Kelly is one of our Pouako mō Te Kaa (Te Kaa Trainer) who weaves his talent and experience as an artist, musician, intercultural practitioner and indigenous researcher to support Maurea to drive positive change for Māori.​

Kelly is a former Manager of Te Taua Moana Marae, where he was in charge of tikanga (protocol), tangihanga, education and facilities for the NZ Navy and Defence Force. He has a Level 5 Whakairo (carving) qualification from Te Wānanga o Aotearoa and a Bachelor of Music (Jazz).

Having completed study of Full Stack Development coding, Kelly leads the development of our online training options; and has a special interest in Māori data sovereignty.

​Kelly is passionate about music, including making and playing traditional Māori instruments; to bring about a state of mauri ora (optimal wellbeing).

Kelly’s tribal affiliations are Ngāti Io, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngai Tūhoe and Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki.

Lillian is CEO of Huatau, a business working to help teams expand their collective intelligence. In 2012 she founded data charity Figure.NZ. In 2018 she won NZ Hi-tech Award's Most Inspiring Individual. Lillian is on the board of Stats NZ, and previously on the Data Futures Working Group, the Open Government Advisory Panel, and boards of Innovation Partnership, and CoRE Te Pūnaha Matatini.

Māui Hudson (Whakatōhea, Ngāruahine, Te Māhurehure) is an Associate Professor and Director of Te Kotahi Research Institute at the University of Waikato. He is a founding member of Te Mana Raraunga Maori Data Sovereignty Network and the Global Indigenous Data Alliance.

Dr Karaitiana Taiuru JP (Kai Tahu/Ngāti Kahungunu/Ngāti Toa) is an interdisciplinary Māori academic activist with almost 30 years experience working in the ICT industry and with Māori property rights.

His PhD from Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, focuses on Māori and Intellectual Property Rights with Gene Technology and data sovereignty rights. His areas of interest include: the ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI); colonisation; data sovereignty; genomic ethics; property rights and tikanga Māori.

He currently works as an independent Kaupapa Māori/Mātauranga researcher and an Honorary Academic at the University of Auckland University Department of Electrical, Computer, and Software Engineering lecturing in tikanga with Robotics.