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ICE Ideas Conference - Glowing With Ideas!
20 May 2011
ICE Ideas Conference - Glowing With Ideas!
2020 Vision for Business Growth in New
Zealand
It’s been 10 years since the
Knowledge Wave. It’s less than 10 years before we need to
achieve our goal.
The ICEHOUSE has just
celebrated 10 years of contributing to New
Zealand’s economy but celebrations alone are not going to
get New Zealand where it needs to be. So we’re upping the
game to another level and over the next 10 years, the goal
is to deliver 1000 of the 3000 globally
capable companies this country needs by 2020 to get
back into the top half of the OECD. It’s a bold aim but
achievable.
On July the 8th the ICEHOUSE will kick-start the vision with the ICE Ideas Conference. We’ll be bringing together thinkers, action oriented people, Kiwis with passion and clever ideas and those from policy and business backgrounds who want to make a difference, who want to get behind the 2020 Vision. We’ll also put the challenge out there for other businesses to take up and through collaboration create a NZ Inc that will drive the 2020 vision. Along the road to the conference ICEHOUSE will announce some major initiatives we believe will help propel us towards that goal.
Speakers at this
TED inspired day include:
• Peter Thiel co-founder
PayPal, first external investor in Facebook, managing member
of the Founders Fund.
• Rob Adams – entrepreneur, VC
& Angel Investor and author of two books on innovation,
“Good Hard Kick in the Arse” and “If You Build it Will
They Come?”
• Soichiro Fukutake – Chairman and CEO
of Benesse Corporation, a leading global company in the area
of education, language, nursing care and publishing, Berlitz
Corporation and Sim-Drive Corporation, owner of electric car
technology.
• Rod Drury – CEO of Xero, co-founder of
Pacific Fibre, Board Member of NZX and champion for New
Zealand High Tech community
• Derek Handley –
co-founder of The Hyperfactory a leading mobile advertising
corporation which was purchased by US media giant, Meredith
Corporation
• Sir Ray Avery – founder of Medicine
Mondiale, Blake Medallist and New Zealander of the
Year
• Fady Mishriki – co-founder of PowerByProxi, a
leading wireless inductive power technology
company
• Tim Williams – one of the original pioneers
of the Japan internet and advertising industry, one of the
first foreigners to list in Japan through ValueClick
Japan
• Mark Eglinton – CEO of NDA, a leading dairy
industry technology provider that has gone global
To
get traction we need to get the debate happening; maximum
ideas and interaction are the objectives of the day. Join
us.
WHERE: The University of Auckland
Business School
WHEN: Friday 8 July
TIME: 8.30am-4.30pm
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