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NZBEF PRESENTS:

QUEST FOR EXCELLENCE

NEW STANDARDS FOR A NEW WORLD

The NZBEF 2022 Conference has been postponed until 2023. As soon as we know the exact dates that the conference will be held we will let you all know.

New Standards of Excellence

Climate change, pandemics, labour morality, and digital innovation are re-shaping the world of business. New consumer and investor values and behaviours are driving new definitions of business excellence. In particular we see the emergence of Environmental, Social and Governance standards (ESG) in a fast moving digital world.

NZBEF brings this new world to you.

A world where excellence will be assessed and reported in new ways, to ensure consumer values are delivered, and old frameworks of excellence are challenged.

The Quest for Excellence conference seeks to clarify what excellence means to business, now; what these new standards are, and how innovation is essential to deliver them. It also looks at the new requirements for cybersecurity and data privacy.

It proposes an Audacious Goal: To become the most Innovative ESG and Cyber safe country in the world in order to establish a competitive advantage and attract talent and financial capital.

But we need to understand these new standards, have smart systems and have competent practitioners to ensure that we deliver these brand values.

Conference Theme

Programme
Please note: this programme is subject to change and will be updated.

Day 1 - New Standards of Excellence

Focus on ESG

9:00am

Welcome
By the NZBEF spokesperson.

9:15am

Opening Address - Stephen Whiteside - University of Auckland: Head of Organisational Performance Improvement and Head of Digital: Stephen leads the Organisational Excellence and Continuous Improvement Program at Auckland University, who are a model of sustainable excellence, having been ranked 6 in the world in the 2022 Times Higher Education University impact ratings.

ESG - Where are we now?

9:30am

Lorna Davis - Ted Talk Celebrity and past CEO of Danone, North America: A world leader in ESG; Danone deployment as a B-Corp is seen as a world leading activity. Read more here.

10:10am

April Mackenzie - Chief Executive, XRB: NZ is set to be one of the first in the world to implement mandatory climate action reporting. April will provide a briefing on behalf of NZXRB that will set the timelines for action.

10:30am - Morning Tea

A Commercial Opportunity for NZ

11:00am

Mike Burrell - Executive Director, Sustainable Business Council: How can following ESG standards lead to business advantage? Mike will provide insights into how companies like Unilever have achieved this through transparent and trusted reporting. Read more here

11:30am

David Downs - CEO, NZ Story: As leader of a NZ country brand initiative, David Downs will discuss the value of a 'country ESG brand' and the importance of delivering on that brand. NZ does not want a reputation for 'Greenwashing'.

12:00pm

Panel Discussion: Can NZ take the lead and have the world's most sustainable companies? How do we navigate through the different standards? How do we ensure transparent and trusted reporting?

12:30pm - Lunch

The Impact of ESG on Financial Systems

1:15pm

Jo Kelly - Chief Executive, Sustainable Finance: How have capital markets shifted? What are investors looking for from companies now?

1:30pm

Julia Jackson, Head of Purpose and Sustainability, Kiwibank - Leading the way: Kiwibank has joined a small number of NZ financial institutions in achieving a B Corp rating. What have been the investment impacts?

1:45pm

Vanessa Stevens, Sustainability Data Analyst, Craig's Investment Partners: The impact ESG is having on the financial system.

2:30pm

Panel Discussion: How important are transparency and trust of auditing and reporting? What should we report on? Which standards? Why is sustainable finance critical, and which reporting matters?

3:00pm - Afternoon Tea

ESG Tools for Auditing and Reporting

3:30pm

Keith Phillips, CEO, QLBS: Why are technologies and tools for assessment and reporting against frameworks important? How do we build transparency, trust and continuous improvement into the ESG systems? Who is already doing this?

3:45pm

Andrew Baines, President & CEO, Exemplar Global: Why are professional auditing and reporting systems important? Why are specialist process and systems auditing skills required, beyond financial reporting?

4:00pm

Ronja Lidenhammar, KPMG Senior Manager with expertise across ESG & ESG reporting. How do you help organisations assess their ESG maturity? How can they identify transitional and physical risk and opportunities, and develop sustainability strategies for impact? Ronja will demonstrate a tool that KPMG have developed to assist in answering these questions.

4:15pm

Dr Robin Mann: International Awards Program - Best Practices - Innovation and ESG Awards. Introducing some of the ESG best practice award winners, as a celebration of the NZ and International Best Practice competition hosted by NZBEF.

