One day executive workshops - led by Frances Valintine, education futurist and founder of The Mind Lab and Tech Futures Lab. Frances is one of the world’s Top 50 thought leaders in education technology and a New Zealand Peter Blake Leader. The Tech Futures Lab Executive workshops are for cross-sector professionals, to help them navigate … Continue reading "Exponential Technologies Are Redefining Our Future: How to Future-Proof Your Business"

Project 16 is New Zealand’s premier conference focused on the intersection of business, technology and design. On September 1st, twenty thought leaders and visionary business innovators from New Zealand and around the Pacific Rim will come together to share their knowledge and experience about how to best build New Zealand’s future businesses. Our Project16 conference … Continue reading "Project 16"

Forecasting accuracy is constantly being improved with the continual introduction of newer data science and machine learning techniques. In this one-day workshop, we will explore how predicting with machine learning and regression models is a key method for forecasting future, outcomes and trends. In business, forecasting demand is becoming an increasingly difficult challenge. Trends are … Continue reading "Forecasting for Business – Data and Machine Learning"

In 2011, Katherine Griffiths was the 19th person to join Buzzfeed, a New York-based news and entertainment website. Five years on, Buzzfeed has achieved explosive global growth, attracting over 200 million visitors to its website every month, and building a worldwide team of over 1,300 staff. Last year, Katherine moved to Sydney as a founding … Continue reading "Katherine Griffiths – Bringing BuzzFeed from New York to Australia"

"The Internet of Things (IoT), sometimes referred to as the Internet of Objects, will change everything - including ourselves. It represents the next evolution of the Internet, taking a huge leap in its ability to gather, analyse and distribute data that we can turn into information, knowledge, and, ultimately wisdom." (Cisco) In this one-day intensive workshop, … Continue reading "Improve Your Business with IoT"

The reality of transforming a concept into a profitable and marketable product can be a daunting process. LESANZ brings together three CEOs who have considerable collective experience in bringing product to the market and who will share their long-endured commercialisation journey along with what are some valuable lessons learnt along the way including IP protection … Continue reading "LESANZ – Driving Innovation Concept to Commercialisation – Learn from the Best"