invitation only – Vic Hub Innovation Showcase

- Wed, June 21 202311:00am AEST
- 3:30pm AEST
Deakin University's Waurn Ponds campus

This invitation-only event will bring together a community of innovators in agriculture across Victoria, to showcase the activities of the Vic Hub’s Innovation projects – across exports, climate resilience, biosecurity and digital ag – and build relationships for future collaboration, innovation and market adoption.

Overview:

Incorporating a mini trade show of the Hub’s Innovation activities, panel discussions and networking opportunities, with invited guests drawn from previous speakers on the Innovation AG podcast, those involved in Hub’s Innovation activities being showcased, and key members of the agriculture and innovation ecosystem in Victoria.

Our speakers include:

Cathy McGowan, Chair of AgriFutures Australia
Natalie Collard, Food and Fibre Great South Coast
Prof. Colin Barrow, The Deakin BioFactory
Simon Falkiner, Falkiner Ag
Sam Brown, Agricultural Innovation Australia

11am – Welcome to Country

11:10am – Vic Hub welcome

11:20am – Keynote Speaker

11:40am-12:10pm – Innovation Showcase involving rapid-fire presentations, followed by time for questions

12:10 pm-1:10 pm – Lunch

1pm – Panel (live podcast recording)

“Building Innovation Teams – Getting Agriculture Research Out into the World”

How do we better get new research to farmers, to start-ups for commercialisation or to ag industry bodies to build on, distribute and use? Should we be incorporating a diversity of skills and building teams from the beginning of research? How can universities and industry better share knowledge and skills?

1:40pm – Pitch Comp

2:10pm – Wrap Up

2:15pm – Networking (afternoon tea provided and drinks available at bar prices)

3:30pm – Finish