Food, Fibre & Agritech Challenge 2023

Join us for the Showcase finale, to be held at the E-Tipu IFAMA World Conference on the Monday 19 June 2023. Get your ticket through Humanitix

The Food, Fibre and Agritech (FFA)Challenge 2023 is an eight-week pre-accelerator that aims to equip individuals and teams with a venture idea, research, or a non-commercialised product to develop viable solutions for the sector. 

Applications for this year have now closed with participants starting their validator journey from the 26th of April (all key dates below). 

If you want to find out more about the Summer Startup Programme or to get involved as a mentor, speaker or advisor, contact us at uce@canterbury.ac.nz   

Follow the journey:

Key Dates

Detail Date
Applications open Wed 29 Feb 2023
Applications close Tue 4 April 2023 at 11.59pm
Successful applications advised Wed 12 April 2023
Start of Programme & industry event Wed 26 April 2023
Speed mentoring & industry event Tue 16 May 2023 (TBC)
King’s Birthday holiday Mon 5 June 2023
Finalist judging – submit final business summary Tues 6 June 2023 at 9am
Finalists for Awards round and Finale presentation announced Tues 13 June 2023
Awards Judging presentations by Finalists Mon 19 June (morning)
Finale presentation at E-Tipu IFAMA Conference & Awards ceremony Mon 19 June (evening)

 

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