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Auckland · Shed 10

The Great
New Zealand
AI Roadshow

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Programme

Morning

9:00

Opening Keynote

Justin Flitter, AI New Zealand

9:20

Building a Frontier AI Organisation

Richard Kenyon, Datacom

9:50

The Advisor in Your Pocket: The Future of SME Advisory

Larissa Logan, ALYRT

10:10

Roadmap to Safe AI Adoption

Raymond Schippers, Check Point

10:30

Ministerial Address

Hon Cameron Brewer, Minister for Small Business & Manufacturing

10:40

Morning Tea

11:10

AI-ready or AI-exposed? 5 Key Legal Issues

Anchali Anandanayagam, Hudson Gavin Martin

11:40

AI to Help You Grow Profitably: Zero to Hero in 90 Days

Asa Cox, Arcanum

12:00

RBP AI Advisory Pilot Programme

Glen McCloy, MBIE

12:05

AI Workshop

Asa Cox and Justin Flitter

12:40

Lunch

Afternoon

1:40

Empowering Mentors with Practical AI Solutions

Sarah Trotman ONZM, Business Mentors New Zealand

2:10

AI Governance

Eva Hartshorn-Sanders

2:15

Playful AI for Culture and Brand

Steve Ballantyne, Brand IQ

2:35

Tech Demo

Datacom

2:55

Tech Demo

Arcanum

3:15

Tech Demo

Check Point

3:35

Q&A Panel Discussion

All speakers

3:50

Key Takeaways and Next Steps

Justin Flitter, AI New Zealand

4:00

Networking After Party

4:00 – 5:30pm · Music by Scotia Sounds

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Justin Flitter

Up Next

Everyone has AI.
The difference is you.

Justin Flitter

Founder · AI New Zealand

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The Moment We’re In

“

“This year AI stopped being a sideshow and started getting things done.”

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Paradigm Shift

From asking to delegating.

2025 — Ask & Act

Ask AI to research a topic. Read the output. Decide what to do with it. Do it yourself.

2026 — Delegate & Done

AI researches, synthesises, and delivers a briefing, presentation, sales collateral, or social post. You review. That's it.

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4×

the global average

Claude · 2025 Usage Data

New Zealand is an early,
high-uptake AI country.

Claude usage in 2025 was roughly four times the global per‑capita average — Kiwi businesses are leaning in faster than almost anywhere else on earth.

NZ AI Uptake

NZ AI Adoption · 2026

AI use in New Zealand is
widespread but shallow.

Breadth — who's using AI 78%

Depth — strategic integration 12%

Most businesses have experimented with AI tools — few have embedded them into how they actually work.

NZ AI Adoption

AI Adoption Challenges

Organisations are stuck between experimentation and scale.

Individual tools. Inconsistent outputs. Knowledge trapped in whoever happens to be using AI that day. That's AI theatre. It looks productive. It doesn't move a metric.

Individual experimentation

Policies and basic training

Scattered tool adoption

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AI Everywhere

Three ways AI is impacting us every day.

Language

LLMs you can ask questions, research topics, and delegate tasks to.

Voice

Takes and receives calls, listens for multi-lingual instructions, so your business speaks every language, 24/7.

Vision

AI that sees. From CCTV safety monitoring, to Meta glasses and self-driving vehicles — the world becomes data.

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AI for Business — Real World NZ Example

Computer Vision at work — right here in New Zealand.

Inviol — AI Safety

Plugs into existing CCTV. Detects H&S risks in real-time. Turns footage into coaching moments automatically. No extra cameras required.

67%

Risk reduction per site

40%

Fewer real incidents

61%

Machine-on-plant drop

2 mo

To 60% risk reduction

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NZ AI Adoption · 2026 Research

Where AI is used vs underused.

