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selectusasummit.us/ What is SelectUSA? SelectUSA is the U.S. Department of Commerce-led program to promote and facilitate business investment into the United States. Since its inception, SelectUSA has facilitated $45.5 billion in client-verified investment, creating and/or retaining tens of thousands of U.S. jobs. SelectUSA’s mission is to facilitate job-creating business ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 14 November, 2018 | Categories:
Ambassador, Business, Commercial Opportunities, Connecting with Kiwis, News
| Tags: SelectUSA 2019, SelectUSA Investment Summit, U.S. Department of Commerce
Assistant Secretary Heath P. Tarbert, U.S. Department of the Treasury In 1989, twelve economies met to establish a forum for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in order to achieve greater prosperity for the Pacific Rim. The region has come a long way since then. And APEC continues to foster progress as demonstrated just this week when ...
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By Ola Thorsen | 19 October, 2018 | Categories:
Business, Commercial Affairs, Doing Business in the U.S., East Asia & Pacific, News, Trade
| Tags: APEC, Asian Development Bank, IMF, Kiwi Act, World Bank
By Gail Brown, wife of US Ambassador Scott Brown. For the next blog in the
Pacific Women Leaders series, I met with Nora Swann, Designer for the
Pacific Fusion Fashion Show . “I’m creative, flamboyant, loud, and fun. That’s me,” Nora Swann declares when asked to define her personal fashion style. She loves to visit op-shops to buy different patterns and textiles ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 24 September, 2018 | Categories:
Art & Culture, Business, Connecting with Kiwis, News, Pacific Women
| Tags: #PacificWomen, Gail Brown, Nancy Elizabeth Thompson, Nora Swann, Pacific Fusion Fashion Show, Pita Nikolas Taufatafua
The U.S. Embassy Public Affairs Section (PAS) New Zealand invites
Statement of Interest (SOI) for projects that strengthen security and military cooperation and coordination, promote the mutual benefits of bilateral trade and investment, and deepen the relationships with Pacific communities, in New Zealand, Niue and the Cook Islands, based on our shared values and heritage. All programs must include an American cultural ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 22 March, 2018 | Categories:
Business, News
| Tags: Grant, grant opportunity, SOI, Statement of Interest
Guest blog post by U.S. NZ Youth Councilor, Araina Kazia Pereira On International Women’s Day I was lucky enough to take part in a number of events. Firstly, a roundtable discussion with U.S. Consul General Melanie Higgins alongside some incredible NZ women, American Chamber of Commerce members, exchange program alumni and youth council discussing both issues ...
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By Mike Cousins | 15 March, 2018 | Categories:
Business, Connecting with Kiwis, News, Youth Outreach
| Tags: Araina Kazia Pereira, International Women’s Day, IWD
The Embassy was
honored to send two of New Zealand’s leading entrepreneurs – Jessica Manins (
ProjectR Director) and Alexia Hilbertidou (Founder of
GirlBoss ) – to the 2017
Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in India late last year. We highlighted
Jessica’s experience last week. Next up, Alexia… *** Guest blog post by Alexia Hilbertidou I was so excited to represent New Zealand at the Global ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 16 January, 2018 | Categories:
Business, Connecting with Kiwis, News, President of the United States, Science & Tech
| Tags: Alexia Hilbertidou, Donald J. Trump, GES, Girlboss, Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Hyderabad, India, Ivanka Trump, Jessica Manins, Tech
The Embassy was
honored to send two of New Zealand’s leading entrepreneurs – Jessica Manins (
ProjectR Director) and Alexia Hilbertidou (Founder of
GirlBoss ) – to the 2017
Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in India late last year. In the coming week, we’ll highlight Jessica’s and Alexia’s personal experiences at GES 2017. First up Jessica… *** Guest blog post by Jessica Manins I recently ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 12 January, 2018 | Categories:
Business, Connecting with Kiwis, News, Science & Tech
| Tags: Alexia Hilbertidou, GES, Girlboss, Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Hyderabad, India, Ivanka Trump, Jessica Manins, Tech
Dr. Alex MacDonald is NASA’s Senior Economic Advisor within the Office of the Administrator at NASA Headquarters and is one of the foremost experts on the economic history of American space exploration and contemporary private-sector space activities. During a one-week trip to New Zealand, Dr. MacDonald connected with a wide array of government, academic, and ...
