Upcoming and recent events

Speaking events covering emerging tech and accelerating global change featuring Memia founder Ben Reid

Upcoming Events

Location:
Wellington, New Zealand (Rydges Wellington Hotel)
Date/Time:
5/12/2024 9:00 AM

Generative AI and Creative Economies in Movie Production

On December 5, 2024, Wellington, New Zealand, will host a focused, one-day event organized by the Digital Communication Network (DCN). This event will examine the impact of Generative AI on the movie production industry, bringing together experts from New Zealand and beyond to discuss the ongoing changes in film production driven by AI.
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Previous Events

Location:
Waihopai Invercargill
Date/Time:
11.13.24 10:30 am

Combined Community Trusts Conference 2024

Ben Reid will be giving his keynote presentation "How AI and exponential technology are shaping the future of New Zealand... and what we can do about it " to the Combined Community Trusts Conference, 12 – 14 November 2024, WAIHOPAI INVERCARGILL.
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Location:
Webinar
Date/Time:
11.7.24 10:00 am

AI Trends 2024 - Opportunities and Impacts for Land Safety

AI Trends 2024 - Opportunities and Impacts for Land Safety
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Location:
Liddes, Switzerland
Date/Time:
9.8.24 12:00 pm

Nomadfest Switzerland - AI for Digital Nomads

2nd Nomad Fest Switzerland | 8th - 15th September 2024 Unwind in Nature This summer, connect, learn, and experience the great outdoors in the picturesque Swiss Alps together with up to 80 digital nomads, entrepreneurs, and freedom seekers. Join the 2nd Nomad Fest Switzerland in September 2024 in Saint Bernard to celebrate the freedom lifestyle, disconnect from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, and connect with nature and other like-minded individuals. Nomad Fest Switzerland is the perfect opportunity to recharge your batteries, learn new skills, and make lifelong friends.
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Location:
Webinar
Date/Time:
6.7.24 8:00 am

Te Hono Speaker Series

Te Hono Speaker Series - Ben Reid - How AI and exponential technologies are defining the future of New Zealand’s economy ... and what we can do about it.
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Location:
Webinar
Date/Time:
6.5.24 10:00 am

Global Signals X Ben Reid: The Future of Ag and AI

Callaghan Innovation Agritech Activator, - Join our upcoming webinar on the Future of Ag and Ai with the incredible Ben Reid. Ben captivated the dairy sector in Christchurch last year, leaving everyone in awe. Now, he’s back to blow our minds once again! Secure your spot and discover how rapidly and profoundly AI is set to transform our world.
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Location:
CreativeHQ, Wellington
Date/Time:
5.16.24 5:00 pm

Navigating the changing AI landscape

This exclusive event is for forward-thinking startup founders/senior leaders, Angel HQ members and other investors all with a keen focus on the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence and its implications for your companies. What to expect Join us for a "get real" event that will demonstrate some current capability, imminent improvements, and known implications for your companies. Led by our MC Serge Van Dam with guest speakers Asa Cox (Arcanum AI), Martijn Verburg (Microsoft) and Ben Reid (Memia), we will deep dive into the world of AI and what it means for the investment landscape and operating businesses. We'll discuss how AI might affect our portfolio of companies, whether AI be integrated, adjacent or an existential threat. We’ll then explore some practical applications and steps for both founders and investors to take, in order to prepare for and adapt to the implications and opportunities.
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Location:
Q Theatre 305 Queen Street Auckland, 1010
Date/Time:
5.2.24 8:00 am

TMG24 - NZ Tech Marketers Conference 2024

New Zealand's Tech Marketing Conference is the annual event sharing and showcasing the very best knowledge and experience to help NZ's marketers thrive. We believe when marketing is strong, companies perform even better. Yet the technical complexities of developing and executing a successful go-to-market program, with a product that has a well defined market-fit are immense and ever changing. The NZ Tech Marketers Group aims to nurture the growth of NZ's marketers working in the tech sector or in technical marketing roles in any industry. Connect with your peers, navigate business challenges alongside your business leaders and learn from others experiences so you can adopt the very best marketing approach for you business. Thursday, 2 May 2024
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Location:
Eden Park, Auckland
Date/Time:
4.11.24 8:00 am