4:30pm

Wrap Up Panel: Wrap up of the day, chaired by Auckland University.

5:00pm - Drinks sponsored by Lion

Day 2 - Focus on Cyber

9:00am

Sir Ian Taylor: Sir Ian Taylor is ESG! He built his company on its principles and recently discovered how to reduce his carbon footprint to near nil. He will entertain with his journey and extrapolate into the future.

9:30am

Hilary Walton, CISO, Kordia Group: Defending New Zealand Against Cyber-attacks? How is this being done? What does business need to do about it? Hilary brings to the conference her global cyber experience including her role in charge of Cyber security at the London Olympics and her local experience as CISO of Kordia. Read more here

10:00am

Panel Discussion: The role of innovation in delivering ESG goals.

10:15am - Morning Tea

10:45am

Jennie Vickers, CEO, Zeopard Consulting: Can NZ business develop a reputation as a secure, safe, data haven, that attracts talent and investment? And what standards of excellence are important to make this happen?

11:00am

Speaker to be confirmed:

11:15am

Phillip Whitmore, KPMG Partner, Cyber Security: Achieving Safe Cyber NZ: A global view from the KPMG perspective.

11:30am

Jason Wood, ISACA Auckland Board Chair/President and Managing Director of Triple Ledger Limited: Cybercrime and its impact on the banking community.

11:45am

Carew Hatherley, The IQM Group: The growing importance of ISO 27001 for data security and privacy.

12:00pm

Panel Discussion: Achieving a safe cyber NZ; the need for rigour and vigilance.

12:30pm - Lunch

1:30pm

Keith Phillips, CEO, QLBS: Small Business Excellence; How can excellence be applied across small organisations to ensure participation in supply chains?

2:00pm

Vaughan Winiata - MD, V Formation: Opportunities for Māori businesses - greater capacity, opportunity and social inclusion.

2:45pm

Marco Marinovich - a serial advertising agency CEO and Guru - chairs a panel of experts: discuss the possibilities and benefits of establishing NZ as the world’s most sustainable and 'cyber-safe' place to do business. The panel includes: Corina Corina Radovanovich, Microsoft’s Head of Industry Marketing, Australia and New Zealand, and passionate advocate for their sustainability program. Corina will bring a global perspective to the panel.

3:15pm

Conference wrap-up: Key participants from the conference will give their views of highlights and key learnings.

3:45pm - NZBEF Conclusion: The Quest for Excellence

One of the most dramatic transformations of business excellence is taking place as we speak. Societal attitudes and global awareness is extending the purpose of business from 'delivering shareholder value’, to delivering 'sustainable value' for a planet that we all share.

Speakers

David Downs CEO, NZ Story

David Downs is a business leader, public servant, consultant, board director, speaker - and genetically modified organism. David is now CEO of The New Zealand Story, an ambitious government-funded organisation marketing New Zealand to the world.

April Mackenzie Chief Executive, XRB

April joined the XRB as Chief Executive in December 2019 and is responsible for leading the organisation to achieve its mission and strategic objectives. This includes oversight of the XRB's operations, people, policies, processes, and governance.
April has extensive experience in external reporting both in New Zealand and internationally. She was a Board member for four years with the International Valuation Standards Council where she also briefly acted as Council’s Interim Chief Executive. As Global Head of Governance and Public Policy for Grant Thornton International, April was responsible for formulating and representing the Network’s positions on key regulatory policy matters.
April is well regarded for her technical expertise and has served as a technical advisor and member of a number of international bodies including the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB) of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), the International Financial Reporting Standards Advisory Council (IFRS), the Global Public Policy Committee, and the Joint Ethics Committee of the Consultative Committee of Accounting Bodies in the United Kingdom.
April’s considerable accounting and auditing background also spans a number of organisations and roles including the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants as Divisional Director of Policy, Touche Ross & Co (UK and NZ), the New Zealand Securities Commission and the New Zealand Audit Office.

Mike Burrell Executive Director, Sustainable Business Council

Mike joined SBC in January 2020. His previous role was New Zealand’s High Commissioner to South Africa. Before that he was Director for Sustainable Economic Development at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the founding CEO of Aquaculture New Zealand.

He holds degrees from the London School of Economics and the University of Canterbury.

