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ASB and Spark join us to share their insights on improving productivity through innovation, collaboration, upskilling, and the use of digital technologies
Aotearoa New Zealand’s productivity challenge is well documented. New Zealanders generate significantly less output than many other developed countries, despite working longer and harder.
Join us for a discussion from two of New Zealand’s largest companies ASB and Spark NZ who have been looking into the productivity paradox and the role they can respectively play, as a bank and digital services provider, to support productivity growth.
ASB’s Nick Tuffley, Chief Economist, will speak to the role of business in leading the charge in improving productivity through innovation, collaboration and upskilling people’s knowledge and capability.
While Tony Agar, General Manager of Spark Group Sales – Northern Region, from Spark NZ, will explore the significant opportunity of increasing productivity through an uplift in the use of advanced digital technologies.
Completing the line-up, a local director will share what steps their board has taken to enable productivity, including leveraging innovative technological solutions.
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Following the candid fireside chat session there will be an opportunity for Q&As.
This event is brought to you in partnership with IoD national partner ASB.
Nick Tuffley was appointed as ASB’s Chief Economist in January 2007, having previously worked at Westpac and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Nick studied at Canterbury University, graduating with a Master of Commerce in Economics.
He and the rest of the Economics team provide regular analysis of economic developments and the outlook through written publications and media comments. Their key objective is to help the bank’s clients make better-informed business and personal finance decisions. The Economics team has won 3 Consensus Economics Forecast Accuracy Awards for their NZ forecasts.
Nick speaks at a variety of functions large and small from gatherings of corporate customers, through industry conferences, to large cocktail functions for customers. He has spoken in shearing sheds, wineries, art galleries, the Air Force museum, and ambulance stations. And of course, in recent years he has spent a lot of time Zooming into people’s screens.
Tony Agar is General Manager of Spark Group Sales for its Northern region. Tony started his Spark career at Telecom Business 15 years ago in Wellington and has worked across and led a number of Spark teams, including commercial, pricing, strategy, sales, marketing and solutions.
Tony is passionate about the possibilities that converged technologies offer from a sustainability, economic growth and productivity standpoint for Aotearoa.
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Roger became Port of Auckland's Chief Executive Officer in March 2022, and is leading a commercial, cultural and safety transformation of the port.
Before joining Port of Auckland, Roger was CEO of Lyttelton Port Company for two years. Lyttleton is the main import and export hub of the South Island. Prior to that Roger worked for Air New Zealand for 6.5 years. His last role at Air New Zealand was Group General Manager Airports, in which he managed all ground handling and lounge operations at 55 airports around the globe, covering 2,800 staff who handle 18 million passengers annually.
He has held several senior leadership roles with Goodman Fielder, including Managing Director of Quality Bakers – New Zealand. Prior to joining Goodman Fielder Roger served for 20 years in the Australian Army, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel.
He holds an MBA, a Masters of Business in Integrated Logistics Management, as well as Bachelor Degrees in Economics and Arts. Born in Australia, Roger first came to live in New Zealand in 2007, he fell in love with our beautiful country and now calls it home. Four years ago, he became a New Zealand citizen. An Australian Rules tragic, Roger barracks for the Melbourne Football Club.
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Guy is General Manager, Governance Leadership Centre of the Institute of Directors. He is an experienced senior leader who has worked with public, private and not-for-profit entities in New Zealand, Fiji, Mongolia, Australia and the United States.
His previous senior roles include Deputy Chief Executive, Strategy and Organisation Performance at Te Puni Kōkiri; Deputy Secretary Natural Resources Policy at Ministry for the Environment.
Most recently, he ran his own freelance consultancy practice supporting public sector senior executives and their teams to deliver high quality decision-making, advice and policy implementation. In each of these roles, he engaged on a range of natural resource, environmental and other issues with iwi/hapū and other Māori interests.
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Becky Hare
Auckland Branch Manager
+64 27 642 1099
+64 9 905 4804
Becky.Hare@iod.org.nz
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Members — $75.00
Non-members — $105.00
