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Design Strategy: UAV’s & Disruptive Innovation.

I partnered with The Innovation Liberation Front on a 3-part workshop to help jumpstart the New Zealand Roadless Economy. My talk focused on giving an understanding of the field, what the trends are and what potential applications exist with the current technology horizons.

Drones: Enabling the C Prize Competition

In 2014, I assisted in the development of strategic business relationship with Swedish provider Sqore to enable the innovation competition to take place in 2015.

Speaker: AUT COLAB on Drones

In March 2015, I spoke at AUT COLAB about the emergence of the New Zealand Roadless Economy.

Participant: Global Service Design Jam 2015

People who are interested in service design and using design-based approaches to problem solving and creativity will meet all over the globe.

Drones: Building a Roadless Economy

  I was invited to share my impressions with Idealog about the 2015 RPAS Symposium in Masterton, New Zealand. New Zealand’s progressive airspace governance puts it in a…

Kiwi Foo 2015

In February 2015, I was invited to attend Kiwi FOO 2015 ! Kiwi Foo Camp is a private gathering of around 150 people from New Zealand, Australia, and the…

“Technology helps blind kids ‘see’ stars”

An innovative Kiwi is about to teach astronomy to blind students with the help of 3D printer technology. It will be a first for New Zealand’s education system with a pilot programme set to launch next year.

X PRIZE Think Tank Auckland Speaker

Network Society Ambassador

A set of simultaneous technologies is growing exponentially, with the common feature of being decentralized, and organized in a network. The Network Society project creates a vision and analytical tools to allow individuals, enterprises and the society at large to deal positively with this unstoppable change.

2014 Continuous Improvement Forum Speaker

I was invited to speak at the 2014 CI Forum in Auckland. I shared my insights on designing corporate training of CI Tools.

Six ideas for a better New Zealand.

In September 2014, I was invited to share ideas for a better New Zealand as part of Fairfax Media’s “If I was the Prime Minister” series.

Video Question for the PM Candidates | 2014 NZ Election

I am honored to be part of Derek Handley’s #TheShoulderTap community. As part of our community efforts, I was asked by the team at Fairfax Media (Sunday Star Times…

An Idea for the next NZ Prime Minister

In early September 2014, I was asked for an idea to build in New Zealand “if I was the Prime Minister”. The article was printed in the Sunday…

Speaker & Mentor: LifeHack LABS 2014

  During August and September 2014, I will be part of the 2014 Mentors for LifeHack LABS in Wellington, New Zealand. Lifehack Labs 2014 is 5 week design-led bootcamp…

TEDxAuckland 2014

I am on the core organizing team for TEDxAuckland.

#theshouldertap 100

In March 2014, I was nominated to #theshouldertap, a movement in New Zealand to create targeted change by activating community leaders, creatives, entrepreneurs, scientists, thinkers and doers from…

Consultant & Creative Specialist

In June 2014, I formalized my creative consultancy engagements with the New Zealand-based Live More Awesome Foundation. You can visit their official website right here.   What I…

JCI Auckland Guest Speaker

I’ve been invited to speak at the June meeting of the Auckland Chapter of Junior Chamber International (JCI).

[:en]Content & Media Strategist at CloudM[:es]Content & Media Strateg[:]

[:en]May-August 2014: I worked with CloudM with key accountabilities for the Blerter launch in product education, communications strategy (developing the new website and brand) and channel delivery.     Blerter is…

Australia + New Zealand Global Impact Competition 2014

Through the generous support of Dr. Clarence Tan, SU Ambassador for Oceania, we are able to invite for the first time in 2014, New Zealand Residents for the Global Impact Competition of Singularity University.

Competition Deadline is 09 May 2014.

Auckland Startup Weekend

I worked as part of the 2014 Auckland Startup Weekend Core Organizer Team assisting in Communications.

TEDx Team New Zealand

In March 2014, I was delighted to attend the TED Active 2014 Conference along with: Trent Yeo (TEDx Queenstown) Kaila Colbin (TEDx Christchurch) DK (TEDx Wellington, TEDx TeAro)…

The Next Chapter

In March 2014, I attended the TEDActive 2014 Conference as a participant/ TEDx Organizer.

Global Service Design Jam 2014

In March 2014, I had the opportunity to participate in the Global Service Design Jam out of Auckland. Our 72-hour project centered around the idea of reducing the landfill of Auckland as an analog to other cities.

TEDxCity2.0

On 21 September, I organized a simulcast of the TEDCity2.0 event from New York City.