Mike is based in Wellington.

Lorna Davis Business Leader and Speaker

Lorna Davis transforms the way leaders operate so they can incorporate social, environmental and financial priorities into their business performance. She runs group workshops, coaches individuals and is a highly sought after keynote speaker. She also serves on the board of a number of organizations that are committed to having meaningful purpose.

Vaughan Winiata, MD, V Formation

I am Vaughan Winiata, proudly Māori, I'm a descendant of te iwi Ng`āti Raukawa ki te tonga in the Horowhenua on the Kapiti Coast. In 2020 HTK Group, a specialist Māori business advisory with a database of 2,500 small businesses approached me to join their team as a consulting partner. This is my current situation where I split my time between HTK Group and my own practice, VFormation.

Andrew Baines President & CEO, Exemplar Global

Andrew joined Exemplar Global as CEO in September 2016. He has over 35 years of work experience spanning the food industry, auditing and conformity assessment, international business development and several parts of the world. Living in New Zealand for the past 30 years, Andrew is originally from the UK and after emigrating to New Zealand, he began a career auditing quality, environmental, health and safety and food safety management systems. This led to business unit management and senior executive roles in a conformity assessment body, including establishing one of the largest conformity assessment bodies in the Southern hemisphere. Also in that role, Andrew was responsible for international business development and has experience working in China, South East Asia, the Middle East as well as North America and Europe.

In 2015, Andrew joined ASQ (the American Society for Quality) as their Managing Director for Global Operations before becoming CEO of Exemplar Global, a subsidiary of ASQ. Andrew has also held several Board roles including being a current Board Member of NZBEF.

Jo Kelly Chief Executive, Sustainable Finance

Jo has delivered cross-continent sustainability initiatives and collaborations between some of the world’s best known businesses. Alongside her role as Chief Executive of Toitū Tahua, Jo is on the B Lab Australia New Zealand Board, and is on the National Advisory Board for Impact Investing.

In 2011 Jo managed establishment of The B Team, co-founded by Sir Richard Branson and Jochen Zeitz. On returning home to Aotearoa NZ Jo spent four years with Deloitte New Zealand.

Carew Hatherley, MD, IQM Group & NZ rep ISO Joint Technical Committee 1/SC 27

Carew brings a background of planning and guiding ISO 9001, 27001 & 45001 implementations for businesses successfully gaining Certification. He is a Certified Lead Auditor and Trainer for ISO 9001, 14001, 27001 & 45001. He also covers Defence and Corporate Social Responsibility. In 2021 he was chosen to represent New Zealand on ISO (Geneva) Technical Committee 1-27 Data Privacy & Security: in March 2022 he finished his Harvard Business School Data Privacy & Technology Course. Following on from the 2019 JAS-ANZ Delphi Study he has designed a course that delivers effective & reliable auditors for New Zealand – based around the internationally recognised best practice standards of ISO19011 and certified by Exemplar Global. He is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Leadership & Management and a member of the NZ Institute of Directors. He is also a Director and the Secretary of the NZ Business Excellence Foundation. He is currently the Chair of The IQM Group Board.

Phillip Whitmore KPMG Partner - Cyber Security

Philip leads KPMG New Zealand's Cyber Security and Technology Risk practices. He has over 20 years' practical experience in the provision of IT security advisory and assurance, IT risk management and IT internal audit throughout New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region. Philip’s detailed security knowledge is wide ranging, and he is a specialist in areas such as penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, PCI DSS compliance, data leakage, security frameworks, physical security, and computer forensics. Philip’s detailed IT security and controls knowledge is complemented by his auditing, internal audit and fraud background, which assists him in understanding the business issues related to IT, and the development of practical solutions to issues.

Jason Wood ISACA Auckland Board Chair/President and Managing Director of Triple Ledger Limited

Jason is a certified Public Accountant at “Big Four” Public Accounting firms, with a strong background in risk and compliance, blockchain, and financial services.

He has over 21 years of international business experience in planning, conducting, and quality reviewing complex information technology audits. Jason has an in-depth understanding of financial, operational and information technology risks, controls, and processes; and the implementation of cost-effective internal controls to minimize risk and maximize value. Experienced at presenting audit findings, reports, and strategies to executives and audit committees, he is a people-focused leader who provides supervision and coaching to team members that enables their individual growth. He is a proven client-focused leader that knows the importance of managing clients’ needs and expectations (both internal to the audit firm and external to the client).

