evokeAG 2020

Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, Victoria. Get directions.

Billed as the Asia-Pacific’s largest agri-food-tech event, AgriFutures’ evoke^AG will cover a wide range of topical issues, from adopting big-tech on-farm to sustainability strategies, export markets, the blue (marine) economy, and global food trends such as personalised nutrition and plant vs animal protein.

A content-rich 2020 program aims to help delegates ‘design their own event experience’, with simultaneous sessions and activities bundled under three streams – food, farm and future – covering an array of issues in the food and ag tech space in keynote speeches, panel-led discussions, interactive workshops and activities.

The event draws attendees from across the agrifood-tech sector: farmers, innovators, start-ups, corporates, industry and government bodies, academic researchers and investors.

2020 Program

This year’s conference program encompasses a range of issues, including:

agri-regulation and compliance;
AI in farming;
eliminating wastage;
energy cost and reliability;
funding start-ups;
future of farming;
global challenges and opportunities;
innovation in the US/Europe;
robotics and IoT technology;
supply chain and export opportunities;
supporting Australia’s agri-ambition;
to farm and on-farm connectivity; and
vertical and precision farming.

Broader issues under discussion include adopting big-tech on-farm, sustainability strategies, the blue (marine) economy, and global food trends such as personalised nutrition and plant proteins.

View the full 2020 program.

Speakers

A long, strong line-up of speakers at this year’s evoke^AG includes entrepreneurs and visionaries, disruptors and innovators from Australia, New Zealand and further afield. The speakers, like the content, is curated under three themes: food, farm and future.

View the full speaker contingent here.

Startup Program

Evolving from last year’s successful ‘Pitch Tent’ and ‘Startup Alley’ programs, evoke^AG 2020 includes a separate Startup Program, in which 38 entrepreneurs from Australian, New Zealand and other overseas start-ups within the agri-food and tech space get to showcase their innovations to an international audience that includes potential customers and investors.

To learn more about the 2020 evoke^AG Startup Program finalists, visit Local Ecosystem Showcase, International Scale-Ups, Startup Alley and Investor Pitch.

Future Young Leaders Program

Back for 2020, this part of the program showcases eight ‘emerging thought leaders’ in the agricultural and food-tech industries from across Australia and New Zealand, each of whom gets five minutes at evoke^AG to present their key research to an international audience.

Venue

Regardless of weather extremes, attendees will stay cool under the dome of the historic Royal Exhibition Building, adjacent to Melbourne Museum and a five-minute drive or tram-ride or 10-minute stroll through tree-shaded gardens from the CBD.

Registration

All tickets are for two days and include access to all elements of the event:

all conference sessions;
the exhibition hub;
morning/afternoon tea and lunch catering;
food, beverages and entertainment at the Festival of Food networking event at the conclusion of Day 1 formalities.

Note that earlybird rates have been extended to 31 January 2020.

More information

Use the official evoke^AG event app to help plan your experience; it’s available for download in iTunes or Google Play from January 31.

Get further information about evoke^AG here.