Spark has announced a new tech summit to showcase advanced digital technologies and bring global expertise to New Zealand.
Spark Accelerate Summit is coming to Auckland on 12 and 13 November, featuring Ayesha Khanna, one of Southeast Asia’s groundbreaking female entrepreneurs (as named by Forbes magazine), Tom Gruber, the co-founder of Siri, and Edmundo Ortega, a lecturer from an esteemed New York business school, as keynote speakers.
Spread over two days at Auckland’s Viaduct Events Centre, Spark Accelerate Summit is designed to provide business leaders with inspiration from global thought leaders and local experts, as well as showcasing the latest digital technologies that will enable innovation and productivity benefits to Kiwi businesses.
Attendees will experience 11 expo stands and six showcases featuring technology, including cloud, AI, IoT and converged technology. From using a drone to find inventory in record time to walking through an obstacle course without activating automated security surveillance, attendees will experience the latest technology in action.
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A limited number of complimentary two-day passes are available to the business and technology community.
Spark Customer Director – Enterprise and Government Mark Beder says Spark Accelerate Summit is an initiative born out of Spark’s ambition to accelerate Aotearoa businesses one tech generation forward.
“We released research earlier this year on the state of New Zealand’s productivity, which continues to lag other small, advanced economies globally. The key insight from that report was that advanced technologies have a big role to play in moving the productivity dial, and yet uptake in New Zealand is not where it needs to be. To help play a role in changing this we developed a programme of initiatives to help our customers and other New Zealand businesses to better leverage these technologies to improve productivity.
“At Spark Accelerate we will be giving our customers and business leaders access to technology experts from international markets, and through our own tech showcases and breakout sessions we will allow businesses to see for themselves how these technologies – from AI to IoT and converged solutions – can be applied within their businesses, says Beder.
