Agritech Meetup South Australia

AgriTech meetup to link into the Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference, Wine Tech and the global wine industry converging on Adelaide this July.

We have AGOVOR coming across from NZ, and they'll be bringing their powerful lightweight electric tractor 'GOVOR' designed to automate outdoor manual labour tasks for row based growers.

Frigid.Cloud will be sharing their cloud-based platform to optimise winery cooling systems, saving energy and providing real-time insights into the fermentation process

3pm* Wine Tech conference visit
5pm - Networking drinks
5.30pm - Presentations
6.30pm - Networking drinks and presentations

*3pm - There will also be the opportunity to go to the Wine Tech Trade event at the Adelaide Convention Centre in the afternoon and meet some of the agtech innovators at the show such as Burro and Athena Irrigation

Thanks to the French Australian Chamber of Commerce for partnering on the event, and we'll have the French Ambassador opening the event as well as french and Australian wines to try!

Thanks to ThincLab for generously hosting the AgriTech community, and to growAG for making this event happen

To link in with Wine Tech, we're working with McLaren Vale Grape, Wine & Tourism to bring together a practical demonstration of some of the leading companies working to automate various vineyard operations at the visitors centre vineyard in McLaren Vale.

The event is free, and please can you also RSVP here

AGOVOR will be bringing their powerful lightweight electric tractor 'GOVOR' designed to automate outdoor manual labour tasks for row based growers, and they'll be hooking up an e-Mower and smart sprayer.

i4M will be demonstrating their tablet based technology to enable autonomous variable rate spreading.

Agri Automation will be bringing Burro, a fully electric and autonomous mobile robot that's versatile for carrying, towing, scouting, and patrolling, and UVEX a fully electric and autonomous unit to treat pathogens such as powdery and downy mildew with no chemical residual, no withholding period and no resistance.

There will be a free coffee van to help kick everyone's day off, and thanks to the McLaren Vale Grape, Wine & Tourism, Wine Australia, TEKFARM and Thomas Elder Sustainable Agriculture for helping to make the event possible.

Thanks to CodeFish Studio for hosting our community

**Please separately buy a ticket for the event via Humanitix here **The $40 ticket covers the costs of both the bus and entry ticket, and thanks as ever to growAG for significantly subsidising the costs of the event through their sponsorship of our community.

The event is a unique opportunity for the AgriTech community to be on the trial site, hearing from leading researchers, having direct access to their expertise, and seeing where there could be a good fit with AgriTech and future opportunities for collaboration. FLUX robotics and SwarmFarm Robotics will both be doing live demos at the AgTech area of the event

Please arrive at the Beltana Cafe at Waite Campus for 0700 (bus needs to depart by 0715 at the latest), and we'll be dropping everyone back by 1830 in the evening. Please remember a hat and sunscreen