List of speakers for the ITx 2016 conference
This page contains the speaker list for ITx 2016, ordered by name. Check out the Programme as well.
Chair, various Trusts and Boards, and Maori ICT Development Fund
Antony Royal is a professional electrical engineer, with 20+ years consulting in the IT and telecommunications Industry.
Antony is focused on building Māori capacity through technology, to achieve economic, cultural and social outcomes for all New Zealanders.
He is currently Chair of the Expert Advisory Group for the Maori ICT Development Fund, Te Mana o Kupe Trust, Ngāti Tamaterā Treaty Settlement Trust, and is on the Council for Weltec and Whitireia New Zealand.
Mitimiti on the Grid was a collaboration between telecommunications and IT organisations to bring fibre and mobile services to a remote marae community that was destined to be a telecommunications "blackspot".
Mitimiti was a populous trading hub in the late 1800s, but since that time has struggled with many decades of urban drift. It is isolated and the terrain is challenging.
What would it take to curb the population decline and achieve economic growth?
Mitimiti on the Grid was driven by the belief that when a community is "fibred up" economic growth can be measured at the two year point. The sponsors and volunteers claimed that "if you can do this in Mitimiti, you can do it anywhere!"
The presentation is about how the infrastructure is being leveraged, outcomes to date, and what is expected.