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Sep 6, 2026
Steve Saunders on Building Agritech Startup Robotics Plus and the Road to Acquisition by Yamaha Agriculture
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Steve SaundersGUEST
Yeah, so I think if I go back to when I had GrowPlus and, you know, we were running 150 farms.

Steve SaundersGUEST
So the appreciation for the challenges from labour and machinery and all those sorts of things.

Steve SaundersGUEST
And I think right back when I started thinking about robotics was back in 2008.

Steve SaundersGUEST
And I was really thinking about earlier in my career, you know, horticulture was about plant vine husbandry, but As we advanced, it becomes more about managing people because we were using transient workforce.
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What would you say to them? Because maybe they think, how can I strike up that meeting with a company like Yamaha, or how can I do that myself? What would you give them as a few tips there to get engaged?
629 - RingCentral: Cloud Migration, AI and the Future of Voice Communications in Australia
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Peter BirchHOST
Like, how much, or like, how far can we go down this line to, um, really optimize something that's just existed for a long time?

Steve SaundersGUEST
So let's, let's sort of look at that in terms of how do we take a customer from where they are today to where they need to be into the future, and, and I very much break this down into transition and transform.

Steve SaundersGUEST
And, and the, the key thing here is to de-risk this transition from where they are today with these legacy on-premise PABXs to something which is quite futuristic and cloud-based with omni-channel capability and AI infused.

Steve SaundersGUEST
A- and the first notion to, um, to quell is that we're gonna replace this on-premise hardware with, with cloud, but cloud is not as service available or service resilient as the PABX is today.

Steve SaundersGUEST
Whereas I argue now to these CIOs, "Well, we, we can demonstrate that we will, um, have greater service availability than your on-premise equipment today, um, and that we will have less service outage.
