The Crawford Fund Annual Conference | Canberra, ACT

Location: 

• 12 August – Conference dinner and Sir John Crawford Memorial Address at the Hotel Realm.
• 13 August – Full day Parliamentary Conference at the Great Hall and Theatrette, Parliament House.

Cost: Standard full registration for Monday night Networking Dinner and Tuesday Parliamentary Conference – $600. For more prices click here.

Theme - Weathering the 'Perfect Storm' - addressing the agriculture, energy, water, climate change nexus.

The conference will open on 12 August with Australian Nobel Prize Laureate, Prof Emerita Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD making her first address during a visit to Australia at the networking dinner. In the 2019 Sir John Crawford Memorial Address she will discuss how her lifetime’s research journey led to her broader interests in optimising human health, including nutrition in an address titled 'From Looking Down the Microscope to Looking Out the Window.'

On 13 August, the full-day conference brings together leading international and Australian thinkers and practitioners and an interactive day that includes:

• keynote presentations from eminent international public and private sector experts.
• targeted overview presentations on the status quo and innovative policy and development project options that address a set of significant nexus issues, this year highlighting where action is needed or underway around agriculture, energy and water which are all further exacerbated by climate change impacts.
• a set of examples of impact delivered as case studies in short, rapid-fire presentations by leading Australian and international researchers across industries, global regions and agricultural sectors.