CONFERENCE PROGRAMME - Waikato Management School
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<strong>CONFERENCE</strong> <strong>PROGRAMME</strong><br />
<strong>CONFERENCE</strong> <strong>PROGRAMME</strong><br />
TelstraClear Pacific Events Centre<br />
Manukau City, New Zealand<br />
Sunday 23 – Wednesday 26 September 2007<br />
www.smallenterpriseconference2007.com<br />
Small Enterprise Conference 2007, 23-26 September 2007 Page 1
<strong>CONFERENCE</strong> <strong>PROGRAMME</strong><br />
Sunday 23 September<br />
6.00 pm Mayoral Reception at Villa Maria Estate – Hosted by Manukau City Council<br />
Monday 24 September<br />
9.00 am Maori Blessing<br />
Opening Remarks from Sir Barry Curtis, Mayor of Manukau City<br />
9.15 am Welcome: David Fuller, President of ANZRSAI<br />
9.30 am Opening Address: Hon Lianne Dalziel, New Zealand's Minister for Small Business<br />
10.00 am Morning Tea<br />
10.30 am Plenary Address: Rachel Brown, CEO, Sustainable Business Network<br />
“Sustainable Business Practice – New Zealand Businesses Walking the Talk.”<br />
11.00 – 12.30 pm First Concurrent Sessions - Monday<br />
11.00 – 11.45 am<br />
Topic: A Business<br />
Development Staircase for<br />
SMEs<br />
Chair: John Hamilton,<br />
Canterbury Development<br />
Corporation<br />
11.45 – 12.30 am<br />
Topic:<br />
Building an economy –<br />
the Southland way. Take<br />
your pick! - It’s Oil, Lignite<br />
or Tourism<br />
Chair: Venture Southland<br />
Topic: Sustainable Business<br />
Practice – In Practice<br />
Chair: Enterprise Waitakere<br />
Case studies of local<br />
businesses, SCA Hygiene and<br />
Fish Eye (Ponsonby) who are<br />
‘walking the talk’. Also a look at<br />
successful sustainable tourism<br />
with Activate Northland and what<br />
the government is doing with an<br />
address from New Zealand<br />
Trade & Enterprise.<br />
12.30 – 1.30 pm Lunch and Networking<br />
11.00 – 11.45 am<br />
Topic: They’re Taking Over<br />
State Highway Six – a Region<br />
Building a Data Superhighway<br />
Presenter: Chris O’Connell,<br />
Chair: Nelson Regional<br />
Economic Development Agency<br />
11.45 – 12.30 am<br />
Topic: The Sport Horse Cluster<br />
– a Huge Leap Forward<br />
Putting some structure around<br />
an industry sector.<br />
Presenter: Astrid Lambert<br />
Enterprise Franklin<br />
Academic Presentations:<br />
Track: Entrepreneurship<br />
Education<br />
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4 Papers<br />
Academic Presentations:<br />
Track: Regional<br />
Communities and<br />
Development<br />
4 Papers<br />
1.30 pm Plenary Discussion: Rachel Depree, Ministry for the Environment<br />
“Sustainable Business Growth: Key learning’s – the role for Economic Development Practitioners”<br />
1.45 pm Keynote Address: Professor Roger R. Stough, Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University<br />
2.30 – 3.30 pm Second Concurrent Sessions - Monday<br />
Academic Presentations:<br />
Track: Advising and<br />
supporting small<br />
business<br />
4 Papers
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2.30 – 3.00 pm<br />
Restructuring an<br />
Economic Development<br />
Organisation Around the<br />
Regional Strategy<br />
Presenter:<br />
Astrid Lambert, Enterprise<br />
Franklin<br />
3.00 – 3.30 pm<br />
Topic: Helping New<br />
Businesses Secure a<br />
Banking Partner – the<br />
Bank-able New Zealand<br />
Model”<br />
Chair: Sandy Turner,<br />
Business Development<br />
Centre, Hamilton<br />
2.30 – 3.00pm<br />
Topic: Digital Communities –<br />
Opportunities and Challenges<br />
(Part 1)<br />
Chair: Chris Lipscombe,<br />
Regional EDA Ltd and EDANZ<br />
Digital Communities Group<br />
3.00 – 3.30pm<br />
3.30 – 4.00 pm Afternoon Tea<br />
Topic: Third time lucky!<br />
HuttCity.Com – a Website<br />
Portal for Small Businesses to<br />
do Business Over the Internet.<br />
Presenter: Nicholas Lucas<br />
City Development, Hutt City<br />
Council<br />
4.00 – 5.30 pm Third Concurrent Sessions - Monday<br />
2.30 – 3.00 pm<br />
Topic: Business Retention and<br />
Expansion (BR&E) as an<br />
Economic Development Strategy<br />
Chair: Andrew Powrie, Vision<br />
Manawatu<br />
3.00 – 3.30 pm<br />
