leaders, farmers, innovators, researchers and government.
For us, evoke^AG. 2023 presents an invaluable opportunity to collectively gain insight on the region’s market trends and demand in the agrifood sector and a better understanding of Australia’s economic outlook, environmental and sustainability focus in food and agriculture.

AIA is a not-for-profit company established by Australia's 15 rural Research and Development Corporations (RDCs), to facilitate joint investment and collaboration in cross-sectoral agricultural issues of national importance.

We identify, develop, and attract investment into strategies which target transformational innovation and drive sustainability, productivity and profitability across the agricultural, fisheries and forestry value chains.

Our focus is on catalysing investment, partnerships, and ideas to solve our sector’s big challenges and unlock new opportunities.

Our unique structure and relationship with the RDCs means we can leverage their funding, knowledge and expertise to articulate whole-of-agriculture pain points and qualified investment opportunities.

Current initiatives involve solutions to help farmers, fishers and foresters better understand and respond to short-term climate risks, as well as build long-term resilience through adaptation. This includes a recent $19m investment across 10 RDCs, to improve and enhance seasonal outlook services for Australian agriculture.

Visit aginnovationaustralia.com.au or connect via linkedin.com/company/agricultural-innovation-australia

AgriProve is Australia’s leading soil carbon project developer, taking farmers on the journey from building soil carbon in the field to selling carbon credits to governments and companies with carbon liabilities. Our goal is to mainstream a farmer led, commercial model of soil carbon farming – regenerating agriculture and sequestering carbon at scale. AgriProve enables farmers to generate income from carbon abatement activities and secure viable returns in the Australian market.

From the first experimental farm in 1892 to Australia’s first fully automated commercial Global Digital Farm, Charles Sturt University has a long history in agricultural innovation. Visit us at evokeAG 2023 to see how we are creating an agrifood innovation ecosystem at the AgriPark.
We are unlocking the power of data on the Global Digital Farm to help all supply chain participants, discovering the benefits of Extended Reality, undertaking world-class land and water and environmental research. This is achieved through the Gulbali Institute, embedding First Nations learning and principles, and providing hands-on experience for our future leaders through our agricultural, environmental and animal science courses.

The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) works with businesses, investors and stakeholders to protect and grow Western Australia’s agriculture, fisheries, food, fibre and forestry industries which represent over $8.4bn of exports per year.
DPIRD works with these industries through:
• Partnerships in research and development programs
• Operating industry and market development activities
• Managing biosecurity, stewardship of land and aquatic resources
• Funding programs that help exporters access global markets
• Facilitating new and expansion focussed investment projects
DPIRD supports agrifood businesses operating in WA to adopt innovation and technology to improve production, processing and distribution of products and to adapt to increasing customer demands to sustainability. DPIRD also supports a vibrant ecosystem of start-up businesses developing innovative and technology-based solutions for the industry.

Farmers2Founders (F2F) is on a mission to put producers at the centre of industry innovation. In doing so, we will create an agriculture and food system that is more sustainable, more transparent and allows producers to capture more value.  
We are committed to building and supporting innovative agrifood startups that can deliver real industry impact across agriculture. We help producers, students, researchers, tech developers and entrepreneurs to build sustainable, market-ready businesses, from early idea validation through to business growth and international commercialisation. 
Fundamental to this is outcome is facilitating the connection and collaboration between Australian producers and tech developers as well as other innovators. The result is that the solutions developed solve real problems being faced in the paddock and agricultural operations and accelerate adoption. 

Fight Food Waste Ltd is the parent body of two divisions working together to address Australia's annual $36.6 billion food waste challenge.

The Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre was established in 2018 and brings together industry, research and the community to capitalise on Australia’s food waste opportunities. The Fight Food Waste CRC is the biggest R & D organisation in the world devoted to reducing food waste, and is funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Industry, Science and Resources.

Stop Food Waste Australia was established in December 2020 as the lead agency to coordinate Australia's response to the goal of halving food waste by 2030. It operates as a powerful partnership of organisations along the farm-to-fork food supply chain, including all levels of government, industry and the food rescue sector. SWFA's activities are supported by the Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.

