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Dylan Bellchambers Emma Moss Jordyn Kitschke Kate Taylor James Bidstrup
Matthew Nevison Minh Nga Nguyen Rayali Banerjee Rebekah Ash Callan Daley
Young agricultural innovators to take the stage at major agrifood tech event
TEN young Australians will shine a light on agriculture’s big issues at evokeAG, a two-day event to be held in Mel- bourne.
Tackling agricultural sustainability and expos- ing metropolitan dwellers to the everyday operations of our farms will be some of the hot topics discussed on stage in February 2019.
Ten young innovative Australians with a passion for agriculture have been selected to take part in the inaugural international agrifood technology event called evokeAG.
The two-day thinktank, to be held from February 19-20, 2019 in Melbourne, will draw together some of the world’s leading ex- perts to discuss the future
of food and most impor- tantly, how it will be pro- duced.
Joining the international program, organised by AgriFutures Australia, will be 10 of the country’s brightest young minds specially chosen to take part in the evokeAG Fu- ture Young Leaders Pro- gram.
They come from a di- verse range of back- grounds and include an experienced jillaroo, a HSC student from Sydney and a young Queensland man who has deferred his university studies to help his family in the drought.
Proudly supported by the Council of Rural Re- search and Development Corporations, each suc- cessful applicant will pre-
sent their idea, relating to one of the event themes of food, farm or future.
It is a rare opportunity, giving them direct access to producers, investors, private enterprise, cor- porates, government and entrepreneurs attending evokeAG.
AgriFutures Australia General Manager, Com- munications and Capacity Building Belinda Allitt said the evokeAG Future Young Leaders Program attracted a diverse range of impressive applicants from both metropolitan and rural areas who dem- onstrated a passion for food and farming.
“This is not just a unique opportunity for these out- standing young people but also for industry leaders to
come together and think outside the box with some innovative and creative ideas that will ultimately help all Australians.
“We are proud to be facilitating such relation- ships, to be able to har- ness such concepts in their infancy that could well change the future of agrifoods worldwide,” Ms Allitt said.
Applicants were se- lected after submitting a video detailing why they wanted to be the voice of the future at evokeAG.
The eight finalists cho- sen by the Future Young Leaders Selection Panel are:
• Rebekah Ash, 19, The Gap, Queensland;
• Dylan Bellchambers, 18, Ulverstone, Tasmania; • Jordyn Kitschke, 23, Adelaide, South Australia; • Emma Moss, 20,
a five-minute presentation opportunity at the event, as well as return economy airfares, accommodation, airport transfers and a del- egate pass to evokeAG.
the skills, research and know-how, we may well be able to fast-track these innovations into a reality.”
EvokeAG 2019 will take place in Melbourne at the iconic Royal Exhibition Building on February 19- 20, 2019.
For full details of the evokeAG 2019 program including key national and international speakers and to buy tickets online, please head to evokeag. com
To find more infor- mation regarding the 10 finalists, please visit evokeag.com/evokeag- future-young-leaders
Follow evokeAg on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter @evokeAG and Instagram @evoke_ag #evokeAG
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• Minh Nga Nguyen, 18,
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• Kate Taylor, 28, Black-
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A further two finalists were chosen by the gen- eral public with a short- list of five videos shared across the evokeAG social
media channels.
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nalists are:
• Callan Daley, 20, Beil-
ba, Queensland; and
• James Bidstrup, 21, Beechboro, Western Aus-
tralia.
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