With a string of awards, including the country’s highest accolades for television and comedy, Te Radar is one of New Zealand’s most recognised entertainers and presenters. He has an extensive career in documentary making, writing, stage and screen directing, as well as being a celebrated comedian and satirist.
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Kim McCoy is an Oceanographer researching the effects of climate change on coastal dynamics, coral reefs, rivers, deltas and sea level rise. Educated in Europe and United States.
His projects are based on all seven continents with extended periods at sea. Kim has been awarded several patents and is fluent in multiple languages. Kim was presented Scientific Achievement Award (2018) and authored the third edition of 'Waves and Beaches' (2021).
Kim has plunged into the Antarctic Ocean (without wetsuit), marooned twice (so far) and recently completed an Ironman.
David Rolnick is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at McGill University and the Mila Quebec AI Institute, and a Co-founder and Chair of Climate Change AI.
David is a former NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow (at UPenn), NSF Graduate Research Fellow (at MIT), and Fulbright Scholar, and was named to the MIT Technology Review's 2021 list of "35 Innovators Under 35".
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Hon Megan Woods is a Christchurch local, and has been the Member of Parliament for Wigram since 2011. Following the 2017 election, Megan was sworn in as a Minister of the Crown with portfolio responsibilities including the Greater Christchurch Regeneration, Energy and Resources, and Research, Science and Innovation.
In the 2020 Labour Government, Megan was appointed Minister of Housing, Minister of Energy and Resources, and Minister of Research, Science and Innovation, alongside Associate Minister of Finance.
Prior to becoming a Member of Parliament, Megan worked as a Business Manager at Plant & Food Research. She holds a PhD in New Zealand history from the University of Canterbury.
Hon James Shaw MP
James was elected to Parliament in 2014 and became Green Party Co-leader in 2015. In 2017 he led the Green Party into its first ever term in Government, during which he guided the Zero Carbon Act through Parliament with unanimous support.
Now in his second term, James is focusing on specific measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions across sectors in the form of New Zealand’s first Emissions Reduction Plan.
Prior to Parliament, James had a successful career in management consulting, working with large, multinational companies to develop more sustainable business practices
Hon Scott Simpson is the New Zealand National Party Member of Parliament for Coromandel. He is the Opposition Spokesperson for Climate Change, Environment, and Associate Transport.
Scott also co-chairs National’s environmental policy advisory group - the Bluegreens. He was formerly Minister for Statistics, Associate Minister for the Environment and Associate Minister for Immigration.
His main policy interests include climate change issues, environmental protection, fresh water quality and marine protected areas.
The Hon Steve Chadwick, QSO has been Mayor of Rotorua since October 2013. Steve’s career started in the health sector before moving into the political arena. She was the MP for Rotorua between 1999 and 2008 and retired from national politics in 2011.
Under Steve’s leadership as Mayor of Rotorua, significant programmes are underway in the district to encourage housing development, create economic growth and rejuvenate some of Rotorua’s most iconic places.
She is also proud that Rotorua Lakes Council, was one of the first council’s in the country to adopt a climate action plan.
Nicki has worked across the energy industry for over 25 years in executive roles and before that as a commercial and environmental lawyer.
Pam Walkin is Head of Commercialisation at Ara Ake.
Pam is presenting on behalf of Cristiano Marantes.
Matthew Cowie is a Director within the Climate Change and Sustainability Services group at EY New Zealand. Prior to joining EY in 2021, Matthew spent over five years at the NZ Ministry for the Environment where he was the lead government official working on the NZ ETS reform package.
He lead the team that took the NZ ETS reform package (including agricultural emissions pricing and forestry reform) through Parliament in late 2019 and early 2020. Matthew was also previously the global head of carbon market research for Bloomberg New Energy Finance, based in London. In this role he was responsible for teams that built price forecasting models for carbon markets and used them to advise public and private sector clients around the world.
