How to be the disruptor, not the disrupted

How to be the disruptor, not the disrupted

Seven local and international ‘disruptors’ are set to challenge and inspire New Zealand businesses at a series of Spark Lab sessions this month.

This month Spark Lab will bring together seven local and international speakers to look at the opportunities and challenges New Zealand businesses face following the rapid rise of disruptive technologies and organisations.

“The pace of disruptive change is unrelenting and will affect every business, in every sector, sooner rather than later,” said Head of Business Marketing for Spark, Richard Sandford. “New Zealand has its fair share of innovators, but there is a big opportunity for businesses who embrace disruption to stay ahead of the curve and to stay relevant to their customers.”

Serial tech entrepreneur Greg Cross will be among those presenting at the lab as part of Disruption Month. He believes the new ideas of disruptors have potential to make a big difference globally.

"New technology, new business models and new service industries represent an exciting era of opportunity and change at the same time as the world faces a period of enormous problems and human suffering.

The most valuable and important corporations of the next 20 years will be those that use what is new to meet these challenges and make a contribution above and beyond the bottom line,” he said.

Cross will be joined in the lineup by Dr Michelle Dickinson ( AKA Nanogirl ); Ido Leffler, co-founder of Yoobi; Singularity University ambassador Kaila Colbin; and high growth architect Glen Andert.

The sessions will be open to everyone and are free to attend although spaces are limited. A number of sessions will be live-streamed on Facebook and videos from many of the events will be available online, so that businesses around New Zealand can benefit.

Those interested can go to sparklabseries.co.nz to find out more or to register their attendance.

Defending against Disruption

9 June, 7:00-8:30AM, Spark Lab

Glenn Andert from Creative HQ looks at how you can best prepare for the ultimate business challenge

Gearing up to go Global

14 June, 5:30-7:30PM, Spark Lab

Vigil Monitoring CEO Alan Brannigan on the opportunities and challenges for NZ disruptors.

Riding the Exponential Wave of Change

16 June, 5:30-7:30PM, Spark Lab

Singularity U’s Kaila Colbin on exponential technologies and the implications for all businesses.

The Awesome Cause

21 June 7:00-8:30AM, Spark Lab

Yoobi’s Ido Leffler believes to disrupt a market with many existing options that it helps to give something back.

Technology as a Platform Growth Sauce

23 June 5:30-7:30PM, Spark Lab

Serial entrepreneur Greg Cross looks forward to a decade even more disruptive than the last.

Disrupting Geekiness

27 June 5:30-7:30PM, Spark Lab

Dr Michelle Dickinson (AKA ‘Nanogirl’) on how to get your pitch face on.

Disrupting with Data

30 June 7am-8:30am, Spark Lab

Valocity’s Carmen Vicelich looks at how the smart use of data is driving exponential business change.

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