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26-28 May 2020Creating Smart Regions

EVENT PROGRAM

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Program bought to you in partnership with Grasslands Society of Southern Australia, Southern Grampians Shire Council and TBC

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AGENDA DAY 1 TUE 26TH MAY 2020FARM TOURS & WELCOME RECEPTION

9.30am Depart

10.00 Smart Farm Tour One: Sheep Containment Monitoring – Case StudyThis case study will feature a demonstration of products from globally respected Smart Agriculture company Wild Eye - who continue their involvement from DISA19.Wildeye have worked in close consultation with South Mokanger and EID monitoring company AgMesh to develop a sheep containment monitoring system. With a presence throughout USA, New Zealand and Australia Wild Eye are a global leader in remotely monitored sensors.Host: John Gardner (South Mokanger) Location: Cavendish1720ha. Prime lamb operation that runs 12,000 breading composite ewes. John was named a Nuffield Scholar in 2019.

11.30 Smart Farm Tour Two: Heifer Calving Monitoring – Case StudyThis case study will feature Smart Paddock - developers of “Bluebell” a small, lightweight, multi-sensor eartag designed to last the lifetime of the animal. Sensors track heartrate, temperature, location, and movement to search for potential health issues. Health and location can be viewed in the web-app and mobile app, and health alerts are sent straight to the farmer’s phone. The Smart Paddock App is also integrated with the AgriAce fence monitoring system which will also be featured.Farmo Farm Infrastructure Monitoring – Case StudyThis case study will involve viewing of the Farmo IoT based farm monitoring solution developed by local Vasey farmer Nick Seymour. A LoraWAN system, Farmo is developing a simple and cost effective IoT solution for livestock enterprises. Host: James Young (Eulong) Location: Cavendish3000ha. The Young Family shear 14,000 fine wool Merino sheep and run over 300 Poll Hereford cows.

1.30pm Lunch to be held in the Exhibition Hall

2.30 Smart Agriculture Workshops• IoT Integration: Agriwebb, Farmbot

(water monitoring) and Cibolabs (pasture monitoring) integrated solution at Cuyuac (Andrew Edgar – Nareen)

• Soil Moisture Monitoring in Pastures using EnviroPro Precision Probes at Alva Lea (Angus Brown – Tarrington)

• Sensor Technology in Practice at Carwoola Pastoral Company (Darren Price - Manager of MLA Sensor Trail Canberra)

• More to be confirmed (including Farm Machinery and Infrastructure Management)

Smart Community Walking Tour of Hamilton CBDExplore the Smart Community solutions that SGSC have implemented around the Hamilton CBD, Russell Bennett (Manager Business Systems) will lead the tour talking about SGSC’s experience and learnings and pushing out smart solutions to the community. Some of the topics covered will include, Public WiFi, Smart Lighting, People Counting, IoT Sensors, Self-Walking Tours and different community engagement approaches using technology.

5.00pm Welcome Reception (Drinks and Finger Food) to be held in Exhibition Hall

Program bought to you in partnership with Grasslands Society of Southern Australia, Southern Grampians Shire Council and TBC

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5.00pm Drinks and finger food

5.15 Introduction and acknowledgments

5.20 Welcome - Mary-Ann Brown, Mayor, Southern Grampians Shire Council

5.30 Sponsor Address - TBC

5.45 Food and Drink service continues

7.00pm CLOSE

Tuesday 26th May 2020Welcome reception brought to you by TBC

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TUESDAY NIGHT:WELCOME RECEPTION @ HAMILTON EXHIBITION & CONFERENCE CENTRE

8.00am Registration and Expo Trade Show Room Opens

9.00 Keynote: Zoe Eather – MySmart Community

Smarter Conversations to Navigate a Smart World

Change is happening and whether we like it or not, change is happening whether we are involved or not. It’s becoming more and more dangerous to get left behind, it’s more and more dangerous to not be involved. When we are stuck in a state of confusion and overwhelm with all of the possibilities, we are unable to take the conversation forward. If we can’t move forward then no amount of Smart Technology will help us.

In this keynote, Zoe will cut through the buzz and hype and go straight to the heart of what’s important for Smart Communities and how we can all get involved. She will discuss how simple shifts which embrace a new mindset and readily available technology can and will make the greatest difference in our everyday lives. Zoe will explain how we can start moving towards greater mobility, connection, and true inclusion within any community.

9.45 Principal Sponsor Speaking allocation

9.55 Keynote: Sarah Nolet – AgThentic

Agriculture technology: hype or reality, and how to get involved

Agriculture is experiencing a revolution. Technologies are now more affordable and accessible than ever, and new innovators and capital are pouring in, challenge existing business models and practices. But is all this activity just hype? What does it mean for the future of regional communities? This talk will explore opportunities and challenges in the world of agtech, highlighting where there is value, how to avoid the hype, and how can farmers and agribusinesses can get involved.

10.40am Morning Tea in Expo Trade Show Room

AGENDA DAY 2 WED 27TH MAY 2020CONFERENCEProgram bought to you in partnership with Grasslands Society of Southern Australia, Southern Grampians Shire Council and TBC

SMART AGRICULTURE STREAM Napier Room

11.20am Darren Price - Price Rural Management

Digital Farms - Learnings from large scale digital installation programs on commercial farms.

