The Digital Village Show

Responsible Innovation in AgTech Pt.1

Digital Village Season 3 Episode 4

Discover how responsible innovation is transforming digital agriculture technologies in Australia.

For Episode 18, we’re joined by an incredible panel who explain their personal experiences, insights and the hurdles to integrating these practices into the domain.

From enhancing soil health to bolstering food security, responsible innovation has emerged as a key to tackling Australia’s multifaceted challenges.

Tune in as they unravel the power of collaborative networks, bridging diverse groups and data access, ownership, and governance to create impactful change.

Joining us on Episode 18:

Dr Cara Stitzlein - A CSIRO research scientist who specialises in science commercialisation for the land sector and continues to help bring user friendly tools to agriculture.

Dr Simon Fielke - Also a research scientist in applied human geographical research into the implications of digitalisation of agricultural innovation systems and has published over 35 papers with CSIRO alone.

Professor Graham Williams - A leader in machine learning in AI and prolific author who has served as Principle Research Scientist at CSIRO, Director of Data Science at Microsoft and currently Chief Scientist, Software Innovation Institute at ANU.

Nikki and Peter Thompson - Land stewards in the Maranoa Region in Queensland who have utilised multiple streams of technology for their practices and contributed to industry initiatives such as  Farm Data Code and Rural Connectivity.