 Tihei muriora, kātangi te titi, kātangi te kaka, kātangi ho kia ho. Tihei muriora, ko entoto te monga, ko ana te roto, ko abana te awa, ko manakitanga te waka, ko habesha, ko amharana iwi, ko natiaroha te hapu, no itiapia aho, engārī e te noho oki te riu aroha, e te taketake o rumutaka, ko Yosef Aiella aho, norera e te iti, e te rahi, turinua te whare, te nākoto, te nākoto, te nākoto kātoa. My name is Yosef Aiella, my mountain is entoto, my lake is abana, and I'm originally from Ethiopia, my tribe is Amara, but my new community is Aroha, and my waka, my canoe is that of service, manakitanga, and I live in Aroha Valley, and I'm very excited to welcome you all to New Frontiers to be part of this co-created activity and event. Ia chef, the Edmund Hillary Fellowship, was founded with the mission of developing new solutions for humanity's greatest challenges from here in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and they were born with the premise that if we build a community of change makers from all over the world with different lengths and perspectives, that we can incubate solutions and create new ripples of global transformation, that we can create new types of solutions that can have a positive impact in the world. And we're inspired by the life and story of Sir Edmund Hillary, who was a humble beekeeper, grew up outside of Auckland, and he did the impossible. Was the first person to climb Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay, but so much of his life was about the spirit of service and the spirit of community. He embodied the spirit of leveraging our talents, our unique platforms to serve the collective well-being of humans on our planet. Ia chef was founded in partnership with Immigration New Zealand, who helped co-create the first immigration policy focused on impact. A nation saying we want people who are here to change the world and help create the first policy that is taking a very transformative approach to how we identify and nurture human potential. An Ia chef was founded in partnership with the Hillary Institute. We'll hear from Mark Prane, the founding director of the Hillary Institute, which was founded with the blessing of Sir Ed himself and Helen Clark as his patron. And at the Institute, our goal is to identify and promote exceptional leaders, the Nobel Prize for leadership in the times that we live in. And we'll hear from one of the Loretts, Johan Rockstrom, later on. Ia chef was born 18 months ago and it's been a crazy, amazing and extraordinary journey. We've learned a lot of lessons, we've been humbled through that experience. So I'd like to share with you some of those lessons that we've learned. I've tried to consolidate them into ten key lessons. So the first lesson from this journey so far is that we're paving the path we're walking on. When we're creating the new frontiers of global transformation, there's no template for us to follow. And if we start from a place that we know the future, then we're failed. If there's already a path that's there and we're walking on it, then we're not creating any change. We're just doing the same things over and over again. Second lesson, communities about trust and relationships. We learned from natural ecosystems that everything in life is about relationships. It's the relationship between water, the sun, carbon and many minerals that create streets. It's the relationship between hydrogen and oxygen that creates water. If you look around all everywhere, everything is a part of relationships between very diverse beings around them. A fellowship or community is also a living ecosystem. And so if you want to build a real and strong community, then we have to invest in relationships. Lesson number three, if we're trying to create green-looking hills, then let's plant grass. If we're looking to create a forest, then we plant trees. Grass grows very fast and turns the hill very green really quickly, but it also dies fast as well. Trees take a very long time to grow. But if you step into a native forest, you see very rich life in there. And those things take time. In the start of the world, sometimes we get obsessed with the idea of outcomes. Any outcome is better than no outcome. Or let's just grow. Growth is the only answer to everything. We cannot rush solutions. We're very excited to be co-creating and creating a whole new ecosystem. A rich and diverse lush forest together here. Lesson number four, diversity is hard. Diversity does not end by having a room with 50% men and 50% women. Diversity doesn't just come up when you bring a wealthy person or someone with less means and expect for inclusion to happen magically. It doesn't emerge by just putting a whole lot of people with different perspectives and wave a magic wand and something beautiful appears out of nowhere. Diversity for us is not about virtue signalling. It is about identifying the unique gifts each person has and weaving that together with one another. You know how many of you have seen a pine forest and stepped in into a native forest? You can see the difference. In the native forest, what's really beautiful is all the different pieces of life. They're so diverse, but they're always interacting with each other. And for us, it is really about creating change and leveraging creativity at the edges, the intersections between different forms of life. And we're pushing boundaries of what diversity means to us and we're learning actively, but it is not an easy path. And that's also a big part of what we're creating in this whare right now. We're all coming from many different walks of life. Lesson number five, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. It's about the people, it's about the people, it's about the people. Yet it is so easy to be distracted from that. You know, when we're building EHF, we're creating a community of people. We're not creating a community of organisations. Yes, organisations are amazing, but they come and go. They get born and they die. And the organisations that die, they turn into compost and create very rich soil and space for new life to emerge. For us, it's about accepting the natural cycles of life. But really at the core of it, it is about the humans, it is about the people. And we are here to back exceptional people to create global change. Lesson number six, systemic change does not come by add-ons. You know, if you have a heart disease and you're looking at a big juicy bacon burger, you just can't add green leaves and make the bacon go away, right? Change comes by creating a better alternative. We can't just keep on adding on to what we have if we're really committed to creating something that changes. And that takes courage. As Sir Ed has told us, it is not the mountains we conquer, but ourselves. Change does not come by add-ons. Lesson number seven, global impact starts locally. If we cannot serve our community, then how on earth can we serve the world? For us, global change is not about this ungrounded feeling and idea of scale. Our ego lacks scale, lacks big things. And sometimes as entrepreneurs, it is very easy to be motivated by the idea that we're not doing enough. But for us to really create something unique and beautiful, we've got to start here, we've got to start in our home base. And that is local. That is something that creates a rippling effect across the world. Lesson number eight, a zero-sum game road is an absolute dead end. You know, I used to be a competitive runner, and I used to find the idea of losing, the fear of losing, motivating me more than the desire to win. And I get it. But if our mission is not strong enough to motivate us, then we result to be motivated by the idea of beating someone else. We're building EHF for the premise that your success is our success, and our success is your success. That is how we create a very dense and lush forest together. We see it here in Aotearoa that when a species takes over, it's called a pest, right? Around us we see monolithic organisations and businesses, specifically in places like Silicon Valley, and all of us are kind of starting to lose trust in some of those types of organisations. If we're truly committed to systemic change, then let's not follow that path and create a new one. Lesson number nine, reality is honest, so be honest. As an entrepreneur who's very optimistic, I find it hard to always be honest. It's tough to be honest when things aren't working, when your vision isn't always aligned with what you want to create, where our past success inhibits us from changing tack when we need to. We see it here in Aotearoa where a big backbone for our economy the dairy industry has really helped us to be where we are today and it's helped us achieve a lot of success. And now when we're learning the externalities of that, it's hard for us to be really honest of what is really happening beneath the ground. If we're truly committed to creating a zero emissions economy, then we cannot bolster our way out of cowshed. Let us be honest with what's happening. Lesson number ten, and this is one I stole from one of our fellas Vicky. When you have a good idea, set it free. We're really inspired by the inspired community who are open sourcing their technologies, their ideas, their social technologies and processes. Sometimes it's very easy to get obsessed with the idea of protectionism. You've created something, you've got to put an IP in it and it's mine and it's yours. Yeah, that can work for a bit, but that kind of inhibits our progress, our collective well-being. It doesn't allow others to be part of our success. So when we birth something beautiful, let's set it free. So these are some of the ten lessons that we've been learning on this journey so far and we'll be sharing with you what we learned throughout this journey. Thank you.