Smarter Data Meets AI

The Future of AI: From Disruption to Evolution Futurist and exponential tech thinker Ben Reid shares his predictions for the future of AI. How we interact with technology is heading for a radical shift, changing how we live, work and think - as marketers and as consumers. Will we be marketing to robots, with AI-powered assistants making most or all buying decisions? Will marketing end up as a sea of sameness with everyone relying on the same synthetic data? And what skills and knowledge will be crucial for marketers in a world powered by AI? There’s no manual for what’s happening right now but Ben does give us a framework for thinking about AI and how to approach it. It’s time to get our feet wet. How AI is evolving right now and trying to make sense of it Understanding just how big the opportunity is Global trends and local implications What risks do we need to consider?
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Location:
12 Madden Street, Auckland, 1010
Date/Time:
4.10.24 4:30 pm

The AI Show - April 2024

The AI Show, hosted by NewZealand.ai New Zealand’s technology futurist, Ben Reid has recently published a remarkable book Fast Forward Aotearoa. Ben headlines our April event to share the findings of his multi-year research on emerging technology and the impact and implications on New Zealanders, our society and governance.
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Location:
Liger Academy, Frankton, Queenstown
Date/Time:
3.12.24 5:30 pm

⏩Fast Forward Aotearoa Digital Book Release - Queenstown

At the Liger Leadership Academy, we believe that one empowered individual is capable of changing the world around them, and our program ensures that our students are able to become those individuals. But it is not the world of the past, nor even today, that our students will change - it's the world of our future. Ben Reid is one of New Zealand's leading futurists, and Liger students Nyah Swiety-Santos & Alex Gile will be hosting Ben, along with fellow futurist and book collaborator, Sam Ragnarsson, for a discussion of insights he offers in his new book, Fast Forward Aotearoa: How emerging technology is defining the future of New Zealand… and what we can do about it. We will discuss today's emerging technologies from AI to biotech along with the challenges we can expect to face in the future, from climate change to international geopolitics. Most importantly, we will discuss how those emerging technologies in the hands of exceptional individuals - such as Liger students - can play a key role in overcoming these global and national challenges, and empower these individuals to build a better world for us all.
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Location:
Date/Time:
3.5.24 5:30 pm

⏩Fast Forward Aotearoa Digital Book Release: 5th March 2024

How can New Zealand keep up with the exponential technology change that is shaping the world around us?
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Location:
Date/Time:
3.5.24 8:30 am

Downstream 24

Downstream is New Zealand's premier event for everyone involved directly or indirectly in the downstream energy industry. This must-attend event offers insights into current energy sector challenges and opportunities such as network performance, distributed energy, the changing retail landscape, regulated markets, emissions, technology and customer trends. Downstream typically brings together 400 plus international influencers and local representatives from across the New Zealand energy industry. The 2024 event will continue to assist in leading the transition to the new energy future. It will deliver tangible outcomes for delegates, sponsors, key stakeholders, energy asset owners and ultimately Aotearoa.
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Location:
Waikato Chamber of Commerce, Kirikirioa Hamilton
Date/Time:
2.29.24 5:00 pm

Westpac Smarts- AI and Business Fireside chat on AI: Ben Reid with RNZ’s Jesse Mulligan

