MORGO 2012: 6&7 September, Hilton Queenstown

Posted by Canterbury Software on 6 July 2012 | 0 Comments

Tags: events, conferences, entrepreneurship

Morgo is THE conference for entrepreneurs. Register now and receive the early bird $200 discount (closes 27 July) .. be quick! Speakers from the US, China, Australia and NZ include Claudia Batten, Gower Smith, Steve Gray, Rod Cuthbert, Chris Shipley, Glenn Milnes, Jeremy Moon, Greg Cross, Murray Holdaway, Phillip Mills, Berry Liberman and Sir Ray Avery (more info below). Sponsored places to Morgo! Entries close 18 July: 2 places on offer for students or cool companies. Apply online and tell us why you should come to Morgo.

		Claudia Batten is a founding partner of Victor & Spoils – the world’s first (ad) agency based on crowdsourcing principles. Prior to founding V&S, Claudia was a founder of Massive – the first-ever network for video- game advertising. More
		Gower Smith is Founder and Co Chairman of the board of ZoomSystems and President ZoomSystems Asia. In 2002, Gower Smith, a serial entrepreneur, founded ZoomSystems (New Zoom, Inc.), after several years of intensive research and development to create the perfect automated store. ZoomSystems is leading the revolution in the Automated Retail channel with more than one million transactions and over 1,000 ZoomShops across the U.S., Europe and Japan. More
		Rod Cuthbert is the Founder & Chairman Emeritus, Viator Inc. Viator brings together a wide array of quality destination activities from tour operators around the world, creating a consumer site where travellers could research and purchase destination activities, sightseeing tours and attraction passes before their trip. After many years in San Francisco Rod recently returned to Melbourne, where he has taken the role of CEO at travel search start-up Rome2Rio. More
		Berry Liberman is the Creative Director of Small Giants, the Publisher of Dumbo Feather, a magazine about extraordinary ideas and extraordinary people. Small Giants was founded in 2007 to create, support, nurture and empower businesses that are shifting us to a more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable world. Small Giants believe in combining the power, scalability and discipline of business, with the altruism, integrity and social impact of non-profit organisations. More
		Steve Gray is Executive in Charge of Production for Tencent in China. Tencent is China’s largest Internet Services provider, covering Games, IM, Web and Mobile News and Sports Portals, Micro-Blogs, etc. Steve oversees the games services as well as working directly with many of the production teams. Prior to moving to China, Steve spent almost 7 years at Electronic Arts in Redwood Shores working first as Senior Development Director and later as Executive Producer of the Lord of the Rings console games. More
		Greg Cross is Executive Chairman & Co-Founder, PowerbyProxi the worlds leading wireless power company. Greg is also Business Director and Co-Founder of New Zealand’s 1st Professional Cycling team PureBlack Racing and Chairman of The Icehouse. Greg is an experienced serial entrepreneur, with an outstanding track record in building technology companies in Asia Pacific and North America. More
		Murray Holdaway is the Chief Executive of Vista Entertainment Solution. Vista are global leaders in cinema management software. Their software is marketed worldwide and is installed in more than 2000 sites in over 50 countries, including India, China, Mexico, the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and across Southeast Asia. More
		Jeremy Moon is the Founder and CEO of Icebreaker Clothing. In 1994, 24-year-old marketing graduate Jeremy Moon was travelling New Zealand when he made a discovery that changed his life. A merino grower showed him a prototype fabric he’d developed from 100% merino wool. This soft, non-itch, lightweight fabric was a world away from the itchy, scratchy wool Jeremy had grown up with. Jeremy immediately saw the potential. This chance encounter launches an international brand. More
		Chris Shipley, a leading technology analyst for more than 25 years, is passionate about innovation as the driver of economic growth and job creation. She has built a career on identifying emerging market opportunities and the innovative startups poised to capitalize on them, and as executive producer of the DEMO conference from 1996 to 2009, helped companies including WebEx, VMWare, salesforce.com, TiVo, Xfire, Ribbit, and Ironport make their market debut. More
		Sir Ray Avery GNZM is a successful pharmaceutical scientist, inventor, philanthropist, businessman and founder and CEO of Medicine Mondiale. A founding member of the Auckland University School of Medicine, Department of Clinical Pharmacology and former Technical Director of Douglas Pharmaceuticals Sir Ray has over the past thirty years made a major contribution to the development of New Zealand’s Pharmaceutical industry. He was instrumental in making high quality regulatory approved lenses for cataract surgery accessible to the poorest of the poor on a global scale. More
		Phillip Mills is the founder and CEO of Les Mills International and a pioneer of the international fitness industry. In 1980 Phillip developed the unique Les Mills brand of exercise-to-music systems which now forms the basis of Les Mills International. Programs are distributed to more than 10,500 fitness clubs in over 70 countries, with an estimated 4 million participants a week. He was the 2004 Ernst & Young New Zealand Entrepreneur of the Year. More