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EXCLUSIVE: Introducing the Global Biological Accelerator
We are delighted to finally share the news that a key outcome of the 2023 Salinas Biological Summit will be the launch of the Global Biological Accelerator. In extensive discussions with key sector stakeholders over the past few months, interest in...
Join the NZ – California ‘Climate Smart Agriculture’ webinar – Thursday 6 April
At last October's 2035 Oceania Summit, New Zealand Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor and the California Department of Food & Agriculture (CDFA) Secretary, Karen Ross, signed a joint Letter of Intent. The LOI was designed to increase the...
Plug & Play revisited: Tuesday 21 March 2023
Last Tuesday, Jacqui and I revisited the Plug & Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale. It had been our Silicon Valley home for large chunks of time between 2010-2015. It was good to be back. Whilst the address had not changed, the campus's interior...
Prepping for the 2023 Salinas Biological Summit in San Francisco
It's been a fascinating 48 hours in San Francisco! The focus of our 10-day visit to the Bay area had been to exclusively prep the 2023 Salinas Biological Summit. Silicon Valley Bank had other ideas. Having worked and lived in Silicon Valley several...
CDFA Undersecretary, Christine Birdsong, to attend the 2023 Salinas Biological Summit launch on 14 March
We are delighted to be joined by the Undersecretary of the California Department of Food & Agriculture (CDFA), Christine Birdsong, as we formally launch the 2023 Salinas Biological Summit in San Francisco on 14 March. Undersecretary Birdsong...
Meet the latest 6 keynote speakers at the 2023 Salinas Biological Summit
With just 4 months to go until the 2023 Salinas Biological Summit, preparations for June's program is ramping up. Over the past 10 days, we have announced more global experts and key influencers to June's Summit programme. They include; Carl Casale...
Meet ‘Farmers for Climate Change’ at Willunga Farmers Market, McLaren Vale
On Saturday, Jacqui and I spent the morning with Oli Madgett at Willunga Farmers Market in McLaren Vale. Hundreds of locals kept the 60+ stallholders busy as they displayed the local delicacies well known in this part of South Australia. Amongst...
evokeAG 2023 goes global!
Jacqui and I have just completed an absolutely awesome few days at the evokeAG 2023 conference in Adelaide. Hat doffed once again to the amazing team at AgriFutures Australia for delivering an epic feast of great content, great speakers and...
Join Ben Barlow, Kioumars Ghamkhar & Ethy Levy at evokeAG 2023
As all eyes focus on Adelaide for the evokeAG 2023 conference in less than two weeks, please let me introduce you to Ben Barlow, Kioumars Ghamkhar and Ethy Levy, the three awesome panelists on Day 2’s Biologicals workshop on Wednesday 23 February....