 Reora, i te tūtahi e tuku atu i te honore i te Matotama Wairutapu me Ngānihi Ropono i te Māngai hei te tūko mae ae nei ae nei ae nei ae. Norelera e ngā mana e ngā reo, e ngā kārangatanga maha, nā mā hara mae whakatau mae i tēnei mo mo hui hui ngā ka whakarite ae e kautau i tēnei wa. Naira e te mihi o te hou kainga o Ngātohūriri ka kautau i rungi te kāranga o tēnei a tātau kaupapa. Norelera e ngā pūruporoa ki ngā ma te maha, ngā ma te kawanganuia kautau, kawanganuia mātau, ka apiti hono tātai hono te hunga mate i te hunga mate, ka apiti hono tātai hono te hunga ora i te hunga ora ati hei Māori ora. Roa beth familia te kata tū i duniau ora, hitting ma man aware ko ma te katoa kautau i ma hei i te nāri attribute tātai hama. Rukele Жervataria w� Werthe makers reservoir kohanga kautau i mahe mahe mātau i te pokootai. Naira mumsaku punu ananite, hana i te by kait어 e tātoa i kamo ma District ANW mae maungapingi tī. This virtual welcome will intertwine us spiritually for you once conference that you're hosting from here in the manner of speaking. And so in my address, I also acknowledge those of our loved ones, those of our ancestors who have passed beyond the world of living. We have grieved, we have grieved, and together we have farewelled them from the world of the living and hope that they remain in the peace and serenity of the heavens above. So look, the process for Tuahūrari and Hōkāinga is very simple. We just want to extend our art of manaki, our art of welcome to all of you here. And so what I'm going to do this morning is give a blessing to formally open your conference. And in that whakamuimete, in that blessing, we will give thanks to Ihua for all of what he has given us to date and ask that he gives us the spiritual, the emotional and the physical blessings to carry out this conference. So on that note, we're going to get straight into it and then I will finish off with Ahimene from our hahi and then I will hand it back to you once and vacate or leave this hui. So on that note, kia ino i tātau, let us pray. Rētō mā te matenui te rangi, tukumai tō haa atorohano ke rungi kia mātau e hui hui nei. Murua mātau hara me mātau ngoi koretanga. Whakao kia tō haa atorohano ke rungi kia mātau i tēnei wā kia faihua. Mātau kōrero, kairarau i tētā hui hui o tēnei a tātānei hui hui nga. Iro tō kaitou koroeritanga, homāro ka mātau pikitiora pikitikaha, pikitimāramatanga, kia mātau tīnana, kia mātanga a kai me mātau wairua. Kōkaito anō nei te timatatanga me te whāgautinga. Māia mātau i tēmina kutiaatu nei iro tō kaitou koroeritanga. Kō te māngai hai tō i tō kōmai, āe nei ākenei āe. So on that note, just want to reiterate, reinforce our welcome from the Hōkaianga from here. And it's a bit of a spiritual one for me because I only live next door to our marae. And so I'm literally welcoming you from our village. Our village here in Tuahiwi, our passite. So welcome, twice welcome, twice welcome on that note. Tihae mariora. Te whetu te whetu marama marama o te o te hahi ratana. Ratana te whetu te whetu marama marama o te o te hahi ratana. Welcome, twice welcome, twice welcome. Tihae mariora. Ki ora tātai. Thank you, Maika. That was amazing. Beautiful. Thank you. Good luck on your meeting. Thank you. And no mai hairi mai everyone. Welcome to this third session. It's the virtual roadshow around New Zealand. And today we're going to be in Christchurch. So Matt Miles is going to be taking you through what we're going to be going through today. But for the fellows that have just come in, this is a way for you to be able to compare all the different cities and regions of New Zealand. Have a look at all the different sub-sectors that they have and what they are strong for. Most regions are strong in technology. But it's what is that the enabler of? What else have they got that's their strength? And then also you'll learn today about demographic statistics of the region and then the sectors. And you'll hear about case studies and you'll hear from companies. So today we've got the granary. You've got Amber sitting there. And then you also hear from a couple of the fellows that have moved to the region or actually are in the region as well. So I'll hand it over to you, Matt. And thank you. It's going to be a great session. Thanks, Michelle. And ki ora, everyone. I'll just share my screen and open up the slideshow. So, yes, my name is Matt Wiles and I'm the investment lead here at Christchurch NZ. And it's my absolute pleasure to be here to introduce you to the Edmund Hillary Foundation Christchurch Regional Showcase. We're extremely excited to be able to talk to you about our wonderful city and give you a glimpse of the opportunity that exists here in Otatahi, Christchurch. We've got a stellar lineup of speakers who will highlight our key sectors, share what it's like to live and work here and also tell their story about how they fit into our local ecosystem. My name is Jamie Todd. He looks after business attraction. And I will hand over to him to tell you more about Christchurch NZ and the role that we play in creating a place of innovation, exploration and vibrance. Jamie. Thanks, Matt. Thank you, everyone. My name is Jamie Todd. As Matt said, I focus on the business attraction here at Christchurch NZ. Otatahi Christchurch is one of the most economically resilient and fastest growing regions in New Zealand. We've learned a fair bit about overcoming challenges and the economic diversity which underpins the region has created a strong level of resilience and a focus on the future through sustainable economic growth. Christchurch is a city that explores opportunity through our innovation ecosystem and was proudly named by NZ entrepreneur magazine as New Zealand's start-up boom town. It's the perfect testing environment with a collaborative business culture ensuring entrepreneurs feel connected, supported and, importantly, thrive. We have a depth of talent across multiple sectors, including professional services, agri-tech, health-tech, creative industries, manufacturing and engineering to name just a few. At world-class universities, work with industry to grow future-focused work-ready graduates while the city's affordability, unbeatable lifestyle and easy commutes attract and retain the best in the field. So, I think one of the things we won't do is use lots of economic data. We've got a very vast list of speakers in front of a wide range of topics. We've got Marion Johnson who's going to talk about the innovation ecosystem. And I think we can see some of the companies that are coming out there doing a great job. And we've also got Mark Rocket who's going to talk about probably one of the biggest sectors in the whole of Christchurch with Aerospace. And then we're going to pass over to Amy who's going to talk about the Christchurch Foundation here who did some great work. We've got Bridgette from Bead & Proceed who's going to talk about their social enterprise and also Amber Marie from the Granary who's going to talk about the reasons why they moved down here and their amazing technology that they work within the screen industry. First of all, I'll show you a little video. I'll show you a little video. Heads South to experience Alpine adventure amongst New Zealand's tallest mountains. Discover serene blue lakes and indulge in the local cuisine. The centre of South Island is ready and waiting to wow you. So, get out there and explore. OK, so before I hand over to Marion she's going to talk about the innovation ecosystem and the amazing start-up system that we've got going on here. But just as a little teaser, we'll introduce you to a company that probably a lot of you will know. Somebody's come through Te O'Haka and now doing some great things here in Christchurch. My name's Nathan and I'm from Partley and we came up with our business idea from this caravan in our flat. We had one guy living in the caravan, one in the house. We used to come in here every morning, fold up the bed, bring in a table. One of us sitting here, one sitting there, one at the desk over there and one sort of in a cubby hole at the back. 12 hours a day developing, coding, writing. Just full on. What we're doing is we're creating a universal standard for auto parts and also for vehicles and the relationship between auto parts and vehicles. A part on average fits 30 or 40 different vehicles which parts fit which specific vehicles in different regions around the world. It's a big problem and we solve that through software. It's been fundamental to our growth that we have been a part of Te O'Haka. Being in a place where you're not alone, you are with other companies that are facing similar problems to you, whether you're constantly bouncing ideas off other startups. This time last year we were four guys in the past six months really. We grew on to 10, expanding to 20 over the next 12 months with customers across 13 different countries and just raised a seed round of 1.7 million. We couldn't have done it really without the help of Te O'Haka and the whole startup ecosystem in Christchurch. Marian, over to you. Thanks for that fantastic intro. Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. My name is Marian Johnson. I'm the Chief Executive at Ministry of Awesome and we're in Christchurch. The next couple of slides I'm going to show you are just an introduction to the Canary startup and innovation ecosystem. It all started specifically for me and for the team at Ministry of Awesome. Sorry, Marian, are you going to push the slides forward? I'll just say next. On the 22nd of Feb 2011, when obviously we had a catastrophic earthquake here in the city, the city was no longer, the whole city centre was destroyed. Many of our lives were completely disrupted and there began a complete reimagining of what the city could be and how it could potentially lead New Zealand. You may not know this, but we used to be called the Garden City. Actually, I was in New Zealand two years before the earthquake and it was a city full of gardens and beautiful heritage buildings. Once the earthquake happened, we really had to quickly reimagine ourselves an organisation called the Ministry of Awesome was formed and it was really a city-making organisation. At the same time that I took over at the end of 2017, there was new leadership from an agency through to the chamber, through to the university, and it became very quickly clear that the pathway we're heading towards was the city of innovation, specifically focusing on four supernodes. Those supernodes are aerospace and future transport, food and fibre, medtech, health tech, and high tech in general, underpinning all of them. The picture that you can see in the background is a picture of the city of innovation and her team members working on their drone, which disseminates the hydroscopic powder, which clears airport fog from airports around the world. It's an $85 billion problem and Piper Vision, which was born here in Christchurch, is solving that rapidly. Next slide. We were focusing on those key supernodes. It also became clear that we were going to have to very quickly develop a pipeline of high growth start-ups and innovators. At that time, anyone who was founding a high growth start-up was generally thinking there's nothing here for me, this is the garden city, there is no sort of start-up ecosystem, there was the beginnings of some, there was the development, where there were actually formal programs in place and accelerators in place, and where funding was much more readily available, and of course funding was also extremely tight at that point. Therefore, our Ministry of Awesome completely pivoted from the city-making that it had been doing over the last five years through to focusing on developing a high growth start-up pipeline. We knew exactly how important those start-up founders were going to be in terms of achieving our goals. Next slide, please. Another thing that was a massive factor is that previously in Christchurch, we were very much focused on primary industry, lots of daring, lots of farming, lots of supply to those industries, and now more than ever in Christchurch and in New Zealand, we needed more start-up founders to alleviate that reliance on primary industry, and also to ensure that we had global relevance in terms of developing future world-leading industries. Next slide. So, I don't know if any of you follow start-up Genome, but they have a pretty strong formula in terms of where we find ourselves depending on where a start-up ecosystem actually is in the stage of development, and in New Zealand, the stage that New Zealand is at is activation phase, one of the early phases. And the jobs that need to be done in that activation phase are these three jobs, and this is exactly what our strategy has pinned on. So, the first one is we need to be role-modeling, storytelling, essentially making start-ups a thing. And the second step is we have to be identifying talent and building capability, making sure that everyone is really connected and making sure that there's a pipeline of investment so that the start-up founders who do have that high capability, who have affected product market fit, and who can easily find investment for the next stage of growth. And the third thing that we needed to do is we needed to essentially create entrepreneurial density. So, it was no good having a high growth start-up founder over here and another high growth start-up founder over there and investors in this pocket and investors in that pocket. We basically had to squish them all together, create that density so they could start meeting each other, firing off each other, and then we needed to make sure that we had all of the key partners in the room to engineer that serendipity that would lead to those collisions that would benefit everyone in terms of developing that start-up and innovation pipeline. Next slide, please. So, in terms of Ministry of Awesome, we're a force for New Zealand start-ups and innovators. I haven't spent a lot of time in this deck on ThinkLab because it's not in my organization, but it's our sister organization. So, ThinkLab is based at the University of Canterbury and where ThinkLab sits is generally working on that growth phase, but also working very specifically with those start-ups that are potentially around commercializing deep tech. So, for example, the engineering school at the University of Canterbury is extremely strong and innovation that comes out of that engineering school is something that might go directly into ThinkLab to work on how they might commercialize their start-up. Ministry of Awesome is generally mostly founder-led. So, this is essentially not necessarily deep tech, although we do have some deep tech in the portfolio. This is mostly founder-led start-ups who are coming in from a position of having found a problem out in industry and teaming up with a technical co-founder and then building their start-up from there. Next slide, please. So, the focus at Ministry of Awesome is at the very top of the pipeline. So, that sort of swampy body of water you see there, we are trying to turn that into a torrent. We just need to have more volume coming into the top of the pipeline in order for start-ups, high-growth start-ups and innovators to be able to trickle down to the next stages of growth. So, our focus is completely around making sure that we get that volume into the top of the pipeline, ensuring we connect them, ensuring that they have everything that they need to go along to the next step. Next slide, please. So, Job 1, as I mentioned in that earlier slide, is making start-ups a thing. Next slide, please. So, a real example of how we might make start-ups a thing is a conference that just recently happened in Christchurch. It was actually phenomenal Electrify Ulteroa, which was focusing on women high-growth start-up founders. It took place two weeks ago. We had 400 women from all across the country coming to the Isaac Theatre Royal, and essentially we had these amazing role models of high-growth start-up founders who are women talking about their journey, and essentially role-modeling the opportunity of start-up and showing how it can be done. Next slide, please. So, that was the ad poster. This was the reality. It was an all-day event, and it was truly electrifying, and essentially this was the thunder clap for women start-up founders in our country to really connect us all and to create a girls club that could combat the impact of the boys club. I mean, less than 2% of venture capital goes to women-founded start-ups, 83% to all-boy-founded start-ups. So, obviously this is an area that we were focusing on for this specific event, role-modeling and making sure women are coming into the top of that start-up pipeline. Next slide, please. An example of job number two, which is all around identifying that talent, building capability, connecting and investment pipelines. Next slide, please. Is the incubator that we run at Te Oaxaca. So, Te Oaxaca means the nest in Te Reo, and we run an incubator there called Founder Catalyst. Founder Catalyst is generally around 30 high-growth start-up founders at a time going through those early stages. So, we'll take people at about pre-MVP, generally pre-revenue, and what we're trying to do over the nine months that we have those start-up founders to product market fit and get that first seed round in for those start-up founders who are actually raising. Next slide, please. So, job number three is the building of that entrepreneurial density and that cute line around engineering serendipity. And some examples of that we'll see on the next slide. So, something that we recently worked on last year was the first year and we'll be doing it again in a couple of weeks' time is we launched the Orion Energy Accelerator in 2021. It was powered by Ministry of Awesome and we were partnered with Oaxaca, which is the National Future Energy Hub of New Zealand. And essentially what we were looking for there is energy innovators, energy start-ups who are focused on driving sustainability in energy creation as well as addressing power poverty. The results of that were pretty phenomenal out of the 10 teams that went through the accelerator. Four of