Understanding of emerging trends which will affect your business.
This 14th and 15th of July, 2015 the Metro Group Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs) hosted a collaborative symposium in Dunedin at Otago Polytechnic.
The theme for the symposium was equipping businesses with the tools and relationships to be agile in a rapidly changing world. The programme included dynamic and interactive discussions, speakers from a wide range of industries, and information about funding options for research and development.
At this symposium we provided participants with:
Inspiration and awareness from a wide range of case studies, which will help you think outside the square and identify opportunities and areas for development.
An action-focused strategy that you can immediately apply to your business to help bridge the gap between the now, and the 10 year vision.
Many participants have told us they made new connections during the symposium and have identified opportunities for future collaboration.
Click here for a selection of highlights as reported by participants on Twitter during the symposium.
Click here to see coverage of the symposium by DunedinTV.
Click here for the ITP Symposium Schedule. The programme is available for download here.
Some of our speakers have made their slide presentations available:
Ganesh Nana
Gap Workshop
Henk Roodt
Karl Lyons
Lance Wiggs – Part 1
Lance Wiggs – Part 2
Marian Baxter
Max Kennedy
Neville Auton
Steve Brewster
Any questions? Please email us at ITPsymposium@op.ac.nz
The symposium was fully sponsored by the Metro Group and the Australasian Research Management Society so there was no registration cost to attend.
Keynote speakers
Creating Value: Dynamic collaborations at the interface of knowledge-sharing, diversity and innovation
Jillian de Beer is a creative strategist and a big picture thinker who fosters and develops strong relationships and networks locally and globally and engages at all levels of business, industry, government and community. She is a connector and motivator who seeds and cultivates ideas and innovation in cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts.
Ageing population: what are the issues and how might we address them
Dr Ganesh Nana is Chief Economist at BERL. Despite his passion for numbers, Ganesh believes economics is about people; their jobs, their incomes, their opportunities, and their futures. He strongly believes robust economic analysis is critical to ensure informed choices and policy decisions are made that have a positive effect on the lives and prospects of New Zealanders.
