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. CLICK HERE to read more 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 bySam 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. CLICK HERE to read more 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 byNigel Latta
Born and raised in Oamaru, Nigel first attended Otago University, where he completed an MSc in Marine Science. He then moved to Auckland where he trained as a Clinical Psychologist and graduated with a Master of philosophy with 1st class honors in Psychology and a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology. Nigel has worked for the last two decades in a number of agencies including Drug and Alcohol rehabilitation, Sex Offender Treatment Programmes, Family Therapy agencies, Child Youth and Family, Probation Services, and extensively in private practice. CLICK HERE to read more Stone Axes and iPhones Human beings are funny old things... in the blink of a geological eye we've gone from hunting and gathering to Facebooking and googling. Where once nothing changed for thousands of years at a time, now everything changes all the time. The problem is that we're still running stone-aged brains in a modern world. Understanding this is the key to making better decisions, and adapting to the ever increasing pace of change. Nigel Latta proudly sponsored by
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. CLICK HERE to read moreGlenn Martin proudly sponsored by