Jennie Vickers CEO, Zeopard Consulting

Global Security Influencer of the Year 2021, Jennie Vickers describes her expertise as connecting people, building relationships, influencing, problem solving and supporting better business outcomes. For the last eight years Jennie has been focused on the Defence sector in Australasia. As CEO of the NZ Defence Industry Assoc for four years (stepped down in May 2021), Jennie championed courageous and open conversations between Government and industry in the defence and security sectors to support better procurement outcomes and supporting more SMEs to participate in Government supply chains.

Hilary Walton CISO, Kordia Group

Hilary Walton is a Director, Security Culture expert, a Psychologist, an IT leader, an author, a wife, a mother of three children and wants to make the world a better place by inspiring more diversity in the Tech sector.
Hilary has also built an online following through her social and digital networks, using her ‘Digital Culture Ideas’ Podcast, YouTube, LinkedIn and other social media channels in video, written and audio medium to deliver her messages. She is a passionate thought leader on topics such as culture change, IT, digital transformation, security, diversity and inclusion and cyber-safe parenting.

She is Founder of the ‘New Zealand Digital Leaders Network’ (NZDLN), a senior level (e.g. CIOs, CDOs, CTOs, CROs) community born out of a need for organisations across New Zealand to collaborate, share good practice and support each other on IT, digital transformation and security related topics.

She also founded the ‘Digital Culture Ideas’ Network, a global network with a broad community which includes professionals in IT, HR, Comms, H&S and project management. As digital impacts all areas of business and will be part of every job in every industry, this group shares ideas and is a place to ask questions to expand the digital capability, knowledge and skills of individuals and organisations, alike.

Stephen Whiteside, University of Auckland; Head of Organisational Performance Improvement and Head of Digital.

Currently leader of digital transformation and technology at the University of Auckland, rated by MIS magazine as one of the largest IT organisations in NZ.
He also leads the Organizational Excellence and continuous improvement program. Auckland University are a model of sustainable excellence having been rated 6th in the world in the 2022 Times Higher Education (THE) University impact ratings.
Member of the Institute of Directors. Director of the CAUDIT Leadership Institute from September 2010. Chartered Accountant, and a CIO for 17 years.

Specialties: Digital Transformation, IT, Leadership.

Ronja Lidenhammar, KPMG Senior Manager

Ronja Lidenhammar; KPMG Senior Manager with expertise across ESG and ESG reporting.
How do you help organisations assess their ESG maturity? How can they identify transitional and physical risk and opportunities? And develop sustainability strategies for impact?
She will demonstrate a tool that KPMG have developed to assist in answering these questions.

Keith Phillips, CEO of QLBS and Director of NZBEF.

As an International Executive with Apple Computers and then an Angel investor and Venture Capitalist Keith has participated in a number of "Digital Disruptions". At Apple he participated in the disruption of Computing and publishing launching the Macintosh in the UK and leading the Desktop publishing revolution. As an Angel investor and CEO of Terabyte he lead the industry into Interactive Multimedia and as a Director of a number of hi tech start-ups he helped in the digital revolution. For the last 15 years his focus has been on disruption of the assessment and audit of compliance, certification, risk and excellence where digital technologies can lead to a dramatic shift in the value delivered by practitioners. "There is a whole industry that is gathering data on paper or isolated islands of spreadsheets. They are sitting on huge value waiting to be exploited." He has become a leader in understanding how to implement digital assessment systems for ISO, Food Quality, Supply Chain quality improvement and business excellence. He has driven this focus through QLBS (Quantum Leap Beyond Spreadsheets ) which has deployed digital assessment systems for the New Zealand Food Exporters, Tourism Australia, NSW Dept of Industries. NZ Wine Export, NZ Business Excellence Foundation, Transport Fleet Compliance. Australian Institute of Sport among many initiatives.

Corina Radonavich, Microsoft's Head of Industry Marketing, Australia and New Zealand.

Corina Radovanovich : Microsoft’s Head of Industry Marketing Australia and New Zealand, and passionate advocate for their sustainability program. Corina will bring a global perspective to the panel.
Corina leads the Industry Marketing team at Microsoft ANZ including the Sustainability and the National Transformation go to market. She is passionate about inclusion and holds the Chief of Staff role for the Microsoft ANZ Employee Resources Groups and sits on the New Zealand Leadership team.