them now have either gone on to commercialising their product and have raised their first seed rounds. To find out a little bit more about that, you can get on to the Orion Energy Accelerator website and there we have some reports of some of the successful founders from last year. And we have a call to action for new founders to come in in a couple of weeks' time when it launches again. Next slide, please. Another example of that engineering serendipity and essentially what we're trying to say there is we're trying to bring in larger organisations, corporates to lean into the start-up ecosystem. So rather than start-ups trying to solve problems that they hope to find a customer for, we're trying to find the big customer that will be able to solve problems and then having start-ups solve their problems. And that's what we did with the Orion Energy Accelerator and now with the HealthTech Supernode Challenge. So we're in our second year of the HealthTech Supernode Challenge and essentially, again, this is the same thing again, a call to action nationally for high-growth start-up founders and innovators who are working in a particular sector and working on specific problems. And then when they apply to come in and we're identifying talent, we're driving their capability, we're ensuring that they're networked into the right organisations and we're essentially pushing them on their way through the pipeline. Next slide, please. So since May 2019, these are numbers that are specific to founder catalyst at Te Ohaka. Since May 2019, we've worked with 87 start-ups in our incubator. From those 87 start-ups, we've had 18 million capital raise and created 168 new jobs. And just bear in mind that the start-ups are coming in pre-MVP many times, pre-revenue many times. So when we're talking about raising capital, we're not talking about raising $4 million round. Sometimes we're talking about raising as little as $100,000. So all those $100,000 rounds adding up to 18 million is a good start for the start-ups that have been going through the incubator. Next slide, please. Here's just a slide that I borrowed from the Angel Association at Ice House. And this is actually probably about two years old now. And if you look at the top right corner, you've got Zero Rocket Lab, Lanzatec. Sequence is a local start-up that is now in the, I guess, Unicorn Club. And here we have about 400-plus high-growth start-ups. This is two years ago. And two years ago, we're creating 10,000-plus high-value jobs. Next slide. Again, a reiteration of why start-up founders and why we're concentrating on this, why does New Zealand think this is so important? It's really these four pieces. Start-up founders are responsible for rapid job creation. They do thrive in uncertain times. They have an outsized contribution to those government imperatives around sustainability, well-being, industry transformation, et cetera. And they will also lead to our global relevance and leadership on the world stage. Next slide, please. So you may or may not know this, but New Zealand at the Electrify Aotearoa conference last week, the New Zealand government announced the very first New Zealand start-up council, which is six advisors to a start-up council, advising the government on any policies and strategies that the government might affect that would impact the start-up ecosystem. And this is really important because what it means is that New Zealand and the New Zealand government is really recognizing the impact that high-growth start-up and innovation can have on the country and on the world. So these are the goals that we put forward when we were asking the New Zealand government to create that start-up council. We were saying that delivering by 2030, we wanted to see 10,000 active high-growth start-ups. We're now at, I think it was at 4,000. 500,000 future-focused jobs, a GDP uplift of 10 billion. We need to see an enormous productivity uplift. We're aiming for a carbon-neutral economy. We'd like to build a high-value economy that has a better equity and diversity across the entire sector and that we're trying to make sure that high-growth entrepreneurship is part of the Kiwi DNA. So this is the New Zealand ambition. I've talked a little bit about the Christchurch and Canterbury ambition, but they're very much aligned. And this is what our goals are. There's a lot of work to do, but we're definitely heading in the right direction. And that's it. Thank you very much for your attention. Thanks, Marion. That's amazing numbers there. And I think anyone who attended the Electrify last week can testify to how amazing the event was. And, yeah, I know we spend a lot of time down at Te O'Haka, and it's amazing to see the sort of the outputs and the companies that are coming through every week and how they're growing. Now moving on to something a bit more specialist, I'll pass over to Mark Rocket to talk about aerospace in Christchurch. Thanks, Matt. Tim Koto-Kato. I'll be here in the session. I'll give a snapshot of some of the interesting aerospace projects underway in Canterbury, New Zealand. Yeah, in 2018, a group of us started running local aerospace meetups, and this developed into an industry body that's now called Aerospace Christchurch. We work on a range of initiatives to support the industry. And the key one for us was in 2019 where we secured funding from the New Zealand Space Agency for a regional space strategy. And this helped align all of the key stakeholders in the region. And things are progressing nicely, and we're starting to see some great activity, and we're working with entities around New Zealand to help build an aerospace nation. We were the 11th country in the world to develop orbital-capable rockets. And here in 2022, we have a thriving aerospace ecosystem that is really starting to build momentum. Next slide. So, essentially, we're an industry body made up of industry participants. We see Aerospace as being space businesses and also advanced aviation-type companies. Next slide. So, our mission is to create an internationally acclaimed Aerospace Business Hub that exceeds $50 million revenue by 2030. And our vision is, in 2030, we will be able to create a space that will be a major Southern Hemisphere gateway to space. Next slide. So, you may be wondering why Christchurch. What have we got to offer the international aerospace industry? Well, Christchurch is an ideal location for flight testing and has relatively less air traffic and has stable weather. We have available airspace. New Zealand is surrounded by water and has a very low population density compared to the Northern Hemisphere. We have dedicated flight test areas. We are a gateway to another extreme environment, the Antarctic, with hundreds of researchers passing through our city. Christchurch is also New Zealand's second largest manufacturing hub. But we don't have all the traffic and housing problem that Auckland has, so there's a certain ease of business here. We have a number of other compiling selling points, but if you put them all together, Christchurch is a great place to develop an aerospace technology company. Next up, I'm going to be talking through some interesting projects that are on our radar. I'll start off talking about my favourite company, Kea Aerospace. I'm the CEO, so I'm a little bit biased. Kea Aerospace is developing an uncrewed solar-powered aircraft that will fly in the stratosphere for months at a time. We have a focus of developing high-resolution aerial imagery for applications such as environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, forestry, smart cities, maritime domain awareness and disaster management. Next. Dawn Aerospace are developing an uncrewed rocket plane that will fly into space, and they also have a substantive part of their business developing small thrusters for satellites. Next. Merlin Labs have received a heap of Google investment to fly planes autonomously, and it looks like they're going to be based in Northland, but their CEO is on our Aerospace Cross-Church Committee and they will be doing some activity down here as well as in the Northland. Next. Hypervision had developed technology-dispersed fog as Mary mentioned in the previous presentation, and they're using drones and have contracted various news and reports and are starting to do some very interesting work. Next. Skybase, like Merlin Labs, are working on systems to take the pilot out of the plane, and they are making excellent progress on this. Next. Swoop have their global HQ in Melbourne, and their New Zealand operation is based here in Christchurch. They have been doing drawing delivery services around the world. Next. Wisk have received about $700 million of investment from Boeing. The aircraft development is well-adanced, and in June they will be doing a lot of test flights around the Tekapo area here in Canterbury. Next. Te Faki is an exciting joint venture between two local runanga and the Crown, who invested $16 million in purchasing land on the Kaiteriti Spit. It will be used as an R&D test area for many of the companies I've talked about so far, and