Food Agility CRC invests in world-leading research that is changing the way we produce, supply and consume food. Together with our partners, we create new data-driven technology for the agrifood industry using artificial intelligence, robotics, blockchain, sensors, advanced data analytics and more.

Our partnership network spans the Australian agrifood and agtech industries and includes eight leading universities. We are funded by our partners and by the Australian Government through its CRC Program.

Established in July 2019, the Future Food Systems Cooperative Research Centre is a Commonwealth-backed consortium that teams leading Australian universities with industry and government bodies to deliver impactful real-world results in the food systems domain. Our collaborative research delivers powerful planning tools to underpin food-industry clusters; smart software to secure and streamline the path from farm to fork; high-tech technology and systems for Australian protected-cropping facilities; new foods, beverages and health supplements (including novel formulations, ‘free-from’ and ‘precision nutrition’ goods); smart processing and packaging solutions; and technology for establishing provenance and nutritional benefits.

Ginkgo Bioworks is a synthetic biology company and the leading horizontal platform for cell programming. Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer so that your company can more readily access the immense and largely unexplored value of biology.
The Bioworks foundries are the biological factory and combine hardware, software and automation to prototype thousands of designs to build an organism to suit your unique needs. Customers across numerous industries leverage the Ginkgo platform, including Cargill, Bayer, ADM and Sumitomo to design, develop and optimise products for a breadth of commercial applications.
Ginkgo Bioworks enables partners to grow key ingredients for vaccines, crops that rely less on fossil fuel-based fertilisers, engineer microbiomes, plant extracts, plant-based meat that “tastes like the real thing” and so much more. Ginkgo’s physical footprint now includes offices and labs in Boston and Emeryville in the USA, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Australia.

Supporting Australian Farmers for over 50 Years, HE Silos Forbes continually strives to innovate and manufacture sustainable products suited for grain storage operations; focusing our designs around, safety, efficient operations and protecting stored products to minimise losses during post-harvest storage.

HE Silos manufacture a wide range of Grain, Fertiliser, Pellet & Mash Silos; Field Bins, Kit Silos, Bulk Storage Silos, Livestock Feeders and Custom Design Silos built specifically to your requirements

Empowering entrepreneurs to build the businesses of tomorrow, i4 Connect delivers the Entrepreneurs’ Programme Accelerating Commercialisation service nationally.

Our team of 26 facilitators have real-world business and entrepreneurial knowledge along with the skills to help founders, entrepreneurs and smaller businesses on their commercialisation journey through to first sales and beyond.

Leveraging our own start-up experiences, networks and contacts to help grantees, we guide each applicant down the pathway to receive up to $1m in matched funding grant support.

Over the past two years, i4 Connect has helped over 100 start-ups in a wide range of cutting-edge technologies with global market potential, helping them secure over $60m of grant funding.

Innovate UK is the UK’s national innovation agency. We support business-led innovation in all sectors, technologies and UK regions. We help businesses grow through the development and commercialisation of new products, processes, and services, supported by an outstanding innovation ecosystem that is agile, inclusive, and easy to navigate.

The UK presence at Evoke AG 2023 is a result of the Innovate UK Global Business Innovation Programme (GBIP), and the Global Incubator Programme (GIP). These programmes help innovation-focused companies explore opportunities and expand into new markets, with support before, during and after the visit from innovation and growth specialists at Innovate UK EDGE, Innovate UK’s business growth and scaling service.

IP Active specialises in providing Intellectual Property (IP) and technology commercialisation services to private and government organisations. The company’s strength is in assessing technology and research investments made within the agrifood market. It also offers services in RD management, IP knowledge and product commercialisation with advice based on over 30 years of experience.
IP Active manages investment partnerships to find the best possible protection, markets and partnerships for clients’ innovations or products. Utilising a network of highly experienced research, commercial and IP managers, IP Active meets the needs of the organisation and their developing technologies so that commercial success is achieved as efficiently as possible.
Using Inteum IP Solutions, an online project-based IP management system, IP Active designs internal IP management procedures and systems and conducts intellectual property reviews and IP audits of research outcomes.

