# Down Under at evokeAG Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-week-in-agri-tech-7484107/down-under-at-evokeag Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-week-in-agri-tech-7484107/down-under-at-evokeag.md Podcast: [Our Week in Agri-Tech](https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-week-in-agri-tech-7484107) Published: 2026-02-20T15:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/are-trls-tailored-for-real-life-agriculture-or-is-it-time-for-a-change/ Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68af05b01ec4fc75765719ce/e/69982b3b7012ce5376f5d8e7/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/our-week-in-agri-tech-7484107/episodes/down-under-at-evokeag Duration seconds: 232 ## Resource This week's Agri-TechE round-up come from high above the Yarra river, hot (literally) from the AgriFutures evokeAG conference in Melbourne, Australia.   🫢 Aligning mindsets with some utter legends in global #agritech , in particular the awesome Brendan O'Connell ; Peter Wren-Hilton ; Meg Lovegrove and Rob Hulme .   πŸ’‘ Being inspired by the keynote address by Andrew Bate , farmer and founder of SwarmFarm Robotics - check out my blog on our website with thoughts about agri-tech R & D.....(as well as E, A and S). And while we're on the alphabet soup, some reflections about TRLs - are they fit for purpose for agri-tech innovations?   🀝 Very much enjoyed seeing our Antipodean members, includingthe Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) , Agnition Ventures and also the Aussie arm of Dyneval . And remember Moa Technology from #REAP2024 - they were here with a stand as well.   πŸ‘ Well done to the UK companies on the Innovate UK Global Incubator Programme - Airponix Ltd , Polysolar Limited ; O2 Agri Ltd ; Cleobury PM ; Rare Earth Global ; and The Extraordinary Berry Company. You did the UK proud showcasing your innovations around virus free seed potatoes, flexible solar panelling for polytunnels, the benefits of hyper-oxygenation in livestock prodution, waste valorisation for fertiliser, the wonders of hemp and innovative glasshouse design for strawberry production.   πŸ™ A massive thanks and well done to the amazing team who delivered the conference - particular shout-outs to Harriet Mellish , David Lord , Alex Bundock ; Harriet Coutts ; as well as Emma McMahon and Millie Childs.   I enjoyed the Farmers2Founders pitching session - fast-paced but high quality presentations, and great discussions with Gabrielle Munzer and Thomas Williams about the… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/our-week-in-agri-tech-7484107/episodes/down-under-at-evokeag/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-week-in-agri-tech-7484107/down-under-at-evokeag.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.