Fresh from attending the 2023 World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit a panel of AgriTechNZ members share their insights in a webinar. Our members mingled with over 2000 innovators and investors from the global agritech community in San Francisco, USA. This year’s discussion focused on future proofing resilience in agriculture: the climate-water-energy-food nexus.
Our panel discussed their impressions, key takeaways, learnings, strategic insights, opportunities and challenges for agritech.
Missed the Global AgriFutures Insights webinar? No problem, you can still watch it all here.
Meet 2022 Nuffield scholar Lucie Douma, who shares key agritech insights following her international study tour exploring environmental and farming contexts.
This year, Lucie spent four months visiting farmers, growers and support organisations across Europe, North America and Australia.
Join us to hear Lucie’s key agritech insights including water challenges in North America, labour shortages, corporatising farm trends, food security, soil understanding and knowledge, plus the corn belt and the role of genetically modified organisms (GMO). She will also discuss the impact of production and growth trends for New Zealand and how we position ourselves on the global stage.
Lucie Douma leads a team at the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) examining disruptions to domestic food and fibre supply chains and the primary sector’s pandemic recovery.
Event Details:
Date: Wednesday 1 February, 2023
Time: 11.00 am
Event Type: Webinar
Cost: Free for Members and Non-Members
About the speaker:
Lucie Douma manages the Covid Recovery and Supply Chain team at the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).
She is a 2022 Nuffield scholar and has had the opportunity to travel around Europe, North America, and Australia in a post Covid environment to meet with farmers, growers and support organisations to understand the environment and context in which they farm.
Lucie grew up on a dairy farm and understands the farming way of life. She has taken this knowledge and applied it to various aspects in her career from consulting with KPMG through to her public sector work at both MPI and previously at the Ministry for the Environment.
Lucie has a Masters of Science from the University of Oxford and was a top rower for her college.
Involved in R&D or innovation?
The Government is launching two new R&D grants to boost business innovation. The grants aim to help with the high costs and steep learning curves associated with R&D. They will also provide pathways to the existing R&D Tax Incentive (RDTI). Learn more or provide feedback into their design at our next AgriTechNZ Inform event.
The Ārohia Innovation Trailblazer Grant will support non-R&D innovation activities. It is designed to help businesses whose activity is likely to build capabilities or create opportunities with wider benefits across the New Zealand innovation system. It will be targeted at businesses pioneering innovation or building platforms that will help other innovators.
The New to R&D Grant will support businesses in the early stages of their investment to help establish an R&D programme and build their capability.
Hear from NZTech’s CEO Brendan O’Connell, Dr. Simon Wakeman, Principal Advisor and Dr Jeremy Smith, Senior Policy Advisor in the Innovation Policy team at the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) as they discuss the new grants, including:
How can agritech companies overcome challenges in scaling internationally? With workable solutions to solve important issues, why do some companies make it while others struggle to scale internationally? We ask the experts.
During the last decade, growing sustainable food has become increasingly important and fuelled growth in agritech. This innovation is enabling us to grow more food, feed more people, reduce waste, improve talent capability and protect the environment.
In this highly interactive networking session, we invited innovation experts to share their stories. Innovation enablers from corporate, funding and startup backgrounds shared their top five secrets to scale agritech businesses in new global markets.
Moderator:
Bridgit Hawkins, Chief Sustainability Officer at CropX Technologies Ltd
And special guests:
Elizabeth Fastiggi, Head of Worldwide Agriculture BD at Amazon Web Services (AWS),
Dan O’Brien, Venture Capital and Startup Business Development Lead at Amazon Web Services
Joshua Soo, Chief Executive Officer at GROW
John Friedman, Executive Director, AgFunder Asia and GROW Accelerator.
Explore new opportunities for cooperation and building strategic innovation partnerships.Join the conversation and hear the voice of the farmer and the voice of the planet.
Watch the webinar below.
