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| 8.00am | Registrations & Networking |
| 9.00am | Welcome |
| 9.20am | Opening Address |
| 9.40am | Opening Keynote Speaker | Sponsored by Jade Software Rich Mironov, Mironov Consulting Product Waste and How Product Management Adds Value. |
| 10.35am | The Economic Environment Stream 1: Tiffany Bloomquist, AWS Leveraging tech to thrive in the current environment. Hear innovative customer stories and tips for how local businesses and employees can grow, scale, innovate, and thrive in today’s current economic environment. Stream 2: Luke Thomas, Comrad Medical Systems Why we teach our workforce to hack, phish and steal cookies. Stream 3: Brett O'Donnell, Webtools Mistakes to avoid when selling your business. From start-up to exit: Hear first-hand the experience of selling a successful tech company – tips for how to prepare, what to expect, and pitfalls to avoid. |
| 11.05am | Unicorn Ultra (U2U) Foundation Morning Tea & Networking |
| 11.50am | The Tech Workforce & Scaling Up Stream 1: Janine Grainger, Easy Crypto Mastering the art of the digital workplace: Real world lessons, failures and successes to help you short cut your way to a thriving work culture in a remote and digital age. Stream 2: Brad Parker, BNC Advisory (formerly of Yahoo!, Cisco Webex, Salesforce and Google) The challenges of what really happens on a day-to-day basis inside the technology delivery mechanisms of these firms; the companies upon whom you rely on to deliver your entertainment, and more importantly, your product and services to the world. Stream 3: Deanna Anderson, Energy Academy Avatars for capability development - How gaming methodologies could help grow our talent pool. |
| 12.30pm | Preparing for the Future & Tech for Good Stream 1: Ben Reid, Memia Fast Forward Aotearoa: How emerging technology is defining the future of New Zealand... and what we can do about it. Stream 2: Nina Oberg Humphries, Tagata Moana Trust Mo Mai Moana - Engaging Pacific communities in the technology sector, investing in the Future of Tech. Stream 3: Dr Karaitiana Taiuru, Taiuru & Associates Ltd Assessing ethical and social implications over AI inventorship via a Te Tiriti lens. |
| 1.00pm | Datacom Lunch & Networking |
| 2.00pm | Adapting to the Age of AI: Perspectives from Canterbury Businesses Andy Masters, Onside The AI Advantage – Build your product faster with a Virtual Tech Team. Michelle Shirtcliffe, Publica Just because you can, doesn't mean you should - An AI in the workplace case study. David Carter, Stratos Technology Partners From theory to practice: solving a real-world challenge with AI. |
| 2.55pm | Inspiring Voices Stream 1: Cris D. Tran, Unicorn Ultra (U2U) Foundation | Sponsored by the Asia New Zealand Foundation Asymmetric Competition in the Digital Age, from an Asian perspective and actionable insights for New Zealand. Stream 2: Brendon Muschamp, Loom Migrating 1 million customers without breaking it - a walk through of Loom's chosen strategy for migrating their Chrome extension to a new recording technology. Stream 3: Elle Archer, Te Matarau (The Māori Tech Association) Converging Ecosystems – Tech’s role in unity #tech4kotahitanga. Exploring technology’s role in bringing people and shared outcome together. |
| 3.25pm | Eagle Technology Afternoon Tea & Networking |
| 4.10pm | Closing Keynote Speaker Vaughan Fergusson, Founder, Vend The weird path to success - and what we can do to embrace it, to help others. |
| 5.00pm | Wrap Up / Key Findings: MC's Pip Loader, Melissa Baer & Daniel Harte |
| 5.15pm | Closing Remarks: Canterbury Tech |
| 5.30pm | Enable Networking Drinks & Nibbles |
| 6.30pm | Event Finishes |