We're very excited to announce our next JUDGE for AusFAC19 - our 2018 Australian Agripreneur of the Year Andrew Bates from SwarmFarm Robotics! Andrew is set to bring fantastic experience to our … [Read More...] about Andrew Bate
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Leanne Kemp is Founder and CEO of Everledger and Queensland Chief Entrepreneur. She is a prominent figure in the technology sector and recognised internationally as an innovator and leader. Her … [Read More...] about Leanne Kemp – Speaker & Judge
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BioScout
BioScout is an airborne real-time disease tracking platform, which lets farmers know as soon as plant diseases are present so they can be addressed before significant loss of crops. Growers lose at least 20% of their crop yield to plant diseases, with current disease monitoring techniques being labour and time intensive and inefficient for farmers.
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MPT AgTech
This ‘Smart Seeder’ technology measures the properties of the soil in real time while seeding, and using on-board Edge-Artificial Intelligence, is able to optimise itself for best seed placement. This helps overcome the challenges of soil quality variations across a property, which sees a third of seeds placed too deep and a third placed too shallow on the average farm.
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SmartShepherd
Free range livestock typically have a low percentage of maternal pedigree. Farmers wishing to determine profitability at a per-animal level and build breeding programs to improve maternal genetics must collect this information. SmartShepherd determines maternal pedigree in free range livestock in just 48 hours using low cost Bluetooth hardware and an algorithm.
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SWAN Systems
SWAN is a precision agriculture system that guides irrigation and nutrient scheduling to improve economic and environmental returns. It is a predictive software solution that delivers precise information for enhanced decision making to reduce water use and optimise crop performance. SWAN collects data via telemetry to process by algorithms for irrigation/nutrient scheduling and monitoring capability. It is automated and configurable to ensure a tailored outcome.
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UAG Bio Nutrients
UAG Bio Nutrients has a vision is to feed the world from waste to plate, healthily, sustainably and profitably. The world’s soils are depleting. UAG Bio Nutrients delivers nutrient dense organic fertilisers for regenerative farming – made from organic waste to increase the productivity of soil and decrease the world’s food waste challenges.
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Ubot
Ubot provides autonomous Citrus Harvestor pickers that work on deep learning algorithms, costs less than a human and work 24/7. Farmers struggle to get enough labour to pick fruit, leaving fruit is rotting on trees. These robots cost a farmer is $10 to pick a 400kg bin of oranges instead of $30 a 400kg bin for a human picker.
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We're very excited to bring you the AusFAC19 Programme featuring three fantastic events for Far North Queensland farmers, innovators and businesses. Tickets are now on sale at cutt.ly/AusFAC
On Friday evening, we'll be welcoming our visiting entrepreneurs, keynote speakers and judges to our region with a Welcome Reception at Mount Uncle Distillary, featuring Queensland's fantastic Chief Entrepreneur Leanne Kemp.
Tablelands local businesses and entrepeneurs will then have a chance to hear from and meet Leanne on Saturday Morning, before the main event - AusFAC19 kicks off with six of Australia’s leading agtech innovators at 2pm at Skybury Coffee!
Finally, our winner will be announced at the AusFAC19 Dinner at Skybury Coffee on Saturday evening, featuring a presentation from KPMG's national Head of AgriTech Ben van Delden.
This is going to be a huge weekend of amazing agtech, innovation and insights into the future of food and farming - we can't wait to see you there!
AusFAC is the only food and agtech startup competition in Australia that directly connects with an international network. Our organising committee member and local farmer Jess Fealy recently headed over to Greece for the Global Future Agro Challenge. Hear about her trip and don't forget to book your tickets to this year's AusFAC at www.fac.startuptablelands.org
How did AusFAC Judge Leanne Kemp become Queensland's Chief Entrepreneur?
Leanne is internationally recognised as an innovator and leader for her role as Founder and CEO of Everledger. Everledger uses blockchain technology to track high-value assets such as diamonds, art and wine with the aim of increasing transparency and trust with technology.
Leanne works across the world to encourage innovation in business, and her role as Queensland's Chief Entrepreneur has her focussed on fostering entrepreneurship in our state. She has won awards including Innovator of the Year twice at the Women in IT awards in London and has been named one of the world's Top 30 Female Innovators!
In addition to her role on our Judging Panel, AusFAC features two fantastic opportunities to hear from and meet with Leanne - at our Welcome Function on Friday evening and a special morning tea for Tablelands' businesses and innovators on Saturday 1 November.
Secure your tickets to these great events at www.eventbrite.com.au/o/future-agro-challenge-australia-2019-13640862280
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University of Southern Queensland (USQ) mechatronic engineer Dr Cheryl McCarthy is researching a new way to detect chicken welfare using machine vision, a camera technology with artificial intelligence akin to face recognition. The research is the first of its kind in Australia, and has been the sub...
