PAORANGI \ IMPACT
Haratua May 5 - 7, 2025
Pōneke Wellington
In May 2025 we will once again gather in Pōneke, kanohi ki te kanohi for our conference NDF25 TE PAORANGI \ IMPACT.
Whether you’re fresh to Aotearoa’s GLAM/digital sector or a longtime NDF conference lover, expect inspiring speakers, thought-provoking kōrero, and, importantly, great coffee and ice cream.
INTRODUCING OUR FIRST KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Tui Te Hau (Rongomaiwahine, Te Arawa, Ngāti Tuwharetoa) is the Chief Executive of Te Matarau a Māui, economic development agency and founder of Bird Island, a boutique consultancy focused on innovation for global good.
She has designed national programmes in the innovation and entrepreneurial space. This included the Lightning Lab, the blueprint for business acceleration in New Zealand and Mahuki, the world’s first accelerator for the culture and heritage sector.
Formerly, the lead of the Māori enterprise team for New Zealand’s international trade agency she supported the export aspirations of major indigenous entities and provided in-market support to NZ exporters as Trade Commissioner Melbourne. She has extensive experience in the culture and heritage sector supporting efforts to tell our nation’s rich stories and is an international speaker on innovation in the culture and heritage sector.In her most recent role with the National Library, she led a team that developed educational experiences around our nation’s founding documents; He Whakaputanga, the Declaration of Independence, ti Tiriti o Waitangi and the Women’s Suffrage Petition. This included the journey to pay equity e-learning module, the ‘are we there yet’ speaker series and other resources for student and adult learners.
Tui works with entities focused on impact investing, STEM education, student entrepreneurship, a global knowledge exchange programme and supporting the next generation of Māori creatives.Her current directorships include the Institute of Directors, Mary Potter Hospice in Wellington, Endometriosis NZ and the Dev Academy.
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Cade Diehm is the founder of the New Design Congress, an international research organisation forging a nuanced understanding of technology's role as a social, political and environmental accelerant. He studies, writes, consults and speaks regularly on topics such as digital power structures, privacy, information warfare, resilience, internet economies and the digitisation of cities.
With a background in information security, interface politics and digital systems, Cade and his team at New Design Congress work tirelessly to tease out and weave threads that can be pulled together to build a truly hopeful future.
Cade has collaborated with organisations across the world, including Signal, Google, Mozilla, Bauhaus Earth, Webrecorder, Open Archive, Superbloom Design, Furtherfield, C/O Berlin, Art Sonje Center, the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights, the International Institute for the Environment and Development, the European Commission, the World Health Organization, the London College of Communication, Protocol Labs, the Deutschland Bundestag Prototype Fund, the Center for Digital Resilience, the Algorithmic Transparency Institute and many others.
Cade resides in Berlin with his partner and two Shiba Inus, Ripley and Kodak.
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Dave Patten has recently (June 2024) retired as Head of New Media at The Science Museum Group, UK, where his role included managing all aspects of new media and AV, from conceptual design, prototyping and production to project managing external developers and production companies. He has a background in electronics and computer science, and worked at the Science Museum nearly 40 years, developing exhibitions and leading development teams. He developed the technical systems for the Science Museum’s Wellcome Wing and Dana Centre, which opened in 2000 and 2004 respectively.
Recent work includes Web Lab, the multi-award winning collaboration with Google, Engineering Your Future, an interactive exhibition for teenagers on engineering and a secondment to Frost Science in Miami to help develop exhibitions and systems for a new museum which opened in 2017. As well as managing the New Media team spread across multiple sites at the Science Museum Group he also ran the Science Museum Groups Digital Lab Initiative which experiments in emerging technologies. Dave is now an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Science Museum Group documenting the museum's recent past from a non curatorial perspective.
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CONFERENCE VENUES & TIMING
NDF25 Paorangi \ Impact will take place at two fantastic Wellington venues: Harbourside and Wellington Museum.
Harbourside will be our conference venue on May 5-6, with Wellington Museum hosting the workshops on May 7.
The conference will begin at 9am on Monday 5 May, with registration opening earlier. Final presentations will conclude at approximately 5pm on Tuesday 6 May.
Workshops will be held on Wednesday 7 May. Detailed timings will be released soon.
CALL FOR PROSPOSALS
Our call for proposals is now closed. We are currently evaluating the proposals and building the programme and will be in touch with everyone who submitted a talk before Christmas.
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