ultimately it'd be great if there's a place where hardware can be launched into space. Next. The University of Canterbury has a great aerospace pedigree. In fact, in the 1960s they launched orbital rockets into space from the Kaiteriti Spit, and they've been a producer of incredible talent. They did that launch with NASA, by the way. A bunch of the team in the Rocket Lab control room are graduates of Dr. Chris Hahn as is my business partner Dr. Chris Hahn has been doing some great work there at the University of Canterbury, as well as a bunch of other people in different faculties. Next. Aerospace Christchurch has made ups, and they started in 2018, and they've been a really popular way for aerospace participants, stakeholders and interested parties to network and hear about what's going on around Canterbury and the country. Next. I just wanted to finish up mentioning that we have an overall New Zealand Aerospace summit here in Christchurch at Tupai on September 5th, and it'll be the first time that we bring together all New Zealand's key aerospace participants. So that's going to be a pretty exciting event and we're really looking forward to that. Next. So, yeah, that's a brief overview of some of the aerospace activity going on. Thank you, and you feel free to get in touch with us through our website Christchurch.space. Thanks, Matt. Great. Thanks, Mark. And I think just to touch on aerospace, I've had the good fortune to be involved in a few aerospace challenges and organizing parts of some of the summit, and it's just amazing to see what's happening in that space, excuse the pun, but, yeah, there's a lot going on and it's, I mean, the future's huge, and that Aerospace summit coming to Christchurch is going to be absolutely amazing, so looking forward to that. And now I'll hand over to Amy who's going to talk about the Christchurch Foundation. Kia ora, everyone. Thank you for having me, so I'll apologise in advance I'm coming from COVID-19 at the moment so if I start coughing, bear with me. So the Christchurch Foundation is a response established by the Merelea and Alzil to the understanding that for successful Western democracies to thrive, you need a strong business economy, a strong governance or leadership both from the central and local government, really strong media, but also the significance of a strong and thriving, not-for-profit sector is the glue that often holds all those sorts of communities together. And so we were established as a direct result of the Christchurch earthquakes in 2010 and 2011 where there was a gap missing in our infrastructure. Next slide, please. So our purpose is to effectively act like tinda. We're a matching service between donors and generous people organisations and great causes here in Greater Autotahi Christchurch. So we include Selwyn and Waimakariri in our area and we don't really care where people give to as long as it's smart and informed. We're 100% focused on impact and making a difference for our residents and our community and we're acknowledged as being well-used, leading in some of their responses. You may have seen us for our work we did around March 15, so we lead on behalf of the Mayor and the Prime Minister in that response and then acted as advocates for that community for a year and a half as part of DPMC's outreach programme. Next slide, please. So we're all about making Greater Christchurch better to make it short and sweet. Thanks. Next slide, please. You've heard a little bit in these conversations before about how wonderful we are. There's our beautiful city and we just keep clicking through Matt or Jamie who is pushing the button. Stunning landscape. We're a city surrounded by nature and what's better is we're a new city with new infrastructure. Kind of think of us as Goldilocks. Not too big, not too small. We're just right, which means we're an ideal situation to innovate, lead and make a difference here in New Zealand but globally as well. Next slide, please. But what we do know from our own research is that our people like everywhere in western world are feeling lonely, isolated and disconnected. So what is our role as a catalyst organisation to help address that next slide, please. So what we've learned, we had a bit of a bad run there over the last 10 years. We've had earthquakes, fires, narrow plague. I think we're just missing a few other things that have happened to this community. But what it's done has taught us a lot which is that we must listen and empower to it and empower people. And the Christchurch Foundation has it at the core all that we're doing. Thank you, next slide. So we did some research. So when we've got smart people, whether they're here or based somewhere else in the world or a big corporate, when we're working with them to decide where they should invest their philanthropic dollar, it's really important to understand community aspirations. So on that basis, we conducted some research called Vital Signs asking residents of Greater Christchurch what was important to them. And we should prioritise philanthropic investment here. And that Vital Signs research has been invaluable. It's now actually been fed into the long-term planning of Greater Christchurch for the 2050 as well. And that Vital Signs research can be found on our website. Thanks for sharing that, Michelle. Next slide, please. So what it did was help us understand a few things. We've got people that are feeling not connected to place, to planet or to other people. So we've got a strategic approach to grow healthy giving, to encourage participation of our residents, create connections within communities and empower people across Greater Christchurch. Next slide, please. Which leads to these priorities, which are the priorities set by our people, reducing inequality, creating strengths within the communities and a huge focus on the concepts of Kaitiaki Tanga. Thanks, next slide. So where did that give us in 2019, Vital Signs told our community that these were our areas of prioritisation. So making our place vibrant and exciting place to live and visit is a really important focus. Kaitiaki Tanga, stewardship of the environment. People wanted a city, a modern version of a garden city surrounding districts, a place where you could connect with nature, where it was sustainable, where energy was used, it was clean. And also we wanted to be a place that stood up against inequality. And that's proud in our history. We were the first place in the world to legislate a woman's right to an education. We led the global women's rights movement with Kate Shepherd and her peers. Not only was it someone in Canterbury that split the atom, we then led the global nuclear free movement. So we are a proud region at evolving and shaping depending on what our community in the world needs. So those are three strategic areas of investment. And that's what we inform our donors about whether they're a corporate something like a meridian energy or an expat sitting in London. We help guide and inform them with good data. Next slide, please. So what does that look look like? We've applied it against the sustainable SDGs which we'll hear a bit more about from Bridget soon, but that's quite important to understand and those are the strategic priorities that our community has set and that gives you a little bit more of an overview. And the next slide shows you some of the programs that we're already actively delivering in that space to deliver outcomes along that. So we're a community foundation. We have the fastest growing movement of philanthropy globally. We have one of 17 across the world across New Zealand. There's thousands of them across the world. But what's different about us is we've bespoke to what our community wanted and we're actually proactively establishing funds that are aligned to community aspiration to make it easier for people to get involved and invest in our community whether it's $5 or $5 million. So some of the projects delivered there at Te Aho Pataki we strategically partnered with a charitable trust here. They have been a government, their council-controlled entity never had to raise money, but they had a strategic objective of purchasing the two highest peaks on bank expenditure for permanent protection and reforestation. We provided the strategic framework to fundraise and then help them capital raise just another form of capital raising over $600,000 to purchase those two in Taionga, which are now back in permanent public protection and will be re-established into Bush. So you can see the sort of programs of work that are sitting there, but we also work as an advisers to donors and if they want to establish a fund with a specific objective we'll do that as well and we call those donor-advised funds. So this is our fifth year of operation. We've raised over $17 million distributed 13 million of that back into the community already and we have a global outreach program. I run a sister charity in the UK and I'm about to launch one in the US as well, which Tax and Centrifies is giving for our expat community back here. Next slide, please. So that's