La Trobe University is world-leading for research in agricultural and veterinary sciences, and internationally recognised and ranked in the top 20 globally for our contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and top five for gender equity, and
Building off our state-of-the-art infrastructure and the $288m AgriBio facilities, we are developing an agrifood innovation centre in partnership with CSIRO that will build a connected network for industry to unlock Australia's agrifood capability.
La Trobe is undertaking the most comprehensive redevelopment of a university campus in Australia, creating over 20,000 jobs, and building an ecosystem to drive innovation and workforce development across health, agrifood, and technology.
La Trobe has over 36,000 students across a network of seven campuses from Melbourne’s North to Albury-Wodonga, Bendigo, Mildura, and Shepparton.

Lindsay International (Lindsay) is a pioneer provider of irrigation and water management solutions. Producing Zimmatic® irrigation hardware including centre pivots, lateral-move irrigators and variable irrigation technology, and FieldNET™ remote irrigation management solutions.
Lindsay has been a leading global irrigation company for over 50 years with its Zimmatic brand of irrigators and is the dominant leader in irrigation technology innovation with inventing Variable Rate Irrigation (VRI) 13 years ago.
The cloud-based control platform FieldNet and FieldNet Advisor is a revolutionary management solution providing growers with simple, science-based recommendations for better-informed irrigation scheduling decisions. These technology advancements help optimise water use efficiency to reduce costs, recognise our environmental obligations and maximise yield and performance.
Lindsay’s industry-leading products and services help conserve resources, increase yields and benefit growers worldwide.

Increased soil carbon comes with many co-benefits for farming systems and with Loam’s ground-breaking microbial technology, cropping systems can build significantly more carbon.
Loam’s carbon building technology allows farmers to participate in carbon markets, improve their soil health and structure, contribute to sustainable supply-chains, and maximise their crops’ ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it in their agricultural soils.
Combining our microbial technology with farmer-focused carbon project models, Loam delivers maximum benefits back to farmers. Loam’s carbon seed inoculum is available for barley and canola for the 2023 sowing season, with more products for other crop varieties currently in development.

New Zealand is a progressive nation of innovative people that challenge the status quo, design new solutions and turn ideas into reality. We do this while caring for people, place and planet. This combined respect for the land with advanced technology creates agritech that delivers real and sustainable results.

From pastoral farming and dairy to arable cropping, horticulture and fresh produce, viticulture and aquaculture; wherever you stand and wherever you want to take your business, we’re here to power your journey into the future of agriculture because we’re powered by place.
To discover more visit the NZ pavilion in the Hive.

 #PoweredByPlace  #NZAgritech #NZTE #Callaghan

Queensland’s AgTech ecosystem is vibrant, dynamic and comprised of a diverse range of stakeholders. This includes heavily engaged industries, universities, agripreneurs and government.

Queensland provides the ideal environment for global investment opportunities in AgTech due to our diverse climates and crops, excellent transport links and international airports, talented workforce, and strong research and development sector.

The Queensland Government is supporting the AgTech ecosystem via various activities such as AgTech Hubs, innovation clusters, SMART Farms and dedicated grant programs.

Queensland AgTech and innovations hubs:
- the Precinct, Advance Queensland’s flagship infrastructure established in 2017 in Brisbane;
- the Emerald and Gatton DAF SMART farms
- the AgTech and Logistics Hub in Toowoomba
- the Bundaberg AgTech hub and the Hinkler initiative
- Greater Whitsunday Alliance (GW3)-Greater Whitsunday AgTech Hub
-Central Highlands Development corporation (CHDC)
- Toowoomba and Surat Basin Enterprise (TSBE)
- FNQ Food incubator
- Food and Agribusiness Network (FAN)
- and the Queensland Government online AgTech Portal.

The Soil CRC is bringing together scientists, industry and farmers to find practical solutions for Australia’s underperforming soils. Underperforming agricultural soils cost Australian farmers billions of dollars in lost revenue each year. The CRC aims to enable farmers to increase their productivity and profitability by providing them with knowledge and tools to improve the performance of their soils. The Soil CRC is the largest collaborative soil research effort in Australia’s history. The Soil CRC has 39 participants that along with the Australian Government contribute $167 million to the CRC through both cash and in-kind contributions.