High Use — “Pre-reasoning friendly”

›Search & information retrieval
›Document drafting & editing
›Transcription & meeting notes
›Comms, marketing & image generation

Underused — Deep reasoning required

›Risk & strategy
›Legal & compliance
›Planning & investment / business-case work
›Data integration & assurance

Pockets of Advanced Use

Call centres with AI assistants, and technical teams — Treasury economists and software developers — using frontier models for coding, data cleaning, analysis, and automation. Some run AI-written deterministic scripts locally to keep sensitive data off the cloud.

AI Use vs Underuse

“

“Stop treating AI like a search engine. Start treating it like the smartest contractor you’ve ever hired.”

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AI for Business — Culture

The culture that wins with AI.

Technology adoption has always been a culture game. AI is no different. You can buy the tools — you can't buy the mindset.

Curiosity

Critical Thinking

Practical Guidelines

Essential Skills

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AI for Work — Approach

Build a Context Engine, not just a chat habit.

Your AI assistant is only as smart as the context you give it. Advanced users aren't using better AI — they're feeding it better information.

Domain Knowledge

Your expertise & judgement

+

Lived Experience

Human in the loop

+

Public & Company Data

Sources & references

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AI for Business — Operating System

Your whole team. One AI operating system. Consistent results.

Your methodology, brand voice, and workflows encoded into a single shared AI environment. Connected. Governed. Improving monthly.

Skills Layer

Knowledge Layer

Integration Layer

Governance Layer

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The AI Mindset

“

AI doesn’t replace your brainpower — it handles the tedious work so you can put it to better use.

Justin Flitter · newzealand.ai

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🚀

The tools are ready...
are you?

AI won't replace the curious, the critical thinkers, and the boldly human. It will make them extraordinary. You can take the lead — if you decide to move.

Justin Flitter

Founder — newzealand.ai

newzealand.ai

AI Advisors — NZ's AI Academy

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Richard Kenyon

Up Next

Building a Frontier AI Organisation.
The rise of the human in the age of AI.

Richard Kenyon

Datacom

Speaker Intro Slide

Larissa Logan

Up Next

The Advisor in Your Pocket:
The Future of SME Advisory.

Larissa Logan

ALYRT

Speaker Intro Slide

Raymond Schippers

Up Next

Roadmap to
Safe AI Adoption.

Raymond Schippers

Check Point

Speaker Intro Slide

Hon Cameron Brewer

Up Next

Ministerial
Address.

Hon Cameron Brewer

Minister for Small Business & Manufacturing

Speaker Intro Slide

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Morning Tea - Back at 11:10

The Great
New Zealand
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Anchali Anandanayagam

Up Next

AI-ready or AI-exposed? Key Legal Issues You Need to Consider

Anchali Anandanayagam

Hudson Gavin Martin

Speaker Intro Slide

Asa Cox

Up Next

AI to help you grow profitably:
zero to hero in 90 days.

Asa Cox

Arcanum

Speaker Intro Slide

Glen McCloy

Up Next

AI Advisory
Pilot Program.

Glen McCloy

MBIE

Speaker Intro Slide

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Workshop Session

Discuss practical ways
AI could benefit
your business.

Facilitated By

Asa Cox & Justin Flitter

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Lunch Time - Back at 1:40

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New Zealand
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Sarah Trotman

Up Next

Empowering Mentors with
practical AI solutions.

Sarah Trotman, ONZM

Business Mentors New Zealand

Speaker Intro Slide

Eva Hartshorn-Sanders

Up Next

AI
Governance.

Eva Hartshorn-Sanders

Speaker Intro Slide

Steve Ballantyne

Up Next

Playful AI for
Culture and Brand.

Steve Ballantyne

Brand IQ

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Tech Demo

Microsoft Copilot
at work.

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Tech Demo

Zero to hero
with Numa.

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Tech Demo

Deploying
AI safeguards.

Check Point

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Expert Panel

Questions &
Answers

Expert panel & audience discussion

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Justin Flitter

Up Now

Closing remarks & insights from the day.

Justin Flitter

Founder · AI New Zealand

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Networking After Party

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Roadshow
After Party.

Networking, drinks and eats.

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