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Industry Insight

Industry Insight gives students the opportunity to discuss key trends in the industry and its impacts on businesses and the economy. All students at the University of Auckland are invited to attend these sessions.

Format

Industry Insight sessions are presented in a format where students are encouraged to discuss and debate the topics of interest.

The industry professional will speak initially for 3-5 minutes on a topic, specific to a his/her industry, outlining the issue and his/her opinion of its effect on business and society. The audience will then be encouraged to ask questions relating to the topic; the speaker may in turn ask some of his/her own. This process will be repeated for each topic.

Past Speakers

Don Brash, New Zealand's Leading Economic and Financial Policy Advisers
He has a wide background in public policy. Most recently, he chaired the New Zealand Government's 2025 Taskforce until it was wound up in May 2011. The Taskforce was charged with investigating the reasons for the recent decline in New Zealand's productivity performance, identifying superior institutions and policies in Australia and other more successful countries, and making recommendations on the steps needed for New Zealand to achieve Australian living standards by 2025.

Roger Kerr, Executive Director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable
Roger Kerr has had a major influence on many significant policy reforms across the economy, and has built an internationally respected organisation and a comprehensive public policy research resource. Before his present role, he was a senior figure in both the New Zealand Treasury and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Eric Hertz, CEO 2Degrees Mobile
Eric Hertz has first-hand insight into an industry that we all rely upon, every day of our lives: the telecommunications industry. With more than 30 years of experince working at companies such as Zumobi, BellSouth, McCaw Cellular and AT&T Wireless in locations all over the world, Eric has been bringing advanced mobile wireless services and products to market for longer than almost all of us have been alive.