| Mike Clearwater                            | The University of Waikato                                                | 
| Cate Macinnis-Ng                            | The University of Auckland | 
| Martin Bader | Linnaeus University | 
| Matt Watson | University of Canterbury | 
| Steve Green | Plant & Food Research | 
| Jonghyun Choi | Plant & Food Research | 
| Dean Meason | Scion Research | 
| Sebastian Leuzinger | Auckland University of Technology |