The presentation will cover the installation of various digital devices and reporting platforms in 2 large commercial grazing businesses in NSW. How the programs developed, what was installed, what works and what doesn’t. Insights and pitfalls and what is coming next. Highlights of practice change and return on investment within these programs.

11.40 Mark Sloan - Industry Technology Coordinator – Sheep | Bio security and Agriculture Services | Agriculture Victoria

Victorian Agriculture Smart Farm Trials Progress

12.00pm Andrew Tupper – State Manager Vic | Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology

Weather and Climate – using smarter forecasts well

Making smart agricultural decisions for weather and climate requires us to be connected globally as well as locally, as many regional and global effects influence our local weather. For many decades, the scientific world has been pursuing and implementing the dream of accurate weather and climate forecasting, with increasing success. To do this globally has required extraordinary cooperation between nations to exchange information in real time, dating from well before the modern Internet, and has required major advances in observations, science, and supercomputing. To achieve real value to the economy and the preservation of life at the local level, we need to go beneath the surface of our favourite weather apps. We need to understand the global system, how high quality local forecasts are made, and make intelligent judgement around risks.

12.20 Dr Allen Benter Technical Specialist Climate Branch NSW Department of Primary Industries | Agriculture

Climate Smart Pilots

The DPI Climate Change Research Strategy includes a number of pilot programs trialling innovative technology solutions across adaptation, carbon markets and energy efficiency. The Climate Smart Pilots – Digital Technology trials are aimed at horticulture, livestock and fisheries industries to trial new sensor technologies to demonstrate that farmers can adapt to a changing climate using digital technologies.

12.40pm Lunch in Expo Trade Show Room

2.00 Panel (TBC):

2.30 Lachlan Monsbourgh – Head of Sustainable Business Development Rabobank

2.50 Meat and Livestock Australia

Emerging Smart Ag Solutions

3.10 TBC

3.30pm Afternoon Tea in Expo Trade Show Room

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AGENDA DAY 2 WED 27TH MAY 2020CONFERENCE

SMART COMMUNITY STREAM Dundas Room

11.20am Peter Dostis - Runway

Building regional innovation ecosystems

Why build them, how to build them and what are the challenges/opportunism of creating an environ-ment that fosters innovation in a rural/regional location.

11.40 Emma Van Smale Schroder - Digital Glenelg - Glenelg Shire Council

Engaging community to embrace digital opportunity

12.00pm Chris Rowlands – City of Greater Bendigo

Greater Bendigo is projected to undergo significant change in the next 30 years, including a population that will almost double. In this presentation, Chris will provide a brief overview of where Greater Bendigo is headed and how smart cities thinking and standards are critical to manage this change. Chris will also provide a case study on how the City of Greater Bendigo and La Trobe University have worked with the community to develop Australia’s densest urban weather network project, Clever Weather.

12.20 Catherine Caruana-McManus - Meshed IoT LoRaWAN IoT, enhancing council service delivery

Smart + Connected Communities

Catherine will highlight the role public access IoT data networks play in supporting growth and innovation for regions. With strong alignment to the UNs Global Sustainable Development Goals, Catherine will showcase local and global case studies demonstrating open standards as the catalyst for more prosperous and inclusive communities.

12.40pm Lunch in Expo Trade Show Room

2.00 CEO Panel - Why/How to reduce the Digital DivideMichael Tudball (Southern Grampians Shire Council)Ben Gower (Wattle Range Council)

2.30 TBC

2.50 Warren Dean - City of Casey

If data is more valuable than oil, how are you leveraging your business data?

Warren will showcase Power BI projects from the City of Casey’s Analytics Team that has enabled the business to move toward become data-driven.

3.10 Andrew Tupper – State Manager Vic | Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology

Dealing with extreme weather in a Smart Community

Our exposure to extreme heat, fire, and precipitation events is rising. However, our scientific understanding and skill at forecasting and observing such events is also rising, although we will never be perfectly accurate. One of the adaptive measures that we can take in a smart community is to use these improved forecasts and observations to make critical decisions earlier and taking the relative risks into account. The presentation will demonstrate our rising skill, our improved observations, and the nature of some of the acute threat, and will explain how to use our new information better.

3.30pm Afternoon Tea in Expo Trade Show Room

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AGENDA DAY 2 WED 27TH MAY 2020CONFERENCE

2-7pm The Digital Education and Innovation Hub

The Digital Education and Innovation Hub will be created on Thursday 28 May 2020 at the HUB, Gray St, Hamilton 2pm-7pm. Free event.

This event will bring together digital educators, makers, innovators, tinkers, creators and enthusiasts in an informal setting to share their interest and passion for our smart community and in showcasing what digital skills could be needed for the future.

Come and try a variety of digital technologies in pop up Labs and creative spaces through to 3D experiences and robotics.

Aimed at Primary, Secondary and School Leavers this opportunity will highlight the many possibilities that the digital economy offers.

Come and see:

Educational providers demonstrate the STEM program available in our district to primary and secondary students.

Demonstrations from our tertiary providers Digital start – up businesses from Melbourne innovating their great ideas Community hackers tinkering and playing in their pop up workshop Drones and how to use them, get data from them and what can be done with them Creative industries of the future Free Fairy Floss, Popcorn and Fruit and so much more………

AGENDA DAY 3 THUR 28TH MAY 2020CONFERENCEProgram bought to you in partnership with Grasslands Society of Southern Australia, Southern Grampians Shire Council and TBC

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