International Exhibitors at the Rutherford Innovation Showcase

Here are just a sample of some of the amazing exhibitors that will be part of the Rutherford Innovation Showcase.

 i.on my Care

 

We help equip aged care, community care and acute hospitals with the appropriate tools to help address Governance, Risk Management, Compliance and Accreditation requirements.

Getting critical information to:

who needs to know

what they need to know

when they need to know it

i.on my Care will contribute to good daily practices by continually striving to standardise policies, procedures and practices and streamlining delivery with a focus on continuous improvement.

Greenbiz Check

 GreenBizCheck is a global technology-based environmental certification program for business.

It is a revenue generating environmental sustainability program for businesses of all industries and sizes.

The program offers GreenBizCheck and ISO 14001 tailored certification solutions for: Offices, Food and Beverage, IT, Recruitment, Hotels, Clubs and Retail.

The program helps companies to quickly implement sustainable environmental practices, which save money, conserve energy, water, resources and minimise waste.

Bureau Veritas, the world’s leading certification body, audits all GreenBizCheck online assessments via a fast and efficient desktop program, which provides GreenBizCheck clients additional certification verification.

If improving revenue and profits is at the top of your business priorities, consider greening your business now.

Auditflow

Auditflow SME and Auditiflow SMSF are Cloud based applications that provide a complete compliant tool kit to assist an Auditor do an audit, and manage their audit engagements, in accordance with mandatory auditing and professional standards. Auditors can purchase vouchers (pay-per-use) to access the application assist them in auditing an organisations financial statements in.    Users have unlimited user access unlike traditional software models, and client and firm workflows are managed through the application.

Auditflow is supported by CPA Australia and they are also their launch partner for new products.  Auditflow is about to launch other products in Australia and internationally, including Auditflow HE for Higher Education.
Auditflow SME and Auditflow SMSF are distributed inAustralia by Sage Handisoft.

 

 

Panel Session for Future Cities Forum

Lawrence Yule, CEO of the Local Government New Zealand is the latest member to be confirmed to sit on the Future Cities Forum Panel Session.    Other members will include representatives from the World Bank, Ministry of Economic Development, Auckland City Council, Christchurch City Council and industry.
The panel will explore the question – Building Future Cities, what can we do now? The panellists will be encouraged to focus across the key areas of economic development, community engagement and city governance to discuss critical challenges and opportunities to achieve sustainable urbanisation, and economic growth, through the creation of high skilled jobs, entrepreneurship and innovation in local economies.

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Speaker Profile for Future Cities Forum: Di Dixon, Gold Coast City Council

Di Dixon, Acting Manager, Economic Development Gold Coast City Council will one of the featured Speakers at the Future Cities Forum as part of the Rutherford Innovation Showcase.

She worked in the areas of major infrastructure project management and economic development in both the UK and Australia over the past 15 years. Currently managing the program of economic development activities and projects within the Gold Coast City Council’s Economic Development & Major Projects Directorate, which involves the development and promotion of clustering of related businesses and industry sectors and ensuring the City is globally competitive in the availability, coverage, cost and capacity of telecommunications infrastructure and in the uptake and adoption of resulting technologies.

Also responsible for the development and implementation of a number of key knowledge and technology focussed projects for the city including additional high speed broadband infrastructure (BroadbandGC and National Broadband Network related activities), the development of the city’s 200 hectare innovation precinct (Gold Coast Health & Knowledge Precinct), the development of a citywide knowledge and innovation strategic plan, operations at the Gold Coast Innovation Centre and the TechGC program aimed at increasing the number of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) graduates and employment opportunities by working with schools, universities and industry in the city.

Additional International Speaker confirmed for Future Cities Forum.

UK-based Andy Smith who is the Senior Director for Government, Education and Healthcare across Oracle Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) is the latest international speaker to be confirmed for the Future Cities Forum. His keynote will be on One citizen; One government: Transforming service delivery around the citizen while driving out costs. 

With advances in technology it has never been easier to design services around citizens rather than for the convenience of bureaucracy.  But in the wake of a global financial crisis, money for investment is tight. Local Governments and Cities around the world are grappling with similar challenges.  How do cities improve – or at least maintain – service levels at a time of rising citizen demand and reduced income from taxes?  And how do they justify the IT investment to sceptical politicians and voters at a time of budget constraints and spending cuts? Andy’s presentation will look at how Local Governments in the UK and elsewhere are responding to these challenges.
Register now for your free ticket to Future Cities Forum

 

Productivity Opportunity in New Zealand: Lessons from the Christchurch earthquake?

Recent post from Malcolm Fraser, CEO Future Cities Forum….

I was speaking to a friend of mine in Christchurch today, and while a generalisation, he commented that many business owners he knows, including himself, have been spending about half their time supporting family and friends in the aftermath of the earthquake…but the projects and business commitments are still being met!!

Even if he is only half right, what does this say for national productivity?

He had two observations a) with everything that has gone on in Christchurch, businesses have got very pragmatic and do not have time for distractions, b) Normal is the new enemy, if you can get the work done in half the time, why go back to the way things were??

I would add that the City Council and citizens of Christchurch also put together a really cool, and very inspiring, city plan to rebuild…in months, not years. Testament to Christchurch’s ‘pragmatic productivity paradigm’? Perhaps Auckland could do with more cafes in containers!!

Worth exploring more, as I am sure other cities could learn from Christchurch…

Future Cities Forum Keynote: Smarter Cities for Smarter Economic Growth

Kerrie McGarth, Global Business Services Managing Partner for IBM New Zealand,  will be a feature Keynote speaker at the upcoming Future Cities Forum. Her Keynote –  Smarter Cities for Smarter Economic Growth.