In this hour-long panel, RNZ broadcaster Jesse Mulligan and artificial intelligence expert Ben Reid discuss the impact of AI on business, with a fast moving and audience-interactive dialogue focusing on how your organisation can master the current technology and adopt it in daily work practices. The session covers: • What is AI and why is everybody talking about it? • What are the most useful AI apps and which aren’t worth bothering with? • How leading global businesses have already started saving time and money using AI • AI developments in the past month that even AI experts are surprised by • Risks to business from AI and how to mitigate them • Areas of business AI can’t touch • What the future holds and how to be first to adapt The session begins with a provoking panel-style Q and A addressing the big issues and introducing the audience to the business tools they’ll need to keep up and thrive in the new AI world. This is followed by an interactive audience session where attendees can ask industry-specific questions of New Zealand’s leading AI expert. Ben Reid is the founder of technology strategy firm Memia, creator of a weekly newsletter summarising AI and tech developments around the world, and author of the forthcoming book Fast Forward Aotearoa: How Emerging Tech is Defining the Future of New Zealand … and what we can do about it. Jesse Mulligan is presenter of the RNZ Afternoons show and long-running host of TV3’s The Project. He is also a freelance writer, having written for such titles as The Economist, NZ Herald, Metro and Sunday Star-Times.
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Location:
Novotel Christchurch Airport
Date/Time:
11.28.23 9:00 am

New Zealand Agritech Dairy Farming For The Future

Change is needed for the dairy industry in response to increasing environmental and commercial pressures. Can agritech solutions be a catalyst for this change? Callaghan Innovation, DairyNZ, and Lincoln University are collaborating to host Agritech: Dairy Farming for the Future. This day-long industry event is designed to delve openly and honestly into the challenges facing the sector, and offer a glimpse into what an agritech-enabled future might look like.
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Location:
Sydney
Date/Time:
10.16.23 9:00 am

Information Integrity in the Digital Age - DCN Global Conference, Sydney

The Digital Communication Network’s inaugural event in Sydney, Australia, will gather thought leaders, influencers, and digital professionals from across East Asia and the Pacific to examine how innovations, disruptions, and challenges to information systems are influencing business, politics, society, and the very fabric of daily lives. Digital leaders, representing a variety of fields including academia, civil society, new and traditional media, government, social entrepreneurs, think-tanks, and technology will discuss the impact of a rapidly transforming digital landscape on human freedoms and expression.
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Location:
Te Pae Convention Centre, Ōtautahi
Date/Time:
9.5.23 8:27 am

Canterbury Tech Summit 2023

The world around us is changing rapidly and uncertainty abounds. What a great time for our Canterbury Tech community to come together, collaborate, share knowledge and discuss how we accelerate the growth of the technology sector in Aotearoa, New Zealand. We invite all those who are part of the tech sector, or those who simply have an interest in what's going on in tech, to join us for our 2023 Canterbury Tech Summit. This full day conference is set to be thought provoking and inspirational, with ample time to network to your heart's content.
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Location:
The Hilton, Auckland
Date/Time:
7.27.23 9:33 am

FIRN Analytics Partner Day Out

Ben Reid Keynote: The Future With Generative AI Theme: ‘Defy the downturn using data and technology’ FIRN and its partners are delighted to bring you their annual in- person event for data and analytics professionals.
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Location:
The Loft, 146A Lichfield St, Ōtautahi
Date/Time:
6.27.23 5:30 pm

The Future Ōtautahi of as an Innovation Node

The future of Ōtautahi as an Innovation Hub! Featuring pitches by Kaila Colbin, Roger Dennis, Michelle Sharp, Ben Kepes, and Ben Reid. Hosted by Al Duncan, Webtools Chief Growth Officer, and introduced by Raf Manji, Leader of The Opportunities Party. 🗓️ Tuesday 27 June. Doors open 5.00pm, pitches start at 5.45pm. 📍 Webtools Loft, 146A Lichfield St, Christchurch 🎥 Option to join online
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Location:
Zoom Webinar
Date/Time:
5.30.23 11:00 am