Vanessa Stevens, Senior Sustainability Analyst, Craigs Investment Partners

Vanessa Stevens joined Craigs Investment Partners in September 2017. Prior joining Craigs Vanessa worked in the New Zealand electricity sector for over 7 years at both Mercury and Transpower in various analytical roles focusing on the wholesale electricity market.

Vanessa is a Senior Sustainability Analyst within the Private Wealth Research team; spending the majority of her time focusing on sustainable investing and is responsible for data management and tools used across Craigs’ advisory network.

Vanessa holds a Bachelor of Science from Victoria University with a major in Applied Statistics.

Julia Jackson, Head of Purpose and Sustainability, Kiwi Bank.

Social sustainability is the oft overlooked aspect of the quadruple bottom line – environmental, economic, social and cultural sustainability. However, Julia Jackson, the Sustainable Business Network’s Community programme leader, insists it is an integral part of any sustainability strategy within businesses.

Dr Robin Mann, Director for Organisational Excellence Research at Massey University

Dr Robin Mann is Head of the Centre for Organisational Excellence Research, Massey University, New Zealand, Chairman of the Global Benchmarking Network, Board Member New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation, Co-Founder of BPIR.com – a best practice website resource, Founder of the International Best Practice Competition and New Zealand Best Practice Competition and Founder of the TRADE Best Practice Benchmarking Methodology which was initially developed for the New Zealand Benchmarking Club. The TRADE methodology is the cornerstone of the Dubai Government Excellence Program’s “Dubai We Learn” initiative whereby Robin has overseen 35 benchmarking projects since 2015. Robin serves as a Business Excellence/Productivity Advisor to many countries (recently supporting Bangladesh, Pakistan and Mongolia on their capability building programs for raising productivity and serving as a technical coordinator for the Abu Dhabi Government Excellence Award and Mohammed bin Rashid Government Excellence Award). Robin is currently overseeing a) a research project involving 30 countries to understand how countries are using business excellence to drive productivity and nation building b) investigating the resources and infrastructure used by organisations that have won national business excellence awards. Robin has been awarded the Harrington/Ishikawa Medal for contributions to the advancement of quality in the Asia Pacific region. Robin is originally from the UK where he obtained his PhD in TQM at Liverpool University in 1992.

Sir Ian Taylor, Founder/Managing Director at Animation Research Ltd

Ian Lemuel Taylor CNZM (born c.1950) is a prominent businessman from Dunedin, New Zealand. Born in Kaeo to a Pākehā father and Māori mother, he grew up in Raupunga and went to a Catholic boarding school in Masterton. Taylor is married to Liz and they have 2 children.

Taylor joined the band Kal-Q-Lated Risk in c.1967 as lead singer, and later graduated with a LLB degree from the University of Otago.

A former television presenter (notably for TVNZ children's programme Spot On (TV Series) and New Zealand's Funniest Home Videos, Taylor founded Taylormade Media in 1989 as a television production company. The following year he established Animation Research Limited, which quickly became one of the top computer animation companies in New Zealand and known internationally for its work, particularly in television advertising and sports graphics.

Taylor was inducted into the New Zealand Technology Hall of Fame in 2009 and was named North & South Magazines 2010 New Zealander of the Year. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the New Zealand Computer Society (HFNZCS) in 2010, the top honour of the ICT sector in New Zealand. Taylor was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2012 New Year Honours, for services to television and business.

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About NZBEF

About NZBEF

www.nzbef.org.nz

The New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation was formed in 1992 by Prime Minister Jim Bolger, Sir Douglas Meyers and business leaders of the time, to bring excellence frameworks such as Baldridge, ISO, EFQM and practitioner expertise to New Zealand. Its focus is on the professional implementation of any organisational framework.

To NZBEF it is important to understand what your unique excellence is. But it is more important to commit to continuous improvement and understand where you are on the journey to attaining it.

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New Standards of Excellence

Programme Please note: this programme is subject to change and will be updated.

9:00am

Welcome By the NZBEF spokesperson.

9:15am

ESG - Where are we now?

9:30am

Lorna Davis - Ted Talk Celebrity and past CEO of Danone, North America: A world leader in ESG; Danone deployment as a B-Corp is seen as a world leading activity. Read more here.