Clare Feeney has a First Class Masters in limestone hydrology and over 30 years’ experience in environmental management and training.
The second edition of her book “How to Change the World – a practical guide to successful environmental training” was published in the UK in 2019.
Clare’s unique exponential model of strategic training helps environmental experts develop and deliver truly great training – and evaluate its effectiveness, including its financial ROI across seven forms of capital.
Bobby Shen leads on the decarbonisation of existing buildings at the NZ Green Building Council, looking after NABERSNZ, Green Star Performance and the upcoming net zero carbon tool for building operations.
He uses his background in commercial architecture and sustainability to support building owners, property and facility managers to reduce their portfolio’s carbon emissions.
His preferred mode of transport is by ebike and he spends his free time volunteering at a local stream restoration project.
Peter Kennedy joined Genesis in 2019 as General Manager in Digital and New Services overseeing the development of the Genesis key customer tool, Energy IQ, and new product development focused on helping residential and business customers decarbonise their homes and businesses. On February 1 2022 Peter took up the role of Chief Digital Officer.
Peter is accountable for technology and data transformation across the business. In addition, he leads the Frank Energy brand and Genesis's Commercial and Industrial customers, as well as the development of energy management products and services.
Peter brings broad experience in product development, technology and customer management to his role at Genesis. He has international digital experience, having worked in the United Kingdom for over a decade prior to joining Genesis.
Dr Belinda Mathers is GM Technical at Toitū Envirocare.
Belinda has extensive experience in developing and maintaining technical competency and systems. As an engineer, she has a focus on efficiency and works closely with the Toitū Envirocare team to best use our range of expertise.
Belinda leads Toitū Envirocare’s technical team and oversees technical delivery to ensure we keep on top of scientific research, changes in best practice, and business needs. With a background in chemical engineering and over 20 years in the environmental engineering and auditing fields, she is an expert in the assessment, verification and reduction of environmental impacts.
Jonathan Pooch is Founder and Managing Director of DETA Consulting. DETA supports industrial and commercial clients throughout Australasia to develop and deliver sustainability strategy to ensure improvement goals are realised.
Jonathan is an experienced energy professional with over 15 years in the industry. Some key project highlights include supporting the Climate Leaders Coalition’s response to government as part of the Climate Change Commission consultation, development of a South Island wide decarbonisation roadmap and the installation of New Zealand’s first Hight Temperature Heat Pump. Jonathan is heavily focussed on action, and the tools need to make sure goals and targets are not just talked about, but are realised.
Michael Jack is an Associate Professor and theoretical physicist with more than 15 years of experience in a range of different areas of sustainable energy research. He is director of the Energy Programme at the University of Otago.
Michael's current interests include understanding patterns of electricity use and how energy efficiency and new technologies like smart appliances, smart meters, batteries and photovoltaics might influence these patterns, and how flexibility in energy end use might enable greater uptake of variable renewable supply.
Andy Logue is the Director Leading Energy NZ for over 15 years, Andy works with businesses around New Zealand to unlock improved efficiency, boost productivity and reduce emissions. Andy brings broad experience from across the industrial and large commercial sectors; delivering services for more than 400 diverse clients.
Jack Young is a Senior Energy consultant with Energy NZ. Jack provides expert analysis of industrial energy systems, processes, market trends and technology integration options to businesses and organisations around New Zealand.
Lincoln Watson is the CEO of ESP, an established leader in energy monitoring and carbon accounting. He has held a range of executive roles including CEO, COO, GM and Head of Digital across Financial Services, Legal, Telco and technology industries.
Lincoln joined ESP in 2019 for the opportunity to help reduce global warming through human intelligence, machine learning and cloud SaaS.
Brian has over 30 years’ experience in identifying, investigating and developing commercial capital investment projects in the energy and infrastructure sectors. For the last decade Brian has been the Executive Officer of the Bioenergy Association.
