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8.00amRegistrations & Networking
9.00am Welcome
Mihi Whakatau: Ngāi Tūāhuriri
Louisa Taylor, General Manager, Canterbury Tech
9.35amOpening Address: Graeme Muller, CEO, NZTech
9.45amOpening Keynote Speaker | Sponsored by ASX
Owning the Future: Intellectual Property vs the World
How AI is reshaping the future of IP, scientific research and the future of knowledge
Melissa Clark-Reynolds ONZM
10.30amXO Recruitment Morning Tea
Facilitated Networking - A simple way to make valuable connections
11.30amStream 1: Electrify Everything
A cherry farmer goes from electrifying his whole farm to challenging us to electrify 10 million fossil fuel machines by 2030
Mike Casey, CEO, Rewiring Aotearoa

Stream 2: Innovation as a science
Can you predict what might succeed and what might fail? Hear about Doblin's Ten Types of Innovation model and explore its application through the lens of innovative product development.
James Bergin, Executive General Manager of Technology Research & Advocacy, Xero

Stream 3: Agentic AI - A new frontier? Join a discussion on the realities and possibilities of this emerging technology
Casey Orr, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
Rik Roberts, Co-Founder & CTO, Inde
12.20pmStream 1: Securing your success
Cybersecurity and data protection strategies as you scale for global markets
Dimitri Souleliac, Director of Cybersecurity Consulting, Coresilium

Stream 2: From laptop to supercomputer
In the heart of your laptop are the same components you find in the big supercomputers that are used to crack the world's toughest problems. But clearly, your phone or TV can't be used for such extremely demanding tasks. So, why is it the same, but also different?
Ruud van der Pas, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Oracle

Stream 3: Christchurch's regenerative economic ambition - Technologies that can save the world?
Hear from two local and highly innovative companies with big visions working towards waste and energy transition and join the discussion on how Christchurch can achieve its new strategy to become a regenerative economy
Sam Kivi, Co-Founder & CTO, Grid Share
Harmaan Raj Madon, Founder, Alimentary Systems
1.00pmTTC Global Lunch & Networking
2.00pmStream 1: Digital Transformation Masterclass | Sponsored by Smudge
Approaches to digital strategy, platform modernisation and creating contagious commitment to change in teams
Elsamari Botha, MBA Director, UC Business School
Michelle Shields, Founder & Consultant, Fulcrum Associates
Nikolai Blackie, Principal Architect & Co-Founder, Adaptiv Integration

Stream 2: NZ's year for FinTech Innovation
Opportunities for developers and businesses to think differently about payments, finance and even banking. With massive changes in open banking protocols, NZ's first stable coin and security protocols, there are endless new possibilities for Kiwis
Louise Macfarlane, Head of Customer Success, Easy Crypto
Adrian Smith, Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder, BlinkPay

Stream 3: Product in Motion: What does good look like? An interactive session
Hear about the product thinking transition of this business partnership as they take the participants through an interactive assessment and mapping exercise to use for their own business and teams
Tasneem Gould, CEO & Co-Founder, GSD Alliance
Matt Duffy, Head of Product, Grade Control Applications, Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies
2.50pmStream 1: Member not Vendor
Showcasing how our global healthtech product community model has supported our growth and impact
Stella Ward, CEO, Streamliners

Stream 2: Continuous Integration - Continuous Deployment - move fast and break nothing
Unraveling the intricacies of CI/CD and the how can it be turbocharged by AI tools
Sam Sehnert, Chief Technical Officer, Custom D

Stream 3: What is behind great software and App design?
An interactive session using the concept of Balance to deliver successful App development
Reuben Bijl, Managing Director, Smudge
3.30pmEagle Technology Afternoon Tea & Networking
4.15pmStream 1: Data, data and more data
Businesses need to shift from overwhelming volumes of data to actionable insights, enabling everyone to extract true value without needing a statistics degree
Sophie Bolton, Head of Emergency Management, Foodstuffs South Island

Stream 2: AI for Developers Masterclass: From RAGs to riches
How to stop experimenting, training and testing with Retrieval Augmentation Generation and finally get your AI models in commercial production even in regulated industries like healthcare
Grant Patterson, Principal Solutions Architect, Elastic
Eduard Liebenberger, Chief Technology Officer, Streamliners
5.00pmClosing Keynote Speaker | Sponsored by AWS
World class collaboration: A story of how to change the world through working together
Graham Grant, Chief Executive Officer, Seequent
5.25pm Wrap Up & Closing Remarks: Canterbury Tech
5.45pmEnable Networking Drinks & Nibbles
6.45pmEvent Finishes