AgCatalyst

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[Images continue to flash through of a male watching a screen, a female on the stage displaying a piece of equipment and John Manners at the AgCatalyst event talking to the camera and text appears: John Manners, Director CSIRO Agriculture and Food]

John Manners: AgCatalyst allows the CSIRO Agriculture and Food to connect to its industry partners

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much more actively and more broadly and AgCatalyst also brings all the researchers in the CSIRO in the Agriculture, Food and Food area together 

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and also, I think the conversation with industry and amongst ourselves will help us to find better ways of getting our products to market.

[Images move through of a 3D printer printing a gecko shape in mince, Poppy McBain talking to the camera, Poppy shaking hands with someone, and a male talking and text appears: Poppy McBain, Agersens]

Poppy McBain: The biggest difference for me being here at a CSIRO event is that we’ve got researchers asking really intelligent different questions to the ones that we normally get from producers. 

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So, it’s been a really valuable experience and certainly an interesting one for the company. 

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The ideas are great, but the people are exciting too.

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Dan Walker: You probably hear the background hum really from a couple of hours before the event opened, right through, 

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a lot of energy in the room, a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of conversation, a lot of ideas flowing and that’s a fantastic environment to be in.

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Ben Mitchell: This has been amazing. This is our first time to come to AgCatalyst to present and I guess the engagement we’ve got from industry as well as internally from the CSIRO researchers and the interest that they have has been, you know, quite overwhelming for us as a brand-new company for the ag industry.

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Mirjana Prica: The vibe has been excellent. 

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The intensity of the conversations is evident from the way that people are interacting, the proximity and closeness of people.

[Images move through of Alastair MacLachlan talking, bottles of fruit juice in an ice bucket, a female tasting the juice, three males around a laptop and Alastair talking and text appears: Alastair MacLachlan, Preshafood]

Alastair McLachlan: I’m here to tell our story, to help people that are visiting AgCatalyst to understand that you can actually start with a project with the CSIRO and crystallise it into a commercial reality with a commercial outcome.

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John Manners: I’m feeling fantastic. AgCatalyst really achieves everything that we were hoping. 

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It’s about breaking down barriers, conversations between science and industry, science and end users and I think all of that was achieved at this meeting.

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