Performance and Pressure – managing the moments! Glibert Enoka
Working with the All Blacks and some of New Zealand’s most successful corporations, Gilbert Enoka has a raft of insights about what’s required to create world class teams and enterprises. We will dig into the mindsets needed to create magic.
How do you harness talent to its full potential when you have a team of brilliantly driven individuals?
Navigating expectations and disappointments … what happens when you lose … how do you get back up again?
What sorts of environments support being day in and day out at peak performance?
Once the environment for this is in place how do you ensure individuals stay well at this level of pressure?
Gilbert Enoka - mental skills coach
Glibert Enoka
Knowing when to call it and how to do this Rod Snodgrass•Sakshin Niranjan
One of the keys to success in venture investing is being able to make the call when a startup is not scaling at the pace required. Drawing on some of the insights from Gilbert Enoka, Rod and Saks explore the markers they used in resetting the business and the personal qualities they drew on. Rod will also share his experience of letting a startup go, including the conversations with the founders, the wider team and shareholders.
Rod Snodgrass – Maker Partners
Sakshin Niranjan - NexDo
Rod Snodgrass
Managing Partner at Maker Capital Management Limited
Sakshin Niranjan
NexDo
Morning Tea
Insights from a serial founder Cecilia Robinson
Cecilia Robinson, of My Food Bag and Tend Healthcare fame, shares her approach to scaling incredible value and what she tapped into to fuel the passion and vision required.
Cecilia Robinson
Tend founder & co-CEO
Scaling startups in an inclusive Aotearoa New Zealand context Julia Arnott-Neenee•Kaye-Maree Dunn•Kendall Flutey
Bringing a tikanga Māori and Pasifika lens to venture investment we explore what is required to create intergenerational wealth and rolling generations of founders and investors to build greater prosperity for Aotearoa.
Julia Arnott Neenee - Fibre Fale
Kendall Flutey - Banqer
Moderator: Kaye Maree Dunn - Making Everything Achievable
Julia Arnott-Neenee
Fibre Fale
Kaye-Maree Dunn
Making Everything Achievable
Kendall Flutey
Banquer
Lunch
Talent … where and how do we grow it, attract it, and retain it?? Robyn Kāmira•Rob Woodward•Jo Mills
In this session we cover
finding and hiring the best people
supporting and inspiring people once they’re on board
the individual, the team, the community, the future – the interdependencies
Jo Mills - Fuel50
Robyn Kamira - Paua Interface
Moderator: Rob Woodward - AngelHQ
Robyn Kāmira
Rob Woodward
Director of Find Recruitment
Jo Mills
CXO at Fuel50
Does chasing unicorns in Aotearoa make sense? Jenny Rudd•Mike Carden
In this session we will debate how relevant building unicorns is in a context like ours where there are smaller pools of local capital, nascent local experience and such an acute need to crack offshore markets. We will also explore some of the trade-offs, including building a huge company versus early recycling of capital and kiwi risk appetites to support success all the way to unicorn status.
Outside looking in … how are we doing? what should we be doing? Privahini Bradoo
San Francisco based, Privahini Bradoo, who has scaled two startups and who is a KEA New Zealander of the Year award recipient, will talk to us about her views on what kiwi founders and investors need to be aware of and her thoughts about how our context impacts on our approach to scale, value creation and returns.
Privahini Bradoo - Plank
Privahini Bradoo
Drinks at Kauri Bay Boomrock
Buses depart back to Auckland to Pilkington's for the summit dinner
Dinner at Pilkington's
Day two commences
Presentation of annual awards
Arch Angel Award – our uber angel
Kotahitanga Award – service to the community
Puawaitanga Award – exemplar founder/investor team
Looking back to look forward Vaughan Fergusson
As an exited founder, Vaughan Fergusson learned a lot from his startup journey ... how his early aspirations translated into reality and the challenges of scaling a B2B SaaS opportunity from Aotearoa. With these insights Vaughan is now focusing on the post-Vend impact ... the beneficiaries from the Vend ESOP, the startups that have been spawned and the role he wants to play in our early stage investment world.
Vaughan Fergusson - Pam Fergusson Trust
Vaughan Fergusson
Founder - Vend
The role of secondaries in an Aotearoa context Ian Beatty•Melissa Yiannoutsos•Lachlan Nixon
An experienced panel talk about whether New Zealand is ready for a much higher level of secondaries trading in startup equity. Do we have a big enough pool of suitably savvy investors? What impact does the current macro climate have on secondaries trading? And is there a risk that a growing market for secondaries will cannibalise new investments?
Ian Beatty - Second Quarter
Melissa Yiannoutsos - Booster
Moderator: Lachlan Nixon - Motion Capital
Ian Beatty
SecondQuarter
Melissa Yiannoutsos
Fund Manager at Booster
Lachlan Nixon
Partner at Motion Capital
Morning tea
Designing startups and our ecosystem for growth Sean McGrail•Mohan Nair•Jake Hoffart
“New to Aotearoa” exited founder investors talk about NZ’s USP and how we leverage international knowledge to amplify it. How do New Zealand startups better prepare themselves for the US market? And how do we create the right ecosystem to improve their odds of success?
Mohan Nair - Edmund Hillary Fellow
Sean McGrail - Edmund Hillary Fellow
Moderator: Jake Hoffart - Enterprise Angels
Sean McGrail
Golden Seeds
Mohan Nair
Emerge USA
Jake Hoffart
Investment Associate at Enterprise Angels
Let’s confront the future Melissa Clark-Reynolds
Where are the new exciting spaces and startups we should be backing going to come from? How do we know when opportunities in entirely new verticals are market ready and where are those markets?
Melissa Clark Reynolds - Futurist
Melissa Clark-Reynolds
Closing remarks
Long Lunch
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