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Speaker Alert | Andre Prassinos

Andre Prassinos is Co-Founder and Managing Director of BioBrew Ltd, a proudly NZ-owned company dedicated to the development and manufacture of novel and highly effective probiotic products for human and animal applications. Andre was born in Nevada, raised in Colorado, and worked in California in sales and management roles before moving to NZ with his wife-to-be, Heather, in 1998. They now live in Western Bay of Plenty with their two children, Dylan and Sierra. ...

Speaker Alert | Nigel Dickinson

Born and educated in Southern Rhodesia now Zimbabwe, left as a refugee with wife Sharon, daughter Kirsty, and $1000.00. Founded and ran a business in South Africa for 20 years. In 2007 sold that business and emigrated to New Zealand, birth place of maternal grandfather. Wife Sharon, two children Kirsty and Kyle, 4 grandchildren. Designer / engineer, who specialises in innovative solutions to problems in a variety of industries. Founder of Kirkyl Ltd. Name from children’s names KIRsty KYLe K...

Speaker Alert | Karl Hartley

Karl is however, great with technology and has been using it to deliver digital learning for the last 15 years.    Karl escaped the corporate grind with his business partner two years ago to start Epic Learning. They are a small business that is entirely virtual with six employees all around New Zealand and one in Mexico. It’s important to them that their work environment is flexible. They're very proud to have three ‘stay at home’ mum's working with them. They've managed to str...

Speaker Alert | Nicola Turner

Bringing together her understanding of human behaviour and her sustainability experience, Nic founded Mainstream Green as a Social Enterprise to inspire and create behaviour change. She now travels around New Zealand educating businesses, councils and individuals about "greenfulness". It's all about being more mindful of how we consume and the waste we create. With her unique ability to ‘keep it real’ Nic helps kick start and inspire sustainability journeys -  it's better for our own ...

NEWS | World class speakers to join TEDx Ruakura for first 2019 event

'Expand your knowledge' is the theme for the upcoming TEDX Ruakura event, to be held on the 25th of June at the Bank in Hamilton. The event is set to see two speakers that are world class and highly respected in their fields.  The theme of this salon is all about expanding your knowledge, and defining what knowledge is.  TEDX Ruakura Communications Manager Todd Harper says, the speakers that are lined up are not to be missed. "I cannot wait. Our last salon event we had to turn people a...

Exciting changes on Horizon for TEDxRuakura

TEDxRuakura are proud to announce a change in pace for their 2019 schedule of events. Since its beginning, TEDxRuakura has held one main event each year where Hamiltonians can come listen to 10-12 speakers in a day jam-packed with TEDx talks and share ideas with like-minded people.  2019 brings a change to that, however, with the main event being postponed until 2020. This is due to the major success of the 2018 event and wanting to ensure the next is even better. In place of the main event...