8.00 am – 8.30 am

Registration, Expo & Networking

8.30 am – 8.40 am

MC Welcome

Nadine Higgins , Journalist/Presenter

8.40 am – 8.45 am

Export New Zealand Welcome

Catherine Beard, Executive Director – ExportNZ

8.45 am – 9.00 am

State of the Nation

• Big picture on trade, what are the Government’s Priorities in an increasingly uncertain trade environment.

Hon. Damien O’Connor, Minister of Agriculture & Associate Minister of Trade and Export Growth – New Zealand Government

9.00 am – 9.45 am

Trade Trends Panel

• Update on where trade deals are at (EU FTA, CPTPP, Pacific Alliance, Brexit) and what are our opportunities and challenges?
• Interpreting USA trade policy and what we can expect next?
• Agricultural market access is always the biggest sticking point in any FTA negotiations. How will this play out when it comes to the FTA’s with the EU and UK?
  What will be the biggest sensitivities and what trade-offs are likely?

Catherine Graham, Divisional Manager Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade – NZ Government

Susan Niblock,Deputy Chief of Mission US Embassy – Wellington

Mike Petersen, NZ Special Agricultural Trade Envoy – New Zealand Government

9.45 am – 10.30 am

Tech Tigers – Fast moving, agile and they have a tiger by the tail

• Halter – The Farm meets IOT – Taking sensor technology to the next level in Primary industries, backed by USA Venture Capital
• Invenco – Self- Service payments – putting your customers in charge of their experience (winner of the High Tech Awards)
• Pik Pok – Living the multi-screen life – Taking NZ’s gaming industry to the world (winner of ExportNZ Wellington Awards)

Craig Piggott, Chief Executive – Halter

Sir Peter Maire, Chairman – Invenco Group

Mario Wynands, Managing Director – Pik Pok

11.00 am – 11.35 am

70 staff, 20 countries, $100 million – Mapping growth and taking NZ to the world

• New technologies, multiple applications – commercialising great New Zealand science.
• Banging down doors and getting the attention of big brand customers around the world.
• Managing growth and the hurdles you need to leap to stay on track.

Doug Hastie, Chief Executive – Syft Technologies

11.35 am – 12.10 pm

Comparing apples with apples – 1/3 the cost, global expansion and your robot workforce

• Robotic, automated and autonomous – Bringing together cutting edge science to traditional agricultural systems
• How Robotics Plus is using Innovation and development keeping commercial success at the heart of strategy
• Bringing design, development and collaboration to the heart of what you do

Steve Saunders, Chief Executive Robotics Plus & Director – Miro Ltd

12.10 am – 12.30 pm

Bigger, Better, Faster, Together – Exporters are Collaborating to Go Global

• NZTE is working with 100+ companies who have decided to work in 40 Coalitions to build their international business.
• This session highlights their key successes and challenges they face.

Alan Koziarski, Director – Coalitions and Sectors – NZTE

1.30 pm – 1.50 pm

Investing in greatness – Getting in the trenches to bull-dozing through key growth phases

• Looking for millions – expectations, reality check and being investment ready
• TradeMe, Xero & Power by Proxi – The Lessons from investing in organisations that went on to become superstars

Phil McCaw, Managing Partner – MOVAC

1.50 pm – 2.10 pm

Leadership, Strategy and direction – From the inside-out and getting your ducks in a row to be investment ready

• Investment for Strategy vs. operations – where to prioritise invest and balancing your growth plan
• Dealing with VCs, what they’re looking for and setting your priorities

Bridget Coates, Non-Executive Director – American Chamber of Commerce & Tegel Group Holdings

2.10 pm – 2.30 pm

Crowdfunding, Simplifying investment and building towards the snowball effect

• How investment and capital markets are evolving and what this means for the future of investment partnerships
• Where to get started for the new players in town

Simeon Burnett, Chief Executive & Co-Founder – Snowball Effect

2.30 pm – 3.00 pm

Life-changing R&D Innovation and the pathway to their $1bn story

• The Oxymoron of an agile behemoth – where Fisher & Paykel healthcare are investing and what they’ve learnt so far
• The US-Mexico divide – what this really means for kiwi business and navigating the Trump Effect

Lewis Gradon, Chief Executive – Fisher & Paykel Healthcare

3.30 pm – 4.00 pm

36 years, 82 countries and customers in the millions – From NZ Garage to multinational exporter

• Keeping NZ at the heart of who we are – When business is so good that it’s time for a takeover
• Why innovation is critical to success

Drew Muirhead, Chief Executive – Sistema

4.00 pm – 4.20 pm

Closing the Divide – Using Digital Marketing to bridge new relationships and service customers at scale

• Described as one of the best digital marketing companies in NZ, Award-winning Little Giant’s Ian Howard talks about latest trends and how to get cut-through in international markets.

Ian Howard, Managing Director – Little Giant

4.20 pm – 4.30 pm

Closing Remarks

Catherine Beard, Executive Director – ExportNZ