what we're about, making the city better. So it's strategic philanthropy that's world-leading has a big focus on our global alumni and we're all about making a difference. So we've just partnered with the NEX Foundation and they've conducted an impact review of us and we're working with them to build a world-leading impact framework. There's an expert sitting here in Christchurch called Rose Chalise who's one of the top ones in the world. So we can measure indices. So every program of work that we do we know if we're actually making a difference so we can then go back to philanthropic investors and say yes, no, it's not working, move the dial, reboot again. The work we did which was victim-lead and victim-informed to March 15 has won global acclaim. The Gates Foundation point to us as being the leading world authority on responding to an act of terror. There's a Winston Churchill fellowship research project currently undertaken again talking about us as leading the world by taking that impact and from the grassroots up approach. So the best way to get some case study examples of some of the work we've done to date is on our YouTube channel which is, you can just find under the Christchurch Foundation. Storytelling is a big part of what we do. So there's a series of videos that you can view there that give you some more examples of how integrated our programs of work are. Sometimes we're the funder like you'd see in a community trust or likes of the Tyndall Foundation. Other times we're actually a project delivery vehicle. It depends on the resources here in the city and whether we roll up our sleeves or not. So I encourage you to have a look at our website and those YouTube videos and feel free to contact me if you've got any other questions. But ultimately we hope to partner with other entities here to our developer centre for world leadership and philanthropy. There's a lot of great work happening here. We've now got a leadership development programme that works from high school students through and to a collaboration with the IOD and one of our uni's three tertiary institutes actually has a now a four purpose degree which Bridget might talk a bit about as well that came out of UC. So leading the world making a difference which I know you're keen to do too. So thanks for coming in. Fantastic. Thanks Amy and thanks so much for suffering through the week after COVID. I know I think anyone who's had it will realise what it's like to carry on and do such a great job presenting. And I know Jamie and I have the pleasure of working with the Christchurch Foundation in our own office. So it's just great work and you can see the impact they're having. And now on to someone else who's having an impact I'll hand over to Bridget. Tena koutou katoa korprudatoka ingoa no Otatahi aho hei kai mahi aho iti ka mimpini o Beat and Proceed ke mihe maio ha Tena koutou katoa. So ke ora everyone my name is Bridget Williams. I'm from Christchurch, Otatahi and I founded and lead a social enterprise called Beat and Proceed. And I want to say a massive thank you to Matt and to Christchurch and Deb for letting me be here. I feel like it's a bit hard done by the last person to speak after we've talked about space and these incredible honours with what Amy was talking about in response to the mosque attack and now I'm here to talk to you about these. But I do hope that it will shine some light on what it's like to create a social enterprise in a very thriving creative city that being Christchurch, Otatahi. Next slide please. So Beat and Proceed just a little bit of background. I did not always, I hadn't always been doing this. I believe it or not I was a lawyer. I now call myself I think I'm a fully recovered solicitor now but for about three years I was a solicitor and I just found myself in a position where I had got so much so much about community connection and being a part of something that is bigger than you but better because of you through my time being president of the Student Volunteer Army which was a youth lead mobilisation I guess just a huge group that came out after the earthquakes to help clean up the city and then I was shoulder tap to be on the Christchurch Community Board and be a youth representative and at the time I was one of the youngest community board members for the city but I thought it was really important for there to be a younger perspective around the table especially when we were making decisions that impact the future of the city and the city being one where we essentially had a blank canvas to work with and from that this has become a really vibrant creative city that really values creativity and for so long I never really valued it, it was always a strength of mine but it wasn't something that I saw as being a career path so I'm really grateful to have been able to carve that one out so making a long story very short had a bad day and call it decided to put something my frustrations into something positive made a necklace, wore it to work the next day, had heaps of compliments on it, discovered 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals put the two together sat on the idea because I thought it was just it didn't have legs I didn't think it was worthy of anything for I didn't think it would actually make much of a difference but then the United Nations found out about it and they gave me seed funding and then I had businesses contacting me to run beat and proceed in their workspaces and their offices and retreats and I thought maybe there's something to this so much to my dad's horror left the law to paint beads for a living but it is more than just that but I will tell you a bit about what beat and proceed is so the next slide please so beat and proceed what are we we are a social enterprise that exists to educate people on the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and to inspire action towards them through creativity and the idea started as a really simple one it was about bringing people together to each make and paint a five sustainable development goals that you care about personally and while painting and creating we are in a creative space where we can ideate and brainstorm waves to action the goals that we care about and also throughout the workplace as well and of course you come away with something tangible that anchors the learning it serves as a conversation starter and a reminder of your commitment so that was essentially the idea and it has definitely grown far beyond that so the next slide here they are in all their colourful glory so you're probably very familiar with the Sustainable Development Goals they go by many different names such as the People's Goals, the Moonshot Goals the Global Goals currently they're being referred to as the Worlds to-do list but for this purpose I am calling them by their acronym the SDGs standing for Sustainable Development Goals which you have to really announce or ask it sounds like something else the SDGs so what makes them so special is they do speak an international language and they put different countries on the world stage when they are doing bright and bold things towards actioning them and with that international language it means you can action them anywhere and I think now more than ever and what we have seen with COVID is we need to come together in solidarity and with this collective vision to work towards something that feels impossible made possible by us all working together that's the power of goals and the power of the SDGs and so with the next slide you'll see that like any smart goal there's a deadline you're probably familiar with it it's 2030 and the really sad thing is no state is on track to achieving all 17 SDGs by the 2030 deadline so that is why for me I see Beaton-Bressade as being a wonderful tool to help connect all people no matter what age no matter what area you work in to action the goals which brings me to the next slide so a cool thing with New Zealand and especially with Christchurch as well is we do have quite a few SDG champions and one in particular that you may recognise is the right honourable Hala Clark she's the lovely Wahine to the left and she is a huge advocate of the SDGs and in her visit to Christchurch at the town hall I was lucky enough to meet her we got to chew the fat about the sustainable development goals and she's a really big advocate and supporter of what Beaton-Bressade is achieving and you may remember that she went for the position of the UN right secretary-general unfortunately she was unsuccessful and this lovely gentleman to the right Antonio Briseries had the position and that is our former one of our former city councillors Raf Mangy who is gifting a Beaton-Bressade kit to him so it's really exciting that we're able to be used as a tool that's internationally recognised and moving to the next slide so one of the things that we picked up with Beaton-Bressade is while the kit gave anyone in a group of seven the opportunity to come together to work out what five goals they care about personally there was real impact in us going into businesses and