
ISPANZ ANNUAL CONFERENCE & AGM
TO BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY 24TH JULY 2023 – 9:00am – 5:00pm
AT Area Events, 1 O’Reily Avenue, Wellington.
Accomodation
Accomodation is available within the same building, or next door, by Boulcott Suites.
Programme
Time | Subject | Speaker |
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9:00am | ISPANZ AGM | Members only |
9:40am | Meet / Greet / Coffee | |
9:50am | Welcome, Housekeeping, Gold Sponsor Intro | ISPANZ President, Shaun Fisher Gold Sponsor, Chorus |
10:10am | Starlink | Andrew Matlock, Starlink APAC Sales |
10:30am | Morning Tea | |
11:00am | Commerce Commission | Ben Oakley and Zeb Walker, Commerce Commission |
11:30am | Cyber Security | Patrick Sharp, GM, Aura Information Security |
12:00pm | LoRaWAN applications | John Burns, WheroNet |
12:30pm | Lunch | |
1:30pm | Te Waipounamu submarine cable | Perrine Dhalluin, Datagrid |
2:00pm | Satellite communications | Optus |
2:30pm | Aofrio’s Cool World of IoT | Graeme Preston, IoT Product Manager, Aofrio |
3:00pm | Afternoon tea | |
3:15pm | Ministerial keynote address | Hon Paul Goldsmith, Minister for Media and Communications |
3:30pm | Making telco policy and changing regulations | Deborah Salter, Communications Policy Manager, MBIE |
4:00pm | AI’s Impact on ISPs | David McDonald, Group CEO, Being AI Nyssa Waters, CEO, Being Consultants |
4:55pm | Closing remarks | ISPANZ President, Shaun Fisher |
From 5:00pm | Drinks at Sudima | Sponsored by ![]() |
Watch this space! We’re finalising our presenter lineup for this year!
Have something you’d like to present? Please reach out to us!
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