Thursday 6 November

This panel will bring together leading producers, agribusiness executives, financiers, researchers, and policy specialists to explore how climate-smart agriculture can be scaled with both commercial strength and credibility. The discussion will move beyond aspiration to practical implementation - showcasing how investment, innovation, and partnership can enable producers to adopt new practices profitably and confidently.Panellists will discuss how data, finance, and market incentives can accelerate adoption of climate-smart practices; how supply-chain collaboration can reward measurable sustainability outcomes; and how research translation and advisory networks can support producers to manage risk and capture value. The conversation will also examine how enhanced resilience through climate smart practices links to enhancing national food security delivering benefits across the whole agrifood system - from paddock to policy.Together, participants will explore the enabling conditions - policy certainty, trusted metrics, technology access, and capital flows - needed to translate ambition into on-the-ground impact, demonstrating that climate-smart agriculture is not a niche concept but the foundation of Australia’s competitive advantage in a changing global market.