We’re heading in to summer, and it’s time to buy tickets for the last Refactor event of the year! We’re at Warren & Mahoney studio in Wynyard Quarter. Read on to learn more or grab your ticket now!
Wednesday 20 November 2019, 6-8:30pm
Warren & Mahoney Architects
139 Pakenham Street West
Tickets $25 – open to all
Speaker Profiles
Caroline Quay
Caroline has extensive experience in the high growth technology and innovation sector. She is Chief Investment Officer at Cure Kids Ventures, NZ’s predominant seed and early stage healthcare investment fund. Cure Kids Ventures invests in the commercialisation of innovations that have a potential to benefit child health. She also holds strategic development and commercial advisory roles with high growth technology companies in the medical devices, biotechnology and agritechnology sectors. Caroline is a firm believer of NZ’s world class scientific research, technology and innovation. She is passionate about helping emerging healthtech companies in NZ successfully commercialise their technology to create a global health impact and a healthier tomorrow for the next generation.
Ngapera Riley
Ngapera is the Chief Executive Officer of Figure.NZ. She believes everybody should have access to good information, and that knowing how to find and use data is vital to solving our country’s biggest problems. She cares about everyone being able to take part in that, so we can collectively work towards a better future for Aotearoa. Ngapera works closely with Māori business and education efforts across New Zealand. She currently holds board positions with the InZone Education Foundation, Hyundai’s Pinnacle Programme, and Te Ohu Whai Ao Trust, which connects indigenous business efforts from around the world. She is also part of the working group Te Pokapu for the Maori Data Sovereignty Network advocating for Maori rights and interests in data. Formerly the Global Director of the World Class New Zealand Network for Kea, Ngapera has also worked for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, Ministry of Health, University of Auckland, and Manukau Institute of Technology. Most of all she is a global citizen who loves to spread kindness, sing, cook and spend time with family.
Lauren Peate and Alix Klingenberg
Lauren is the co-founder and CEO of Multitudes, a tech product that measures culture from passive data, without surveys. Multitudes was born out of insights that Lauren had from running Ally Skills NZ, a diversity and inclusion consultancy that teaches people how to use their voice and influence to stand with marginalised groups at work. A graduate of Stanford University, Lauren has previously been a management consultant with Bain & Co in San Francisco, interim COO of an eCommerce startup in Jordan, and a Fulbright Scholar in Morocco. In her free time, Lauren enjoys rock climbing, yoga, and long chats with friends.
Alix is the co-founder of Multitudes, and a software developer who has worked across a few of NZ’s fastest growing tech startups. She studied Philosophy then switched to Computer Science and started out as an Android developer before becoming interested in this whole cloud thing and moving to backend and infrastructure. Her day job is with Auror, a super cool startup working to stop crime in NZ, Aus and the US. In her spare time, she helps organise the .NET Auckland Meetup.
