Keynote presenters
Jehan Casinader
monday 10 june, 11:00am
Jehan Casinader is a leading journalist, keynote speaker and mental health advocate.
He was named “Broadcast Reporter of the Year” at the Voyager Media Awards in 2020, and “Reporter of the Year” at the New Zealand Television Awards in 2018.
In the aftermath of natural disasters, terror attacks, sporting triumphs and everything in between, Jehan has helped hundreds of Kiwis to share their vulnerable, deeply personal stories with the rest of the country.
A survivor of depression and suicidality, he is the author of This Is Not How It Ends: How rewriting your story can save your life (HarperCollins).
Lead with Stories
Prof. Glenn Lyons
TUESDAY 11 jUNE, 8:45AM
Glenn is the Mott MacDonald Professor of Future Mobility at the University of West of England, Bristol, UK. He is also Vice-President of the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation. He specialises in transport sector developments in the context of ongoing and uncertain social and technological change.
Glenn has been instrumental in bringing forward the ‘decide and provide’ transport planning paradigm and has co-ordinated the three-year pan-European project ‘Triple Access Planning for Uncertain Futures’ (https://www.tapforuncertainty.eu/).
He is a vocal supporter of the need for decisive and urgent action to address the climate emergency, and of equality, diversity and inclusion.
Triple Access Planning – a fairy-tale new beginning?
Dr Ihirangi (Ihi) Heke
TUESDAY 11 jUNE, 9:20AM
Dr Heke is of Māori descent and was raised in the mountain environments of New Zealand’s South Island. Over the past 40 years Dr Heke has been a guide in Milford Sound’s World Heritage Park, a mountain bike and ski guide in numerous alpine locations globally and more recently leading groups to experience traditional Māori environmental science.
Dr Heke has post graduate degrees in Environmental Management and educational psychology including a PhD in population health. Dr Heke’s current research focus has been on using Systems Dynamics to help Māori and other indigenous groups abroad, build their own health and wellness activities through traditional environmental knowledge. In this capacity, Dr Heke was recently awarded a research grant by Johns Hopkins University combining Systems Science and Maori Environmental Connections. Dr Heke also retains an honorary research fellow position to the University of Auckland’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Dr Heke’s current role is with Google (San Francisco) X’s diversity initiative. Dr Heke has also been developing VR180 Māori environmental experiences with a particular interest in high performance sport. More specifically his work has been looking at converting elite athletes into environmental champions by teaching them how to be environmentally centred rather than athlete centred in the ways that they train and evaluate elite performance.
Key Research areas
Ancestral Māori concepts of health obtained from the environment
Production of an Indigenous ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) model
Environmental connections between high performance sport, climate change and indigenous ways of knowing.