Topic:Succession Planning –the<br />
key to Economic Transformation<br />
Chair: Peter Harris, Dunedin City<br />
Council, Economic Development<br />
Unit<br />
Topic: Hearing the Voice of Business – The New Tertiary Education Environment in New Zealand<br />
Chair: Grant Klinkum, Tertiary Education Commission<br />
Overview:<br />
Grant Klinkum (TEC) and Auckland Plus - Yvette Hellyer, Building Relationships – The Auckland<br />
Metro Project.<br />
Best Practice Example:<br />
UNITEC/ Waitakere Enterprise –as (The relationship between a tertiary institution and a business<br />
support network) - a case study<br />
Open Forum - discussion<br />
TEC – Closing with a where to from here ie “Building relationships with Business”<br />
6.00 pm Networking Function<br />
Academic Presentations:<br />
Track: Entrepreneurship<br />
Education<br />
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2 Papers<br />
Academic<br />
Presentations:<br />
Track: Entrepreneurship<br />
Education<br />
4 Papers<br />
Academic Presentations:<br />
Track: Small Business<br />
Finance<br />
2 Papers<br />
Academic Presentations:<br />
Track: Community,<br />
Ethnic, Family Rural and<br />
Social Enterprise<br />
4 Papers<br />
Academic Presentations:<br />
Track: Regional<br />
Development &<br />
Infrastructural<br />
Development<br />
2 Papers<br />
Academic Presentations:<br />
Track: Advising and<br />
Supporting Small<br />
Business<br />
4 Papers
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TUESDAY 25 September<br />
8.30 am Welcome: Sandi Morrison, Chair of EDANZ<br />
8.45 am Keynote Address: Lindsay Tisch, New Zealand National Party's Spokesperson on Small Business<br />
9.15 am Keynote Address: John Brackenridge, CEO, NZ Merino Ltd (invited)<br />
10.00 am Morning Tea<br />
10.30 am Plenary Introduction: Phil Lewin, Interim CEO, Regional EDA Ltd<br />
“Regional Strategies - Regional EDAs”<br />
10.50 – 12.30 pm First Concurrent Sessions - Tuesday<br />
Topic: Regional and Local<br />
Economies - the New Zealand<br />
Scene<br />
Chair: Bevan Graham, CEO,<br />
EDANZ<br />
Speaker:<br />
David Wilson, AUT – “The<br />
case For Local Economic<br />
Development”<br />
Panel:<br />
Murray Cleverley, Aoraki<br />
Development Trust<br />
Jeff Troon, Venture Southland<br />
Astrid Lambert, Enterprise<br />
Franklin<br />
OPEN FORUM<br />
12.30 – 1.30 pm Lunch and Networking<br />
Topic: Indigenous<br />
Entrepreneurship in Australasia<br />
Chair: Howard Frederick, Unitec<br />
Panel:<br />
Dr Dennis Foley, Swinburne<br />
University of Technology<br />
(Melbourne)<br />
Ms Ella Henry – of Maori<br />
Television fame and business<br />
development consultant<br />
Ms Ana Koloto founder of<br />
Koloto and Associates the<br />
leading Pacific Research<br />
consultancy in the country.<br />
A panel discussion highlighting<br />
best-practice examples showing<br />
that Indigenous people can<br />
improve their standards of living<br />
through enterprise.<br />
Academic Presentations<br />
Track: TBA<br />
Academic Presentations<br />
Track TBA<br />
1.30 pm Keynote Address: Geoff Brown, Head of Markets and Products, New Zealand Stock Exchange<br />
2.15 – 2.45 pm Plenary Address: Melissa Crockett, Director, Potiki Adventures – “fast tracking a start-up – lessons learned”<br />
Academic Presentations<br />
Track TBA<br />
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2.45 – 3. 30 pm Second Concurrent Sessions – Tuesday<br />
Topic (Part 1): Accelerating Maori Economic Development<br />
A session for Maori business advisors and economic development<br />
practitioners led by Peter and James Johnston (legal advisors to<br />
Maori businesses from Rainey Collins)<br />
Topic: Digital Communities –<br />
Opportunities and Challenges<br />
– where to from here (Part 2)<br />
Chair: EDANZ Digital<br />
Communities group<br />
Academic Presentations<br />
Track: Entrepreneurship<br />
Education<br />
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2 Papers<br />
3.30 – 4.00 pm Afternoon Tea<br />
4.00 - 5.30 pm Third Concurrent Sessions - Tuesday<br />
Accelerating Maori Economic Development contd.<br />
Workshop<br />
They will introduce best practice examples around advice and<br />
