evokeAG AgriFutures Australia

Global sustainability requirements can be a tricky area to navigate, especially when you are a scaleup operating across global boundaries. So, let’s put in practical terms!In this episode, Justin Webb, Co-Founder of Agriwebb and Charlotte Weston, Global Sustainability Director, EY, and a member of the Expert Advisory Board of The Earthshot Prize explore the challenges and opportunities for agribusinesses with our contributor Jayne Cuddihy. This series was recorded live at evokeAG 2024 in Pert...

To say the two guests in this episode are passionate about soil is an understatement. Antony Yousefian, Partner, The First Thirty Ventures and Tegan Nock, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer Loam Bio live and breathe soil health and believe in empowering farmers to boost soil carbon using microbial technology. In conversation with our contributor Jayne Cuddihy, they discuss not only how a systems-based strategy could change the marketplace for carbon, but how a global approach could work. ...

Part of the magic of evokeAG is the conversations around global food production and how we can do it better - with more collaboration and innovation. In this episode, our contributor Jayne Cuddihy spoke to two powerhouses in the global scene; Ryan Rakestraw, director of Temasek, a diversified investment company headquartered in Singapore, and Matt Macfarlane, a director of AgriFutures Australia and venture capital investor. They not only gazed into the crystal ball for the short term but look...

Since the inception of the evokeAG, Elders has played a pivotal role in bringing the event together. With a deep linkage to agriculture in all its forms right across the country, Elders priorities innovation and sustainability. In this episode our contributor Jayne Cuddihy sat down with Dave McKeon, Head of Thomas Elder Sustainable Agriculture, Elders to talk everything from the uptake of artificial intelligence (AI) for farmers to how the company continues to innovate. This series was record...

The startup ecosystem can be a brutal realm. The ability to think outside the box, pivot, dream big, spend small and negotiate change is really only the tip of the iceberg. Olympia Yarger, founder and CEO of Goterra and Sally-Ann Williams, CEO of Cicada Innovation not only have taken this challenges head on, but thrived. However, is it what it seems? In this episode our contributor Jayne Cuddihy asked Olympia and Sally-Ann everything from developing the deep tech sector in Australia, to ...

The evokeAG event may have only just wrapped up in Perth for another year, but planning is already underway for next year’s premier agrifood innovation event. And where else, but Queensland? The Sunshine State. AgriFutures Australia is excited to be taking evokeAG to Brisbane in February 2025 with the support of Platinum Partner Elders, Host City Partner Brisbane Economic Development Agency and the Host State Partner Queensland Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The event...