Jump Start Manawatu 2016

 

Location

Manawatu Region

Execution

September 20, 2015

WHO’S INVOLVE?

Palmerston North City Council, Massey University, Manawatu Farmers and Growers, Microsoft NZ and The Future Cities Institute

 

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The Jump Start prototype programme was run as a collaboration between the Palmerston North City Council, Massey University, Microsoft and The Future Cities Institute in 2016, which led to the establishment of an innovation pop-up hub in the heart of Palmerston North City and:

  • Exploration’ Workshops: Agrifood Industry specific workshops that explore the ‘art of the possible’ using a facilitated design led approach that defines specific ideas to create innovations for customers and stakeholders that drive value

  •  90 Days: A framework that validates these innovation ideas through a 90-day prototype process to act as a litmus test and a validate what a ‘minimum viable product/service’ may look like for production.

An example outcome from this original Jump Start was the AgTech Hackathon which ran in 2017 and connected farmers with smart on-farm solutions to enable the farming community to present every day on-farm opportunities and challenges to technology experts, who then creatively solve these problems drawing on their hardware and software programming skills.

 
 

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