support for small business and will showcase a successful Maori<br />
business.<br />
Melissa Crockett and the team from Potiki Adventures will also<br />
participate in this session.<br />
5.30 pm Host Organisation AGMs<br />
7.00pm Conference Dinner<br />
Academic Presentations:<br />
Track: Entrepreneurship<br />
Education<br />
3 Papers<br />
Academic Presentations:<br />
Track: Community, Ethnic,<br />
Family, Rural and Social<br />
Enterprise<br />
3 Papers<br />
Academic<br />
Presentations:<br />
Track: Regional<br />
Development &<br />
Infrastructural<br />
Development<br />
2 Papers<br />
Academic<br />
Presentations:<br />
Track: Regional<br />
Development and<br />
infrastructural<br />
Development<br />
3 Papers<br />
Academic<br />
Presentations:<br />
Track: Small Business<br />
Finance<br />
2 Papers
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Wednesday 26 September<br />
8.30 am Welcome: Professor Claire Massey, Chair of SEAANZ<br />
8.45 am Keynote Address: Rod Drury, CEO of Xero Ltd, serial entrepreneur, and winner of the international Technium challenge<br />
Awards 2006-07<br />
“Thinking Big with Small Business”<br />
10.00 am Morning Tea<br />
10.30 am Plenary Discussion: Professor Howard Frederick, UNITEC<br />
“Entrepreneurship – The Process for Developing a Good Idea.”<br />
10.50 am Keynote Address: Liz Macpherson, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Economic Development<br />
"SMEs - Powerhouses of the Economy and Entrepreneurship?"<br />
11.20 – 12.30 pm First Concurrent Sessions - Wednesday<br />
Topic: How Regional Economic Development<br />
Connects Nationally and Locally – the Great Debate<br />
Chair: Wayne Morgan<br />
Panel: Clyde Rogers, Auckland Plus<br />
John Wadsworth, Waitakere Enterprise<br />
Graham Smith, CEO, Katolyst Group, Hamilton<br />
OPEN FORUM<br />
12.30 – 1.30 pm Lunch and Networking<br />
Topic:<br />
“Go Stats” - working with<br />
small businesses to provide<br />
Information around business<br />
helper and other labour<br />
market information.<br />
A case study highlighting the<br />
value to a small business<br />
Presenter: Stephen Moore<br />
Statistics New Zealand<br />
Academic Presentations:<br />
Track: Community, Ethnic,<br />
Family, Rural and Social<br />
Enterprise<br />
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3 Papers<br />
Academic Presentations:<br />
Track: Entrepreneurship<br />
Education<br />
3 Papers<br />
1.30 pm Keynote Address: Professor Philip McCann, Professor of Economics, University of <strong>Waikato</strong><br />
2.15 pm Plenary Discussions: “The New Zealand Berryfruit Story – Commercialising an Innovative Idea” David Eder (invited)<br />
3.00 – 3.30 pm Afternoon Tea<br />
Academic Presentations<br />
Track: Regional<br />
Development and<br />
infrastructural<br />
Development<br />
3 Papers
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3.30 – 5.00 pm Second Concurrent Sessions - Wednesday<br />
Topic: Getting the most out of major/mega events<br />
A panel discussion featuring:<br />
Rachael Dacy, Group Manager, Events ACC (Rachael is responsible for Auckland<br />
region’s planning around RWC 2011)<br />
Lara Middleditch, MED<br />
( Lara is working with a National Panel to prepare a strategic framework for leveraging<br />
major events nationally)<br />
Chair: Tracy Moyes, AucklandPlus<br />
Thursday 27 September<br />
Academic Presentations:<br />
Track: Government Policies<br />
on Enterprise Development<br />
1 Paper<br />
Academic Presentations:<br />
Track: Regional<br />
Development and<br />
infrastructural Development<br />
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3 Papers<br />
Academic Presentations:<br />
Track TBA<br />
Policy Forum and Doctoral Colloquium<br />
Manukau Institute of Technology North Campus, Otara<br />
For specific information regarding the Policy Forum and the Doctoral Colloquium, please visit the conference website www.smallenterpriseconference2007.com<br />
NB: Please note that the conference program is subject to change. Any amendments will be updated on the conference website and a final<br />
conference program will be issued to all registered delegates on arrival at the conference.
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