A special one-day conference for New Zealand thought leaders

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FonterraDirector Business Transformation Philip Turner

Financial TimesBeijing Bureau Chief Jamil Anderlini

Hangzhou WIT Assessment Co LtdVice President Mr Lu

CHINA – WHAT’S NEXT?

INNOVATION: ‘THE SECRET SAUCE’?

Callaghan InnovationChief Executive Dr Mary Quin, PhD

XeroGlobal Head of Strategy Chris Teeling

World-renowned speaker on creativity and innovation

Sir Ken Robinson, PhD

APEC Business Advisory CouncilNew Zealand Representative Tony Nowell CNZM

United States Department of AgricultureChief Information Officer (Agricultural Marketing Service) Doug Bailey

Amazon.comFormer Chief Scientist Dr Andreas Weigend, PhD

HOW DOES NEW ZEALAND CAPTURE VALUE?

New Zealand lives and works in a world of expanding opportunities. Our future depends on thinking globally to identify and secure the best opportunities, and to build the best connections for growth and prosperity.

A unique opportunity for New Zealand decision makers to expand their global thinking.

CONNECT 2014 will present 9 global thinkers on the future of markets and business with a focus on three critical issues for New Zealand decision makers.

China – What’s Next?

How does New Zealand capture value?

Innovation: The ‘Secret Sauce’?

SESSION 1 CHINA – WHAT’S NEXT?

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PROGRAMME GUIDE

Previously Managing Director of Fonterra China, Philip Turner currently leads business transformation for Fonterra globally, based in Auckland. His major focus is to globalise and simplify Fonterra’s processes, data and systems.

Over the last 13 years, Philip has filled a variety of roles internationally within Fonterra including Director of Government and Trade, GM Strategy and Asia Regional Representative.

Before joining Fonterra Philip was a diplomat with the New Zealand Government, including postings in Tokyo and Brussels. He has a First Class MA in History from Auckland University, speaks Japanese, French and some Mandarin, and has a

Japanese partner.

Fonterra Director Business Transformation Philip Turner

Fonterra’s strategy for China: Highest quality protein with product integrity from the

global best producer.

Hangzhou WIT Assessment Co Ltd Vice President Mr Lu

Jamil has lived, witnessed and reported on events of global significance from Shanghai and Beijing since 2000. Prior to joining the Financial Times in 2007, he was Beijing business correspondent for the South China Morning Post and Chief Editor of the China Economic Review.

Fluent in Mandarin, in 2010 Jamil was named Journalist of the Year at the prestigious Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Editorial Excellence Awards and he won the Best Digital Award at the Amnesty International Media Awards for his coverage of Chinese petitioners seeking justice in Beijing.

Jamil was last year named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and short-listed for Foreign Reporter of the Year at the Press Awards in the UK and also the Orwell Prize, the UK’s most prestigious prize for political writing.

Jamil was born in Kuwait but grew up in New Zealand, where he received a BA from

Victoria University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from AUT.

Financial Times Bejing Bureau Chief Jamil Anderlini

What’s the Buzz: Social media and consumer

markets in China.

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8:00am Guests arrive – tea & coffee provided

8:30am GS1 Welcome Colin Robertson GS1 New Zealand Chairman

8:35am Opening Address Hon. Tim Groser, Minister of Trade

8:50am Philip Turner Fonterra’s strategy for China: Highest quality protein with product integrity from the global best producer

9.20am Jamil Anderlini What’s the Buzz: Social media and consumer markets in China

10.25am Mr Lu Consumers, Governments, and Market Access: How the dynamics of the world’s fastest and second largest market is changing

10.55am Summary of Session 1

SESSION 1 CHINA – WHAT’S NEXT?

10.10am Morning tea

2.00pm Dr Mary Quin Wool to Weta revisited: How NZ can grow more innovative businesses for success

2.50pm Chris Teeling New Zealand: The most innovative online economy in the world

3.25pm Sir Ken Robinson The challenges in growing creative and innovative New Zealanders

4.25pm Phil O’Reilly Summary of Session 3 followed by panel discussion

5.25pm Dr Peter Stevens Summary of the day

5.45pm Networking drinks and canapés

SESSION 3 INNOVATION: ‘THE SECRET SAUCE’?

2.35pm Afternoon tea

11.05amTony Nowell ABAC’s free trade agenda for Asia-Pacific: How New Zealand producers can benefit from removal of impediments to the flow of goods between this country and our trading nations

1.00pm Dr Andreas Weigend Where is value created? How digital is transforming supply & demand chains, locally and globally

11.40am Doug Bailey Freeing up trade in food: The US perspective on the role of product-level e-commerce data in global supply chains

SESSION 2 HOW DOES NEW ZEALAND CAPTURE VALUE?

12.15pm Lunch

1.50pm Summary of Session 2

Mr Lu is a 25-year veteran of the food industry in China, with specialist expertise in the high-value and rapidly growing organic sector. He is currently the Vice President at Hangzhou WIT Assessment Co Ltd - a leading Chinese certifier accredited by the China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS). He is also the General Manager of the Food-cert services department, responsible for organic products certification, good agricultural practices (GAP), ISO22000/HACCP food safety management system and other agricultural & food certification programmes. Hear Mr Lu’s message - how China is changing week by week - and why NZ exporters need to keep up.

Consumers, Governments, and Market Access: How the dynamics

of the world’s fastest and second largest market

is changing.

