Webinar Series
The Irish-NZ Agri connection
21 May 2020
This week we are joined by Ray Smith, Director General, Ministry for Primary Industries (NZ), Joe Healy, Former President, Irish Farmers Association and Adam Fricker, General Manager, Rural News Group.
Topics we will cover:
- Update on state of agriculture in NZ and Ireland
- The risk of protectionist trade policies
- New employment opportunities in the agri sector
- The role of the Agricultural media in the Covid crisis
This webinar will be chaired by leading NZ agricultural journalist Peter Burke.
Organised by the Irish Business Network of New Zealand in association with the Irish Embassy in New Zealand and Rural News Group, publishers of the NZ’s premier farming magazine, Rural News.
This will be followed by an interactive Q&A session.
Organised by the Irish Business Network of New Zealand in association with the Irish Embassy in New Zealand and Rural News Group, publishers of the NZ’s premier farming magazine, Rural News.
This will be followed by an interactive Q&A session.
Ray Smith
Ministry for Primary Industries (NZ)
Joe Healy,
Former President, Irish Farmers Association
Adam Fricker
Rural News Group
Legal lessons and impacts from crisis response
13 May 2020
Our next event in the Irish Business Network NZ’s webinar series, will be ‘Legal lessons and impacts from crisis response’ with special guest speakers Geraldine Biggs, Senior Associate, Corcoran French and Niamh McMahon, Partner, McMahon Butterworth Thompson.
Geraldine joined the Corcoran French litigation team in 2013, having previously practised as a Barrister in Ireland. Her work includes general civil and commercial litigation, employment, construction and insurance matters.
She will cover off areas such as the Government wage subsidy and redundancy in the current environment.
Niamh is a partner in McMahon Butterworth Thompson and is predominantly focused on commercial law. She is very well known in the Irish Community as the Honorary Consul General for Ireland to New Zealand and a founding member of IBNNZ. Niamh will cover off aspects of commercial impacts such as lease agreements and force majeure clauses.
Geraldine Biggs
Corcoran French
Niamh McMahon
McMahon Butterworth Thompson.
The Road to Recovery – The European Perspective
30 April 2020
Our next event in the Irish Business Network NZ’s webinar series, will be ‘The Road to Recovery – The European Perspective’ – chaired by Ambassador of Ireland Peter Ryan with special guest speakers HE Nina Obermaier, European Union Ambassador to New Zealand and Conall McDevitt of Hume Brophy, a leading international communications firm with offices in Brussels, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, New York, Paris, Hong Kong & Singapore.
Our two distinguished and well-placed speakers will share updates and insights on Europe’s recovery pathway and implications for European, New Zealand and global business. Ambassador Ryan will address your questions to our speakers with Brexit expected to also feature given the backgrounds of both speakers.
Nina Obermaier
EU Ambassador to New Zealand.
Conall McDevitt
Hume Brophy
Access Additional Cash at the Touch of a Button
29 April 2020
Taxback International's Paraic McGrath and Niall Scullion walk us through how this Irish Fintech is unlocking literally millions of dollars of tax reclaim at the touch of a button for businesses of all shapes and sizes, directly impacting their cash positions.
Find out how it's done in this interactive session.
Presented by Australian Irish Chamber Of Commerce in association with IBNNZ. 3PM NZT.
Paraic McGrath
Taxback International
Niall Scullion
Business Solutions & Systems Expert
Building & Making the Most of Your Network
23 April 2020
Join us on April 23 from 9 am - 10.30 am for a very special Webinar with guest speakers from Ireland and Aotearoa New Zealand.
We will be joined by Kingsley Aikins - CEO, The Networking Institute & Barry Soutar - Executive Director, T3W.
We will be joined by Kingsley Aikins - CEO, The Networking Institute & Barry Soutar - Executive Director, T3W.
This will be followed by a Q&A session open to all attendees.
Interested? Places are limited so please sign up now below and we will email the login details for the Webinar to those registered. Please register 1 ticket for each person who will login on each device separately.
This is a great opportunity for our members to come together and share ideas, if you have suggestions on other online sessions please let us know. We hope our members can come together to support each other during what is a difficult time for so many.
This is a great opportunity for our members to come together and share ideas, if you have suggestions on other online sessions please let us know. We hope our members can come together to support each other during what is a difficult time for so many.
Kingsley Aikins
The Networking Institute
Barry Soutar
T3W
How The Education Sector is Changing in Australia & New Zealand
22 April 2020
Digitary's COO, James Murray-Beckman, joins us to discuss how the Higher Education sector is responding to the current challenges and how a Dublin-founded business is helping the world’s most respected higher education providers transition to digital solutions that ensure they thrive in a digital environment.
Presented by Australian Irish Chamber Of Commerce in association with IBNNZ. 3PM NZT.
James Murray-Beckman
COO Digitary
Five Thoughts on Personal Success in Challenging Times
16 April 2020
This week we will have Dr David Keane. Dr Keane, an expert on the subject of success, will challenge us to think about success in a new way. Perhaps the traditional notions about success just don’t fit anymore. Are we looking for ways to be smarter about success?
Based on his best-selling business book – The Art of Deliberate Success: The 10 Behaviours of Successful People – David will share practical tools you can use right away.
Dr David Keane
The 10 Behaviours
Resilience and Positivity - Covid-19
09 April 2020
Susan HayesCulleton 'The Positive Economist' - Managing Director of HayesCulleton presenting on the impact & implications for global business due to Covid-19.
We also had David Eccles - Director Australia & New Zealand for Enterprise Ireland and David Downs – General Manager Special Project, New Zealand Trade & Enterprise providing information on some of the opportunities and challenges for Irish & New Zealand businesses.
Susan HayesCulleton
HayesCulleton Group
David Downs
New Zealand Trade & Enterprise
Embassy Update & Practical Business Tips
03 April 2020
We were joined by Ambassador Peter Ryan and Deputy Head of Mission Faran Foley from the Irish Embassy in New Zealand for an update from the Embassy. We were also joined by Fiona Deehan of Cara Consulting
and Niamh Buchanan of FiftyFive5.
The full webinar is available to view below. Please note we did have a few technical sound issues so please excuse the distorted audio in parts.
Caolan Keegan
Webinar Facilitator
Peter Ryan
Ambassador of Ireland
Faran Foley
Deputy Head of Mission
