M2 magazine presents
HOW THE BEST ARE USING AI TO SUCCEED
THURSDAY 23 MAY 2024
8:00am – 5:00pm, SHED 10 Auckland
Agenda
8:00am – NETWORKING OVER COFFEE
9:00am – Welcome – Andre Rowell, Editor M2 Magazine
9:10am – What’s Changed In The Last 12 Months?
9:35am – How to Increase Productivity with AI & Machine Learning
10:00am – AI & Cybersecurity – What You Need to Know
10:25am – Innovation, Regulation and the Exponential Rise of Gen AI
10:50am – NETWORKING OVER MORNING TEA
11:30am – The Talent Needed Fill The AI Skill Gap
11:55am – 3 Years of AI Madness and What It Means for Business
12:20pm – How AI is Impacting the Health & Safety Future
12:55pm – New & Emerging Industries Created by AI
1:20pm – NETWORKING OVER LUNCH
2:30pm – AI & Automation Tools Your Organisation Should Be Using Now For Growth
2:55pm – Using AI for Sustainability Targets
3:20pm – Humans & AI, The Future of an Augmented Workforce
3:45pm – AI and The Future of Work
4:10pm – Learning Workshop
4:35pm – NETWORKING OVER DRINKS & NIBBLES
5:00pm – CLOSE
Hospitality
We have a range of gourmet food trucks for you to choose from today.
As you arrived you were given your hospitality envelope, inside are 5 vouchers:
2x Coffees (or tea or hot chocolate)
1x Cookie
1x Main
1x Side
During the first 3 networking breaks today, you can spend your vouchers, perhaps like this:
8-9am – coffee/tea/hot chocolate
10:50-11:30am – coffee/tea/hot chocolate & cookie
1:20-2:30pm – main & side
As well please hydrate yourself from our complimentary drinks fridges stocked
with non-alcoholic:
San Pellegrino Still Water
San Pellegrino Sparkling Water
San Pellegrino Fruit Juice
Red Bull Original
& Red Bull Sugar Free
MAINS
ADOBO DEL DIABLO
Chicken thighs marinated in turmeric, bay leaves and peppercorn in a rich coconut cream sauce served with Filipino slaw and coconut rice.*gluten & dairy free* (Hapunan)
BEEF KARE KARE
Slow Braised Beef cheek in a Peanut & annatto sauce topped with Crispy Bagoong (sauteed shrimp paste) served with Filipino slaw and coconut rice. gluten & dairy free.(Hapunan)
Impossible Burger
Thicker, beefier and juicier burger made from plants for meat lovers. With grilled mushrooms, onions, pickles, cheese, burger sauce and house made aioli on a soft brioche bun.
(Veggie Pulse)
Falafel Bowl
Fresh and vibrant with organic quinoa, crispy falafel, herbed salsa, fresh salads, hummus and house made garlic aioli. Naturally gluten free and protein packed. (Veggie Pulse)
Wagyu Beef Burger
NZ Wagyu beef patty, NZ cheddar, iceberg, fresh white onion, tomato, and Jo Bros Original™
Free-range Chicken Burger
Grilled free-range chicken, NZ brie, free-range bacon, iceberg, fresh red onion, tomato, and Jo Bros Ranch™
Vegan Burger
Impossible Meat patty, vegan cheddar, iceberg, fresh white onion, tomato, and vegan Jo Bros Original™
Beef Taco
Soft corn tortilla “6 “ with SLOW Beef brisket, red onion, coriander, lime, fresh slaw and chiplotle sauce
(Feast N Fast Tacos)
Chicken Taco
Soft corn tortilla “6 “ with MARINATED Chicken, red onion, coriander, lime, fresh slaw and chiplotle sauce.
(Feast N Fast Tacos)
Sides
LUMPIA
Filipino style spring roll, filled with Longganisa (traditional filipino pork sausage) served with our Atsara slaw & sweet chilli and coriander jam (Hapunan)
PRAWN SIOMAI
Prawns, bamboo shoots & mixed vegetables freshly steamed in a light pastry served with filipino slaw & chilli garlic dressing *dairy free* (peanuts, chilli & seafood)
DOUBLE DUTCH FRIES
Hand-cut fries topped with creamy mayonnaise, tangy satay sauce and finely chopped onions for garnish.
(Double Dutch Fries)
Exhibit Hall
Today’s Speakers
Jovan Pavlicevic
Founder of SquareOne which started as an app to help children learn about savings which is fast becoming a new generation of lean, low fee bank models with global ambition by leveraging AI for insights, operations and customer interactions. SquareOne is an example of high growth opportunity in legacy industry for disruptive players.
Nikhil Ramrakhiani
Dr Alia Bojilova
Andrew Dentice
Technology Lawyer and Partner at Hudson Gavin Martin. He’s an expert in areas where technology intersects with regulation (including AI) and in helping clients to commercialise or implement tech solutions.
