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10 – 11 October 2022
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2035 Agri-Food-Tech Oceania Summit

The 2035 Oceania Summit in October 2022 is bringing stakeholders from all facets of the region’s agri-food-tech industry to discuss how to collectively reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and design more resilient growing systems to address the intensifying impact of climate change.

The Summit is more than just a two-day meeting. It’s part of a longer term platform designed to focus on actionable outcomes that will create positive global impact.

The Summit will feature plenary sessions, breakout sessions, an exhibition, a start-up hub, an investment pitch event and a line-up of major local and international speakers.

The programme is designed to connect key stakeholders across the Oceania region and beyond, to finally address the impact of climate change on the agri-food industry.

 

The Summit outcomes include:

  • Identifying opportunities to develop a net-zero food production system
  • Leveraging the scientific advances being developed by our research community
  • Taking decisive action to protect and conserve our oceans
  • Working with indigenous communities by harnessing the power of traditional knowledge, science and technology
  • Encouraging investment into our region’s growing agrifood tech sector
  • Empowering our farmers to adopt news ways of sustainable agricultural production
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Purpose of the summit

The 2035 Oceania Summit has been designed to enable the  region’s scientific & research community, its industry leaders, agribusiness & agritech companies, farmers & growers, regulators and policy makers to meet and discuss how agrifood tech innovation and on-farm application can help address the existential threat posed by climate change.

Agriculture and the agrifood supply chain provide a significant contribution to the region’s greenhouse gas emissions. The 2035 Oceania Summit will focus on the role that agrifood tech will play in supporting farmers and growers reduce emissions to net zero, as well as build more resilient growing systems to address the ongoing impact of a rapidly changing climate.  

In Australia, the Climate Targets Panel says that Australia should be aiming to reach net zero emissions as early as 2035. In New Zealand, the Climate Change Commission has submitted to government its recommendations for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Across wider Oceania, climate change has had, and will continue to have, profound ramifications for the people living in the region.

The Summit will feature regional and international keynote speakers, breakout panels with domain experts, an exhibition showcasing current research being undertaken across the region, a startup hub with a pitch event to global investors, as well as extensive networking opportunities.

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Showcasing research excellence

New Zealand and Australian universities and research institutes, including CRIs and RDCs, are leveraging great science and knowledge to develop innovative solutions that will tackle some of the major climate-related challenges facing the region’s agriculture and agrifood sectors. The 2035 Oceania Summit will showcase this work to provide insights into the exciting emerging agrifood technology being developed to both reduce the region’s agricultural and agrifood emissions to net zero, as well as mitigate the threats to farmers and growers posed by climate change.

Start-ups creating value

Agritech and cleantech start-ups from across Oceania are developing new and ground-breaking solutions designed to address the challenge posed by our changing climate. The 2035 Oceania Summit will provide a platform for these startups to showcase their work to potential collaborators, partners and investors in the Summit’s Start-up Hub. Additionally, an invitation-only investor event will enable selected startups pitch for growth capital to an audience of global venture firms.

Delivering global impact

The 2035 Oceania Summit has been designed to deliver global impact. By bringing together thought leaders and experts from across the region, the aim of the Summit is to highlight how science, research and entrepreneurial endeavour can help farmers and growers worldwide meet the significant challenges posed by our changing climate. 

Who should attend

The 2035 Oceania Summit provides the platform for a wide cross-section of professionals to meet, network and collaborate on the emerging agrifood technologies that can help farmers and growers reduce their greenhouse gas footprint and deliver global impact.

These include;

  • R&D Specialists
  • Universities, CRIs & RDCs
  • Agribusiness Leaders
  • Farmers and Growers
  • Start-up Entrepreneurs
  • Software developers & systems integrators
  • Investors
  • Government Representatives
  • Policy Makers
  • Environmental Experts
  • Compliance Officers

 

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Introducing the Summit Steering Committee

Roger Robson-Williams

Roger is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Plant & Food Research.

Roger has extensive experience of leading science aimed at enabling more sustainable horticulture and arable farming. Roger is hopeful about humanity’s capacity to create food systems that will deliver great nutrition while restoring the world’s life-sustaining natural systems to within safe limits. Our capacity to work collaboratively and respect different knowledge systems will determine whether we achieve this ambition.

Alice Beilby

Alice Beilby is a First Nations women of Gunggari and Kamilaori descent and is the Managing Director of her own consultancy company.  Her science background and indigenous heritage gives her a two ways perspective around land management and sustainable practices.  She is an Alumni of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation and the Murra Indigenous Business Program, Melbourne Business School.

Belinda Allitt

Belinda Allitt is the General Manager of Communications and Capacity Building at AgriFutures Australia.  AgriFutures Australia is a research and development corporation that aims to grow the long-term prosperity of Australian rural industries. With twenty years’ experience in marketing, communications, events, public relations, brand, project management and community engagement, Belinda connects her knowledge and experience to AgriFutures programs such as AgriFutures growAG. and evokeAG., AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award and Horizons Scholarship – just to name a few.

