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Connect 2019: eCommerce Innovation Summit
Including GS1 New Zealand’s 40th Anniversary celebration

With an outstanding programme of market leading companies at the forefront of thought leadership in business, their insights will be the ideas that shape our future. Highlights include Google, Amazon and The Father of The Internet of Things, Kevin Ashton.

We are breaking up the day into two parts: a Gala Breakfast to celebrate what 40 years of GS1 has given Business in New Zealand, which will feature some of the biggest names in the retail and supplier communities, and Jacinda Ardern has also been invited. This event will be followed by Connect 2019: an e-Commerce Innovation Summit with speakers from Foodstuffs, GS1 U.S., Google and Amazon.

The programme is an impressive lineup of market-leading companies who are at the forefront of thought-leadership in business, and their insights will be the ideas that shape what we look back on after the next 40 years.

Also celebrate how a simple technology transformed business and our lives, at GS1 New Zealand\’s 40th Anniversary Gala Breakfast.

Speakers
Sanjay Sarma, Professor of Mechanical Engineering – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chris Quin, CEO of Foodstuffs North Island part of Foodstuffs
Robert Beideman, Chief Solutions and Innovation Officer at GS1
Rocco Braeuniger, Country manager – Amazon Australia
Rob Rekrutiak, Group Product Manager – Google U.S.A
Kevin Ashton, The Father of “The Internet of Things”, Technology Pioneer, Author