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New Plymouth

The Great
New Zealand
AI Roadshow

Proudly Presented By

Datacom Microsoft ANZ MBIE Hudson Gavin Martin Numa Check Point
Business Mentors NZ Motuihe Oveflo BrandIQ
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Programme - New Plymouth

Morning
9:00
Opening Keynote
Justin Flitter, AI New Zealand
9:20
Building a Frontier AI Organisation
Richard Kenyon, Datacom
9:50
Local Business Story
Nick Carey, Green Meadows Beef
10:10
Roadmap to Safe AI Adoption
Raymond Schippers, Check Point
10:30
Morning Tea
11:00
AI-ready or AI-exposed? 5 Key Legal Issues
Anchali Anandanayagam, 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
AI Workshop
Asa Cox and Justin Flitter
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
3:00
Tech Demo
Check Point
3:30
Q&A Panel Discussion
All speakers
3:45
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!

IBM's Watson beats the best human quiz champions on live TV. The first time most people saw a machine handle real language.

2017

The Transformer arrives

Google researchers publish “Attention Is All You Need”. The architecture behind every modern AI model is born.

2020

Foundation models scale up

GPT-3 shows one giant, general-purpose model can write, summarise and code. The foundation-model era begins.

2022

ChatGPT reaches everyone

100 million users in two months. AI leaves the lab and lands on every desk and phone.

2023–24

Models that see, hear and reason

GPT-4, Claude and Gemini go multimodal and far more capable. Businesses start putting them to real work.

2025–26

Agents, and AI in everything

AI shifts from answering to acting, woven into the tools and workflows we already use every day.

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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
Today...

Everyone has AI.

Powerful LLMs

The same frontier models, in everyone's hands.

Shiny Copilots

The same assistants, in every tool.

Integrated everywhere

Built into the software you already use.

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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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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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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

Pockets of AI use. Wins that never make it to the team.

Policies and basic training

Rules without rituals. Knowledge that fades after the session.

Scattered tool adoption

A different copilot per app. No shared playbook.

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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. They’re now rethinking where AI belongs.

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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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Starting now?

Quick wins to get you moving.

Because standing still means you’re going backwards.

Work lives in your inbox

Safely connect AI to take the admin out of your daily life.

Create a habit

For every task, ask AI to help.

Learn together

Share use cases and prompts across the team.

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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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Time savers

Agents out of the box doing the tedious stuff.

Report fact-checker

Saved an engineering company over 1,000 hours a year.

Competitor spy-craft

Helped a software company see the next wave first.

Asking better questions

Helped a graduate intern create smarter data-flows that eliminate copy-paste migrations.

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

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Smarter plays

The competitive advantage.

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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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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The AI OS

The power move for Monday.

Connected

Your data, tools and team in one workspace.

Governed

Guardrails and permissions, set once.

Trusted

Secure, auditable, built on your data.

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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 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
Nick Carey

Up Next

Local Business Story.

Nick Carey

Green Meadows Beef

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Raymond Schippers

Up Next

Roadmap to
Safe AI Adoption.

Raymond Schippers

Check Point

Speaker Intro Slide
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Morning Tea - back in 30

The Great
New Zealand
AI Roadshow

Proudly Presented By

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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

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Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

Up Next

AI Advisory
Pilot Program.

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

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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 in 60

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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

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Tech Demo

Microsoft Copilot
at work.

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Tech Demo

Zero to hero
with Numa.

Numa
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Tech Demo

Deploying
AI safeguards.

Check Point
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Expert Panel

Questions &
Answers

Expert panel & audience discussion

Proudly Presented By

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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

Enjoy the
Roadshow
After Party.

Networking, drinks and eats.

Proudly Presented By

Datacom Microsoft ANZ MBIE Hudson Gavin Martin Numa Check Point
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