Brenda Frisk – Learning Technologist
Brenda is responsible for Nextspace’s business development and education strategies.
Under her direction Nextspace is working with leading businesses to develop innovative business strategies that leverage 3D visualisation internal and external communication. Brenda is driving the New Zealand and Global education strategies for Nextspace as Right Hemispheres Global Education partner.
Brenda has extensive experience in both the commercial and education communities and has worked with digital technology in education and training for many years.
She has been involved with the international Adobe Education leadership program for several years. She is a passionate and committed learning technologist who has presented and facilitated workshops over the years throughout North America, Africa, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
Before moving to New Zealand from Canada in 2005, Brenda owned her own digital design company and involved in designing and delivering digital multimedia programmes. She holds a Masters degree in Communication and Technology, Bachelor degrees in both Education and Human Ecology, vocational certification in adult education and numerous digital media certifications. She has won awards internationally for her work in multimedia and education.
David Squire – Musical Director
Musical Director of school / youth jazz bands and concert bands, choirs, orchestras and Chairman / Administrator of the KBB Music Festival.
Classroom teaching. Choral singer. Guitar and theory teacher. Tutoring and mentoring. Professional development. Conducting. Composition. Festival administration. Poetry.
Education history:
Fraser High School in Hamilton.
Tertiary education at the University of Auckland and Auckland College of Education.
Formal qualifications:
BMus
DipTchg
Work history:
Music teacher at Auckland Grammar School (1991-1995), HOD Instrumental Music at Westlake Girls High School (1996-2001), Director of Music at The Manurewa High School (2002-2005). Freelance musician / educator from 2006.
Chairman / Administrator of the KBB Music Festival.
Creative achievements:
Founding member of TOWER Voices New Zealand and the V8 Vocal Ensemble. Past member of TOWER New Zealand Youth Choir and Auckland Dorian Choir. Music tours to USA, Argentina, Singapore, Spain and Australia.
Dr Robin Kelly – Doctor, Author
Robin Kelly has, for 25 years, integrated Western, Eastern and modern mindbody concepts within his medical practice in Auckland, New Zealand. A past and current co-president of the Medical Acupuncture Society (NZ) and a founding trustee of New Zealand’s MindBody Trust, he studied Acupuncture and Chinese medicine in the 80s running teaching workshops for health professionals and doctors.
Since the 90’s his overriding interest has been in researching the roles consciousness and quantum theory play in the deep healing process. As a result, he has published two books released internationally, Healing Ways – A Doctor’s Guide to Healing (Penguin 2000), and The Human Antenna – Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells (Energy Psychology Press 2007.) He is currently writing his third book, due out in 2010.
The Human Antenna was recently awarded Science Book of the Year at the 2008 US National Best Books Awards.
Over the past few years, Robin has introduced Energy Psychology techniques, alongside medical acupuncture, to his practice, and he regards this as one vital step in helping people regain full ownership of their healing. He lectures and runs workshops on the deep healing process, and the compassionate approach to health, both within New Zealand and overseas. He has given many radio and TV interviews over the past few years.
Robin is also a passionate singer/songwriter with 4 CDs of original songs released over the past 12 years. He is married to Trish, a registered nurse and midwife, who helps run their home-based practice. They have three children – Sophie, Lucy and Toby.
Websites: www.robinkelly.co.nz www.humanantenna.com
Contact:
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Glenn Compain – Policeman, Author, Mentor
Glenn Compain is an Auckland frontline policeman working largely with troubled youth, and he′s seen things that would haunt your nightmares. Violent gangs, rampant drug and alcohol abuse, soul-destroying promiscuity, parents unwilling or unable to tackle the mess their kids are making of their young lives.
Glenn′s experience has taught him that every child is at risk at some stage during their formative years; that there are many influences in their lives that their parents can′t hope to control. His message is that it is the parents′ job to give their children the skills to make good decisions when the tough times come.
By sharing his own story and experiences from the frontline Glenn gives concerned parents the tools they need to spot the danger signs for their children themselves. While he doesn′t claim to have all the answers, his commonsense approach and experience with troubled youth make his insight and ideas valuable tools to empower parents. A book for parents, teachers and social workers, this streetwise, straight talking look at today′s world will have everyone talking.
Glenn Compain is of Maori, Samoan, African American and French ancestry. At 19 he led a team of voluntary aid workers to Uganda, where they worked with orphans and child soldiers during the civil war.
In 2004 he co-founded the Village Community Services Trust with ex All Black Michael Jones, which continues to deliver mentoring to over 500 young people at risk in schools across Auckland.
In 2005 he was approached to contribute to the Team Up campaign, a nationwide Ministry of Education campaign featuring Tana Umaga.
In 2006 he was commissioned by land Transport NZ to develop a resource to address the high level of road fatalities amongst Maori and PI youth. A compelling and charismatic speaker, Glenn Compain is a powerful new addition to the HarperCollins social and parenting list, and follows in the footsteps of Celia Lashlie and Nigel Latta.
