Waikato Plan Symposium

Youth, Training, and Employment - Our new workforce

What does navigating the transition from education to employment for youth in the Waikato look like?  Come learn about some of the opportunities for our Waikato rangatahi.

Panelists

• Bevan Smith - Ministry of Education

• Michelle Paki – Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment

• Mitchell Jordan – Rangatahi Voices

• Tania Pointon - Seed Waikato, Driving Change network

• Elle Freestone – Ōtorohanga District Council

• Joe Wilson – Waikato Wellbeing Project

• Te Uranga Pihama – Waikato Tainui

• Kaaro Iti-Moeke – Waikato Tainui

Strategic Partners Forum
Community connections as collaborative catalyst

While many of us tend to view that we are supports for the community, in many ways the community are supports for us.  Come learn from community enabling organisations.

Panelists

• Kelvyn Eglinton - Momentum

• Holly Snape - Community Waikato

• Rachel Afeaki Taumoepeau - Pasifika Business Network

• Jeremy Mayall - Creative Waikato

• Nicola Greenwell - Hamilton Waikato Tourism

Waikato Housing Initiative 
Lessons learned from building a collaboration

As one of the first priorities of the Waikato Plan, the Regional Housing Initiative has set the tone for building effective collaborations across the system involved in housing. Come learn about the challenges and opportunities the initiative has experienced in building collaboratives for a cause, and what the key players are doing to help.

Panelists

• Lale Ieremia or Nic Green – Waikato Housing Initiative

• Charlotte Muggeridge – Harkness Henry

• Bill Wasley – Future Proof 

• John Duncan – Kainga Ora

• Jeff de Leeuw – G.J. Gardner Homes

• Marae Tukere - Waikato-Tainui

Climate Change
Borderless challenges

Coming to grips with the realities of climate change requires diverse knowledge coupled with a willingness to act.  The youngest workstream of the Waikato Plan is building the collaboration to remove barriers in addressing climate change.

Panelists

• Jo Wrigley - Go Eco

• Eugene Berryman-Kamp – Ministry for the Environment

• Jannat Maqbool - Smart Cities

• Lorraine Dixon - Waikato Tainui 

• Gareth Cartwright – Community Energy

• Katie Hine – Waikato District Health Board

The changing landscape of Waikato 

A compendium of policy reforms and operational changes will have long lasting effect on everyone across the Waikato region.  Come learn from some experts and their discussions of the cross reform impacts.

Panelists

• Antoine Coffin - Future for Local Government

• Hamish Bell – Te Waka

• Jason Ake – Waikato Tainui

• Manaaki Nepia – Waikato Tainui

• Lisa Gestro – Waikato District Health Board

Stronger Together

The Waikato Plan was born from the Mayoral forum so who better to hear from than Waikato Mayors that have influenced the current Waikato Plan with a discussion of what the road ahead might lead to.

Panelists

• Max Baxter - Mayor Ōtorohanga

• Allan Sanson –Mayor Waikato District Council

• Paula Southgate – Mayor Hamilton City Council

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