schools and organisations and actually workshopping with them being guided on that journey really excited to say that to date we've worked with over 7000 individuals across New Zealand and that's the benefit of operating from Christchurch or Tatahe you're really not that far from anyone around Aotearoa so we've worked with PWC, GHD other international service firms engineering firms, Z Energy and also a lot of schools as I mentioned and councils too so the beautiful thing about the SDGs is to speak that international language but so does creativity and that is able to be done throughout any age so with Beaton-Bressade in this workshop package it's called our Beaton-Bressade Epic as we're giving people hopefully an epic experience and it's a three part sort of approach where we do me delivering a presentation everyone gets out into smaller groups where they paint their five goals that they care about personally and the last part is the report a lot of them don't necessarily know where to start when it comes to sustainability or they don't realise that they are already actioning a lot of the SDGs and they just need to understand that language so we go into businesses we help them align to the relevant goals that they are directly working on but we also democratise the process by helping their staff and their people connect with the relevant SDGs that they care about personally and so people feel taken on the journey because the goal is that they care about have an impact in the work that they do day to day. So with the next slide we have also taken Beaton-Bressade to a larger level so we have Beaton-Bressade Impact which is our experience for large scale events like conferences, summits and any sort of large scale event and the great thing is with this one is still the same thing deliver the presentation because obviously a lot of information about the SDGs so it's important we demystify them we unpack the history of sustainable development go right back to 1972 and we also unpack the targets as well but we have a Beaton-Bressade station where each attendee paints one bead in the colour of the SDG they want to commit to an action and then we weave those beads into a stunning beaded mural which is on the next slide so you'll see some of our murals that we've done today and it's just a beautiful symbol of weaving together our collective actions celebrating diversity and creativity but it also serves as a really clever and artistic way of visual data so you can physically see what people care about and you'll see there's the one with me holding it up with two hands that's our largest mural we've done to date with over a thousand beads in there moving on to the next slide awesome. So the cool thing with Christchurch is a real connection with the SDGs is we've done a lot of work towards them so here is councillor Sarah Templeton she is the wahene in the corner and her portfolio is for resilience and sustainability and I'm really proud to say that Christchurch or Tatahe was one of the first cities in New Zealand to put itself into a state of climate emergency and the reason for that is it framed our policy and our strategy to make sure that whatever we did we looked at the lens of SDG 13 climate action in mind and when councillor Sarah Templeton delivered her presentation she sent me this photo and she wore her bead and proceed necklace and one of her beads is SDG 13 climate action so that's a big part of what we do it's about us educating and inspiring people to think about what are their platforms what can they personally do to action the goals and their life what are their resources, their connections and their sustainable impact and speaking on councils, bead and procedures work with a whole lot of councils around New Zealand because long-term plans and policies and strategies the SDGs are a wonderful tool to help articulate what council values and where they want to put their sustainable impact and other things that have happened in Christchurch in particular is just last year we hosted the New Zealand Sustainable Development Goals Summer it was virtually done because Covid but it was a fantastic summer and every year we have a summer that takes place throughout New Zealand where all of the biggest SDG nerds across the country get together to discuss where are we at with the goals and then interestingly just last year as well we had the government's preparedness to implement the sustainable development goals so this was a report put together by the Order to General and it highlighted some really key information first that New Zealand does need to articulate on what its targets are and how they will be measured but the third is that there needs to be more engagement than ever so I do believe that we will see more push and more desire for the SDGs to be weaved throughout businesses whether it's private or public sector that as you know the SDGs are not owned by anyone so you could say they're owned by everyone so we all have a responsibility to action them and someone that is definitely actioning them is Christchurch NZ so they were a huge connector and a big part of the sustainable development goals summit and they're doing some awesome work around how businesses can align to the SDGs too and the next slide please Matt so I wanted to quickly take you through a bit about beat and proceed and how we want to walk the SDG talk so in the next slide if you'll see and actually might want to go to the next one as well Matt that's it perfect so we want to walk the oh sorry back one doing a fantastic job we want to walk the SDG talk so we have partnered with an incredible organisation called Silence Silence are located in Kulkata, India and they give quality and safe employment to adults who have speaking hearing and physical disabilities often a group marginalised in the workforce and so they give them quality and safe employment and wonderful artisans they make the kits out of recycled paper and our beads made out of recycled wooden pellets we work with the natural paint company as our paint partners and our paint partners are fantastic the natural paint company they are also located in in Krushich, Ototahi and they are incredible it's eco-friendly paint free of nasties and for every square metre of paint painted they save a square metre of Amazon rainforest so we're excited to say that since we've done all of our Bed and Proceed workshops to date Bed and Proceed has saved over 1,000 square metres of Amazon rainforest and then with our next slide a key point of Bed and Proceed is our one-for-one model so for every Bed and Proceed kit purchase another is donated to either a low-decel school or a deserving community organisation because we want Bed and Proceed to be accessible to everyone and we believe everyone has the ability of positive sustainable change and most importantly a key part of the SDGs and the spirit of the goals is the notion to leave no one behind so we see that as being a really important part of Bed and Proceed and that's also why we encourage all businesses to use us as a change I guess as a change behaviour tool but taking everyone on the journey to connect with the goals that they care about personally so they can also make sure when it comes to the business wanting to align to the relevant SDGs and next slide Cool, so yeah, so Bed and Proceed is, yeah, it's a creative it's a creative social enterprise harnessing the power of creativity to bring action and awareness to the SDGs and I see Christchurch Orta Tahi as being such a wonderful place to have started Bed and Proceed because it is as Amy said it's so connected to nature every day I'm reminding myself about the importance of sustainability how we must look after it but what definitely came out of the Christchurch earthquake is this real sense of creativity and Kiwis have always done things a little bit different we're known for our quirkiness and so something like this is definitely quirky it is eye-catching it's raising awareness about a very important framework and I'm really excited to see where Bed and Proceed goes next but the next slide I just want to say a huge thank you for your presence and I'm here to answer any questions and if you want to know more about Bed and Proceed you can get in touch, so thank you so much Thanks Bridget again amazing work and to have you based here in Christchurch just shows exactly what's going on in the city and the surrounds and last but not least let Amber Murray jump into the laptop and control her own destiny so Amber's from the granary and I'll let her tell you her story Kia ora Ate Whanau I'm going to be looking here but you may be hearing me from there just for a moment kia ora tena koutou one moment one moment I'm skinning a little bit of feedback here kia ora so I'll start that again tena koutou tena koutou katoa Waikato tanifarau Hepeko hepeko hepeko Tainui toko waka Waikato toko awa Tupuri toko monga Waikato Tainui toko iwi Te Wherewhere te tangata Inaena e noho ana au ki te utatahi e te roheau nai kahu tena koutou tena koutou katoa So kia ora Ate Whanau I'm Amber Māori I'm incredibly