The future with generative AI | free virtual Impact Session

What are some of the most mind-blowing developments in generative AI, and how are they changing the way we live, work and think? What skills and knowledge will be crucial for individuals and businesses to thrive in a world powered by AI? And as AI becomes more pervasive, what risks do we need to consider? Join Boma founder and CEO Kaila Colbin on Tuesday, 30 May for a virtual fireside chat about the future of Artificial Intelligence with exponential tech thinker and Memia creator Ben Reid. You’ll hear insights on the latest developments in AI, and why leaders need to become futurists and think about how these developments will impact our lives, communities, and nations.
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Location:
AUT, Auckland
Date/Time:
5.3.23 9:00 am

TechMarketers TMG23

The future of tech marketing is here. Game-changing tech, tools, and practices are transforming how we get to market and win new revenue. Learn what that means for your business, customers, and employees at TMG23.
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Location:
The Piano: Centre for Music and the Arts 156 Armagh Street, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand
Date/Time:
3.30.23 5:15 pm

Leading with Artificial Intelligence - UC MBA Thought Leadership Series 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are being increasingly utilized across various sectors of society, including healthcare, finance, transportation, and education. Technologies like ChatGPT have made AI suddenly accessible to everyone, however, many decision makers lack a comprehensive understanding of the inner workings of these technologies and are not fully aware of their potential, or their unintended consequences. When these innovations introduce new methods, processes and products, they challenge the status quo and demand that managers think differently about their businesses. Join us to hear a panel of New Zealand business leaders share their insights about leading with artificial intelligence. Our panellists include Ben Reid – author of Fast Forward Aotearoa (to be published mid-2023), former Executive Director of AI Forum NZ (2017-19), Kari Jones – General Manager – Analytics & Insights, Woolworths NZ, and Gareth Mitchell – Head of Digital and Improvement, Westland Milk Products. All guests are invited to join us for networking and refreshments following the presentation. UC MBA Thought Leadership Series 2023 The UC MBA Thought Leadership Series brings together leading business minds from New Zealand and abroad to feature in our Thought Leadership Series. Industry, students, and alumni are invited to be inspired by innovative and insightful expertise from executives and entrepreneurs.
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Location:
Date/Time:
9.21.22 4:00 pm

Te Ao Earth Week - Digital Earth

What role can data and digital tools play in environmental change? Can the value of tech outweigh its cost to our planet? We interrogate the benefits and challenges of an increasingly digital world and how, if at all, it can help environmental action.
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Location:
AUT, Auckland
Date/Time:
6.30.21 12:00 pm

NZ Techmarketers Conference 2021: Emerging Digital Marketing Technology Trends 2021

Memia's Ben Reid presented to the NZ Techmarketers Conference 2021 on Emerging Digital Marketing Technology Trends 2021.
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Location:
CreativeHQ, Wellington
Date/Time:
4.14.21 6:00 pm

Emerging tech: opportunities for Aotearoa in 2021 with Ben Reid at CreativeHQ, Wellington

Memia founder Ben Reid speaking on Emerging tech: opportunities for Aotearoa in 2021 at CreativeHQ on 14 April 2021.
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Location:
Date/Time:
2.25.21 12:15 pm

NZTE Digitally Speaking Guest Speaker: Ben Reid on Selecting the right platforms and tech

Ben Reid took part in the NZTE Digitally Speaking series, presenting on the topic of Selecting The Right Technology and Digital Platforms. The NZTE Digitally Speaking series lets you learn from global leaders in digital commerce and transformation, ask questions and network with other businesses and compare notes on your digital successes and challenges.
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Location:
Hilton, Auckland
Date/Time:
12.8.20 2:00 pm

Keynote Speaker at NZ Debt Capital Markets Summit 2020 in Auckland: Artificial Intelligence: 2021 and beyond

Ben Reid delivered a keynote presentation “Artificial Intelligence: 2021 and beyond” and took part in an on-stage fireside chat with New Zealand Government Digital advisor Rachel Kelly at the Kanganews NZ Debt Capital Markets Summit 2020 in Auckland in December 2020
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