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Tickets on sale now for evokeAG. 2025 in Brisbane

It’s time to plan your trip to the Sunshine State, because tickets to agrifood tech and innovation event AgriFutures evokeAG. 2025 are officially on sale.
Gathering at Beef2024 in Rockhampton this week, AgriFutures Australia and partners Elders, the Queensland Government, and Brisbane Economic Development Agency have officially launched early bird tickets for AgriFutures evokeAG. 2025.

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Rethinking capitalism vs discounted solar pumps: Can we agree on a pathway to a new climate economy?

As 2030 looms, our climate is in crisis, the sustainability targets set by big business seem a mile away – and food producers are being pressured to make up the shortfall. But is on-farm action enough? Or do we need to rethink the entire system that funds agriculture? Here, thought leaders in sustainability and finance unpack the path to a new climate economy, and why – in the defining race of our time – we can’t leave primary producers behind.

Recipe please: The ‘base biscuit’ for farmer and community driven innovation

Guy Coleman, 29, is the youngest of three, equipping him with the innate ability to share everything perfectly evenly. A self-confessed geek, obsessed with agriculture who grew up dreaming of getting a Clauss Lexion harvester for his birthday (spoiler: it never happened). He’s also an advocate for building on the foundations to get agtech back to the fundamentals of farmer and community driven innovation.

How to make the most of evokeAG. 2025 coming to Queensland

Recipe: take a generous serving of a thriving and open local ecosystem. Add a hefty dash of a community hungry for innovation and solutions. Mix with passionate, open-minded people. What have you got? Queensland – the ideal place to host AgriFutures evokeAG. 2025 – and the perfect platform for Queensland organisations and innovators to now consider how they would like to be involved.  

More than just beaches and rainforests: Why Queensland is the perfect host for evokeAG. 2025

AgriFutures evokeAG. 2025 is heading to Queensland! Dynamic, diverse, and decentralised, Queensland’s agricultural sector is shifting gears – accelerating its transition from a powerhouse commodity producer to a powerhouse agrifood tech innovator. Here, Salvo Vitelli from Host State Partner, the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland; Queensland’s Chief Entrepreneur Julia Spicer OAM and Philippe Ceulen from Brisbane-based agrifood tech VC, Mandalay Venture Partners, discuss why there’s no better place than Queensland to host evokeAG. 2025. 

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‘Courage is an interesting thing’: What makes agrifood tech founders stand out in a tough funding market?

In a challenging market for venture capital, agrifood tech investors are not only looking for innovations that could change the world, they’re looking for the founders who can make change happen. That means resilience, creativity, and something that looks a bit like courage.
AgFunder Founding Partner Michael Dean and Olympia Yarger, Founder and CEO of maggot-powered food waste management startup, Goterra explore the funding challenges in this market. For both, the key to success comes from a passion to solve the problem – and a sheer inability to give up.

Implementing innovation with impact

If global food waste were a country, it would be third largest emitter of greenhouse gases behind the United States of America and China. The scale of the problem is well quantified, and solutions exist, but for food systems entrepreneur and founder Abi Ramanan, barriers to implementation remain, and caution is needed as we embrace technologies like artificial intelligence.

Leading agtech founders set to the spill the tea

She is a renegade founder transforming food waste management one maggot at time. He is a Harvard and Oxford Scholar, and ex-international rower. But are their views on what it will take to accelerate the Australian agrifood tech and innovation landscape as different as their CVs?

Australian venture for Onside proves fruitful after wine industry win

A nice drop is in order for Onside after the Christchurch-based farm management app recently took out the AgTech and Digital category at the Wine Industry IMPACT Awards. The company was recognised for its ‘Track and Trace’ pilot project, which involved 90 winegrowers across four New South Wales (NSW) wine regions, putting its traceability technology to the test to improve biosecurity in various communities.

Six tips to help you make the most of evokeAG. 2024

Things couldn’t get much warmer in the Southern Hemisphere and that can only mean one thing – AgriFutures evokeAG. 2024 is firing up for the fourth year. Are you heading west in less than two weeks? We’ve put together a list of must-dos to help you squeeze every drop out of evokeAG. 2024.

How the drive for more sustainable production is bringing growers tailored solutions

One’s a household name in agriculture and brings 185 years of experience to the table. The other boasts a deep-seated knowledge of soil health and is a leading consultant and provider of precision farming services in Australia. An ongoing partnership between Elders and Precision Agriculture Pty Ltd is helping farmers across Australia achieve their goals of improved nutrient use and more sustainable production.

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Neil Varcoe

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Oli Madgett

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Judy Kennedy

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Menzies Creek, VIC

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Andy Lowe

The University of Adelaide

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Wagga Wagga, New South Wales

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Brisbane, Queensland