About us​

We're growers, just like you

As vineyard owners, we understand the challenges faced by grape growers and viticulturists. We teamed up with other growers and IT professionals to pursue innovative yield and vine health analysis, and facilitate better vineyard management decisions.

Our Goal

We strive to merge modern leading technologies with viticulture to enable vineyard owners to make better management decisions, while reducing operation costs, increasing productivity and fostering good quality crops.

Our Team

Fiona Turner
Founder & CEO

With a background in Deep Tech, Innovation and Product Development, as well as managing her own vineyard, it was Fiona’s destiny to combine her passion for technology and love for wine. ​The result? Bitwise Agronomy.

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Aran Elkington
CTO

Aran is a seasoned developer and technological polymath, well-versed in a plethora of different programming languages, architectures and environments. He has extensive experience leading Agile development teams and Aran’s goal at Bitwise is to harness the ever-changing world of technology to rapidly deliver value to customers.

​​Dr Fiona Kerslake
Head of Agronomy

​Dr Fiona Kerslake has a PhD in Pinot Noir viticulture and has gathered expertise in sparkling wine viticulture, cider and wine making over the last 15 years. She has a breadth of knowledge across annual and perennial horticulture crops, as she has spent the last three years as Head of Horticulture for the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture at the University of Tasmania.

Annie Xu Wang
Machine Learning Engineer

Annie primarily involves developing automatic solutions to efficiently and effectively monitor your vineyard. 
She has extensive experience and knowledge in image processing, computer vision and machine learning in agriculture. 
She is also a PhD candidate at UNSW SRV group and working in deep learning for apple orchards.​
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​Nicolas Schmidt
Machine Learning Analyst

Nicolas is a machine learning developer with Bitwise Agronomy.
He has experience with electronics construction and programming
in multiple languages. He has a Bachelor of Applied Science
and is currently in his final year of an Engineering Degree.
Always up for a challenge Nicolas is an integral contributor to our
​technical developments.

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Richard Servera
Data Science Technician

With a keen interest in Agriculture, Agri-tech, Computer Engineering, Neural Net Development and Statistical Analysis. He lives for the insight brought about by the pursuit of big data. Always eager to learn, he works side by side with Nicolas, meeting the technical challenges of the project as it develops and grows. Richard works with Bitwise Agronomy and our clients to piece together seemingly arbitrary data and use it to gain in-depth knowledge/insight that leads to the company’s growth and the benefit of our clients.