His experience is split equally across public policy, commercial development of energy projects, and leading energy based industry associations. He specialises in the development of the gaseous, liquid and solid biofuels markets with a focus on feedstock supply from biomass and organic waste, and assisting association members secure the economic benefits of the emerging bioeconomy.
Anya Seward is a Senior Geothermal Scientist at GNS Science specialising in determining the characteristics of near-surface geothermal resources in New Zealand. Her focus is on investigating the heat storage potential of New Zealand’s near-surface soils and rocks, and working with industry in New Zealand and abroad to explore the role of ground-source heat pumps in reducing electricity demand and creating healthy, dry homes.
Anya has led the geothermal research programme at GNS since 2019, and is keen to see New Zealand’s geothermal resources, including low-temperature ambient heat, being used efficiently and effectively in New Zealand’s low-carbon future.
Terry is the Managing Director of Cortexo, a New Zealand software company that provides monitoring, control and data services in the electricity Sector.
Terry is a member of the Electricity Authority’s IPAG (Innovation and Participation Advisory Group), is a founder member of the industry FlexForum and is a member of the EEA's project design team for the openADR project. He also serves on the advisory board for SEANZ’s (Sustainable Energy Association of NZ) and was named SEANZ Industry Person of the year 2021 for his work on Distributed Energy Resource integration.
Jonathan Linders is the Energy and Carbon Advisor at Hutt City Council. He leads projects within the Energy and Carbon reduction plan, with the targeted reduction in emissions of 50% by 2030 and he is on track to deliver these reductions. He joined Hutt City Council through the EECA energy graduate programme after completing his Bachelor of Science, majoring in Energy Studies, from The University of Otago.
His passion for reducing emissions comes from him witnessing the decay of the Arctic while studying in Iceland.
Josh Ellison works across multiple industries and climate projects. He has a passion for creating new ways to communicate the real world impacts of everyday activities so we can better understand what to focus our efforts on (and what not to).
Josh recently co-authored the Rewiring Australia households electrification study, and has been helping plan a pilot project for the world's first fully electrified suburb.
Clive Pinfold is an engineer, economist and data scientist. He believes that data science and machine learning approaches offer potential for scalable acceleration of decarbonisation. He started a Masters of Engineering at Waikato University under Project Ahuora.
Clive was awarded a Fellowship with Subak, a climate not-for-profit data collective, to further publicise and promote detailed emission data.
Kate Bromfield has over 15 years’ experience primarily in Sustainability, Energy Management, Climate Change Risk Assessment, Due Diligence and Environmental Risk across a diverse range of sectors including energy and local and central Government.
Kate has worked across the Asia Pacific region, from Government policy setting through to community engagement projects.
Nicki Douglas focuses her time and effort on advocating for the environment and on what matters most to Iwi and hapū, supporting where needed. She has worked in the environment sector for 21 years and have participated in the leadership, development, and implementation of environmental initiatives. Nicki was at the Department of Conservation for 16 years and have been the Environment Manager at the Te Arawa Lakes Trust since 2017. Her role focuses on the health and wellbeing of our 14 Lakes and their associated waterways, and in supporting the connection to our hapū and Iwi. Nicki also convene Te Urunga o Kea - Te Arawa Climate Change Working Group and led the development of a strategy for Te Arawa in response to climate change – Te Ara ki Kōpū.
In a voluntary capacity Nicki has governance roles with Ngāti Rangiwewehi as a Trustee on Te Maru o Kaituna (A post settlement co-governance entity for the Kaituna River) and World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) NZ. Nicki is involved in supporting her own hapū and iwi in Taiao related matters; this could mean fundraising, attending hui, writing policy and planning documents, supporting freshwater planning for the NPSFM, reviewing resource consents or providing advice to Iwi chairs on legislative reform processes. Nicki am part way through a Masters in Māori and Indigenous Leadership (University of Canterbury). She married to Eric Short (Ngāti Porou, Cook Islands) and they have four children, Rawiri (29), Manahi (21) Hinetaapora (20) and Pokaihau (18).