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Software written by people who have stood on the plant floor.

04.3.2

The pattern

The software written here sells well outside the province, by companies that stayed.

mode40 and Alterra Innovation both build for agriculture and both are headquartered in this region. Neither had to move to a tech hub to find customers, because the customers are the plants down the road.

That is the argument for building ag-tech here. Your first ten pilots are inside an hour, and they will take your call.

04.3.3

Already here

mode40 and Alterra Innovation, both headquartered here, plus the plants that will pilot with you.

  • 01

    mode40

    Designs and supports technology for agriculture and other sectors, from mobile monitoring and alerts through to enterprise IT and OT strategy.

  • 02

    Alterra Innovation

    Develops and commercialises technologies for agriculture and clean energy, including the CleanTrace livestock traceability system and the GrainTracker platform.

  • 03

    The test beds

    HyLife, Loewen, Barkman and the rest are within driving distance and will pilot with a company whose product solves something they actually have.

04.3.4

The open case

There is no applied protein research facility inside this cluster.

The feedstock, the processors, the RRC Polytech campus and the workforce sit inside the same few kilometres, and the applied research sits elsewhere.

A protein research and applied-science facility here, with a student and intern pipeline attached, would close that. If you are a research institution, a corporate research group or a funder, this is the conversation we most want to have.

Start that conversation

04.3.5

Fit

Sensors, automation, traceability software and applied food science.

Ag-tech sells best beside the operations it serves. That is the argument for building here.

  1. 01

    Sensors and instrumentation

    For barns, plants and cold chain.

  2. 02

    Automation and robotics

    The cluster is automating and buying from outside it.

  3. 03

    Traceability and food safety software

    Already built and sold from here.

  4. 04

    Applied food science

    The gap named above.

  5. 05

    Training and upskilling

    RRC Polytech campus in town and employers who will fund seats.

04.3.6

Next

Bring us the research question.

Whether it is a facility, a pilot site or a partnership, say what you need to test and who you need to test it with.

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