Paul Roberts
Turnberry Consulting 
As a Director of Turnberry Consulting, Paul Roberts has been extensively involved in a wide range of planning and development projects internationally, specialising in university campuses, sports facilities and estate-driven developments. He has led numerous strategic development projects including university master plans, development feasibility and market studies, retail and commercial schemes, science and technology projects, and sports projects.
His experience in the
higher education field is expansive. Roberts has dealt with a variety of complex campus master planning issues, has had responsibility for negotiating many land-use planning and legal agreements, and has conducted numerous research projects.
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Universities and the Physical Brand
What is the link between institutional setting and institutional brand? How does physical environment impact upon the long-term success of a university? How can a positive physical brand be created? Does campus experience matter? Paul Roberts explores these questions in a session which addresses the role and value of place upon institutional performance from an international perspective.
Paul Roberts proudly sponsored by
Sam Johnson
Director, WeMobilise
Sam Johnson is the Director of WeMobilise. As Former Young New Zealander of the Year and Sir Peter Blake Trust Awardee, Sam regularly works with non-profits, corporate groups and government agencies on team motivation, community mobilisation, strategy development and crisis management.
Sam specialises in carefully curating diverse teams of people to achieve outcomes for clients and partners and has spent the past five years heavily involved in socially conscious entrepreneurial and resilience movements throughout the Asia/ Pacific region. His journey started in founding the internationally acclaimed Student Volunteer Army following the Christchurch earthquakes that mobilised 11,000 volunteers to clean up the city.
Sam has been involved in disaster response missions to Japan, Vanuatu and Nepal and has worked on campaigns with the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction in Geneva.
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Sam’s keynote presentation will focus on harnessing the passion of today’s students to contribute to a better world. Deeply linked to personal growth, leadership and self-awareness, he will draw on his own journey and experience as founder of New Zealand’s Student Volunteer Army – developed in the wake of the Christchurch earthquakes and subsequent projects. Sam will offer practical tools and techniques to mobilise students and foster a new generation of civic mindedness.
Sam Johnson proudly sponsored by
Nigel Latta
Glenn Martin
One evening in 1981, when Glenn Martin was a Biochemistry student at New Zealand’s Otago University, he found himself in the pub with friends talking about why so much of the technological promise of the sixties had gone unfulfilled. ‘Weren’t we supposed to have jetpacks by now?’ they wondered. What went wrong?
Tens of thousands of people around the world probably had similar conversations at one time or another. But Glenn was the only one to get up the next day and go to the library to start working on it.
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Glenn Martin proudly sponsored by
Frances Valintine
Frances is the founder of Tech Futures Lab and the Founder and Chair of The Mind Lab. The Mind Lab is a private-public partnership with Unitec delivering programmes in digital and collaborative technologies. Each year The Mind Lab teaches over 40,000 school students as well as 1200 teachers who study a postgraduate programme in Digital & Collaborative Learning.
Frances works in New Zealand and internationally on cross-sector initiatives with individuals and organisations that are navigating and preparing for technological advances and disruption.
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Rhetoric to Reality: How does our rhetoric meet students’ reality?
The year is 2017. Students born in the shadow of Millennium celebrations are heading towards higher education armed with aspirations of changing the world.
These students flick through the glossy brochures of traditional education qualifications packaged uniformly into three-year packages for a world that no longer exists.
A tsunami of change is afoot as disruptive technologies create new industries and new opportunities for these students while tried and tested business models crumble and fold into oblivion.
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Frances Valintine proudly sponsored by
Sir Pita Sharples
Dr, Hon Sir Pita Sharples is a true leader, with mana and experience in many areas of New Zealand’s cultural, political and academic life. First trained as a teacher, he earned a Masters and PhD in Anthropology and Linguistics, and went on to be a Professor of Education at Auckland University—receiving a CBE for services to education in 1990 and a KNZM for Services to for services as a Member of Parliament and to Māori in 2015.
Despite his long career in academia, Sir Pita is best known for his roles as founding co-leader of the Māori Party, Minister of Māori Affairs, and Associate Minister of Education and Corrections.
Described as “kaumatua to the nation,” Sir Pita has played a key role in the Māori renaissance of the last 40 years, operating as a bicultural advocate while working to reconnect Māori with the treasures of their cultural history. Founding CEO of the Race Relations Office, he spearheaded the first intertribal urban marae, and was a significant figure in the development of the kura kaupapa movement, the New Zealand School of Māori Weaponry, and the award winning Te Roopu Manutaki Māori cultural group. Member, advisor, and chairman of countless boards, initiatives, and advisory boards, his achievements are as varied as they are numerous.
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