With extensive experience in emerging technology, business, jewellery and insurance, Leanne is pushing boundaries with Everledger, addressing real-world challenges through driving transparency and trust along global supply chains using emerging technology. Everledger provides an immutable distributed ledger for diamond identification and transaction verification for stakeholders from insurance companies to claimants and law enforcement agencies.

www.everledger.io

Dame Wendy Pye is the founder & CEO of Sunshine Books – teaching the world to read. Sunshine Books has a focus on early literacy and reading in English and other languages. It has sold more than 300 million copies. The publishing list of over 2,000 fiction and non-fiction titles is supported with a range of digital resources – subscription websites with e-books and thousands of skill activities.

www.sunshine.co.nz

In 2012, three engineers and entrepreneurs saw an opportunity to convert existing industrial waste into valuable raw materials. Avertana’s initial focus is waste ‘slag’ from steel manufacturing. Its innovative extraction technology turns the slag into valuable titanium dioxide, alum, Epson salts and gypsum. These raw materials are used to manufacture everyday products like paint, building materials, paper and fertilisers.

www.avertana.com

Mario is the Founder & CEO of PikPok, which has been making fun and addictive games across smartphone, tablet, and desktop since 2009.  Successful original games include Flick Kick® Football Legends and Into the Dead®. PikPok is based in Wellington.

www.pikpok.com

Ralph is the Founder & CEO of Volpara Health Technologies which develops digital health solutions for personalized, high-quality breast cancer screening based on objective measurements of breast density, compression and radiation dose. Volpara is an ASX-listed company with a value of over $300 million. Ralph talks about the benefit of being listed and quickly being able to raise follow-on funding.

www.volparasolutions.com

Danny Tomsett is the founder & CEO of FaceMe, an artificial intelligence platform company that empowers creators to design and train unique Digital Humans for real-time interactive customer and brand experiences. FaceMe is based in Auckland, Melbourne, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas.

www.faceme.com

Andrew is the founder & CEO of Optimal Workshop which provides tools for measuring and improving user experience (UX). Clients are user experience designers, information architects and usability researchers, in 106 countries and using 70 different languages. Their customers include people from some of the biggest organizations around the world. Optimal Workshop has about 60 staff in great new offices in Wellington.

www.optimalworkshop.com

Syft provides rapid analysis of traces of substances, e.g. in someone’s breath, using selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry. It is the fastest gas analysis technology available. Syft is listed on the Unlisted Securities Market in NZ with a market cap of about $80M.

www.syft.com

Andy had an IT security consulting business. He found that often they identified vulnerabilities for clients that they didn’t get around to fixing quickly. So Red Shield Security was born: the world's first web application shielding-with-a-service cybersecurity company, targeting 100% vulnerability mitigation.

www.redshield.co

Serko is a New Zealand company listed on the NZX and ASX. Darrin had a background in tech for the travel industry and knew the pain of managing corporate travel and expenses in line with each company’s policies. Serko now provides travel & expense solutions to more than 6,000 corporate customers in over 35 countries. More than 2 million people have access to Serko's technology and more than US$4.5billion of travel spend passes through Serko every year.

https://www.serko.com/