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By Ola Thorsen | 28 December, 2017 | Categories:
Auckland, Business, Doing Business in the U.S., News, Science & Tech, U.S. & New Zealand, U.S. Consulate Auckland
| Tags: AUT University, Consul General Melanie Higgins, NASA, Peter Beck, RocketLab, Space exploration, TedxAuckland, U.S. - N.Z. Youth Council
Views and learnings from #CLNZ17 by U.S. Youth Council member, Araina Kazia Pereira. Let’s talk all things business, high performing teams, doing life in community, the heart of what it means to be a creative leader and how this approach is going to shift the future of our workplaces. The
#CLNZ17 conference created by
@justadandak saw leaders from various ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 10 December, 2017 | Categories:
Business, Connecting with Kiwis, News
| Tags: #CLNZ, #CLNZ2017, Aithan Shapira, Araina Kazia Pereira, Creative leadership, DK, Elysa Fenenbock, Google, Gus Balbontin, MIT Sloan School of Management
The Embassy invited U.S. creative leadership experts, Aithan Shapira (
MIT Sloan School of Management ) and Elysa Fenenbock (Designer in Residence at
Google ), to keynote at a Creative Leadership conference (
#CLNZ2017 ) to 160 business leaders and startup founders. Areas covered included realigning your teams and projects with design thinking, looking at jazz as a way to respond to ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 1 December, 2017 | Categories:
Business, News, Science & Tech
| Tags: #CLNZ2017, Aithan Shapira, Bizdojo, Creative Leadership conference, Elysa Fenenbock, Google, Mahuki, MIT Sloan School of Management, Xero
Guest blog post by U.S. Embassy Youth Councilor, Jay Choe. Andy Cunningham was in Auckland for the
Project series , founded by the U.S. Embassy and the Auckland University of Technology. See below for further Project events coming up. “Brand Strategy by Design” was the third event I attended as part of the U.S. Embassy Youth Council. Upon ...
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By Mike Cousins | 26 September, 2017 | Categories:
Auckland, Business, News, Science & Tech
| Tags: Andy Cunningham, Apple, Brand Strategy by Design, Jay Choe, Pixar, Project17, U.S. Embassy Youth Councilor
By Mara Hosoda, Public Affairs Section, U.S. Consulate General, Auckland. This year New Zealand took part in the United States Department of Commerce U.S. Commercial Service’s Patient Day Global Forum Series. The global series is happening from March through October 2017 in countries around the world including China, Brazil, Australia, Argentina, Canada, Austria, Italy, Egypt, ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 9 August, 2017 | Categories:
Ambassador, Auckland, Business, Commercial Opportunities, Connecting with Kiwis, News
| Tags: DoubleJump Interchange, Executive Director, Hadley Slade-Jones, Patient Day, Patient Day Global Forum Series, PwC New Zealand, United States Department of Commerce, USCS
The U.S. Embassy in New Zealand announces a small grants funding opportunity of up to $7,500 USD for projects in the realm of Science, Technology, Health, Environment and Business. Eligibility is limited to non-profit/nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and educational institutions within New Zealand, the Cook Islands, and Niue. Proposals should demonstrate creativity, substance, and relevance ...
