Events
Check out our current and past events.
Cultivate Your Career
Cultivate Your Career is a STEM, Agriculture and Food focused careers expo designed for students to meet industry professionals across technology development, product design, agriculture and agribusiness, policy and rural support jobs from medicine to technology adoption.
Tuesday 1st September 2026
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International Womens Day 2026: Careers in an evolving world
On Thursday 5 March, 2026, ANU Agrifood Innovation Institute, in collaboration with the ARC Training Centre for Future Crops Development, and the ANU Gender Institute hosted the event International Womens Day 2026: Careers in an evolving world. Read more about the event and visit the gallery of images.
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First Wednesday Connect December 2025
AFII will be co-hosting the final CBRIN First Wednesday Connect (FWC) next week on Wednesday 3rd December. Level 4, 1 Moore street Canberra
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Cultivate Your Career is a STEM, Agriculture and Food focused careers expo designed for students to meet industry professionals across technology development, product design, agriculture and agribusiness, policy and rural support jobs from medicine to technology adoption.
Past events
What happens when heat pushes life to its limits? Join ANU researchers who recently participated in the 47th New Phytologist Symposium, Extreme Heat: Extending the Thermal Limits of Life to unpack global research on extreme heat’s impact with a particular focus on what these developments mean for Australian natural and food production systems.
On Thursday 5 March, 2026, ANU Agrifood Innovation Institute, in collaboration with the ARC Training Centre for Future Crops Development, and the ANU Gender Institute hosted the event International Womens Day 2026: Careers in an evolving world. Read more about the event and visit the gallery of images.
AFII will be co-hosting the final CBRIN First Wednesday Connect (FWC) next week on Wednesday 3rd December.
Level 4, 1 Moore street Canberra
As you know, FWC is a regular monthly networking event that aims to broaden the innovation ecosystem in Canberra and a great way to meet likeminded innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, and mentors in a buzzing networking environment.
Join the ANU Agrifood Innovation Institute in a informative session on Commercialisation and IP, patents and funding opportunities in the startup journey.
Discover the startup journey from research to reality! Join us at the AFII Hub for a lively panel with seasoned entrepreneurs, hosted by ANU Commercialisation & IP. Gain insights, ask questions, network, and explore ANU’s innovation support—all over light refreshments!
The ANU Agrifood Innovation Institute in partnership with Cellular Agriculture Australia is bringing the future of food to Canberra. "Made & Grown: The Future of Food" will place the spotlight on the biotechnologies shaping our food system.
Join us at the Agrifood Hub on 10 September for a thought-provoking discussion on how we can revolutionise the way we do research, teaching and policy development to genuinely engage marginalised communities, including young people.
The Agrifood Innovation Institute invites you to hear from Professor of Sustainability Science and Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Line Gordon on building interdisciplinary collaborations to ensure future agrifood resilience.
A unique forum brings together insights from the COVID-19 vaccine development and apply them to crop breeding.