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12 BAY OF PLENTY BUSINESS NEWS January/February 2018 Help to build a bright future for people While experts argue over exact details of what the future will bring, most agree the job market, companies, our economy, and our region as a whole is already facing significant change. Are you ready? Will you benefit? Welcome to 2018! When you started work again did you take a moment to consider what life will be like in the first weeks of 2020? It’s only two years away. Are you prepared for it, with the world changing at ever-increasing speed? Will you change fast enough this year to not be left behind? 1. Business owners peer-to-peer support at PoweringON deep-dive workshop discussing online search, advertising and analytics. 2. Employees, entrepreneurs and business owners at Startup Weekend event sharing new ideas for new business models. 3. Expert from Toi-Ohomai shares the latest digital technology presenting new job opportunities in forestry to the next generation. 4. College students celebrate their Young Enterprise Scheme experience at the end of the year-long in-school programme. 5. Making first actual sales of their first product, future business leaders at local expo. Get the help you want to build a bright future go to: MadVentures.nz (Young People/Parents), PoweringOn.nz (SME Owners) or contact Venture Centre on info@venturecentre.co.nz to apply for business startup and incubation courses, events and programmes. Automation - using digital tools, robotics and artificial intelligence - is being deployed in local industries, interactions are increasingly global, and technology is rapidly changing the number and way customers use our region’s businesses. Our growing elderly population is forecast to be inadequately supported by younger generations who are, according to current employers, woefully unprepared to thrive in the world they’re growing into. This also means they’ll struggle to ensure our region’s sustainability. The organisations, behaviours, ways of working, learning and earning which have delivered us with the life we experience today are not what’s needed for the flourishing future we want - for ourselves, or our children. Everyone needs to learn new ‘stuff’ this year, no matter their age, and apply it with a lens that focuses on the future. That learning needs to be personally relevant and delivered by people you trust - because they have done what they recommend themselves, know it works and can tailor it to your specific needs. 1 Fortunately this is closer than ever, thanks to Tauranga City and Western Bay of Plenty District Councils’ future-focused Digital Enablement Project. The project continues its pilot into this year with activities and feature events for the region’s youth, SME owners and Startup founders to meet the challenges and create a flourishing future. Building on first indicators of success After just eight months of implementing the pilot Digital Enablement Project, the team at Venture Centre is convinced that the heart of ensuring the best possible future for you, your family, your business and your community lies in learning to work together, and from each other. Venture Centre co-founder and director Pascale Hyboud- Peron says the Bay’s diverse community, across all ages and stages, has been generous in its willingness to help develop the capability of others. “More than just looking for customer leads, they are willing to share knowledge and expertise to help someone grow, whether the person is likely to be a customer or not.” “Eight months is a short time-span to make a call on this pilot but what we can say is the feedback from the diverse range of people we’ve already brought together through this project has been extremely positive,” she says. “The lack of barriers to accessing support from peers, as well as experts, having a wide range of people of all ages and stages involved and connected to each other, and the opportunity to learn new skills through that community on an as-needed basis, is helping business owners grow, young people become engaged and new founders to get started,” Pascale says. How do you take advantage? The Digital Enablement Project is facilitated through the community, says another of the three co-founders and directors of Venture Centre, Jo Allum. “It’s is easy for people to be focused on present needs and demands, near-term profits and maintaining status quo. That’s Techweek and Youthweek collide in May in the Bay 4 Alongside the ongoing youth, business owner and founder initiatives that run throughout the year, the Digital Enablement Project as a whole reaches a highpoint in May, with both Techweek and Youthweek taking place in the Bay in the same week. Venture Centre is working with Wharf42, NZTech and a collective of social enterprises and corporate partners to bring a two-day learn-by-doing ideation challenge event, GrowPlenty, to fruition during Techweek. GrowPlenty will run alongside a festival of other events from locals, including Marketing First, Waikato University Conference, and a ‘hero’ event - an Ag-Tech conference. The GrowPlenty challenge is focused on global food provision. It will give young people a chance to build a network of experts, entrepreneurs and potential employers from across the country actively working on the challenges and opportunities involved with growing enough food for the world’s burgeoning population. Youthweek, led locally by Tauranga Youth Development Trust, is collaborating with Venture Centre to bring creative coding, digital film-making and drone-flying activities to secondary school and tertiary-aged young people throughout the week. This year’s theme, ‘Be who you want to be’ encourages young people to “Be who you want to be, not what others want to see”. There will also be Youthweek’s usual sports and creative activities to stimulate the body and mind, a feature in previous events. Techweek and Youthweek run from May 19-27. Follow Venture Centre on Facebook for updates and details as they emerge. 