DAY ONE

9.15am Welcome / Keynotes

Pavani Rao Boddapati, “Guiding a creative collective”
Pavani speaks about her experiences leading teams of highly creative individuals at Weta Digital and how a director’s vision comes to life from the collective genius of a team. Insightful examples of managing creative process and artists against the backdrop of time pressures and high expectations.

Dr Mark Bradford, “No egos, no Post-its, no more bystanders”
5mins idea-bomb.

Coliberate, “Mindfulness for creativity”
5mins idea-bomb.

Gus Balbontin, “Adapt”
Every industry and business today, large and small, is facing increasing disruption in the market place. What happened to newspapers, music and others in Media is happening or going to happen to your business and industry. Gus will share the critical lessons learnt over 15 years of disruption in Media. Energetic, inspiring and candid you will learn more in 20mins than what a 3yr MBA could ever teach you.

10.30am Workshops – one of three

12noon Lunch / Networking

1pm Keynotes / Idea Bombs

Aithan Shapira, “Building Business Leaders with Artist’s Instincts”
Aithan is concerned with the future of people in an uncertain world with new leadership strategies, business books + creativity tools published daily. Using time- and science-tested techniques from the arts, we can heighten what we observe + how we listen in perspective-shifting ways that influence what we do.

Nick Kapica, “Tale of two projects”
Using recent projects Nick will show how he has helped diverse teams start thinking like designers. He will introduce the tools he has used to achieve this, and show how design is slowly being seen as a process with people rather than the artefact at the end.

DK, “MindStorming 2.0”
5mins idea-bomb.

Victoria Spackman, “How to train your (or someone else’s) dragon”
Victoria will bring her and her institute’s experience together to help you understand the creative process and how to work with people to sharpen creative skills and bring out the best in both creatives and those who claim not to be. The presentation will focus on connecting with audiences, readers and visitors. Victoria’s background is in media, theatre and film as well as her current role leading the most creative team in the country!

2.15pm Workshops – one of three

3.30pm Afternoon Tea / Networking

4.15pm Workshops – one of three

5.30pm Keynote / Idea Bomb

Gareth Parry & Ruth Kiery, “Sandboxing Insights”
5mins idea-bomb.

Elysa Fenenbock, “Creative Alchemy: Lessons from The Creative Nomad Project”
Design your own life and realign your teams and projects to ignite creative potential and purpose. Leverage risk-taking and prototyping for professional and personal transformation. Lay the foundation for meaningful social impact and innovative DNA, and enjoy experiential storytelling at its best.

6pm Closing / networking

7pm First Day Ends

DAY TWO

9.30am

10am Masterclasses – one of three

Sandboxing Your Way To Creative Solutions

Kiwis are real great at figuring out how to solve problems. We’ve all got ideas about how to deal with the challenge we’re grappling with right now. But which of those ideas will actually work given the people affected, the timing, the root cause of the problem, and the effort to implement? To answer those questions people need to collaborate — that requires purposefully crafted physical, rational, emotional, and political spaces – a behind-the-scenes look at how PwC’s Sandboxes create these spaces.
Facilitated by Gareth and Ruth.

Creative Darwinism

From fire building to nation building, humanity has drawn upon and evolved its greatest instinct to survive – creativity. Emback on this fast-paced journey through the evolution of creative humanity, and begin building your toolbox to tackle the future of work, self and the globe’’s greatest challenges.
Facilitated by Elysa.

Crafting And Delivering Purposeful Stories

Build your influence as a leader by honing your storytelling skills. Whether it be tackling an internal development opportunity into a new market, an external pitch to a client for more work, a presentation for funding relating to your start-up idea, making the case for different resource allocation – getting creative ideas to land through emotional resonance strategies is what we’ll focus on here.
Facilitated by DK and Emilie.

12noon Lunch / Networking

1.15pm Masterclasses – one of three (as above)

3.15pm Afternoon tea / networking

4.30pm Second Day Ends

*Day Two is an additional cost for 60 people (less than 40 left) as detailed in the pricing.
It features three exclusive deep dive masterclasses options (run twice) with 20-25 attendees per session to ensure impact and focus.