Broadband has become a hot issue in urban New Zealand.  Citizens are demanding better.  The economic, social and cultural benefits are now very apparent.

Whether rural and provincial New Zealand gets similar attention will depend on the business case.  What will rural peope use this technology for, what will the economic and social outcomes be, and what is the payback for service providers and the economy?

Be part of TUANZ's endeavour to identify the benefits and make the business case for high speed broadband to every home, farm, business and marae.

Programme (some presentations are available)

Thursday 3 July 2008
Rod Oram - Chair
Dr Mark McElroy - Connected Nation, Washington DC
Eric Hillerton - Dairy NZ
Craig Purcell - National Animal Identification and Tracing Project (NAIT)
Bridgit Hawkins - MediaLab - Effluent Monitoring
Roger Hardy - Scottech
Colin Brown - TracMap NZ
Bridgit Hawkins - MediaLab - Productivity and Traceability
David Walker - Gen-i
Andrew Wilshire - Fonterra
Christine Dormaar - Solid Energy New Zealand
Alistair Vickers - Royal New Zealand Plunket Society
Wendy McGowan - Rural Women NZ
Margaret McLeod - CORE Education - ICT in NZ Education

Friday 4 July 2008
Phil McKenzie - Landcorp & Gavin McEwen - Fairport Farm Systems
Alastair Grigg - Xero
Mike Donald - Terralink International
Duncan Boennic - BayCity - Communicating through Disaster
Nick Carter - Farmside
Donald Aubrey - Federated Farmers
Peter Chappell - MediaLab
Miles McConway - Environment Bay of Plenty - BayBroadband
James Watts - Digital Nation - Is FTTx a 'pipe' dream?
Chris O'Connell - RadaR Guidance
Phil Cross - IPSTAR
Andrew Duxfield - Ericsson NZ - NextG - A Rual Broadband Success Story
Tom Chignell - Vodafone
Geoff Hunt - Kordia - World Class Broadband for Rural NZ

A PDF of the programme can be viewed here... >

Venue:
Distinction Hotel Rotorua

Pricing:
TUANZ Members:  $850+gst
Non-members:  $1050+gst

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