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By Mike Cousins | 3 August, 2017 | Categories:
Business, News, Public Affairs, Science & Tech
| Tags: Business, Environment, Health, innovation, Science, Small grants, Space, Technology
By U.S. Ambassador, Scott Brown. Kia Ora Aotearoa! I am proud, humbled, and delighted to begin my service officially as the Ambassador of the United States to New Zealand. My wife Gail and I were very moved by the warm welcome, the beautiful Maori pōwhiri, and the Royal New Zealand Air Force Guard of Honour ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 28 June, 2017 | Categories:
Ambassador, Business, Connecting with Kiwis, News, President of the United States
| Tags: Ambassadorship to New Zealand, ambscottbrown, Dame Patsy Reddy, Donald J. Trump, Government House, Governor-General of New Zealand, Her Excellency The Rt Hon Dame Patsy Reddy, Maori pōwhiri, U.S. Ambassador Scott Brown
By Public Affairs staff, U.S. Embassy Wellington. The U.S. Embassy and Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) welcomed U.S. tech investment duo Steve Meller and Larry Howell to New Zealand last week for a series of events and meetings in Wellington and Auckland. The area of focus for the week was the GovTech space – the area of digital transformation within the public sector ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 13 June, 2017 | Categories:
Business, Connecting with Kiwis, Doing Business in the U.S., News, Science & Tech
| Tags: Bizdojo, CreativeHQ, CreativeHQ Startup Garage, demo day, Innovation and Employment, Larry Howell, MBIE, Ministry of Business, R9 Accelerator, Steve Meller
Guest blog post by, U.S. Youth Councilor, Michael Max. Bill Reichert is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, mentor, author, and among other things; an influential speaker. Bill has more than 20 years of entrepreneurial experience and is passionately focused on early-stage I.T companies, contributing his valuable insights and extensive networks to guide companies towards success. He ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 13 June, 2017 | Categories:
Auckland, Business, Connecting with Kiwis, President of the United States
| Tags: Auckland University of Technology, AUT, author, Bill Reichert, Donald J. Trump, entrepreneur, Mentor, Michael Max, Project17, venture capitalist
By Public Affairs Staff, U.S. Embassy, Wellington. The U.S. Embassy was proud to support Jessica Manins, CEO of
Blackeye VR , in bringing U.S. transmedia producer, Caitlin Burns to keynote at the Future Realities VR/AR conference in Auckland and Wellington as part of New Zealand’s first nationwide
Tech week . During her time in New Zealand, Caitlin met with some of ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 17 May, 2017 | Categories:
Auckland, Business, Connecting with Kiwis, Events, News, Public Affairs, Science & Tech
| Tags: AI, AR, AR VR Garage, Auckland, Augmented Reality, Blackeye, Caitlin Burns, Creative HQ, Future Realities, Mahuki, SoulMachines, Te Papa, Tech space, Virtual Reality, VR, Wellington
By Public Affairs staff, U.S. Embassy Wellington. Last week, we welcomed Disney Imagineer, Mk Haley, to Wellington. With Support from the U.S. Embassy, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Florida State University and Creative Program Manager at Walt Disney’s Imagineering, Mk Haley, gave a series of talks in Wellington. The week was hosted by
Mahuki – Te Papa’s innovation hub . Mk Haley’s first talk ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 8 May, 2017 | Categories:
Business, Connecting with Kiwis, News, Public Affairs, Science & Tech
| Tags: Archives, Bizdojo, Candy Green, Chargé d'Affaires, Creative HQ, Disney, Disney Imagineer, entrepreneur, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Florida State University, Galleries, GLAM, Libraries, Mk Haley, Museums, Te Papa
By U.S. Embassy Youth Council members James Coventry, Liana Kaiwai, and James Tawhiao. Lasting only a day, but packed with enough advice and inspiration for a whole week,
Project16 was a crash course in making dreams reality, achieving success and doing the unthinkable. The conference kicked off with an address by U.S. Ambassador Mark Gilbert. It ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 9 September, 2016 | Categories:
Auckland, Business, Connecting with Kiwis, Events, News, Science & Tech
| Tags: Auckland University of Technology, AUT, Business, Project16, Tech, USNZYouthCouncil, Wahine Toa
Thanks to the U.S. Embassy and
KiwiConnect , Eric Hysen of the
United States Digital Service came to New Zealand to keynote at the annual
Open Source Open Society conference. At the conference
Eric spoke on the challenges and rewards of modernizing U.S. Government systems. Eric is one of the Founding members of the
USDS , and is the Digital Service Lead for the
United States Department of Homeland Security. As a former employee at Google, Eric has worked ...
