A New Reality

Speakers

Gerd Leonhard

Futurist, Humanist, Keynote Speaker, Author, Film-Maker

Gerd Leonhard is not just a leading expert on the future, he is also a humanist who believes that all scientific and technological progress should further collective human flourishing. People, Planet, Purpose and Prosperity is Gerd’s credo. As Gerd likes to say, humanity will change more in the next 20 years than in the previous 300 years – let’s make sure that we can still maintain what makes us human. Here you can take a look at Gerd’s speaking topics.

Sarah Putt

Editor, CIO New Zealand

Sarah Putt is Editor CIO and Computerworld in NZ. She has been actively involved in the New Zealand technology sector for over a decade, including as a regular technology commentator for Radio NZ. She has also worked for leading technology companies MYOB and Orion Health, and as the Policy and Communications Manager at the Telecommunications Users Association.

David Binning

Associate Editor, CIO Australia

CIO Associate Editor, David Binning has been covering the IT&T, finance and healthcare sectors in ANZ, APAC and the UK for 25 years, working as a journalist for mastheads including Computerworld, ARN, The AFR and SMH, The Australian, Reuters, ComputerWeekly, The Times of London, ZDNet and The Economist.

Kelsey Nelson

Product Marketing Manager

Kelsey Nelson is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Okta, focused on security solutions such as getting beyond the buzzword of ‘Zero Trust’. Prior to joining Okta, she led product and business communications at tech startups varying from enterprise software to edtech to consumer music hardware at San Francisco agency LaunchSquad, and prior to that taught secondary school history and English. Today she lives in San Francisco, though will always call Wisconsin home.

Shayne Hunter

Deputy Director-General Data and Digital

Shayne has spent the last 19 years in the health and disability sector. He has a strong a passion for a sustainable and adaptable health and disability system that delivers better outcomes for a better NZ, enabled by data and technology.

Prior to taking up his role at the Ministry he was the Chief Information Officer for Capital & Coast, Hutt Valley and Wairarapa District Health Boards and chaired the Central Region DHBs CIO group and the Health Sector National IS Leaders Forum.

Andrew Skinner

Senior Solutions Architect

Andrew Skinner is a Senior Solutions Architect at Over the Wire, with a focus on network and cloud transformation. Prior to joining Over the Wire, Andrew held multiple senior architecture and engineering roles that encompass a wide range of IT domains including networking, infrastructure and application delivery.

Platinum Sponsor

Gold Sponsor

Day One - 18 November

Date/Time

Wednesday, 18th Nov 2020 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Venue

Live Virtual Event

17th March 2021

Date/Time

Wednesday, 17th Mar 2021 8:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. AEDT

Venue

Live Virtual Event

Sponsored by

  • Okta
  • Over The Wire

Who Should Attend

  • CIOs, IT Directors, GM IT, Heads of IT
  • CTOs , VPs
  • 2ICT, IT Managers