Michael Henderson – Corporate Anthropologist
As a Corporate Anthropologist Michael Henderson is currently in hot demand.
The world has changed and with it company cultures ability to cope and respond to the challenges they face. A shift in external circumstances can quickly render a companies internal culture to be misaligned with its brand, customers strategy and staff.
Michael's presentations offer sound proven practical and simple techniques for addressing your team or company culture to cope with change and challenges.
Since the age of five he has lived with and studied tribes in over thirty countries, and worked with companies passionate about their culture including, Coca Cola, Vodafone, Canon, Burger King, GHD engineering and Lion Nathan along with government departments, professional sports teams, the military and schools.
Possessing a degree in Anthropology and being highly experienced and qualified in Axiology (the science a human values) means that Michael has a strong grounding in social science that ensures that his work is practical, evidence based and always focused on performance. He is acknowledged in his own field as a pioneer.
In fact his concepts and research are so innovative and ground breaking that his three books on the impact ad benefits of mastering company culture and human values are best sellers.
Monisha Kumar – Dance Specialist
Monisha specilaises in Classical Indian Dancing such as
Kathak, as well as Bollywood, Contemporary,
Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Hula.
Monisha has performed in many International Shows;
and with Bollywood Stars such as Sukbhir Singh, Abhijeet, Sunidhi Chauhan, Usha Utup, Mika, Shivani Kashyap, Dream Girls of Bollywood and Abhas Joshi and Anwesha Guptta from STAR VOI fame.
Monisha also performed at the World Dance Showcase,
part of Tempo Dance Festival, in 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Her graceful and passionate dancing is admired by many
with dances choreographed on songs from evergreen
Hindi movies to the more recent songs.
Monisha and her dancers have also featured on various television documentaries and TV series such as A 1000 Apologies and has been a choreographer for International television commercials such as Vodafone Qatar.
She currently teaches her young dancers at her own
dance school. Monisha also teaches dance for
NCEA qualifications in secondary schools
and conducts dance workshops.
Nigel Parker – Technologist
“I have always had an interest in technology. Since a very young age I have taken things apart to see how they work. I believe that technology should complement and not be a hindrance to human interaction. To that end I studied technology and psychology at university.
I took some risks and broke some new ground during the first “.com” bubble. I was one of the few that despite losing money didn’t lose heart for the unrealized potential of our industry. I set my sights on Microsoft as a place to work with a vision to make an impact on a larger scale.
During the five years that I have been at Microsoft I have been helping others realise their potential and adopt some of the most useful and exciting technology around. I'm motivated by big ideas and smart unconventional execution and I continue to challenge myself and others to fail fast and drive forward innovation.
I don’t see our future as a simple extension of our past I instead see it as a challenge that needs thoughtful intention.”
Ray Avery – Inventor, Scientist, Humanitarian
Founder and CEO Medicine Mondiale
Ray Avery is the Founder and Chief Executive of Medicine Mondiale, an independent development agency focused on creating sustainable solutions to reduce global poverty through the development of products and technologies that have applications in both the developing and developed world markets.
Ray is a successful Pharmaceutical Scientist, a founding member of the Auckland University Department of Clinical Pharmacology and former Technical Director of Douglas Pharmaceuticals. Over the past thirty years, Ray has made a major contribution in the development of New Zealand's Pharmaceutical Industry.
Between 1993 and 1997 Ray designed and commissioned two intraocular lens laboratories in Eritrea (eastern Africa) and in Nepal. These laboratories supply 10 per cent of the global market for intraocular lenses and have contributed to decreasing the price of lenses from more than US$300 in 1992 to around US$6 today. Cataract surgery is now available to the worlds poorest and over 11 million patients worldwide have had an intraocular lens implanted which was manufactured using the technology Ray invented.
Working throughout Africa and Asia and exposed to the raw and real shortcomings in Global healthcare, Ray was determined to use his knowledge of Pharmaceuticals, Science, Product Development and commercialization to tackle big health problems endemic in the developing world at a very practical sustainable level.
Today, an International network of Medicine Mondiale scientists, technologists and business organizations are helping Ray to develop medical solutions to make quality healthcare accessible to the poorest of the poor and, somehow everyone finds themselves donating their time and knowledge for free and, they are rewarded by making a difference.
Ray's work has been celebrated by his peers and he has won the KEA Biotechnology Award this year. The Bayer Innovators Award for Research and Development 2008 and was one of the ten finalists for the Saatchi & Saatchi world Changing Ideas Award last year.
Ray is also Patron of the Non Resident Nepali Association of New Zealand a position previously held by Sir Edmond Hilary.
Richard Hollingum - Curator
Richard Hollingum connects good people so great things can happen.
