The Latest Forum Video
The Unitec Forum for the Future has been established to help stimulate discussion about New Zealand’s opportunities and challenges in the global economy. Rod Oram was featured on TV3’s ASB Business Show and TV1’s NZI Business Show to talk about the Unitec Forum of the Future in which he is facilitating. Head of Unitec’s Department of Management and Marketing Dr Robert […]
Tourism Event TweetStream
George Hickton & Graeme Osborne at the UnitecFTF If you are interested in checking out what was discussed during the Tourism event at Unitec last night the best place to review this is to do a full search using the # code below on the tweetstream. #UnitecFTF The hashtag (#) is used to group tweets […]
How can tourism boost NZ's economy? Session 3
“Unitec’s Future Forum this week discusses tourism and what role it can play in boosting New Zealand’s economic performance. Yesterday there was some good news from the tourism sector as inbound visitor numbers rose nine percent in September. Tourism New Zealand chief executive George Hickton talks about the future of the industry.” View the video […]
Unitec Students on ASB Business today
Two students from Unitec featured on ASB Business on TV3 today under the heading Unitec forum – how to raise NZ’s economic performance – Video Thu, 15 Oct 2009 8:01a.m. Auckland’s Unitec Institute of Technology continues to run its Forum for the Future, looking at ways to raise New Zealand’s economic performance. Unitec students Tonya […]
Milk Mavericks Revisited
Tonight at 6:30pm we have Dr John Penno on a panel discussion chaired by Rod Oram, with Dr Tim Mackle and other guests from Unitec. John is Chief Executive of Synlait while Fonterra is the 800 pound gorilla of the industry- sort of like David and Goliath except that a $100m baby company isn’t that […]
Rod Oram video closing the NZ-Aust gap
Source: ONE News Published: 7:24AM Wednesday October 14, 2009 Video from NZI Business October 14: Rod Oram discusses closing the NZ-Aust gap (3:57) The short URI is http://ow.ly/ugf0 The government’s economic goal of lifting living standards to those of Australia by 2025 is being put under the spotlight in a series of debates hosted by […]
Unitec Forum for the Future 1: Unity in Diversity (or, Catching up with Aussie)
It was great to be part of Unitec’s first Forum on the Future last Thursday (October 8th). What could have been a series of speeches from the “usual suspects” (journalists, ex-politicians, commentators) became the beginning of a lively debate on the future of our country – which was exactly the aim of the event. This […]
2025 Event in Photos
Here are a selection of photos taken by Peter J MELLALIEU at the event on Thursday. For the full set go over here. Short link is here http://bit.ly/3JxBiT The topic for the panle was the the 2025 challenge how big is the task and how will we do it? The two guest speakers were Dr […]
3 News 0n ASB Live -Unitec Forum for the Future
Please see link to TV3’s ASB Business website to see Rod Oram’s live interview and story from yesterday morning (Tues Oct 6) on the Unitec Forum for the Future. “Business leaders and students will be getting their heads together over the next couple of weeks to discuss how New Zealand’s economy can catch up with […]
Your Invites are here
We’ve been asked about invites for the event. Studio space is limited so it will be first up/ best dressed. If you are on Facebook you may have seen these invites for each of the 3 forums. Otherwise please contact Judith King – details at foot of the page. Session 1 – 2025 Taskforce October […]