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The Great
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AI Roadshow

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Programme - Hamilton

Morning

9:00

Opening Keynote

Justin Flitter, AI New Zealand

9:30

Building a Frontier AI Organisation

Richard Kenyon, Datacom

10:00

Roadmap to Safe AI Adoption

Ben Schollitt, Check Point

10:20

TBC

10:30

Morning Tea

11:00

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

Andrew Dentice, Hudson Gavin Martin

11:30

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

Asa Cox, Arcanum

11:50

RBP AI Advisory Project

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

12:00

Playful AI for Culture and Brand

Steve Ballantyne, Brand IQ

12:30

Lunch

Afternoon

1:30

Empowering Mentors with Practical AI Solutions

Sarah Trotman ONZM, Business Mentors New Zealand

2:00

Tech Demo

Datacom

2:30

Tech Demo

Arcanum

2:50

Tech Demo

Check Point

3:10

AI Workshop

Asa Cox and Justin Flitter

3:40

Q&A Panel Discussion

All speakers

3:55

Key Takeaways and Next Steps

Justin Flitter, AI New Zealand

4:00

Networking drinks

4:00 – 4:30pm

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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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AI Development

The astonishing pace of innovation.

2011

Watson wins Jeopardy!

2017

The Transformer arrives

2020

Foundation models scale up

2022

ChatGPT reaches everyone

2023–24

Models that see, hear and reason

2025–26

Agents, and AI in everything

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4×

the global average

NZ AI Uptake

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

Scattered tool adoption

Policies and basic training

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Today...

Everyone has AI.

Powerful LLMs

The same frontier models, in everyone's hands.

Shiny Copilots

The same assistants, in every tool.

Integrated everywhere

So everyone can do the same tasks a bit faster.

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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 multilingual 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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Made in New Zealand

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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Compliance win

Back office saved 10 hours every month.

Two files in SharePoint

Copilot Studio Agent

WhatsApp deployment

WhatsApp · Compliance bot

What’s the job code for installing a hot water cylinder?

Hi Justin, is it a gas or electric hot water cylinder?

It’s Gas

Thanks Justin. Use Job Code #276 on your invoice for that.

Please review our safety guidelines for installing a gas water cylinder. [link]

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Low-value use cases

The most common ways we’re using AI.

Search & knowledge retrieval

Document drafting & editing

Transcription & meeting notes

Copywriting & image generation

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AI whoops

What can go wrong.

Prompt injection

A hidden prompt buried in a shopping page made the AI assistant add 500 pairs to the cart.

Taco Bell’s voice AI meltdown

Voice AI hit 500+ drive-throughs, then imploded on TikTok. One customer ordered 18,000 cups of water while the bot kept upselling.

The runaway agent bill

One company rolled out AI with no usage caps. Agents ran unchecked, chaining task after task, and burned $500m of tokens in a single month before anyone noticed.

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

Justin Flitter · newzealand.ai

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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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Smarter plays

The competitive advantage.

Leverage the advanced reasoning capability of LLMs to create your super-powers.

Strategic advisor

Document producer

Agentic action taker

Voice-powered assistant

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Tomorrow...

The difference is you.

Your Knowledge

What you know that the model doesn’t.

Your Experience

The judgement only you have earned.

Your Thinking

The questions only you would ask.

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“AI in the loop won’t set you apart. A culture that asks better questions will.”

Justin Flitter · newzealand.ai

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Leadership

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

Openly asking ‘what if?’

Critical thinking

More than a personality trait.

Practical skills

Learn the new operating logic.

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The 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 and judgement.

+

Lived Experience

Human in the loop.

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Public & Company Data

Sources and references.

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The architecture

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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Tasks for Monday

Shift from scattered to strategic.

Three initiatives you can lead from the front.

Exec AI Briefing

Align your leadership on strategy and risk.

Lunch & Learn

Get the whole team curious and confident.

Identify Use Cases

Find & prioritise where AI pays off first.

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Go be impossible
to replace.

Everyone has the same AI. It’s your curiosity, your experience, the questions you ask that set you apart.

newzealand.ai

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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

Ben Schollitt

Up Next

Roadmap to
Safe AI Adoption.

Ben Schollitt

Check Point

Speaker Intro Slide

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Morning Tea - back in 30

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Andrew Dentice

Up Next

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

Andrew Dentice

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

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

Up Next

AI Advisory
Pilot Program.

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

Speaker Intro Slide

Steve Ballantyne

Up Next

Playful AI for
Culture and Brand.

Steve Ballantyne

Brand IQ

Speaker Intro Slide

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Lunch Time - back in 60

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Sarah Trotman

Up Next

Empowering Mentors with
practical AI solutions.

Sarah Trotman, ONZM

Business Mentors New Zealand

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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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Workshop Session

Discuss practical ways
AI could benefit
your business.

Facilitated By

Asa Cox & Justin Flitter

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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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