21 February 2019
Melbourne – Almost 100 Kiwi agritech specialists, entrepreneurs, agribusiness leaders and support agencies have joined 1000 delegates at the international EvokeAg food & farm futures conference in Melbourne this week.
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30 January 2019
New Zealand is going to take ownership of a new global agritech initiative, AgritechNZ chief executive Peter Wren-Hilton says.
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11 January 2019
Over the past 6 months, Agritech New Zealand has been building a series of building blocks and initiatives aimed at growing the country’s agritech sector. With its rapidly growing membership, we are now in a position to launch these opportunities through 2019.
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03 December 2018
On Friday, I joined 20 other NZ agritech stakeholders take part in a five hour NZ agritech story workshop.
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23 October 2018
Farm2050, the global collective of leading agritech venture funds and corporate agribusinesses, selected New Zealand as its first country partner...
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All New Zealand businesses are faced with similar issues when raising capital for their business, whether you are a start-up or an established organisation. This then is the opportunity to join AgritechNZ, BiotechNZ and the New Zealand IoT Alliance at the April Tech Alliance 2019 event series.&nbs
March 24, 2019
Kia ora Readers, Last month, I outlined some of the major initiatives that Agritech New Zealand is undertaking during the first half of 2019. This month, I can provide further detail. The New Zealand Agritech Story Last week, I visited Hamilton, Palmerston North and Lincoln as part of the&
March 14, 2019
Today, Jacqui and I are attending the first of three one-day workshops, organised in conjunction with New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE), to help craft New Zealand’s agritech story. The photograph above was taken at the Waikato Innovation Park in Hamilton. Tomorrow, we head to the Facto
March 5, 2019
Agritech New Zealand is delighted to be a Channel Partner for the inaugural Grow 2019; Boma NZ Agri Summit. The conference has an excellent range of international as well as domestic speakers and addresses some of the key questions facing our primary sector. The two-day summit is taking place on
February 27, 2019
The applause is over, the bunting and the red carpets have been put in store, and the over 1,200 delegates who attended last week’s evokeAG conference in Melbourne have returned to their day jobs. Only 358 days then to go until the next evokeAG meetup. Same city. Same venue. 18-19 February 20
February 26, 2019
Important Notice: Entries close at 5pm on Monday 4th March 2019. That's next Monday! I’ve just returned from the evokeAG conference in Melbourne, Australia where New Zealand start-up, CertusBio, picked up the prize as best company in the Investment Ready Pitch Tent competition
February 23, 2019
Melbourne – Almost 100 Kiwi agritech specialists, entrepreneurs, agribusiness leaders and support agencies have joined 1000 delegates at the international EvokeAg food & farm futures conference in Melbourne this week. Making up almost 10 percent of the attendees at this globally
February 21, 2019
In April, Callaghan Innovation launches Scale-Up New Zealand, a free online platform with verified information on Aotearoa New Zealand’s vibrant innovation ecosystem. Created from a model that is hugely successful overseas, Scale-Up New Zealand will make it faster and easier for ambitious bus
February 19, 2019
Kia ora, Welcome to the first Agritech New Zealand newsletter of 2019 and what an unbelievable start to the year it has been. I’ll try to summarise where we are at and where we are heading, because it’s going to be a blockbuster 12 months! The New Zealand Agritech Story At the en
February 13, 2019