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

EU FTA, CPTPP, Pacific Alliance and Brexit – The evolving state of  global trade – Panel Discussion

• Update on where trade deals are at 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 help 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 & 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, Adding Value from New Zealand

• Opportunities for innovative Kiwi Food and Beverage companies : the Kura case study
• Building sustainable global growth : attracting the optimal capital partners and advisors

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 challenges to long-term thinking for sustainable growth

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