Richard is the founder of internationally known and awarded creative execution firm, The Department of Doing
He has has over 23 years experience in the Advertising and Marketing Industry working for companies such as Saatchi and Saatchi, Ogilvy and Mather, Publicis and Europe’s leading Advertising Agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty working on award winning accounts such as Levis and Hugo Boss whilst helping establish offices in New York and Singapore before moving to New Zealand in 1995 to work for the Campaign Palace in Auckland, Sydney and Melbourne.
Richard has won many creative awards and been instrumental in DOD becoming one New Zealand's leading creative companies.
hen he is not heading up one of the worlds leading creative ‘execution’ companies he is an international speaker at conferences in locations as diverse as London, Lisbon, Singapore, Sydney and Sao Paolo.
He is also a member of The Future Department, an English based organisation and a regular TEDster at the TED conferences in California.
Richard also contributes towards the mentoring scheme at the local boys high school encouraging and enabling our future generations to “do”.
Following the TEDxAuckland conference, Richard will be presenting the concept of TEDyouth to the TED organization in New York with the help of all the TEDxAuckland attendees.
He is also co-author of the newly published book How Not To Do Things - The Corporate Saboteurs Guidebook.
Follow Richard on Twitter: twitter.com/directorofdoing
Scott Gilmour - Dreamer
Scott is an angel investor and mentor/director with a number of Kiwi technology companies, including Nextspace, Right Hemisphere, Jade, WinScribe, Biomatters, Optima and others.
His 30+ years of IT experience in the US and New Zealand includes 12 years with Intel and co-founding a software company in the US in 1989 (ABC Technologies Inc), which was sold to SAS in 2002. Scott serves on the Advisory Boards for the NZTE Beachheads programme and the IceAngels angel investor network.
He is also the Project Sponsor for the first "I Have a Dream" programme to be implemented outside the US. He has a Bachelor of Commerce from Otago University and an MBA from the University of Oregon.
Wendy McGuiness – Reluctant Futurist
After practising for 26 years as a chartered accountant, specialising in risk management, Wendy McGuinness packed it all in to set up a think tank and pursue her dream of inserting integrated long-term thinking into New Zealand’s DNA.
Using a unique business model that sought to provide students with a place to learn, and experts with a place to educate the next generation of thinkers, the think tank has now employed more than 30 students, and enlisted the expertise and talents of 20 experts.
Wendy is reluctant to describe herself as a futurist, despite asking for seminal futurist Alvin Toffler’s ‘Future Shock’ as her 21st birthday present and having a firm belief that the answers to the myriad problems facing us lie in using foresight and scenarios to map out possible, probable and preferred futures.
Wendy has four teenaged children, one beloved cavoodle. She enjoys painting and is an avid collector of books – with a particular love of James K. Baxter.
Andrew Patterson - MC
Andrew Patterson is RadioLIVE's Business Editor and Presenter of the network's weekly business programme "Sunday Business".
Prior to joining LIVE in 2006 he was based in Sydney where he was a business presenter on ABC's continuous news network, NewsRadio.
He has also worked in both the finance and tourism sectors and gained his commerce degree from the University of Auckland more years ago than he cares to remember!
Billy Gammon – Adventurer
Most likely to…keep talking.
Born in Truro (Cornwall), England Chris 'Billy' Gammon grew up on the fairways of Trevose Golf & Country Club, the family business which his brother Nick runs today. Unfortunately for Chris he was a rather odd shape as a youngster and so it was he became known as 'Billy', named after that childhood hunk of a man Billy Bunter.
Like the rest of the crew sport played a key part in his school education but unlike Tom and Matt he managed to get through the book work and made his way up to Durham University to study Sociology & Anthropology - to this day we are all still a little mystified as to why, but he did at least get to spend a 2 month sabbatical staying with the Maasai tribe in the Maasai Mara...and if truth be known he's never been the same since.
Billy graduated from Durham and headed for London where he threw himself in to the dark world of advertising. This was to prove a particularly colourful part of his life and culminated in him joining forces with ex boss (and mentor) Peter Thompson as one of the founding members of M2M media agency.
Andy Blood – Creative Director
18 years in advertising, across several continents.
Has picked up 2 Cannes Grand Prix, 14 Cannes Lions (mostly Gold). He is partner and Group Executive Creative Director of The TBWA Group (TBWA\TEQUILA\TBWA DIGITAL & SHIFT) in New Zealand.
And is also a member of the five person TBWA global creative Council ‘The Band of Brothers’. In December 2008 he was named joint ‘Creative of the Year’ by Media in Asia. He has a beautiful New Zealand wife, Kim Blood, and a fabulous Kiwi daughter ‘India’.
His mother was a Playboy Bunny, and his father spent the early 70s touring US Army bases in Germany playing Jimi Hendrix covers.
His ancestor, Colonel Thomas Blood, stole the Crown Jewels in 1671, which is obviously in his genes.
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