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
Ambassador Brown spent August 1 meeting leaders of New Zealand’s dynamic innovation and start-up sector, an important economic and cultural U.S.-New Zealand link, in Wellington. Start-ups demonstrated their technology and explained where they are seeking to partner with U.S. expertise and investment to grow further. The tech tour included
Mahuki – Innovation Hub of Te Papa ,
Creative HQ ProjectR ,
BizDojo , and
Xero . Wellington ...
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By Public Affairs Section | 4 August, 2017 | Categories: Former Ambassadors, News, Science & Tech | Tags: Bizdojo, Creative HQ ProjectR, Mahuki - Innovation Hub of Te Papa, tech tour, Wellington, Xero
By Public Affairs staff, U.S. Embassy Wellington. This week Phil Sage, Senior Director of Design and Development at Hasbro, was in Wellington on an Embassy-sponsored visit to speak at
TEDxWellington and meet some of Wellington’s tech and entrepreneurship community. Phil’s TEDxWellington talk to a sellout audience of 1,000 (with a livestream audience of 5000, #1 trending ...
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By Mike Cousins | 23 June, 2017 | Categories: Connecting with Kiwis, News, Science & Tech | Tags: Acting Deputy Chief of Mission, Bizdojo, Creative HQ, Demian Smith, DK, Mahuki, NZ VR/AR Association, Phil Sage, ProjectRNZ, Puekeko Pictures, Sir Richard Taylor, TEDxWellington, Wellington East Girls’ College
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
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
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
By Mike Cousins, Public Affairs, U.S. Embassy Wellington. Google employee #43 (and now Silicon Valley entrepreneur/investor) Jeremy Wenokur was in New Zealand earlier this week to listen to and give startup advice to some of New Zealand’s young entrepreneurs. Jeremy’s NZ program included a roundtable (the kitchen table to be exact!) discussion with
GRID Auckland startup residents, a
Project Connect fireside chat ...
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By Mike Cousins | 8 April, 2016 | Categories: Connecting with Kiwis, Former Ambassadors, News, Science & Tech | Tags: American entrepreneur, AUT, Bizdojo, entrepreneur, GRID Akl, Jeremy Wenokur, U.S. Ambassador Mark Gilbert
The U.S. Embassy were proud to host Charles Babb in Wellington, New Zealand to speak at TEDxWellington 2016. Charles is the Founder of Fairchild Consortium – a firm that has seasoned creatives and industry veterans venturing into Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality development. Charles Babb’s TEDx talk will be available in the coming weeks on the
TEDx YouTube channel , ...
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By Mike Cousins | 21 March, 2016 | Categories: Events, News, Science & Tech | Tags: Bizdojo, Charles Babb, Creative HQ, Gaming, Geo AR Games, TEDx, TEDxWellington, U.S. Ambassador Gilbert, VR, Wellington Mayor
Social impact entrepreneur Soraya Darabi spent a week in New Zealand, September 1-4, speaking to audiences and groups about managing change and scaling startups in an Embassy funded program. In Auckland Soraya headlined Project:Connect (a tech/entrepreneurship/innovation seminar series, of which the Embassy is a founding partner) at AUT University to two audiences totaling over 250, ...
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By Mike Cousins | 22 September, 2015 | Categories: Connecting with Kiwis, Events, News, Science & Tech | Tags: Akina Foundation, AUT University, Bizdojo, Diana Hardeman, Grow Wellington and Enspiral, Hvngry Magazine, IIP, Michelle Dickinson, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Soraya Darabi
