2025 Workshop Speakers

 

Monday 13 April 2026
Optional Field Trip - Details TBC


 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Tuesday 14 April 2026

Morning Session

 

Workshop 1

 

       

 
Workshop 2  

 

Workshop 3

                        
 Workshop 4    

 

Afternoon

 Workshop 2

 

 

 

Workshop 2

 

Workshop 2

 

 

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Wednesday 15 April 2026

Morning

 

Workshop 5

                        

 

Workshop 6

 
Workshop 7  
Workshop 8  

 

Afternoon

 

    Workshop 2     

                             

 

Workshop 2

 

 

Workshop 2

 

 

Dairy advancement through science and technology

Keith Cameron
Lincoln University

Keith Cameron is Emeritus Professor of Soil Science at Lincoln University. Keith helped to establish the SIDE event, the SIDDC partnership, and the Lincoln University Dairy Farm over 20 years ago. His research work is designed to help dairy farmers meet the greenhouse gas emissions challenges and the water quality challenges that we face. Along with his colleague Prof Hong Di, he has worked with Ravensdown Ltd and MPI to develop ‘EcoPond’ effluent treatment technology to help farmers reduce on-farm methane emissions.

 

Jeremy Bryant
Aimer

 Jeremy Bryant has a PhD in genetics and farm systems from Massey University and has spent 15+ years in agritech. He has been instrumental in the development of key decision support tools for dairy farmers at DairyNZ, Farmax and AgResearch including the Forage Value Index, National Genetic Evaluation system for dairy cattle, Grazing Heat Load Index and Farmax Dairy. Jeremy saw a gap in the market for an easy-to-use AI driven pasture measurement and management solution for farmers and founded Aimer Farming in 2021.    

Roshean Woods
Senior Scientist
DairyNZ

Roshean has over ten years’ research experience. With skills and expertise in soil and plant science, her research on nitrate leaching is highly relevant to nutrient management and is frequently cited for its insights into plantain’s ability to reduce nitrate leaching losses.

Over the years, Roshean has been an active participant in agricultural community groups such as Young Farmers and NZIPIM, which have allowed her to connect with a wide range of agricultural professionals. In 2022, she was awarded the Service to Young Farmers Award, and in 2021 she was a national finalist in the FMG Young Farmer of the Year. Roshean completed her PhD at Lincoln University in 2017. She then worked as a farm environment consultant for two and a half years before joining the team at DairyNZ in 2019.

Racheal Bryant
Associate Professor
Lincoln University

 Racheal Bryant is an Associate Professor in the Agriculture department at Lincoln University. Racheal is the chair of the strategic demonstration group for the South Island Dairy Development Centre (SIDDC) which SIDE is a partner.  In 2018 Racheal founded the Dairy Futures Living Laboratory which takes a research approach to testing solutions for challenges in the dairy industry which includes use of fertilisers and forages to optimise nitrogen use, investigating low N dairy farm systems and extended suckling of calves with their dams.

Ajmal Khan
Senior Scientist Animal Nutrition and Physiology, 
AgResearch Limited

Dr. Khan is an established leader in calf and dairy cattle nutrition. Dr. Khan has 20 years of international experience working with diverse dairy systems in Pakistan, South Korea, Canada, and New Zealand. He has led research teams and managed projects focused on improving animal welfare and the performance of dairy cattle and calves for different farming systems. He has led research on early life nutrition, including the development of the digestive tract, and delivered lifetime studies with dairy cattle. His work includes 98 peer-reviewed papers, 60 conference abstracts, and multiple outreach articles for farmers. 

Max Thompson
Investment Manager
AgriZeroNZ

Max is an Investment Manager with AgriZeroNZ and brings a decade of experience in venture capital, technology commercialization and innovation. Max is passionate about supporting visionary teams tackling global challenges to deliver real-world impact. His work at AgriZeroNZ combines his science and business experience to help accelerate access to emissions reduction tools for New Zealand farmers.

 

Liz Muller
Chief Executive
Herd-i

 

Born and raised on a dairy farm in the Waikato, Liz is a proud Massey Uni Food Techie and has had an extensive career across all aspects of the food value chain from fertiliser to branded consumer products globally.
Liz’s expertise is in where credible science, leading edge product innovation and strategy intersect to create real competitive advantage. She has a pragmatic grass- roots leadership style and has a reputation for getting stuff done.
At Herd-i, Liz is leading a team of world class AI experts in the development of smart and simple on-farm technology to help future proof farming and make it easier to manage herd heath and productivity well.
Liz is passionate about being part of the team bringing home the bacon for the New Zealand economy and helping to strengthen kiwi dairy farmers reputation as being the best in the world at what they do.

 

 

Please Note: The views presented at SIDE are the opinions of the individual speakers and are not necessarily shared by the SIDE organising committee or supporting organisations. Given the general nature of some of the views and information presented at SIDE, and the fact that every participant’s individual circumstances are different, SIDE participants should not act solely on the basis of the material presented at the event, but should obtain specific advice according to their own circumstances.

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