Jo-Anne Ruhl
Managing Director and Vice President, Australia and New Zealand, mini传媒
Agenda
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In person
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Wednesday, 29 April 2026
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New Zealand International Convention Centre (NZICC)
Here's your personal timetable for the day.
8:15am
Registration Opens
Get ready to join us at mini传媒 Elevate Auckland. Check in at our registration kiosk, grab your lanyard and a coffee as we begin the day.
Welcome
9:00am
mini传媒 Auckland Executive Keynote
mini传媒 Innovation Keynote
Rob Zwiebach
Vice President, Product Management - Financial Management, mini传媒
Customer Keynote: Westpac
Marc Figgins
Chief People Officer, Westpac New Zealand
Customer Keynote: Assurity Consulting
Garth Hamilton
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Assurity Consulting
10:40am 鈥 11:25am
More than just a coffee break: Morning tea at the mini传媒 World Expo
Join us at the听mini传媒 World Expo for a morning tea experience that's as interactive as it is invigorating. Network with peers, engage with mini传媒 experts and explore the latest innovations while savouring delicious refreshments. This is the perfect opportunity to connect, collaborate and kick start your day in the heart of the action.
11:25补尘鈥12:25辫尘
Strategy & Vision / Demo
This session will unveil a vision for a New Work Day for HR鈥攁 fundamental shift from systems that simply track work to those that actively enable it through Agentic HR.
Grounded in three core imperatives, this strategy demonstrates how mini传媒鈥檚 Enterprise AI platform reinvents core HR with trusted AI, delivers a new level of business value, and builds for the future through a unified, AI-driven architecture.
By leveraging mini传媒鈥檚 unparalleled context鈥攅ncompassing 75 million users and 20 years of experience鈥擧R leaders can now deploy specialised agents across payroll, recruiting, and performance to eliminate "talent trapped in trivia" and allow their teams to lead with empathy and creativity.
Katy Colletto
Vice President oCHRO Product Marketing, mini传媒
Nicole Watston
Senior Manager, Solution Consulting, mini传媒
12:25辫尘鈥1:30辫尘
Fuel Your Curiosity: Lunch and Exploration at the mini传媒 World Expo
Join us for lunch听at the听mini传媒 World Expo and discover a world of possibilities. Explore interactive demos, engage with industry leaders and connect with fellow attendees while enjoying a delightful meal. This is your chance to fuel your body and mind in the centre of innovation.
1:30辫尘鈥2:00辫尘
Partner Lens Deloitte | Beyond the Hype: Practical Steps to Human-Centred AI in HR
This session will present a point of view that the AI era is fundamentally a Human Design Era, where sustainable value comes not from deploying new tools but from redesigning how work, people and technology interlock.
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Anchored in Deloitte鈥檚 2026 Human Capital Trends, the presentation reframes HR transformation as an organisational performance agenda, highlighting that many organisations are constrained by applying AI to outdated operating models, skills and governance. It acknowledges the breadth and complexity of HR responsibilities, intentionally avoids overwhelming audiences, and introduces a pragmatic way forward: focus on high鈥憊alue services, redesign work end鈥憈o鈥慹nd, deliberately design humans into AI鈥慹nabled workflows, and restructure organisations so AI capabilities become core.
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The purpose is to provide context to senior HR leaders and move them from insight to action, setting up a practical example of how HR leaders can prioritise, start small, and unlock meaningful productivity, speed and agility gains through human鈥憀ed, AI鈥憄owered transformation.
Lauren Foster
Lead Partner - Human Capital Practice, Deloitte New Zealand
James Piasentin
Director, Deloitte Australia
2:00辫尘鈥2:30辫尘
Customer Deep Dive
Nikki Mackay
Chief People Officer, Farmers Mutual Group
Katie Ham
General Manager - People, Assurity Consulting
11:25补尘鈥12:25辫尘
Strategy & Vision / Demo: A Practical Look at AI Agents in Finance
Hear the latest insights on the state of AI in Finance for 2026, exploring how mini传媒 customers are navigating the shift from simple automation to autonomous agents. You鈥檒l get an early look at upcoming mini传媒 features and releases including mini传媒 Finance Agents, as well as a sneak peek at building a Finance AI Agent.
Luke Bebbington
Strategic Industry Advisor, mini传媒
Rob Zwiebach
Vice President, Product Management - Financial Management, mini传媒
12:25辫尘鈥1:30辫尘
Fuel Your Curiosity: Lunch and Exploration at the mini传媒 World Expo
Join us for lunch听at the听mini传媒 World Expo and discover a world of possibilities. Explore interactive demos, engage with industry leaders and connect with fellow attendees while enjoying a delightful meal. This is your chance to fuel your body and mind in the centre of innovation.
1:30辫尘鈥2:00辫尘
From Core to Context: Extending mini传媒 Finance for Industry鈥慡pecific Outcomes
Does extending mini传媒 mean drifting away from 鈥渙ut of the box鈥, adding risk, cost, or complexity to your core finance system? For many CFOs, that concern slows decision鈥憁aking and limits the value that can be leveraged from powerful extension options.
