This year the theme is Ecosystem – with a little help from your friends. There is the usual mix of offshore and NZ speakers, case studies and interesting speakers. Speakers include:
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Michael Pervan led the formation of Altitude Aerospace Interiors Ltd in 2008, and is now the General Manager. As a graduate he joined AirNZ Engineering Services as a structures engineer. In 2001, Michael left for Seattle, and worked for Boeing. He returned to Air NZ in 2003 to lead the Auckland Design Team, later becoming Manager of Air NZ Design Services delivering the major Air NZ 747 Interior Upgrade in 2004. This work ultimately lead to the proposal to form Altitude. More on Michael |
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Richard Mander is VP Product Management at Contour, 7th fastest growing company in the US. He led the development of Contour’s new wearable cameras which integrate video and GPS data. He is known as an inspiring leader with a track record of building innovative and high quality consumer electronic products. He started his career with a PhD from Stanford and a long stint at Apple. His previous roles include CEO of HumanWare, CTO at Navman, Engineering Manager at Apple, and several startups. More on Richard |
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Darryl Lovegrove is an award winning Australian entrepreneur and entertainer. Renowned for having revolutionized corporate entertainment world-wide when he and his former business partner created operatic sensation “The Three Waiters” – a simple operatic entertainment concept that went on to perform to millions, becoming the most-booked corporate act in the world! More on Darryl |
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Scott Yara – Senior Vice President, Products and Co-Founder, Greenplum. In his role as SVP, Products, Scott is responsible for the product development and go-to-market strategies. Scott is a co-founder of Greenplum and was President of the company. Prior to Greenplum, Scott served as vice president for Digital Island, a publicly traded Internet infrastructure services company that was acquired by Cable & Wireless in 2001. More on Scott |
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Simon Cartmell has 30 years pharmaceutical, healthcare and biotechnology industry experience. Most recently he spent 7 years as Chief Executive Officer of ApaTech, prior to its sale in March 2010 to Baxter for $330m. He was responsible for driving the development and commercialisation of ApaTech’s products into Europe and the US and turning it into Britain’s fastest growing private medical technology company. More on Simon |
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Rod Drury is CEO and founder of NZX-listed Xero an online accounting solution for small businesses. One of New Zealands leading technology entrepreneurs, Rod was NZ Hi-Tech Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006 and 2007, World Class New Zealander for ICT in 2008 and an Honorary Fellow of the NZ Computer Society. Rod is a Director of the New Zealand Stock Exchange and founder and Director of Pacific Fibre, a fibre cable project connecting Australia and NZ to the USA. More on Rod |
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David ten Have is the CEO and co-founder of Ponoko. Ponoko is the creator of Personal Factory – the world’s easiest making system. It’s where you turn your design ideas into custom products using a global making network. Over 100,00 customer designed products have been made so far. David leads Ponoko’s vision of a digital factory in every home, business, and school using the Personal Factory platform and apps. Prior to founding Ponoko, David was co-founder of New Zealand’s #1 design-led Microsoft web development firm, Provoke. More on David |
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Ralph Highnam PhD is the CEO at Mātakina Technology. He was formerly CEO of Mirada Solutions, one of the University of Oxford’s most successful spin-outs of recent times, co-author of the seminal book, Mammographic Image Analysis, and has consulted for many of the world’s leading medical imaging companies. He has over 20 years experience in breast imaging commercialization bringing several products successfully to market and successfully taking his previous medical imaging company from start-up through to commercial sale. More on Ralph |
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David Hanson is the founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics. Hanson Robotics develops and manufactures humanlike robots and smart software that bring our robots to life. Hanson robots include the world’s first expressive biped robot, Albert-Hubo, heralded by WIRED as “genius”, and the small Zeno robot, a low-cost child robot who is evolving into a family member. Hanson delivers robots to prestigious laboratories around the world. More on David |
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Michael Whittaker is the CEO of Atlantis Healthcare. Michael is responsible for leading the global expansion of Atlantis. He is instrumental in developing Atlantis’ professional consulting business along with ensuring the company stays focused on delivering effective and innovative adherence programs for its Clients. He was the 2001 New Zealand Entrepreneur of the Year, and is a key commercial advisor to numerous entrepreneurial endeavours globally. More on Michael |
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Craig Richardson joined Jade Software as Group Managing Director in March 2009. Prior to Jade, he was CFO for the Pacific operations of ASX-listed company Coca-Cola Amatil and has previously held senior executive roles with BlueScope Steel, Vodafone Australia, Vodafone Sweden, Burger King Inc, SingTel Optus and BHP. Craig is a Director of Jade Software Corporation and its global subsidiaries. He is Chairman of Outsmart Limited, creator of new generation virtual world Smallworlds and an Independent Director of ultra-fast broadband company Enable Networks. More on Craig |
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Andy Lark is an internationally renowned marketer and innovator in social media. He is the Chief Marketing & Online Officer at Commonwealth Bank of Australia where he leads global marketing and online. Prior to this he was vice president and CMO Large Enterprise & Public at Dell, where he was charged with leading global marketing for its $35bn Enterprise and Public group. He has 25 years of experience building successful businesses and leading award-winning marketing programs and teams for Fortune and Times 100 companies, global tech brands, start-ups and the world’s hottest advertising and communications agencies. More on Andy |
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Dr Chris Mardon and Tom Mackenzie founded Energy Mad in 2004, a Christchurch-based company that makes the energy saving “Ecobulb” light bulbs. Chris is the Managing Director and Tom is the Technical Director. Energy Mad is currently carrying out an IPO to list on the main board of the NZX. More on Chris and Tom |
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Damon Hernandez, an active participant in the development and global standardization of the fast emerging Web3D industry, has a background in Silicon Valley funded ventures, web-based virtual environments, mixed reality technology applications and robotic manufacturing. He leads the Web3D Consortium’s global outreach initiatives in educating entrepreneurs and leaders as to the power of 3D on the web across all industries. More on Damon |
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Helen Robinson is the founding CEO, TZ1 Registry set up in 2007 to provide transparency and integrity to carbon and other environmental markets growing to the world’s largest registry within six months. With offices in New York, London and Auckland the TZ1 Registry was acquired by London based Markit Group Ltd June 2009 for $56m. Previous roles include CEO of Microsoft, NZ, and VP of APAC, Pivotal Corporation, a Canadian CRM company. More on Helen |
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Sean Gourley is originally from New Zealand and is now based in San Francisco where he splits his time between Mathematical research and his venture backed startup venture backed startup Quid. Sean has a PhD in physics from Oxford where he studied on a Rhodes Scholarship. His academic research has taken him from Nanotechnology to Complex Systems and the Mathematics of War. As a result of his research he has acted as a political advisor to the Iraqi Government, briefed USCENTCOM at the Pentagon, addressed the United Nations in Vienna and dodged military checkpoints in Iraq. More on Sean |
See our Morgo 2010 speakers in action in the YouTube clip below or view the programme from 2010.
