#evokeAG.

If you have to pick just five (but to be clear – you don’t), here are five can’t miss sessions on day one of the evoke^AG. 2025 program.

In this Q&A series, we’re sitting down with the four emcees who will light up the stage on February 18-19 in Brisbane, Queensland. In the final series we chat with Tim Hunt, Principal, Tim Hunt Consulting. Tim brings more than 25 years’ experience in analysing trends in international markets and food and agriculture supply chains to the table – and to the stage at evoke^AG. 2025.

AgriFutures evoke^AG. is the premier event on the Australian agrifood tech and innovation calendar – a natural match for Australia’s biggest bank, CommBank, which came on board as a silver partner for its 2023 and 2024 events.
The bank has been delighted with the results of their involvement, which has been the catalyst for at least two major partnerships with Australian agritech startups. As agriculture moves towards emissions targets, these collaborations will help customers meet the challenge of accessing and interpreting their on-farm data to measure progress and demonstrate sustainability credentials.

This week we bring you our evoke^AG. 2024 series with Fern Ho joining our contributor Jayne Cuddihy in conversation to explore alternative protein markets.

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 evoke^AG. 2025 – and the perfect platform for Queensland organisations and innovators to now consider how they would like to be involved.  

AgriFutures evoke^AG. 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 evoke^AG. 2025. 

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.

For the first time, AgriFutures evoke^AG. has selected 10 scaleup businesses* to exhibit in the new Scaleup Station. We catch up with the founders of Whole., Agronomeye, and SwarmFarm Robotics, three of the companies selected, to get their thoughts on growth, evolution, and the one piece of advice they all share in common.

You're in Perth for evoke^AG. 2024 so why not make the most of your time in Western Australia and explore what it has to offer. It’d be rude not to really. And there’s no better way to fill your calendar than with recommendations from a local.

From sustainable wine packaging to a technology turning rice straw waste into bio-asphalt, the innovations and opportunities these 40 startups businesses hold for the future of Australia’s food system are enormous.

AgriFutures Australia Managing Director, John Harvey shares his vision for Australian agrifood tech innovation and why global collaboration is needed to continue driving commercialisation of homegrown R&D and global partnerships. Here he speaks with Australian agritech entrepreneur and BDO AgTech Lead, Michael Macolino, about evoke^AG. and new platform – grow^AG. to help accelerate the innovation pathway.

What will a future farmer look like? What jobs will they perform? What skills will that will entail and who else will bring expertise to the management of farm activities?