{"id":617,"date":"2018-07-17T23:39:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T23:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confer.nz\/hortnz2018\/?p=617"},"modified":"2018-07-17T23:39:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T23:39:07","slug":"ed-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.confer.nz\/hortnz2018\/speakers\/ed-butler\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ed Butler<br \/>\n<\/strong>Manager,\u00a0Pastoral Genomics<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18.72px; font-weight: bold;\">Biography<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ed Butler has worked in the New Zealand science and innovation system for over 18 years.\u00a0 He started working for the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology in 1999 and was part of the team responsible for science investment in agribusiness.\u00a0 After leaving The Foundation, Ed worked for Treasury monitoring the CRIs and at Crop and Food Research in the strategy team.\u00a0 Ed has worked for Antarctica New Zealand as the Manager of Antarctic Science and helped to create the $5m philanthropic science fund the New Zealand Antarctic Research Institute.\u00a0 Over his time at Antarctica New Zealand Ed drove more directed outcomes from the research that Antarctica New Zealand supported.<\/p>\n<p>Ed is currently the manager of the partnership programme Pastoral Genomics.\u00a0 Recently, Ed has contracted to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and has completed a number of other short-term contracts in agribusiness.\u00a0 Ed is one of the founders of Left Field Innovation \u2013 a company working to develop new food and beverage products and agribusiness opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Butler Manager,\u00a0Pastoral Genomics Biography Ed Butler has worked in the New Zealand science and innovation system for over 18 years.\u00a0 He started working for the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology in 1999 and was part of the team responsible for science investment in agribusiness.\u00a0 After leaving The Foundation, Ed worked for Treasury monitoring&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.confer.nz\/hortnz2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.confer.nz\/hortnz2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.confer.nz\/hortnz2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.confer.nz\/hortnz2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.confer.nz\/hortnz2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.confer.nz\/hortnz2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"http:\/\/www.confer.nz\/hortnz2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.confer.nz\/hortnz2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.confer.nz\/hortnz2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.confer.nz\/hortnz2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.confer.nz\/hortnz2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}