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Wellington

The Great
New Zealand
AI Roadshow

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Programme - Wellington

Morning

9:00

Opening Keynote

Justin Flitter, AI New Zealand

9:25

Building a Frontier AI Organisation

Richard Kenyon, Datacom

9:50

Roadmap to Safe AI Adoption

Ben Schollitt, Check Point

10:10

Empowering Mentors with Practical AI Solutions

Sarah Trotman ONZM, Business Mentors New Zealand

10:30

Morning Tea

11:00

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

Simon Martin, Hudson Gavin Martin

11:30

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

Asa Cox, Arcanum

11:50

AI for Boards and Directors

Serge van Dam

12:10

Ministerial Address

Hon Cameron Brewer, Minister for Small Business & Manufacturing

12:25

RBP AI Advisory Project

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment

12:30

Lunch

Afternoon

1:30

Agentic OS at Cogo

Ben Gleisner | Founder & CEO

1:50

Tech Demo

Arcanum

2:10

Tech Demo

Datacom

2:40

Tech Demo

Check Point

3:00

AI Workshop

Asa Cox and Justin Flitter

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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The moment we’re in

Everyone has AI.
The difference is you.

Justin Flitter · Founder, NewZealand.AI

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Timeline

The astonishing pace of innovation.

2011

Watson wins Jeopardy!

2017

The Transformer arrives

2020

Foundation models scale up

2022

ChatGPT reaches everyone

2024

Models that see, hear and reason

2026

AI everywhere.

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Business Problems

The drag on a growing business.

Busy work

BAU bogs down brains in tedious tasks.

Dysfunctional systems

Apps that don’t talk to each other.

Manual data work

Export, modify, import, just to get value from your data.

Siloed knowledge

Trapped inside apps and people’s heads.

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NZ AI Uptake

4× the global average

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.

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NZ AI Adoption · 2026

AI use in New Zealand is
widespread but shallow.

Breadth · who’s using AI78%

Depth · strategic integration12%

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Today

Everyone has AI.

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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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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Business Challenge

How do we get our knowledge working for us?

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At Risk

Resilience and relevance.

Resilience

If someone leaves, is their knowledge and IP retained in the company brain?

Relevance

If we don’t adopt and adapt, how will we compete with the companies that do?

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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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Compliance win

Back office saved 10 hours every month.

Two files in SharePoint

Copilot Studio Agent

WhatsApp deployment

JF

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

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

JF

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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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.

+

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.

Start with our Playbook @ newzealand.ai, then lead from the front.

Exec AI Briefing

Align your leadership on capability, opportunity and governance.

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

Sarah Trotman

Up Next

Empowering Mentors with
practical AI solutions.

Sarah Trotman, ONZM

Business Mentors New Zealand

Speaker Intro Slide

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Morning Tea - back in 30

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Simon Martin

Up Next

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

Simon Martin

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

Serge van Dam

Up Next

AI for Boards and Directors.

Serge van Dam

Speaker Intro Slide

Hon Cameron Brewer

Up Next

Ministerial
Address.

Hon Cameron Brewer

Minister for Small Business & Manufacturing

Speaker Intro Slide

Glen McCloy

Up Next

AI Advisory
Pilot Program.

Glen McCloy

MBIE

Speaker Intro Slide

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Lunch Time - back in 60

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$Ben Gleisner$

Up Next

Agentic OS at Cogo.

Ben Gleisner

Founder & CEO

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Tech Demo

Zero to hero
with Numa.

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Tech Demo

Microsoft Copilot
at work.

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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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Audience Survey

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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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After Party.

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