Speakers

Speakers and Chairs

Our 2017 conference speakers and chairs are provided below with biographical details, in order of their appearance in the program. Their address abstracts will be added as they become available.

	Dr Lindiwe Majele Sibanda Vice President for Country Support, Policy, and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), and Member, Policy Advisory Council, ACIAR
	Prof Andrew Campbell Chief Executive Officer, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
	The Hon John Anderson AO Chair of the Crawford Fund
	The Hon Barnaby Joyce MP Deputy Prime Minister
	Dr André Laperrière Executive Director, Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN)
	Dr Kim Ritman Australian Chief Plant Protection Officer and Chief Agricultural Scientist
	Steve Mathews Head of Strategy, Gro-Intelligence
	Mario Herrero Chief Research Scientist and Office of the Chief Executive Science Leader in Agriculture and Food, CSIRO
	Dr Ken Street Former genebank curator at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and project leader of Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy (FIGS)
	Dr Joanne Daly Member of The Crawford Fund’s ACT Committee and CSIRO Honorary Fellow
	Dr David Bergvinson Director General, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
	Stuart Higgins Director, Agricultural Impact International (AgImpact)
	Dr Andrew Mude Principal Economist, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
	Jane Haycock Director, innovationXchange, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
	Dr Mike Briers AO CEO, Food Agility, and co-founder of the Internet of Things Alliance Australia
	Prof Salah Sukkarieh Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, University of Sydney
	Dr. Pham Thi Sen Researcher from Northern Mountainous Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute (NOMAFSI), Vietnam
	Dr Andy Jarvis Leading the The CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture, International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)