Ranui Sustainable Announces Eight for Kiwi Innovator Series
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Ranui Sustainable Announces Eight for Kiwi Innovator Series
Northland, New Zealand – 11 May 2016
Connecting Northlanders with NZ’s top sustainable innovators
Ranui Sustainable, a Northland-based business incubator on a mission to bring sustainable innovation to the region, today announced eight guest speakers for its Kiwi Innovators Series.
Global Forum Educator Award winner and Microsoft Global Innovative Educator Chris Clay will head the next Kiwi Innovator workshop to be held on Friday, May 27 at community creative hub OneOneSix (116 Bank St) in Whangarei from 3.00pm.
Chris has built a diverse and acclaimed career in education and will use the Kiwi Innovator workshop to demonstrate his ground-breaking work in making science and technology education accessible to Kiwi school kids.
Other Kiwi Innovators confirmed to visit Northland as part of the Kiwi Innovator Series, with dates and venues to be announced in the coming weeks, include:
Malcolm Rands, founder and chief executive officer, ecostore
Campbell Brown, co-founder and chief executive officer, PredictHQ
Susan Lake, chief operations officer, Core Builder Composites
Peter Beck, chief executive officer, RocketLab
Simon Oakley, director, Taimana Creations
Michelle Dickinson, Nanogirl, science educator and nanotechnologist
Alain Brideson, founder, Brideson Industrial Design
“We are very happy that these high-calibre Kiwi Innovators have agreed to participate and are excited by the prospect of connecting Northlanders with some of New Zealand’s leading proponents of sustainable innovation,” says Ranui Sustainable chief executive Martin Knoche.
Kiwi Innovator workshops are free for everyone and Ranui Sustainable hopes the workshops will encourage young Northlanders to explore careers in sustainable innovation.
“The successful businesses of the future are likely to be those that combine technology and innovation in order to improve sustainable practices,” says Mr Knoche. “This represents an opportunity for Northland’s youth. Ranui Sustainable urges young people to consider careers that will have a positive effect on the planet.”
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