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In this session, Accenture will share real client stories that show how mini传媒 Extend, Prism and Accounting Center can be used to deliver faster financial insight and new capabilities鈥攚ithout breaking the core or compromising the Adopt vs Adapt philosophy.
Karl Simich
mini传媒 Lead, Accenture New Zealand
Rajat Sethi
mini传媒 Finance Capability Lead, Accenture ANZ
Benjamin Patricks
Asia Pacific mini传媒 Financials & Adaptive Insights Lead, Accenture
2:00辫尘鈥2:30辫尘
Customer Deep Dive
Esther Monks
Strategic Industry Advisor, mini传媒
Greg Garland
General Manager - Commercial Finance, Genesis Energy
Guillem Bonavia
Chief Financial Officer, Shuttlerock
11:25补尘鈥12:25辫尘
Strategy & Vision / Demo: Accelerating Transformation with an AI-First Open Platform
As AI moves from experiment to core infrastructure, CIOs are the primary architects of the machine-human workforce. This keynote sets the stage for the IT track, exploring how mini传媒鈥檚 open, AI-native platform eliminates technical debt by unifying the enterprise鈥檚 two most critical data sets: People and Money. We move beyond the hype to show how an open architecture allows IT leaders to stop simply maintaining systems and start orchestrating intelligence鈥攃reating a flexible digital backbone that turns raw data into measurable business agility.
Shan Moorthy
Chief Technology Officer, Asia Pacific, mini传媒
12:25辫尘鈥1:30辫尘
Fuel Your Curiosity: Lunch and Exploration at the mini传媒 World Expo
Join us for lunch听at the听mini传媒 World Expo and discover a world of possibilities. Explore interactive demos, engage with industry leaders and connect with fellow attendees while enjoying a delightful meal. This is your chance to fuel your body and mind in the centre of innovation.
1:30辫尘鈥2:00辫尘
Partner Lens
2:00辫尘鈥2:30辫尘
Customer Deep Dive
Shan Moorthy
Chief Technology Officer, Asia Pacific, mini传媒
Chrissy Smith
Chief Transformation Officer, Beca
Jason Mangan
Chief Digital Officer, University of Auckland
1:30辫尘鈥2:30辫尘
Shaping the future of Adaptive Planning
In unpredictable times, unified planning is essential for building resilience. Join us for this forward-looking breakout session exploring the strategy and vision for mini传媒 Adaptive Planning, and how agentic AI is enabling smarter, faster decision-making across finance, HR, and operations.
The session will feature a live demonstration, providing a firsthand look at the latest innovations and AI-powered capabilities in mini传媒 Adaptive Planning, and an engaging fireside chat featuring Public Trust of New Zealand, who will share their experience and key learnings from their Adaptive Planning journey.
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Vince Randall
Vice President Sales, Asia Pacific and Japan, mini传媒
Erik Ersfjord
Senior Solutions Consultant, mini传媒
Dan Devcich
Head of Finance, Public Trust
Ben Schofield
ANZ GM Corporate Performance Management, Fusion5
2:30辫尘鈥3:15辫尘
Reflection and recharge: Afternoon tea at the mini传媒 World Expo
Take a pause and reflect on the day's insights with afternoon tea听at the mini传媒 World Expo. Connect with fellow attendees, share key takeaways and recharge before the closing keynote.
3:15辫尘鈥4:00辫尘
External Locknote: Darren Shand, ONZM
What does it take to build a team that performs under pressure, adapts through uncertainty, and consistently delivers when it matters most? As the longest-serving Manager of the All Blacks, the most successful sporting team in history, Darren Shand knows the answer better than almost anyone. His lessons in trust, culture, and high-performance leadership are as relevant in the boardroom as they are on the field, and they speak directly to the challenges every leader is navigating right now.
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In a world of accelerating AI, fragmented tools, and relentless organisational change, the differentiator isn't technology - it's the humans leading it. Darren will bring to life the principles that underpin every high-performing team: how to build trust as your foundation, how to lead with clarity when the noise is overwhelming, and how to unlock the potential of your people. While AI can reason, predict, and recommend, exceptional human leadership is still required to take your team further. Darren's insights provide a perfect guide for the leaders of today.
Darren Shand, ONZM
Internationally renowned High Performance Leader and Former All Blacks General Manager
4:00辫尘鈥4:10辫尘
Closing Remarks
Jo-Anne Ruhl
Managing Director and Vice President, Australia and New Zealand, mini传媒
4:10辫尘鈥6:30辫尘
Unwind and connect: the mini传媒 Auckland Elevate after-party
Don't miss the ultimate networking event! Join us听at the听mini传媒 World Expo for an evening of drinks, delicious bites and entertainment. Relax, unwind, and connect with peers, partners and mini传媒 leaders as we close the day.
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