excited to connect with you all today out at Manilori Nāmahi Christchurch and Zed for this opportunity I shared with you a moment ago in my reo the Māori language of my connection to my ancestors in Fenawa my land Tainui and the Waikato River which is located in the North Island in the Waikato Hepeko hepeko and its translation at every bend as a leader represents the correlation between people and the resource and the ceaseless perpetual connection between the Waikato River and our people with me in this image is kia ora with me in this image is my amazing co-founder Victor Victor is a proud Indigenous Tane of both Basque, Angolithian descent Recently Victor and I made the decision to journey south to Oaks Tahi Christchurch the Fenawa of Ngai Tahu Ngai Tahu are the Māori people of the southern islands of Aotearoa Ti Waipunamu the Greenstone Isle They hold the Rangatiratanga or tribal authority to over 80% of the South Island of which the Granary acknowledges and appreciates the guardianship of this intensely beautiful Fenawa I'll start at the Granary with the first in Aotearoa to successfully demo a cutting edge LED motion track virtual production studio and the volume and with the first full virtual production studio creating original IP in this space but collectively with over three decades of experience spans over 100 projects in the entertainment industry including Academy award-winning feature films, Emmy award-winning episodic television series industry acclaimed interactive projects as well as independent and local productions in essence the Granary works on both creative and technical IP we begin at the concept phase writing scripts, story boarding and creating concept art through the production life of projects be it onset shooting life action behind the camera assisting with technical delivery or at a computer building the physical worlds utilising 3D software such as Unreal Engine Blender, Maya and Houdini we are also involved in the post production and delivery of projects and we're building both our technical pipeline and a slate of creative projects to take to market there is a global opportunity to create a new product in the space with larger audiences than ever and streamers hungry to create new and original content the screening gaming industries are set to grow to 260 billion US dollars by 2025 embracing virtual production is a way that we can safeguard against future production hiatras whilst also acclimatising ourselves to a new remote work future we all find ourselves within it gives us the means to work collaboratively and remotely with increased efficiency at the click of the button without ever having to leave the comfort of a studio aside from the LED stage technology which is groundbreaking a lot of these tools have been in some shape or form a mainstay of the VFX industry since Avatar but they have traditionally only been available in the large Hollywood film studios we believe that by opening up accessibility to these tools to our local industry here in Ulteroa we will help our local creatives to help bigger and more ambitious stories on a global stage but why does this matter for Ulteroa well our screen industry has for a long time predominantly been a service-focused one but in a world where IP is king we really should be shifting this narrative as an example Disney did not become Disney by servicing others they became Disney because they created their own IP and we have the same resources expertise and storytellers in this country to do the same to cater for Ulteroa to a highly competent services industry for international productions we need to invest in our local content creators and creative producers and we should be placing ourselves as world leaders and digital exports the granary is committed to Ulteroa the time is right to move and from being just the beautiful backdrop to becoming a more powerhouse global digital leader so earlier just acknowledge that there is this camera here as well earlier I mentioned that we made the decision to move to Ototahi Christchurch less than a couple of months ago we moved from Te Whanganui o Tata Wellington so where we had been living for over a decade it's a city we dearly love and it is close to our hearts however there were several reasons why us as a start-up Ototahi was a great place for us to explore to name a few of the first just to name a few the first reason was due to us not wanting to build our company in a bubble we know how vitally important is to be surrounded by not only our creative and technical talent but also those willing to invest into our space within our industry with the convergence of film production game development and across reality in the entertainment industry there's a huge need to educate and develop the talent we need for our industry to grow which is why Te Whanganga o Waitahi also known as the University of Canterbury has decided to invest 97 million dollars redeveloping its Dovdale campus into a digital screen campus an ecosystem dedicated to nurturing future leaders of the digital screen industry for us pioneering the way in Otaroa doesn't mean we have to travel the path alone instead we are here to build community and uplifting Otahi to find opportunities in a growing industry and a digital economy second our government has been investing into our regions so anything outside Tameki Makora Auckland and Te Whanganuiatara Wellington is considered regional there is an active community of local screen practitioners here in Otaroa sorry should say Canterbury advocating for global opportunities studio infrastructure builds training and capability development alongside the incredible vista that is the South Island to attract international studio attention there is also active development and investment into the local Canterbury screen industry by Christchurch and Zed and Screen Canterbury lots of incredible opportunities have been created in what I would say actually a very rather short space of time next up was the investment and support we had saw fellow start-ups and what they were having in the region so start-ups such as here we go, shoulder so we can see that start-ups such as Piper Vision and Partly you heard from Marion earlier their journeys have been supported by the Ministry of Awesome Ministry of Awesome in partnership with the HTK group is a force for high growth start-ups in Otaroa what I love is that they are a force for high growth start-ups of Titiriwa Waitangi and collaborative partnerships so they support early stage founders and start-ups with global ambitions both locally and throughout Otaroa with the bold ambition to innovate and lead New Zealand's future Marion and her team have been positively welcoming to us already we've been invited to breakfast hoodies to learn about scaling start-up cultures we've been introduced to local founders to build our community so the support is tangible and once you enter their doors you become like whanau family another big shout-out to Marion and her team is the phenomenal resolve they have had and the success of creating and hosting Otaroa's first female founder conference during a pandemic I had the fortunate opportunity to share some learnings from my journey with fellow founders and for me personally as a wahine so a woman in the start-up world they created a safe space to be able to develop a community building it was truly an empowering day so finally the city has been going through a big regeneration and transformation period after some traumatic events in the past decade and what we didn't realise until we arrived here was that what the impact would have been like for those here rebuilding the city and their communities from what we have experienced locals have been incredibly welcoming to us without the collective community spirit one of innovation is a lot of emphasis on building a people centric city they are investing into their future and it is a city emerging a big drawcard for us was also the cost of living and the ability to afford a healthy home rental I've been excitedly exploring the city along the river Avon visiting the beautiful parks the botanical gardens the scrumptious food markets I value the promotion and integration of Mardidom and the design of the city and its pathways which connect us and I appreciate the partnership that the city has created with Ngai Tahu and just in case you aren't aware the Pacific Ocean is at its doorstep so depending on where you live you may wake up to an ocean view and what got us was that a couple of weeks ago we were able to visit Aoraki so that's Mount Cook and it took us less than four hours to reach it in an EV there were enough charging stations on the route so we weren't too worried we just can't believe that we have the epic landscape that people from around the world travel to just on our doorstep and yes, we are still new to the city but we can't wait to strengthen our roots here this feels like a city of opportunity one where we can be a part of its growth its future and its legacy so you can find us on all the usual media channels easiest way is to look me up on