Belinda grew up on a property in Deniliquin, NSW and manages a small sheep and cropping farm in Wagga Wagga, NSW with her husband.  Belinda is passionate about the local and global innovation system and the important role innovation plays in Australian agriculture, climate, global food security and farm productivity. Belinda aims to attract capable people into careers in agriculture, building the capability of future rural leaders, supporting change makers, and driving thought leadership through the exciting brands and programs under her direction.

Debbie Barwick

Deb Barwick is the CEO of the NSW Indigenous Chamber of Commerce and Chairperson of the First Australians Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Deb is also an national and international award-winning Aboriginal Entrepreneur and Business Owner who believes that Aboriginal people themselves are the solution to social and economic parity and that “enabling Aboriginal leadership regionally, nationally and globally is a strategic and wise investment toward a stronger Australian Economy and Nation.”

Dr. Anna Okello

Dr Anna Okello manages the Livestock Systems Program at the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, part of the Australian government’s foreign aid portfolio. Anna has almost 20 years’ experience in livestock development and public health programs for a range of international and academic organisations. Since completing a PhD in political science at the University of Edinburgh in 2012, Anna maintains a keen interest in understanding the interface between agricultural research, technology development and global policy.

Ethy Levy

Ethy is the Founder of Impact Innovation Israel, a strategic consultancy firm focusing on tech and innovation in sectors where there is a substantial impact on society and the environment. Ethy is also a co-Founder and Israel CEO of the Bridge Hub, a global Agrifood tech innovation hub based in Australia & Israel. Ethy works across multiple technology sectors and provides tech and innovation adoption advisory to multi-national corporations as well as to academia and government.

Guy Royal

After a long legal career advising on investment in Hong Kong, Vietnam and the UK, Guy now specialises in the Māori commercial sector in NZ. He currently sits on boards in venture capital, climate tech, fishing, Iwi investment and retail. His passion is working with Māori primary sector to produce a better standard of living for Aotearoa particularly through innovation and climate-change technologies applied to Māori primary sector assets.

Prof. Owen Atkin

Professor Owen Atkin is the Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Agri-Technology (CEAT). Launched in August 2018, as a collaboration between the Australia National University, CSIRO and the ACT Government, CEAT’s goal is to build an agri-tech innovation ecosystem where world-class research and technology are applied to address complex agricultural challenges. Owen is also a faculty member in the ANU Research School of Biology where his research focuses on the impacts of climate change on plant metabolism.

Peter Wren-Hilton

Peter was the founding Executive Director of Agritech New Zealand and co-founder of the Australia New Zealand Agritech Council. 

Peter’s consultancy, Wharf42, is hosting the 2035 Oceania Summit. By bringing together key stakeholders from across the region, Peter is developing a culture of cross border collaboration to ensure AgriFoodTech can address some of the world’s most significant long-term challenges.

Pip Grant

Pip is a community engagement specialist with a focus on innovation systems and global collaboration – working largely with tech developers and corporate innovators to drive investment in agrifood innovation and adoption. With a background in not-for-profit, social impact, and research extension, Pip engages community mobilisation and marketing strategies to increase awareness of innovation, and opportunities to collaborate and invest, locally and globally.

Passionate about building sustainable global supply-chains, through Agriculture Innovation Australia (AIA), Pip supports the development and investment in strategies that address shared challenges and opportunities to deliver transformative outcomes that drive sustainability, productivity and profitability across agricultural, fishery and forestry value chains. Agricultural Innovation Australia (AIA) is a not-for-profit, public company established to facilitate joint investment and collaboration in cross-industry agricultural issues of national importance.

Rahul Chopra

Rahul is a Sustainability and Climate Change Consultant to the public and private sectors including agriculture, dairy, electricity, ports and local councils. Rahul has worked with the NZ Parliamentary Services and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and is an active member contributing to Society 5.0. He holds a Masters in Climate Policy, is a certified Project Manager and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) certified professional.

Sarah Nolet

Sarah is an internationally recognized agriculture innovation expert and a co-founder of the Agthentic Group, including Agthentic Advisory and Tenacious Ventures, Australia’s only specialist agrifood tech VC firm. Sarah is also the host of the AgTech...So What? podcast, and co-founder of Farmers2Founders, a national innovation program that supports Australian primary producers to commercialize inventions and new businesses, as well as gain early access to emerging technologies.

Dr. Victoria Hatton

Victoria is Director of the Sustainability & Climate Change practice at PwC and brings over a decade of experience in climate change adaptation and mitigation, both in NZ and globally. Victoria is a systems thinker who has demonstrated success in driving ambitious climate change action working with governments and business leading initiatives on sustainable finance, nature-based solutions, and clean technology. Victoria was instrumental at negotiating the Koronivia outcome in the UN climate change negotiations.

