New Zealand Businesswomen's Conference
31 May 2024. Royal Akarana Yacht Club, 8am - 9:30pm.
The New Zealand Businesswomen’s Conference is about developing and celebrating women in business who embrace their strengths to grow profitable, wholehearted businesses that contribute positively to the NZ economy.
PROUDLY PRESENTED BY VENUS BUSINESSWOMEN AND THE EMA
Justin Flitter
Founder, NewZealand.ai
The World of AI for SMEs
Mandy Beverley
Owner, Remarkable Group
Mindset Workshop
Sharn Piper
CEO, Attain
Cultivating Digital Marketing Success Strategies
Yvonne Lorkin
Co-Founder, Winefriend
The Journey of WineFriend
Sarah Duffin
Senior Partner, BNZ
Business, Health and Heart: Finding Harmony Amidst Chaos
Matt Ensor
Founder, Frankly.ai
Technology Workshop
Lisa Dean
Head of Marketing, EMA
Marketing Workshop
Justin Flitter
Founder, NewZealand.ai
Justin Flitter founded AI New Zealand in 2017 to inspire, inform and accelerate AI for business adoption. Today NewZealand.AI is where Kiwi companies start their AI journey. In the last 6 months he’s worked with leadership teams of businesses with 50 to more than 1,000 people, helping them identify the use cases and deploy AI powered solutions to power-up productivity, performance and competitiveness. What’s driving this remarkable technology? What are the use cases transforming operational performance vs creating that competitive edge? How should your organisation accelerate its AI journey, and what if you don’t?
Mandy Beverley
Remarkable Group
A mindset that’s resourceful, resilient and transformative in today’s world is essential. Mandy Beverley specialises in helping people harness life's surprises as catalysts for growth and transformation. Often described by leaders and high-achievers as their ‘secret weapon’, she has a deep understanding of human behaviour helping create exponential shifts in their perceptions, decisions, and actions. As a Certified Demartini Method® Facilitator for 14 years, she’s helped hundreds of clients dissolve the challenges keeping them stuck by bridging the gap between mindset and strategy. Through consults, workshops, and programmes, she focuses on mindset, personal & professional development, and the science of transformation to help individuals and organisations make changes that last. Her approach is insightful and practical. She is an author and host of the Remarkable Women Radio Podcast, where she shares insights and interviews with remarkable women celebrating success and the journey it takes to get there.
Sharn Piper
Attain
Introducing a man of resilience and determination: Despite a notably rough start in life, Sharn Piper ardently believes in the power of actions to shape our outcomes. Overcoming adversity, Sharn has successfully started and sold 4 companies, personally closed over $400 million dollars’ worth of sales, was the Australasian Sales Director for a Fortune 50 and today leads "Attain," a prominent Sales & Marketing consultancy that has offices in three countries. With a defining aspiration, Sharn’s life goal is to be known as the “most successful, unsuccessful person to ever live”, epitomising the spirit of triumph over trials.
Yvonne Lorkin
Winefriend
Yvonne Lorkin has been the drinks editor for Dish magazine for the last 13 years, wine reviewer for CANVAS in the NZ Herald for 8 years, a senior wine show judge for aeons and has been a regular television and radio wine commentator since ages ago. She’s also the co-founder and Chief Tasting Officer of personalised wine subscription service WineFriend, a Deloitte Fast50 company. She’s the Chairperson of the Rose Gold Trust, one of New Zealand’s newest women’s midlife health charity and she’s also on the Hawke’s Bay Emergency Response Team – so if there’s a cyclone she’ll safely see us through. In addition to being a proud Hawkesbaylien, this mother of two and a wife of one and is ridiculously excited to be appearing at our conference! Check out her regular wine reviews at yvonnelorkin.com And if you’d like Yvonne to choose delicious wines for you and send them to your door on a regular basis, just visit winefriend.co.nz and use the promo code YVONNE for 24% off your first subscription case.
