M2 magazine presents
HOW THE BEST ARE SUCCEEDING
6 August 2025
Sydney
What to expect
Advice on What Works From Those Doing it:
Upstairs a lineup of renowned experts and thought leaders giving you valuable insight on how the best are using AI to succeed.
Meeting Areas:
Upstairs quiet space for meetings or just catch up on some work or a zoom call.
Exhibit Area:
Downstairs we have a both Tech & Lifestyle Exhibits for you to engage with from AI & Automation to Cars, Travel, Whisky & Wine.
Hospitality:
Downstairs all Guests will receive: Espresso Coffee, Morning Tea, Lunch, Non-Alcoholic Drinks, Fruit and Scotch, Cocktails & Wine with Nibbles at the Networking function & A 1 year subscription to M2 Magazine – all inclusive.
WHO Should attend?
1. Businesses looking to outcompete their market leveraging technology.
2. Businesses wanting to deepen client connections to grow their partnership.
3. Businesses wanting to strengthen their senior team, enabling personal & therefore business growth by spending valuable face to face time in an expansive environment.
4. Leaders wanting to invest a day with their rising stars in the business to share ideas, goals & visions for them personally & the future of the business.
5. Leaders wanting to create new opportunities by networking with other business leaders about productivity, growth & business development.
6. Business Leaders wanting to best leverage their time with our M2 Connector where they can “speed date” for 10 minutes with up to 6 solution providers to help them leverage technology to grow their business. Only booked attendees can do these meetings.
Featured Speakers
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.
Tim O’Neill
Tim co-founded a successful digital design agency in 1997, and after 18 years Reactive grew to be one of the largest privately owned digital agencies in Australia and was acquired by Accenture Interactive. After the acquisition Tim worked as a Managing Director at Accenture Interactive for 3 years, and then started an online automotive startup called Summon. Two years ago Tim started delving deep into generative AI, and in early 2023 co-founded Time Under Tension, Australia’s first generative AI experience agency, helping businesses to understand the potential of this new fast changing technology.
Danushka Abeysuriya
WhY AttendeES ARE COMING
“Last years event was a real eye-opener for my team to begin to understand the scope and scale of change which AI is enabling in both our personal and business lives. We’re looking forward to attending again in 2024 to build on that knowledge and benchmark the progress we’ve already made against current best practice and find out what is on the horizon.” (March 2024)
-Kevin Obern, Managing Director NZ, Officemax
“I’m attending the M2 AI Summit to explore cutting-edge AI technologies and their implications for the future. This event aligns with my passion for innovation and my commitment to advancing human potential through technology. It’s a valuable opportunity to connect with other visionaries and discuss the role of AI in shaping our world. Engaging in these conversations helps guide my efforts in developing sustainable and beneficial AI solutions across my ventures.” (March 2024)
-Mark Smart, National Sales Manager, Unicom Security
“Given the significant disruption by AI in the education space within a short six months of ChatGPT being accessible in market, it was imperative that our organisation understood the directions of travel in this space. The 2023 summit covered a broad spectrum demonstrating the application of generative and other forms of AI, and fostered interesting discussions on how we might utilise AI as a tool to enhance customer experiences and improve productivity. Highly recommended!!” (March 2024)
-Yvonne Lim, Director, Tui Tuia, University of Auckland
“We will be attending to understand the role AI has in business along with the security aspects and concerns that it brings. Understand its use in problem solving or value creation and knowing where to focus. AI has garnered much conversation over the last few years so seeing how other companies are utilising the tech, and learning from mistakes or challenges will be interesting.”
-Emma Burte, Head of Product and Data, Kiwi Property Group (March 2024)
“I attended the M2 AI Summit in 2023 with the Les Mills CEO and Head of Tech. We all found it be a great showcase of how a wide range of businesses are embracing AI to drive meaningful change. On the back of last year’s insightful experience, the CEO is taking a number of his SLT members to the 2024 Summit.” (March 2024)
-Dione Forbes-Ryrie, Director, Les Mills
Companies That Have Attended
2degrees
3 Plus
AA Insurance
ACG Schools
Auckland City BMW
Auckland Mini Garage
Adaptiv
Afirmo
Align
Anderson Lloyd
ANU Health Partners
AoFrio
Aquaswim
Arcanum
Arcserve
Aspire Property
AUT
Avid Legal
Barfoot & Thompson
Bedpost
Being AI
Berry Street
Best Start
Bluechip IT
BNZ
Booster Innovation
Box
Bremworth
Canon
CDC
Centrix
Chemistry
Clearpoint
Code Blue
Cook Costello
Crane Association
Datamine
Diagram
Digital Island
Dynamo6
East Auckland BMW
East Auckland Mini Garage
Elucidate Consulting
Energy Collective
Foster Moore
G.J. Gardner Homes
Global Endeavours
Grand Millennium Hotel
Habit Health
HEB
Heliosps
Hudson Gavin Martin
Icebreaker
Info By Design
Intranet Consulting
ITM
iTraffic
Kina Construct
Kitchen Studio
Kiwi Property
KPMG
Learning Circle
Les Mills
Link Business
Liquorland
Lucknow Initiatives
Luma Analytics
Lumo
Macro Active
Mantel Group
Mark Collins Hospitality
Maserati
Matrix Consulting
Melanie Disse Consulting
Mint Design
Miriam Chancellor
Momentum
Montana Group
MTF Finance
Oceania Cruises
OCS
Officemax
OSS
Paymark
People Project
Pie Funds
Pita Pit
ProCare
Promptech
Puttiapps
Quanton
Recur
RD
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Auckland
Rush
SBA Accounting
Securiti
Share NZ
Silky Insights
Skin Institute
Smartpay
Smartspace
SME Growth
Spark
Splash Digital
Sprout
Stainless Design
Steel & Tube
STH Group
Streamliner
Symbioniq
Target State
Team Cloud
Tickled Pink
Trade Me
Trust Management
Ullrich Group
University of Auckland
Unicom Security
Valid Consulting
Vision Systems
Voluntas Group
Voyager
Webfox
WineSearcher.com
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Our co-Sponsors
Arcanum
Specialising in AI solutions for 8 years, Arcanum AI boosts SMB productivity by seamlessly integrating AI assistants into daily operations, driving growth and efficiency.
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M2 magazine presents
HOW THE BEST ARE SUCCEEDING
30 April 2025, Auckland
6 August 2025, Sydney
