Moa Moments - It's distinctions not extinctions

Take your pick from three inspiring speakers:

Dr Ian Hunter | Innovate: Myth, Reality, and the Road to Business Growth

Imagine – how arts thinking can drive innovation and how YOU, through your work can create and generate value and real change

In this interactive and engaging session Dr Hunter will discuss the nature of authentic innovation, de-bunk some of the myths surrounding innovation and using international case studies and examples show how innovation can revitalise an organisation, transform the attitudes of people toward business growth, and produce a more robust internally-generated competitive advantage.

About Dr Ian Hunter

Best-selling author and educator Dr Ian Hunter is an Associate Professor at The University of Auckland Business School. Ian writes on innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity, and economic history. His recent books include Farmers: Your Store, IMAGINE: Innovation, When People Matter Most: Vision Driven Leadership, and the Montana Book Awards finalist, Age of Enterprise: Re-Discovering the New Zealand Entrepreneur.

As an academic, his research on entrepreneurship and innovation has been published in leading international journals, and in 2010 he was awarded a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship to Henley Business School, UK. He has worked as senior consultant to the Department of Trade and Industry (UK), the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development, as well as leading NZ corporates and government agencies. Ian is founder of the specialist innovation consultancy Creative IQ, and is passionate about seeing people and organisations release their creative potential and make innovation purposeful and productive.

Hinu te Hau | Grow : The korowai of life

Aotearoa – New Zealand: a unique world view; how can you engage with that to grow value for us, our businesses and our communities.

The korowai of life is people’s connection to sense of place and sense of belonging. In business growing cultural connection is the précis of learned patterns of behaviour, values and beliefs; it is a way of life that engages social interactions and cultural characteristics of local communities that can shape development goals, cultivate innovation and create change.

About Hinurewa (Hinu) te Hau

Hinu specialises in cultural management, particularly creating cultural frameworks for creative entrepreneurs and social enterprises. Her vocation as a strategist, advisor, and implementer for the past decade has been to work collaboratively across the public and private sectors as a conduit for cultural & economic transformation.

Hinu is a member of the team delivering ART Venture, an acceleration programme for creative entrepreneurs working in the Auckland region. She is also the Executive Director of the first ever Maori Business Centre in the Auckland Region, responsible for its development and growth. As the Chair of the newly formed Matariki Festival Trust, Hinu also has a leading role in the three year transition plan for Auckland region’s 'Matariki Festival' including moving the Festival from Council control to a newly established Charitable Trust.

Nick Gerritsen | Adapt to a silent radical change

New Zealand’s economic challenge - understand more about what’s going on, see how you can adapt to the new challenges and find out how you can make a big difference

Almost silently the World has shifted into a time of radical change. Exponential population growth, the associated contraction of fossil and water resources, increasing volatility of weather patterns and a shift of economic power to the East all combine to create a time of change that human society has not experienced for many hundreds of years. Our systems of thinking, planning and governance are coming under increasing pressure. A re-ordering is necessary and no holds barred openness to new ideas, new ways of thinking and new actions. More than ever we will be relying on creativity to uncover and provide the threads and ability to build new solutions. Understanding, motivating and empowering individuals, communities and societies requires ‘artful’ practice. We are approaching the time of a value shift towards our arts practitioners – are you ready?

About Nick Gerritsen

Nick is a Marlborough-based catalyst and entrepreneur. He specialises in commercialising New Zealand technology propositions from the ground up, and has been leading New Zealand's contribution to the global clean tech revolution. He is also involved in projects in the internet /online, and screen production sectors.

He operates within a global network across the innovation and capital markets. He has been a consultant to New Zealand On Air, Radio New Zealand, Te Mangai Paho (the Maori Broadcasting Funding Agency), and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.