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in the Bay BAY OF PLENTY BUSINESS NEWS January/February 2018 13 MADVentures – events for youth Codebrite 22 & 23 January 2018 10:00am till 3:30pm 2 BAU - it’s what feels safe and is the path of least resistance,” Jo says. “But adequately preparing for the future, which is good for all of our community, means actively creating it. The future will be what we want it to be, and we can deliberately choose to construct the world we wish to experience. It is up to us to actively engage and put the energy into constructing it together.” She says the biggest threat we face in the wake of the change is that people are unwilling to commit the time to adapt quickly enough. “If we do not embrace A massive year is ahead, with a wide range of digital and entrepreneurial programmes in place for people in all stages of business, as well as for the next generation. PoweringON, the initiative which gives SME owners digital assessment tools and the connections to implement digital products and services, will continue to extend its network of local providers – digital, financial, legal, marketing and sales experts. PoweringON helps owners maximise multiple opportunities to advance their businesses with advice, training and support, including finding new markets, more efficient business systems and new revenue streams, by using online tools and services. PoweringONPitch PoweringON will hold a Pitch event at the Bay of Plenty Digital and entrepreneurial skills for all ages Business Expo on March 7. With two judges confirmed - SODA Inc chief executive Erin Wansborough, who runs Callaghan Innovation-funded, founder-focused incubator SODA in Hamilton, and SME Network founder Tenby Powell. The pair will provide input and advice to tech businesses whose goal is to help SME owners power-on even more. CO.STARTERS Following on from its first successful programme in November last year, the second intake of CO.STARTERS students will start in February. This nine-week, community-facilitated experience will again bring 10 newbie business people together one evening a week to get a good solid start, validating and testing their ideas ahead of committing capital and effort to launch. QrtHori_BOPBN_Basestation_Oct17.pdf 1 17/10/17 10:37 AM 3 LIFT The LIFT programme, which provides Callaghan Innovation co-funded one-on-one and network support for founders to prepare them for market with scalable businesses, also launches this year. Applications have already been received. MADVentures The ‘MADVentures’ initiative, which encompasses experiences designed for youth who want to ‘Make-a-dent’ in the future, will bring more coding and computational thinking, entrepreneurial learn-by-doing and intergenerational mentoring opportunities to Bay families this year. Codebrite is one of MADVentures’ main programmes. Previously available in Tauranga, the initiative is now connecting active community members in Te Puke and Katikati in a region-wide these technologies, as they emerge and as they change, work with our young people (who easily pick up the new technologies), and use our experience of business alongside new tools and thinking to help them turn their skills into revenue-generating services, and in turn improve our business outcomes, we will be impacted in ways which can not be undone.” Jo says we must also “reassess our risk tolerance and realise change is happening right here, right now, it won’t be ‘put off ‘til tomorrow’”. So what are you going to do? Do nothing and let yourself and your organisation or business be overwhelmed; ignore what’s happening and risk being replaced; wait and miss the opportunity to build deep relationships in the community so you can keep learning together? Or will you seek out the Bay’s community-led Digital Enablement Project and join the collective of youth, SME owners and startup founders – locals making an impact by taking the initiative, trying new things, and committing time to shape our region’s future for the benefit of all. While Tauranga City and Western Bay of Plenty District Councils are contributing some funding support to build the infrastructure and opportunity, Jo says, “the biggest piece of support this project depends 5 network of resources and support, Venture Centre co-founder and director Pascale Hyboud-Peron says. “Parents can support their children to do more than sport outside-of-school this year. They can have fun while learning to code, be problem-seekers, problem-solvers, share knowledge and work with different types of people in teams, on is people”. “Those who commit, and follow-through, participating to make sure Tauranga and Western Bay continues to live up to its reputation as a collaborative, forward-thinking community, which embraces new ideas, entrepreneurs and initiatives – a place where people love to work, live, and play.” too,” she says. “Having an opportunity to use digital tools with the help from community members who use them to make a living allows kids to be more creative and ambitious in their work as they get a real world perspective – the only limit is imagination when there is a community who give their support,” says Pascale. Learn to Code Te Puke 24 January 1:00pm to 3:00pm Learn to Code Katikati 24 January 2018 1:00pm to 3:00pm YES Kickstart | Timata 16 February 2018 10:00 to 1:00pm Parents & Kids coding 20 February 2018 4:00pm to 5:00pm PoweringON – events for business owners Office Hours Legal with Mackenzie Elvin 22 January 2018 19 February 2018 11:00am to 1:00pm Xero user group with Ingham Mora 30 January 2018 9:30am to 10:30 Google for Small Business user group with CreativeQ 31 January 2018 9:30am to 10:30 Office Hours Financials with Crowe Horwath 12 February 2018 11:00am to 1:00pm Office Hours IP with James & Wells 14 February 2018 11:00am to 1:00pm Instigator – events for founders Entrepreneurs Everywhere 14 February 2018 5:30pm to 7:00pm Plug-in & power up C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Coworking – way more than a desk! 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