Regional connections and shared progress
Regional connections and shared progress
I’m writing from Melbourne, host city for this year’s EvokeAG, Australasia’s largest agritech gathering. More than 70 Kiwi leaders are here, building relationships, testing ideas and deepening our shared understanding of the regional drivers that shape how both countries project agritech capability to the world.
Being here reinforces what remains precious about our shared work at AgriTechNZ:
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We foster a continued sense of community connection and identity in a sector that can easily fragment
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We create the space where the sector can think and act like a system, not a collection of isolated ventures
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We hold a sector ambition that no single company or agency can carry alone
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We build the bridges no one else is explicitly incentivised to build.
Critically, we don’t leave those conversations offshore. Our regional Agritech Unleashed series creates the local connections and context that turn global insight into practical momentum, bringing together founders, farmers, corporates, researchers, investors and policy leaders to do the real work of alignment.
We’re especially looking forward to welcoming Australian colleagues and investor partners to Agritech Unleashed at the University of Auckland on 16 April. This will be an important gathering as we celebrate recent investments and, more importantly, explore what agritech investment really looks like across all stages and capital needs, from early science and seed, through growth capital, to global scale partnerships.
The bridges we build abroad only matter if we strengthen the pathways at home. That’s the work in front of us.