The Country Spark Festival, a Goondiwindi event, is back for its second year and hoping to drive an ideas boom in the bush – showing off how country innovators are changing the way we do things.
The Country Spark Festival, hosted by the Goondiwindi Region Innovation Network (GRIN), is back for a second year and will be held on 20th October at the Goondiwindi Golf Club with a field day for the morning of the 21st of October.
“We know so many regional businesses who are doing impactful work and have acted on their great ideas. We want to help give them a platform to tell their story, as well as provide confidence and information to others who might want to turn their ideas into a tangible business or social enterprise,” Country Spark Festival organiser, Julia Spicer said.
Before she graces international audiences at AgriFutures evoke AG next year, catch Danielle Morton of Zondii, as she explains how to use your phone to improve the quality of your agriculture products, using hyperspectral imagining – right from the palm of your hand! This is playing a crucial role in increasing transparency in the food sector.
Regional entrepreneurship will be on show, with conversations around how to tell our stories from the host of hit podcast, Humans of Agriculture, Oli Le Lievre, and Pandaemonium paper Alice Armitage.
We know that staff shortages are a national challenge at the moment, so hear about how Louise Noble from the Mulberry Project is matching people with jobs and meet some of the people looking for work through the Mulberry Project.
Communities in rural and regional Australia need to move towards more innovative thinking, and Goondiwindi is no different. The festival will discuss investment in innovation, research and development, migration, the role of Government in supporting our businesses and more.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to get a taste of local innovation throughout the Goondiwindi area through site visits to various businesses which will be part of the program.
This event is open to everyone across the region, but tickets are essential and can be purchased through this link:
https://events.humanitix.com/country-spark-day1
bit.ly/CountrySpark2022
For more information, please contact Julia Spicer on 0427 408 713
Oli Le Lievre
Danielle Morton
Jerome Leray