Experts predict population in the world’s cities will double by 2050. This swell in urbanisation coupled with an increase in the amount of data generated is also creating unmanageable complexity, unsustainable waste, and unnecessarily high expenses.
A smarter city leverages the vast amount of information already available to optimise the delivery of city services. We can now monitor, measure and manage nearly any physical system at work in our cities. We have the ability to collect and analyse real-time information on everything from transportation networks to hospitals to the electricity grid.

Kerrie will discuss how cities can empower citizens, build political capital, or develop new business models and partnerships with the private sector. She will also highlight how cities can  entice businesses that attract talent, and the talent that attracts businesses, in order to achieve economic growth.

Bio

Kerrie McGrath has been working in Global Business Services at IBM since 2005. She took up the role of Global Business Services Managing Partner for IBM New Zealand in January 2011.

Her previous role was in Strategic Business Opportunities, responsible for strategic and complex opportunities across all sectors in NZ.

Kerrie has worked in both NZ and Australia in industries such as Public Sector, Manufacturing, Telecommunications and Mid-market clients. She is a Consulting Executive with substantial sales and delivery experience in both large enterprise and mid market client segments. Specialises in sales of integration and application projects which have a component of innovation and/or strategic business value.

Kerrie has a degree in Information Technology from the University of Queensland and a Certification from the Australian Institute in Project Management.

Free South Pacific Entrepreneurs Networking Event #rutherfordshowcase

Auckland ICT, Business Gold Coast and Microsoft invite you to come and network with start-ups, entrepreneurs, software developers and others in the tech world at the free South Pacific Entrepreneurs Networking Event 7-9pm on 27 September at Telecolm Place, Auckland.

This will be a great event with networking clusters based on Electronics, Digital Media Content, Robotics, Mobility, Cloud and Location Based Services. Register here now
As an Official Sponsor of Rugby World Cup 2011 and of the South Pacific Entrepreneurs Networking Event, Microsoft will give away two category A tickets to Quarter Final 2 at Eden Park as well as an Xbox and HTC Trophy 7 Windows phone.   All who register and attend the networking event (and are eligible) will also be able to get a “fast tracked” registration into the Microsoft BizSpark programme. Microsoft® BizSpark™ is a global programme that helps software startups succeed by giving them access to Microsoft software development tools, connecting them with key industry players, including investors, and providing marketing visibility to help entrepreneurs starting a business. Terms and conditions apply to prizes and BizSpark registration.

Future Cities Forum: Call for Conference & White Papers

Delivered as part of the Rutherford Innovation Showcase Week, The Future Cities Forum to be held on the 28th of September 2011 will be a premier forum for the showcase of New Zealand innovation in the use of technology to empower citizens in city environments. The Future Cities Forum will examine the innovative ways of connecting citizens though the use of technology and provide a platform for new ideas and discussion on empowering local communities in the digital world. To register for this free event or to view the program, visit the event website.

CALL FOR CONFERENCE AND WHITE PAPERS
The organizing committee invites you and your students to share your experience and knowledge and submit research papers that discuss new ideas on empowering local communities in the digital world and address innovative ways for local governments to use technology to connect and empower citizens in city environments.  Conference and white papers of no more than 50 pages should be submitted to submissions@ijseie.org by 9 September 2011. For more information visit http://www.ijseie.org/events.asp.

 

Approved papers will from part of a Composition of Contemporary Research and will be made available free to delegates attending the Future Cities Forum.  The forum will be attended by representatives from local and international city governments, economic development agencies, and industry.

 

Please let me know if you have any questions on submissions@ijseie.org.

How the Gold Coast City Council are becoming part of #RutherfordShowcase

Gold Coast City Council manage an Investment Attraction Program which incorporates a suite of investment attraction services to attract companies from export focused and knowledge-based industry sectors to locate a presence within the city to assist in broadening and strengthening the economy – for more information please visit http://www.businessgc.com.au/invest-gold-coast .

The nine key industries crucial to the future prosperity of the city are: creative, education, environment, food, health and medical, ICT, marine, sport and tourism.

The Gold Coast City Council and the city’s IT Forum have formed strong links with businesses and industry in New Zealand and have committed to an inaugural statement of intent with Auckland’s ICT cluster and Future Cities Institute  to focus on a range of economic, research, trade and investment attraction activities for the two cities. These include activities in relation to the future sustainability of the Gold Coast Innovation Centre and opportunities to integrate a future Gold Coast Future Cities Institute within the Gold Coast Knowledge and Innovation Strategic Plan.

The Gold Coast City will be represented at the Rutherford Innovation Showcase during September through officers from the Council’s Economic Development & Major Projects directorate, Gold Coast IT Forum Chair and members and several ICT related businesses looking to link with NZ based companies.

NZ Technology on show to the world #rutherfordshowcase

The Innovation Showcase will bring together New Zealand’s leading technology companies with their key stakeholders and customers, from Asia Pacific and New Zealand.  This presents the local ICT industry with an unique opportunity to exhibit their technology-based innovation to the world.  It will also provide a pro-active platform for collaboration between New Zealand companies and the international technology community.

The Innovation Showcase will be attended by delegates that are part of the New Zealand Trade and Investment Forum as well as the Future Cities Forum running in conjunction with the showcase at the Langham Hotel from September 26 – 28.  Delegates range from NZ Government Ministers and Chief Executives, Asia Pacific and New Zealand business leaders, Local Government representatives, Industry, Academia and Entrepreneurs.
Companies interested in becoming part of the Innovation Showcase can now register their involvement online.  One and three day packages are still available with space starting at just $1000. For more information view the Exhibitor Information Pack or email events@futurecitiesinstitute.org

Register online now.