A national broadband communications network offers enormous opportunities for Australia’s agricultural sector. In turn, connected farms, and their supporting industries will play a significant role in Australia’s digital economic future.

 is a national forum to exchange ideas and provide updates on the opportunities and challenges faced by agriculture in Australia’s digital economic future.

The conference organisers invite you to submit abstracts in one or more of the following themes:

• Smart technology: including sensors and sensor networks, immersive and sentinel vision and communication technologies, far-end control and autonomous systems (including UAVs and robotics) for environment and agricultural production:

• Data and information management: including cloud-based services, interoperability, sharing and security, crowd sourcing and citizen science, remote surveys, web-supported smart phone apps etc:

• Smart services and decision support systems: application cases including precision agriculture, farm-to-customer retail, remote on-farm product support, teleworking, remote diagnostic and advisory systems including tele- veterinary and tele-agronomic support, assisted living, tele-health, remote extension and training , consumer surveys, intelligent networks for power grid control, emergency and environmental risk management.