Sarah Duffin
BNZ
Sarah is a senior leader at BNZ, an EMA Board member, and mother to two boys, with 18+ years' experience in Banking across Consumer, Commercial, Corporate, and Risk, in New Zealand and the UK. In 2022, when her second child was 8 weeks old, Sarah was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer. The initial shock of dealing with a life-threatening disease could derail most people but Sarah saw it as an opportunity to reset her priorities and take back control of her life. Balancing chemo and radiation with a newborn and three-year-old is no easy feat but Sarah learned some new skills to take a challenging situation and turn it into an opportunity for growth. Now fit, healthy and cancer-free the future is even brighter for Sarah.
Matt Ensor
Frankly.AI
Matt works in the merge of the technological with the social. As the Chair of the AI Forum working group on Large Language Models, Matt's focus is on driving responsible innovation to position New Zealand's organisations for a competitive edge through the effective use of AI. Matt is also CEO and Founder of FranklyAI, an Auckland based startup owned by Beca which has been a forerunner in the generative AI industry, lauded for its pioneering approaches to leveraging AI for safe and secure enterprise use cases.
Lisa Dean
EMA
Lisa is the Head of Marketing & Communications, having started with the EMA in January 2023. She is a graduate of the University of Waikato with a degree in Management & Marketing. Lisa is a marketing and communications leader with more than 20 years’ experience driving growth and brand awareness through strategic omni channel campaigns. Lisa has a strong background in B2B marketing and a proven track record of success working in New Zealand and internationally with companies like: Sovereign, 3M, Fletcher Merchants, Z Energy and Vodafone. As the Head of Marketing and Communications Lisa is responsible for developing and implementing the EMA’s marketing strategy to improve awareness of the EMA, drive growth and deliver member value.
What is NZBW?
In 2024, Venus Businesswomen and the EMA will host the New Zealand Businesswomen’s (NZBW) Conference in Auckland.
This high-profile event will attract a dynamic blend of businesswomen from a wide variety of industry sectors. These women are motivated, hungry for new ideas and ready to be inspired to grow profitable and purposeful businesses which make a difference in the world.
In other words, this is not just another business event. It is the gathering of businesswomen who recognise the social shift towards conscious business principles, which hold profit, people, and the planet as equally important. Now, more than ever, we are seeing the rise of conscious consumers who demand ethical practice and social/environmental contributions from the businesses they engage with. The brands that are succeeding in this new economy are inviting people to participate in authentic and meaningful stories.
NZBW is an important voice in this growing movement. We invite you to align your company with this positive global trend by partnering with us. Together, we can create a stunningly successful platform to develop and celebrate women in business who create win-win outcomes for all key stakeholders. This innovative event is being established and fully supported by both Venus Businesswomen, New Zealand’s largest business community for women and the EMA, serving over 30,000 businesses between them.
NZBW Conference Purpose
Through our Conference we seek to connect, inspire and develop women in business to grow profitable and purposeful businesses. Attendees will enjoy a full day of lively panels, keynote presentations, facilitated networking, engaging workshops and will enjoy drinks and some social networking over dinner.
NZBW Conference Audience
The Conference will attract an estimated 200–250 enthusiastic businesswomen representing a variety of industry sectors. The attendees will include successful SME owners and key partners, emerging businesswomen with huge potential and new business owners or start-up entrepreneurs eager to grow their businesses.
SPONSORSHIP
Conference sponsorship opportunities are available.
SPEAKERS
Outstanding inspirational speakers and expert business professionals who will provide valuable insights and information targeted to our audience.
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Accommodation
We have negotiated a special rate for our conference attendees.
Quest Auckland, CBD
- Studio Apartment: $215 per night (inc GST)
- One Bedroom Apartment: $225 per night (inc GST)
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SkyCity
- SkyCity Hotel – $269.00 per night (inc GST)
- Horizon by SkyCity – $309.00 per night (inc GST)
- The Grand by SkyCity – $309.00 per night (inc GST)
NEW ZEALAND BUSINESSWOMEN
31 May 2024
Royal Akarana Yacht Club
88/10 Tamaki Drive
Orakei
Auckland 1071
0800 300 362
events@ema.co.nz
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