LinkedIn please feel free to reach out to Screen Canterbury we work in the film game or entertainment industry and are keen to learn more about what's going on here in Aotearoa we can't wait to connect and share with you about all the awesome developments and happenings that's happening here in the screen industry especially here in Aoteatahi, Christchurch so Kia ora i te whanau ti hei Muri ora, thanks Thanks so much Anna Marie I think as you can probably see Anna Marie did a much better job than Jamie and I could have done in terms of selling the city to you so and thanks to all our speakers who put together amazing presentations in a relatively short amount of time and tied it all together perfectly for us so I might hand over before we start some Q&A just hand over to Stephen just to share some thoughts as to what it's like to live here in Christchurch as a current fellow Stephen over to you Kia ora koto ko Stephen stop sharing it so that you can see Stephen you can see me it's great to be on the call it's been wonderful to hear all these stories and conversations well done Bridget and Amber and everybody else who was on and shared it's really cool to hear I guess so I'm in the cohort 7 of EHF so that's kind of the connection point but I also bring a slightly different perspective because I've lived in six different countries and I've lived in a world and spent most of my career working in legal area in Tokyo, London and Sydney and when we were looking my wife and I to come back to New Zealand we obviously were looking at Auckland Wellington Christchurch where is it going to be and we chose Christchurch the other background is I have an accent but I grew up in Christchurch so we moved here in the late 1980s so it's very confusing for people about coming back to a city that was very welcoming and I've put some links in the chat with some articles because I've been trying to spread the word because I think Christchurch is an amazing place to live and I think actually the earthquakes shook up a lot beyond the buildings and the land and all the devastating things it also changed people's mindsets so I think you see people like the wonderful Bridget here coming through as the next generation approaching things a little bit differently to how previous generations would so quite frankly Christchurch when I was growing up was a very white sort of ethnically not very diverse place but it's changed hugely since then so I don't have a huge amount to say except that it's an ecosystem where we all know each other so I literally know everybody who's spoken or at least have been in the same room with them recently I volunteered at the Electrify conference that was held recently so I was there handing out the you know here's your info for the day I get involved in ministry of awesome events I go to the UCE things ThinkLab like all of these things are happening so it's an ecosystem where there's an incredible amount of support and I think that contrasts with other cities that I've seen for example Auckland is a wonderful city but it is bigger and there end up being sub-pockets within Auckland I think whereas Christchurch it's small, it's connected we all know each other and it is a very supportive environment so I work as a partner in a law firm we've got 75 people in our law firm so we're not tiny we've got three different offices and we're focused on mainly South Island but doing work from Christchurch across the country because my practice is a purpose-led practice so I end up working for people in Vicargo up to Whangarei, you know, anywhere so being based in Christchurch doesn't mean I can't have a national presence so I guess that's just something to emphasise is that it's a small place, it's a small country and similar to Amber Marie sharing you know we bought a house here that literally cost one-third of what it would be in Auckland so if you're looking at your mortgage size it's a very reasonably priced place and you can get to the ski fields in 40 minutes you can be surfing the same day so I really enjoy it, it's a great ecosystem and there's lots of things happening all the time including lunches and events and it's a good environment a good place to be so thanks for the chance to share your questions by email from any view in the future, cheers Great, thanks Steven I think that wraps it up from our end Michelle, I'll maybe just hand over to you to wrap up or if anyone has any questions who's on the call Opening it up to questions but first thank you all for the speakers, it was amazing brilliant content, loving it love hearing all your stories and how they've progressed over time as well it's just been nice and it's been nice to meet you in sort of virtual but I'm not one having read a lot of stories about you as well but anyway, any fellows got any questions for them why they are still here our speakers Doug Listen Matt, thank you very much where there's a bunch of fellows that are interested I happen to be here in real time and I think just for recording this Michelle thank you, there's going to be some other people but I think you guys this was very good you did a really good job for the attraction process for people we're Canadian and we're actually looking at different areas of New Zealand and haven't really decided on anything but I think the best part of what you did today was you combine the entrepreneurship with the social part of what you're trying to do in Christchurch which I think definitely for my wife and I is very interesting because we're two heads one is an entrepreneur, me and my wife are activists so I think it's wonderful that you guys actually combine both of those and congratulations on the presentation Thanks Doug, thanks and I think just in terms of as part of the follow up process we have all the economic data that you know that you can find probably anywhere in a very tidy report that Jamie's put together so we'll share that along with or Michelle will share that along with the video and the recording thanks for your comments obviously the speakers did all the hard work and we just tied it all together Eric did you want to say anything or does anyone else got any questions otherwise if people want to put their email addresses in the chat to share I will be sharing it all but if anyone does want to put their email addresses in there at this point in time feel free I wonder if the new fellows have any questions we we're in the first cohort and we started in Wellington we thought we would be working with the New Zealand Government a lot but it turned out that we ended up moving to Christchurch because when we came down and talked to Christchurch and Zed about proposing a space challenge it happened really quickly within two months we had about 30 organisation co-sponsors and so we were just amazed at how supportive they were for new ideas and new initiatives to try and because we kept working with them over time we ended up just coming down here and as you heard from Mark Rocket there's a lot going on in aerospace in Christchurch and so we've enjoyed and also we like so much of the nature opportunities on the South Island side and we've been coming we used to come here to visit New Zealand for adventure travel we tried everything bungee jumping zorbing high speed jet boats and we don't do that as much anymore but it's nice to have it in the background there we settled down to kayaking nice that's good and we actually do have a video of Emily and Eric talking about how they set up their business from the start up perspective like the actual logistics part of it so we have got that on the resources as well we still utilise that one Eric no Steven Michelle is it worth mentioning there's probably coast of 30 fellows in Canterbury from based on my rough calculations so just in case people are wondering and we do have regular meetups and gatherings I would say probably once a month somebody will say oh someone's passing through let's catch up or let's have a barbecue we had a bunch of people over to our house for Christmas because being an immigrant it is hard you leave your family behind and having moved about myself I know being an immigrant to a new country you're looking for connections and so I guess the point is there is a welcoming community of EHF fellows here who I think were pretty good at supporting each other and also introducing which is what I view my role as a New Zealand based fellow how can I catalyse the introductions for people who then are doing something I don't know about but I know someone who can help them Exactly, no perfect thing Steven is in same with Eric and Eileen they host a lot and what we find is because fellows are starting to come in now over the border we've just had probably about five through and each city that they're going to visit you'll find some of the Kiwi fellows or the fellows that have moved to that country now that city are hosting meals so it can turn up at that time because it's going to be starting to come quite regular actually but it's fun, it is great to finally meet people that you've been talking to for a couple of years online