400M Ag and Food Innovation Forum – Toowoomba

Australia is on the cusp of an ideas boom, and Toowoomba and Surat Basin Enterprise led through its initiative Food Leaders Australia, is committed to bringing these ideas to reality. With a booming 400M middle-income wage earners on our doorstep, and just 400M hectares of arable land in Australia to feed them, we will need to drive innovation in our Ag & Food industries to capture new market opportunities and remain competitive within our existing markets.

The forum will set the scene for innovation in our region, the current status quo and where we need to get to capture the opportunities that will present themselves in the future. A select group of innovators will pitch their world changing projects to a panel of experts ranging from early stage development ideas right through to products and solutions ready to be commercialised. This will allow all attendees, be they producers, investors, industry representatives or supporting industry to benefit from the knowledge and ideas shared at this leading forum. The 400M Ag & Food Innovation Forum brings together our brightest innovators to connect with industry, our region’s most influential investors and the broader food and ag sectors looking to new developments that are relevant to them.

This years event will enable participants to sample new food technologies, connect through innovative communication solutions and experience other new technologies that will be live during the day, as well as hear about them on stage.

Key note speakers include:

• Bruce McConnel, General Manager of Food Leaders Australia
• Ian Mason, Co-Creator of Virgin Start Up
• Grant Statton, CEO of Digital Innovation and Energy
• Dr Stuart Hazell, Managing Director and Principal Consultant of Fusidium Pty Ltd

Pitches by start up and innovator companies:

• Atmos Blue  – extracting water from the humitidy in the air
• mOOvement – a track and trace system for cattle
• escaVox – data collection technology identifying issues causing losses and wastage from harvest to point of display in the marketplace
• DataFarming – innovative software platform delivering simple data solutions to drive farm productivity across all production factors, gaining valuable insights into the agricultural industry
• Freeze Dry Industries – a modern manufacturing facility that uses the latest technology freeze dryers build in Australia
• Fountx – wearable virtual assistance making downtime waiting for the technician to arrive a thing of the past
• Nontox – a non-toxic, non-selective herbicide
• GreenAg – organic free range turkey

For more information, or to register please visit: www.tsbe.com.au/events/2018-400m-ag-food-innovation-forum