Who's speaking
Vaughan Fergusson
Founder, Vend &
The Pam Fergusson Charitable Trust
“Challenge the status quo, think differently and trust your inner weirdo”
Vaughan Fergusson (previously Rowsell) is the founder of Vend, a New Zealand high-growth tech success story sold for $500m in 2021. He is the founder and trustee of The Pam Fergusson Charitable Trust running initiatives like OMGTech!, Mana Tangata, Voluntari.ly and The Institute of Awesome to help teach innovation and technology to kids of all ages and backgrounds.
He was EY’s Tech Entrepreneur of the Year in 2014, a judge for the 2018 Entrepreneur of the Year programme and head judge for the 2021 programme.
Shaun Maloney
Executive Chair
Seequent
“One of New Zealand’s most successful tech stories”
As Seequent’s former Chief Executive, Shaun is proud to be part of a Canterbury tech company success story. Shaun managed the strategy, risk and return to grow Seequent from a small start-up business in 2010 to an award-winning, global brand. Seequent has become an internationally recognised market leader in Geoscience Earth Modelling software across the Mining, Civil, Construction, Environmental and Energy sectors.
In June 2021, Seequent officially joined Bentley Systems creating a unique opportunity to explore new capabilities in surface and subsurface software innovation and to help companies all over the world solve complex problems in more responsible and sustainable ways.
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