SESSION 2 HOW DOES NEW ZEALAND CAPTURE VALUE?

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SESSION 3 INNOVATION: ‘THE SECRET SAUCE’?

Tony Nowell is one of New Zealand’s three Prime Ministerial representatives on ABAC, which advises the government on priority issues for business in the region. Tony is a New Zealand business leader with substantial international experience. He was previously CEO of Zespri International and prior to that, Managing Director of Griffin’s Foods.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Tony held various executive roles in Asia and New Zealand with Sara Lee Corporation, and with French cosmetics group L’Oreal. Today Tony is a professional director chairing Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Limited) and Wellington Drive Technologies Limited. Other directorships include New Zealand

Food Innovation Auckland and Food Standards Australia New Zealand.

APEC Business Advisory Council NZ Representative Tony Nowell

ABAC’s free trade agenda for Asia-Pacific: How New Zealand

producers can benefit from removal of impediments to the

flow of goods between this country and our trading nations.

Dr Mary Quin is the inaugural CEO of Callaghan Innovation, a Crown entity set up to accelerate the commercialisation of innovation by businesses in New Zealand.

Born in Palmerston North, she returned to New Zealand to take up the role after 20 years working overseas in senior executive roles in NASDAQ-listed companies such as Eastman Kodak and Xerox, where she was VP of Strategy and Business Development for the US$5.5 billion Production Systems Group. Her most recent role was as President of the 2,800-person US support services company, NANA Management Services LLC in Alaska, which is jointly owned by the indigenous Inupiat people.

Dr Quin graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) with First Class Honours in Physics. She has a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University in Illinois. After working in research and development for engineering company Raychem for several years, she attended Harvard Business School, where she received an MBA with High Distinction and

graduated as a Baker Scholar.

Callaghan Innovation Chief ExecutiveDr Mary Quin

Wool to Weta revisited: How NZ can grow more innovative businesses

for success.

Chris is sure to stretch your view on global thinking and thinking globally. A recognised thought-leader on strategy and innovation in the digital age, Chris has influential viewpoints on positioning successful business strategies for the future. As Global Head of Strategy he has helped Xero reach over 300,000 small business customers internationally with recognition from Forbes as No #1 in its list of the World’s 100 Most Innovative Growth Companies. The company is now the leading cloud accounting solution in New Zealand, Australia and the UK and is expanding in the United States.

Before joining Xero, Chris was COO of GreenButton Limited a cloud supercomputing company with customers including Pixar, NASA and Boeing. GreenButton was recently acquired by Microsoft. He also draws on experience as a Global Strategy and Innovation Advisor for Fonterra and leadership roles with JPMorgan in London and New York.

Xero Global Head of Strategy Chris Teeling

New Zealand: The most innovative

online economy in the world.

A globally recognised expert on cross-border trade, Douglas Bailey is Chief Information Officer for the Agricultural Marketing Service, an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). He provides technology services and guidance to all agency business units including grading and auditing programmes for beef, poultry, and fruits and vegetables; market news services for agricultural producers; and commodity purchase programmes for school lunch and international feeding programmes.

Douglas currently serves as the Chair of the International Trade Data System Product Information Committee, which seeks to integrate global e-commerce standards into the customs clearance process to efficiently and effectively review and release imported and exported products at US borders.

Douglas joined the USDA 35 years ago after graduating with a BS degree in Biology from Towson University and a MS in Botany from the University of Maryland.

United States Department of Agriculture Chief Information Officer (Agricultural Marketing Service) Douglas Bailey

Andreas Weigend is the former Chief Scientist at Amazon.com, and an expert in big data, social-mobile technologies and consumer behavior. Andreas has coined the term “social data revolution” to describe a fundamental shift in how people make purchasing and lifestyle decisions given the massive collection and sharing of consumer and product data that is now occurring. As Amazon’s Chief Scientist, Andreas helped create the firm’s data strategy and customer-centric culture. Today he advises companies on how to embrace the social data and on how to design their own interactive platforms and real-time systems for better decision-making by them and their customers.

Andreas is the author of over 100 scientific papers, and lectures at Stanford University, The University of California at Berkeley and at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in China. He is also a speaker at top conferences around the world.

Andreas graduated with a PhD in Physics from Stanford University after studying in Germany and Cambridge. He lives in San Francisco and Shanghai.

Amazon.com Former Chief Scientist Dr Andreas Weigend

Freeing up trade in food: The US perspective on the

role of product-level e-commerce data in global supply chains.

Where is value created? How digital is transforming supply & demand chains,

locally and globally.

Sir Ken Robinson is a world-renowned British educationalist, author and advisor on education, creativity and innovation to governments, Fortune 500 corporations, arts bodies and other non-profits. Sir Ken’s three TED Talks appearances are among the most viewed of all TED webcasts, seen by over 200 million people in 150 countries. Sir Ken is a passionate advocate of education that expands human creativity as a path to greater individual fulfilment, social harmony and economic growth.

Sir Ken’s many publications include the 2009 book, “The element: How finding your passion changes everything” which has been translated into 21 languages. Among his many awards and distinctions, Sir Ken won the Peabody Media for contribution to the arts & culture in the US and was named one of Time/Fortune/CNNs ‘Principal Voices’ for 2005.

Sir Ken speaks to audiences around the world on the creative challenges facing business and education in the new global economies.

World-Renowned Speaker on Creativity and InnovationSir Ken Robinson

The challenges in growing creative and innovative

New Zealanders.

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