10:10am

April Mackenzie - Chief Executive, XRB: NZ is set to be one of the first in the world to implement mandatory climate action reporting. April will provide a briefing on behalf of NZXRB that will set the timelines for action.

10:30am - Morning Tea

A Commercial Opportunity for NZ

11:00am

Mike Burrell - Executive Director, Sustainable Business Council: How can following ESG standards lead to business advantage? Mike will provide insights into how companies like Unilever have achieved this through transparent and trusted reporting. Read more here

11:30am

David Downs - CEO, NZ Story: As leader of a NZ country brand initiative, David Downs will discuss the value of a 'country ESG brand' and the importance of delivering on that brand. NZ does not want a reputation for 'Greenwashing'.

12:00pm

Panel Discussion: Can NZ take the lead and have the world's most sustainable companies? How do we navigate through the different standards? How do we ensure transparent and trusted reporting?

12:30pm - Lunch

The Impact of ESG on Financial Systems

1:15pm

Jo Kelly - Chief Executive, Sustainable Finance: How have capital markets shifted? What are investors looking for from companies now?

1:30pm

Julia Jackson, Head of Purpose and Sustainability, Kiwibank - Leading the way: Kiwibank has joined a small number of NZ financial institutions in achieving a B Corp rating. What have been the investment impacts?

1:45pm

Vanessa Stevens, Sustainability Data Analyst, Craig's Investment Partners: The impact ESG is having on the financial system.

2:30pm

Panel Discussion: How important are transparency and trust of auditing and reporting? What should we report on? Which standards? Why is sustainable finance critical, and which reporting matters?

3:00pm - Afternoon Tea

ESG Tools for Auditing and Reporting

3:30pm

Keith Phillips, CEO, QLBS: Why are technologies and tools for assessment and reporting against frameworks important? How do we build transparency, trust and continuous improvement into the ESG systems? Who is already doing this?

3:45pm

Andrew Baines, President & CEO, Exemplar Global: Why are professional auditing and reporting systems important? Why are specialist process and systems auditing skills required, beyond financial reporting?

4:00pm

4:15pm

Dr Robin Mann: International Awards Program - Best Practices - Innovation and ESG Awards. Introducing some of the ESG best practice award winners, as a celebration of the NZ and International Best Practice competition hosted by NZBEF.

4:30pm

Wrap Up Panel: Wrap up of the day, chaired by Auckland University.

5:00pm - Drinks sponsored by Lion

9:00am

Sir Ian Taylor: Sir Ian Taylor is ESG! He built his company on its principles and recently discovered how to reduce his carbon footprint to near nil. He will entertain with his journey and extrapolate into the future.

9:30am

10:00am

Panel Discussion: The role of innovation in delivering ESG goals.

10:15am - Morning Tea

10:45am

Jennie Vickers, CEO, Zeopard Consulting: Can NZ business develop a reputation as a secure, safe, data haven, that attracts talent and investment? And what standards of excellence are important to make this happen?

11:00am

Speaker to be confirmed:

11:15am

Phillip Whitmore, KPMG Partner, Cyber Security: Achieving Safe Cyber NZ: A global view from the KPMG perspective.

11:30am

Jason Wood, ISACA Auckland Board Chair/President and Managing Director of Triple Ledger Limited: Cybercrime and its impact on the banking community.

11:45am

Carew Hatherley, The IQM Group: The growing importance of ISO 27001 for data security and privacy.

12:00pm

Panel Discussion: Achieving a safe cyber NZ; the need for rigour and vigilance.

12:30pm - Lunch

1:30pm

Keith Phillips, CEO, QLBS: Small Business Excellence; How can excellence be applied across small organisations to ensure participation in supply chains?

2:00pm

Vaughan Winiata - MD, V Formation: Opportunities for Māori businesses - greater capacity, opportunity and social inclusion.

2:45pm

3:15pm

Conference wrap-up: Key participants from the conference will give their views of highlights and key learnings.

3:45pm - NZBEF Conclusion: The Quest for Excellence

One of the most dramatic transformations of business excellence is taking place as we speak. Societal attitudes and global awareness is extending the purpose of business from 'delivering shareholder value’, to delivering 'sustainable value' for a planet that we all share.

Speakers

Supporters

About NZBEF

www.nzbef.org.nz

Programme
Please note: this programme is subject to change and will be updated.

Welcome
By the NZBEF spokesperson.