Traci Houpapa

Traci Houpapa MNZM JP is an award-winning company director and is recognised nationally and internationally for her business and industry leadership. She is also trusted advisor to Māori, government, the public and private sectors on strategic and economic development. She has been named as one of the top ten most influential women in New Zealand agribusiness and the Listener’s top ten influencers in New Zealand.

Traci won the Westpac Fairfax Media Women of Influence Board and Management award and has been named on Westpac’s New Zealand Women Powerbrokers list. She has been awarded the Massey University Distinguished Alumni Service Award for services to New Zealand agribusiness and Māori, and has been named amongst the BBC’s 100 Most Influential Women in the World.  Traci has an MBA (Massey University) and is a Member of the NZ Order of Merit and a marriage celebrant.

Michelle Cole

Michelle is the Strategic Alliance Lead at Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF) who's mission, and its many Fellows who are committed to partner with Aotearoa NZ, is to find and build solutions to NZ's toughest challenges. This is so Aotearoa NZ inspires global leadership and solutions for future generations while committing to recognise and honour its responsibility as Tangata Tiriti (People of Treaty) and to nurture the pioneering spirit and values of Sir Edmund Hillary in us all.

With 25 years experience in international marketing and over a decade in the investment ecosystem working with NZ's startup and growth technology companies including agritech, Fintech and F&B sectors. Her passion is in reshaping impact investment and rethinking ownership models.

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Speakers

Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom

Space entrepreneur, author, and impact instigator, Emeline is co-Founder and CEO of SpaceBase,

Dennis Donohue

Dennis is the Director of the Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology

Richard Heath

Richard Heath is Executive Director of the Australian Farm Institute, an independent agricultural policy research organisation.

Matthew Pryor

Matthew Pryor is co-founder of AgThentic / Tenacious Ventures, and a founding board member of the Australian AgriTech Association.

James Shaw MP

James Shaw MP is New Zealand’s Climate Change Minister.

Elizabeth Fastiggi

Elizabeth Fastiggi is the Head of Worldwide Business Development for the Agriculture vertical at AWS.

Prof. Andrew Campbell

Andrew Campbell is the Chief Executive of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), appointed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2016.

Clare Bradley

Clare is a Director and Head of R&D for AgriSea NZ Seaweed Ltd. A Māori owned, and family operated business that has been making products from seaweed for 25 years.

Tracey Martin

Tracey is the CEO, Australian Agritech Association

Maria Jose Alvarez

Maria Jose (MJ) is an Investment Manager at WNT Ventures, New Zealand’s longest-standing deep-tech incubator

David Mundell MP

The UK Trade Envoy to New Zealand

Aimée Christensen

Hillary Laureate, Aimée Christensen, is CEO of Christensen Global Strategies and the founding Executive Director of the Sun Valley Institute for Resilience.

Brendan O'Connell

Brendan is Chief Executive of AgriTech New Zealand

Steve Meller

A Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur, Steve is the CEO and founder of CH4 Global

Jo Kelly

Jo Kelly is the CEO of the Australian Seaweed Institute

Klynton Wanganeen

Klynton Wanganeen is the CEO of the Narungga Nation Aboriginal Corporation (NNAC).

Ethy Levy

Ethy Levy is the Founder of Impact Innovation Israel


Summit Partners & Sponsors

“Hosting this event not only positions New Zealand as a global leader in agritech and agrifood expertise; it opens opportunities for further research and investment that will benefit our local farmers, local economy, and local environment in the longer term.”
Bjoern Spreitzer — Tourism New Zealand


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Join the 2035 Oceania Summit's inaugural 'Festival of Food'


"Kia ora. It is a true pleasure to curate The 2035 Agri Food Tech Oceania Summit Festival of Food in October 2022. I’ll be sharing a menu of delicious produce from Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific that has either a Zero or Minimal carbon footprint. We'll showcase some of the many farmers, fishers, gatherers and producers who realise the importance of sustainability in the global market. Although we are far away from many of our markets, it’s good to know that Food Miles by themselves don’t always matter. What does is our carbon footprint - from growing, harvesting and production through to delivery to market."

Peter Gordon
Chef, Restauranteur, Writer, and Fusion Pioneer

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Latest News

Securing authentic Indigenous Summit Engagement is critical

Securing authentic Indigenous Engagement is a critical metric for the 2035 Oceania Summit.

Welcoming Western Growers to New Zealand

Wharf42 is delighted to welcome Dennis Donohue, Director of the Western Growers Innovation and Technology Centre, based in Salinas, California, to attend and speak at the 2035 Oceania Summit.

Introducing AASF: The Australian Agricultural Sustainability Framework

At the 2035 Oceania Summit, the Australian Farm Institute will be sharing details of their major report (slated for publication in March 2022); the Australian Agricultural Sustainability Framework (AASF).

The 2035 Oceania Summit launches the 2035.vision platform

Empowering the New Zealand, Australian and the wider Oceania region’s AgriFoodTech and ClimateTech start-up ecosystem to tackle the existential impact of climate change is a core mission of the 2035 Oceania Summit.

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