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By Mike Cousins | 8 September, 2016 | Categories:
Business, Connecting with Kiwis, News, Science & Tech
| Tags: Agile, Alina Siegfried, Bizdojo, Creative HQ, Defense, Departments of Homeland Security, Education, Eric Hysen, GRID Auckland, Health and Human Services, KiwiConnect, Open Source Open Society, startups, State, USDS, Veterans Affairs
The latest
Wahine Toa post by By Nancy Gilbert, wife of U.S. Ambassador Mark Gilbert. The next Wahine Toa feature is Rachel Taulelei. Rachel’s Māori heritage and advocacy for young entrepreneurs, women in particular, are among her most passionate inspirations. Business savvy, and an innate gift for innovation have led to extraordinary success —first as an entrepreneur ...
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By Ola Thorsen | 23 August, 2016 | Categories:
Agriculture, Art & Culture, Business, Connecting with Kiwis, Culture, First People's Connect, News, Success Stories, Trade, U.S. & New Zealand, Wahine Toa
| Tags: Environment, Nancy Gilbert, New Zealand, Rachel Taulelei, Wahine Toa, Wahine Toa Project
By Mike, Emily and Shivani, Public Affairs. Adriana Gascoigne, Founder and CEO of
Girls in Tech , recently visited New Zealand to keynote at
Project Connect in Auckland and Wellington – a speaker series founded by the U.S. Embassy and the Auckland University of Technology’s (AUT). Alongside the Project Connect talks, Adriana had a series of meetings, round-table discussions and dinners throughout the country – including a ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 6 July, 2016 | Categories:
Auckland, Business, Connecting with Kiwis, Education, Events, Former Ambassadors, Former U.S. Government Leaders, News, Science & Tech, Youth Outreach
| Tags: Adriana Gascoigne, Auckland Consular Corps, Barack Obama, BizDojo Wellington, Creative HQ Wellington, Girls in Tech, GRID Auckland, Jade Software, Project Connect, St Margret's College Christchurch, STEM, the Christchurch City Council, The Mind Lab, The Ministry of Awesome Christchurch, USNZYouthCouncil
By Mara Hosoda, Public Affairs Section, U.S. Consulate, Auckland. On April 25, 2016 the Auckland Youth Council met with Ambassador Mark Gilbert. In recognition of the recently-signed COP 21 Agreement on Climate Change, signed by 155 countries in New York on April 20, Earth Day, the group discussed climate change, especially in relation to the ...
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By Mike Cousins | 24 May, 2016 | Categories:
Business, Consulate General, Events, Former Ambassadors, Human Rights, Our Ocean, Public Affairs, Science & Tech, Youth Outreach
| Tags: Ambassador, Ambassador Mark Gilbert, Business, Consulate General, Earth Day, Events, Haunui Waka, Human Rights, Our Ocean, Public Affairs, Science & Tech, Sir Peter Blake Trust, Te Toki Voyaging Trust, Youth Outreach
By Phil McKenna, Public Affairs Section, U.S. Consulate, Auckland. For a number of months, U.S. Consulate General in Auckland has been busy the high-profile Tripartite Economic Summit between the cities of Auckland, Los Angeles, and Guangzhou, which took place from 16–17 May at the huge ANZ Viaduct Events Centre in Auckland. The summit program included ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 16 May, 2016 | Categories:
Auckland, Business, Former Ambassadors, Science & Tech
| Tags: #tripartiteAKL, ATEED, Auckland, entrepreneurs, innovators, Los Angeles, Tripartite Economic Alliance
U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland
Suzi LeVine and Nancy Gilbert spoke with a group of women entrepreneurs at
BizDojo at a Collider Wellington on Tuesday March 29, while in New Zealand on a family holiday. Ambassador LeVine has an extensive background in tech, working at Microsoft and Expedia, and founding her own companies, prior to her appointment as President ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 1 April, 2016 | Categories:
Business, Events, Former U.S. Government Leaders, News, Public Affairs, Science & Tech
| Tags: Ambassador LeVine, Barack Obama, Collider Wellington, entrepreneur, Nancy Gilbert, Switzerland