Paul Roseman
Paul has more than 30 years’ experience working in the healthcare arena, with more than 20 spent working in Independent Practitioner Associations (IPAs) and Primary Health Organisations (PHOs). During his time with ProCare, Paul has designed and implemented a wide variety of primary care clinical programmes including; digital assistants, the patient pathway for high tech imaging in general practice, chronic disease management, hospital avoidance (planned care), electronic clinical decision support, referred services demand management and performance indicator programmes. Paul is Chair of Clinical Assessments Limited (CAL) a longstanding partnership between ProCare and East Health. Paul is a registered pharmacist and graduated with a Bachelor of Pharmacy from the University of Otago.
Bill Haylock
Director PX4 Software, Ardent Group and Torch Energy. His career, initiated in the late 1970s, saw a pivotal moment in 1986 when he founded Queensland’s pioneering exploration and mining tenement management business. By 1988, Bill was instrumental in the development of tenement management software.
PX4 is a third-generation software, being utilised all over the globe by major mining companies.
Asa Cox
Asa Cox is the founder & CEO of Arcanum, a company that specialises in helping finance teams increase their productivity with AI. Arcanum is one of only 20 companies in the world to have been signed up for the Strategic Collaboration agreement (SCA) for Gen-AI with AWS. Asa has nearly a decade of experience working with applied AI and has led Arcanum to work with well known startups and enterprises in NZ and internationally.
Bede Cammock-Elliott
Bede Cammock-Elliott Bede is Founder of both seeo.ai and seedigital Limited. Founded in 2003, seedigital is a World Leading interactive remote video monitoring company that protects $5.5Billion worth of assets for many iconic brands & organisations throughout New Zealand. Bede is a published author in the UK & Brazil. He is a qualified assessor for the European Business Quality Model (Known as EFQM) & Chairman of the LSV Patrons Trust. He is a leading thinker on solving security related business problems, and the ethical application of AI to increase H&S outcomes for all stakeholders.
ADAM DURBIN
Chief Technology Officer of Mantel Group, Adam sits across Sitting across the group’s wide range of specialisations and technical capabilities. His career in IT started over 20 years ago in IT software support moving to system engineering and virtualisation and then into cloud. He was the co-founder of CMD Solutions before it joined Mantel Group, forming one of the top and fastest growing IT professional services organisations in Australia
Leighton Roberts
Leighton Roberts is the co-founder and co-CEO of Sharesies. At Sharesies, their vision is to give someone with $5 and $5m the same money opportunities. Sharesies is a wealth app with over 600,000 investors who’ve collectively invested billions of dollars. Sharesies also partners with private, and NZX and ASX listed companies so they can know and communicate to their retail investors, support with capital raises and provide staff share schemes – they have over 500 companies using their services.
Anna Mowbray
Revolutionising industries and fuelling innovation, Anna Mowbray is a powerhouse entrepreneur and one of Aotearoa’s most influential business figures. As one of the leaders who grew ZURU to billions in trade, she led culture, systems and operations as the company grew across the world. Today, she leads her new business ZEIL, a cutting-edge, data-driven job marketplace founded in 2022.
NATALIE ROUSE
Principal for Mantel Group NZ, Natalie has global experience delivering analytics, data science, optimisation and simulation projects, building highly skilled analytics and AI delivery teams, and driving responsible technology innovation at an enterprise level. She has overseen Mantel Group’s growth in New Zealand with capabilities across the technology development lifecycle. Natalie is an Executive Council Member of AI Forum NZ and co-hosts the AI Australia podcast.
TIM WARREN
As a Co-Founder of Ambit, Tim led a team of industry experts in designing and delivering natural, intelligent conversational experiences for some of the world’s leading organisations. With over 25 years of experience in strategy, executive management, and technology, Tim has a track record of automating customer service at scale with generative AI. He is a strong advocate for the immense potential of AI in transforming customer support and driving business growth.
David Mcdonald
As Founder of Altered State Machine, and a major shareholder in Futureverse, David has a had a varied tech and venture career with the last decade across generative visual and music AI, blockchain, and gaming partnerships with ReadyPlayerOne, Reebok, Warners Music, Muhammed Ali, and Fifa.
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INFO by Design
A leading privacy and AI governance consultancy who help businesses optimise compliance to deliver maximum benefits for them and their customers.
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SmartSpace
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ClearPoint helps organisations succeed in a continually changing digital landscape. ClearPoint is a trusted technology partner combining digital design, software and platform engineering, data and artificial intelligence to help you adapt to change.
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Align Digital
Never use GA4 again! Make Marketing Analytics easier with AI-driven Conversational Analytics instead.
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Matrix AI Consulting
Matrix AI Consulting helps businesses of all sizes throughout New Zealand utilise artificial intelligence to gain a competitive edge.
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