View the 2025 Brisbane Biological Symposium Video Collection

View the 2025 Brisbane Biological Symposium Video Collection

Having just arrived back from the US, it’s Back to the Future!

At February’s Brisbane Biological Symposium, delegates were treated to a number of highly insightful presentations and panel discussions, delivered by experienced local and international experts.

To ensure that the content rich program could be shared, every session was recorded to enable the wider global ag inputs industry to view post-event. Today, I’m delighted to be able to provide the VIMEO link to enable you to view all 16 recorded sessions.

Check out the link here: 2025 Brisbane Biological Symposium on Vimeo

One of the major outcomes of February’s Symposium was the joint contribution from key Australian & New Zealand research institutes. It was great to have representatives from CSIRO, Hort Innovation, GRDC, Plant & Food Research & AgResearch sharing the same platform.

This trans-Tasman input will be reflected at June’s 2025 Salinas Biological Summit. As New Zealand & Australia gear up to launch Platform10 field trials in 2025/2026, delegates in Woodland will hear from significant Australia and New Zealand stakeholders.

For anyone who has tracked Wharf42 over the years, building a strong trans-Tasman agritech ecosystem has been a key target of ours. February’s Brisbane Biological Symposium delivered that in spades.

Thanks once again to all the speakers and attendees who helped deliver such an inspiring day. Your collective contribution was awesome!

Introducing the Brisbane Biological Symposium

Introducing the Brisbane Biological Symposium

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I’m delighted to share the news that Platform10 will be co-hosting the Brisbane Biological Symposium on Monday 17 February 2025 with CSIRO & Wharf42. The Symposium is a major element of CSIRO’s Agriculture & Biosecurity Innovation Series, timed to coincide with evokeAG 2025, Australasia’s premier AgriFoodTech event.

This is an important development and exciting outreach opportunity. Following the launch of the Platform10 Global Partner Network at the 2024 Salinas Biological Summit in June, the Brisbane Biological Symposium is the first formal Platform10 sponsored event taking place outside the US.

This inaugural regional Symposium is being curated to provide researchers, producers, ag biological entrepreneurs, investors and policy-makers with a better understanding of Platform10’s cross-border field trials program to support farmers and growers meet the rapidly growing global regulatory and consumer demand for ‘less chemicals, more biologicals’.

The Symposium Steering Committee brings together sector experts to support its purpose. They include;

Jon Spaits – CSIRO Program Development & Innovation | Catalysing Australia’s Biosecurity
Dr Louise Thatcher – CSIRO Team Leader of Microbial Technologies
Dennis Donohue – Director, Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology
Dr. Jeana Cadby – Director, Environment & Climate, Western Growers
Miriam Hall – Business Manager, Plant & Food Research (NZ)
Peter Wren-Hilton – Founder, Wharf42

The Symposium will take place at CSIRO’s Eco Sciences Precinct in Brisbane. We’ll provide more details about the Symposium agenda over the coming weeks.