Wednesday 25 September 2024
Date: 7.30am, Wednesday 25 September
Venue: The Northern Club, Auckland Central
Topic: AI with Mark Laurence and Simon Robertson
Tickets: $50pp - includes a delicious Northern Club 'Fork & Walk' Breakfast.
Join us as welcome Mark Laurence from Ten Past Tomorrow and business reporter and investment specialist Simon Robertson (Marsden, 1983-87) as guest speakers for the KCOCA Spring Business Breakfast where we will focus on AI.
Mark Laurence, a trained futurist, is the founder of Ten Past Tomorrow. His objective is to align with human-centric, NZ organisations.
"AI is becoming a major force in helping organisations balance profit with purpose, as long as it is deployed knowledgably, skillfully, and ethically. My mission is to guide New Zealand businesses to understand what AI means for them in their evolution. The change AI is bringing will likely be the biggest we will see in the lifetime of our organisations. I want to help NZ be ready and to lead the way in the ethical application of it AI. Through partnering with the right businesses and organisations, I think there's an exciting opportunity to set a 'tone' for how businesses can embrace AI to 'do more with less' and use it to the benefit rather than the detriment of their people."
Simon Robertson is an investment professional who lived for 20 years in New York and Hong Kong working for Goldman Sachs and UBS. He returned to NZ to work for Rank Group and more recently, Hobson. Simon also writes a column on all things finance every Saturday morning for Business Desk NZ. He lives between Waiheke Island and Auckland.