By Mara Hosoda, U.S. Consulate, Auckland Mana moana (“the power of the ocean”) was especially strong this month, connecting Kanaka Maoli (native people from Hawaii) to their Maori and Pacific cousins in Aotearoa. The U.S. Embassy and Consulate are proud to support and be a part of the many Hawaiian exchanges that occurred in March. ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 24 March, 2016 | Categories:
Alumni, Art & Culture, Auckland, Business, Child and Family Matters, Connecting with Kiwis, Consulate General, Events, First People's Connect, Former Ambassadors, Travel & Tourism, U.S. & New Zealand, U.S. Consulate Auckland, U.S. Embassy Wellington
| Tags: Ali’i Kalani’opu’u, Arts Envoy, ATEED, Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaii, Kanaka Maoli, Kenneth Makuakane, mahiole, Mana moana, Pasifika Festival, Paula Fuga, Star Gossage, Ultimate Waterman Challenge, Waianae, Zane Kekoa Schweitzer
Innovation-Focused Summit to Provide Global Investors and Economic Developers with Latest Information on Investment in the United States. WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and Ambassador Mark Gilbert today announced that
registration is now open for the third SelectUSA Investment Summit to be held June 19-21, 2016, in Washington, D.C. The Summit’s theme is “The Innovation ...
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By Mike Cousins | 12 January, 2016 | Categories:
Business, Former Ambassadors, Trade
| Tags: Ambassador Mark Gilbert, Penny Pritzker, SelectUSA, SelectUSA Investment Summit, The Innovation Advantage, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Vinai Thummalapally, www.selectusa.gov
Guest blog post by Rachel Harris and Jonathan Gee. As burgeoning business leaders move into the world, bridging the gap between one generation and the next is of vital importance. The State Department was proud to fund and support the Tuākana Youth Mentoring Program run by NGO Leadership New Zealand and the Fulbright New Zealand ...
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By Mike Cousins | 8 December, 2015 | Categories:
Alumni, Art & Culture, Business, Connecting with Kiwis, Former U.S. Government Leaders, Public Affairs
| Tags: Ambassador Gilbert, Barack Obama, Claire McQuilken, Guy Ryan, Jonathan Gee, Leadership New Zealand, Mentor, Mentoring, Nancy Gilbert, Rachael Harris, Tuākana, Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association, VUWSA, Young New Zealander of the Year
Our next Project Connect event is on next week, November 18th at the Auckland University of Technology – details at
the-project.co.nz . The theme…Building Creative Connections. In a world that has moved from finite choice and limited control to infinite choice and total control, how can leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, brands and organisations engage in a meaningful ...
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By Mike Cousins | 13 November, 2015 | Categories:
Art & Culture, Auckland, Business, Events, News
| Tags: Auckland University of Technology, AUT, brands, entrepreneurs, Facebook Creative Shop, innovators, leaders, Mark D'Arcy - VP and Chief Creative Officer, Project Conference, Project Connect
From
ustr.gov . On October 4, 2015, Ministers of the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries – Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States, and Vietnam – announced conclusion of their negotiations. The result is a high-standard, ambitious, comprehensive, and balanced agreement that will promote economic growth; support the creation ...
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By Mike Cousins | 6 October, 2015 | Categories:
Business, East Asia & Pacific, Economic Affairs, Official Reports, Policy, Reports, Trade
| Tags: Addressing new trade challenges, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Comprehensive market access, Inclusive trade, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Platform for regional integration, Regional approach to commitments, Singapore, TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership, United States, Vietnam
