Conference

GEN 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

The 2017 annual conference was held on Friday 8 December at Te Papa.

The theme for the conferences was ‘Responding to global challenges’.

Many developed countries are facing common challenges to increasing well-being. These challenges include the pace of technology change and its impact on employment, rising inequality, slowing productivity growth and increasing concerns about trade and globalisation. The 2017 GEN conference explored these global challenges, how they impact on New Zealand and how New Zealand is responding to them.

The international keynote speakers were:

• Dr Jonathan Ostry, International Monetary Fund, Deputy Director Research

• Dr Catherine L Mann, OECD Chief Economist and Head of the Economics Department

• Prof Warwick McKibbin, Australian National University

The New Zealand speakers were:

• Murray Sherwin, Productivity Commission, Chair

• Jen Ritchie-Campbell, Ministry for Vulnerable Children, Deputy Chief Executive

• Kaila Colbin, Singularity University, New Zealand Ambassador

• Dr John Yeabsley, NZIER, Senior Fellow

• Dr Oliver Hartwich, New Zealand Initiative, Executive Director

• Dr Bill Rosenberg, New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, Economist and Director of Policy

• Prof Margaret Hyland, Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment, Chief Scientist

The following speakers’ presentations are available.

Speaker	Title of presentation (Click the title below to view the presentation)
Dr Jonathan Ostry	Inequality, growth and policy
Dr Catherine L Mann	Technology, ‘Tastes’ and Trade: National and regional perspectives
Prof Warwick McKibbin	Trade and globalisation: Recent trends and future prospects
Jen Ritchie-Campbell	Evening the odds: modelling well-being to drive better outcomes
Dr John Yeabsley	Globalisation in the round
Kaila Colbin	Riding the Exponential Wave of Change (Please note the Video in this link is not from the GEN 2017 Conference itself, however the content is similar to that presented at GEN)

Conference Organiser:

on-Cue Conferences
PO Box 1193
Nelson
03 928 0620
jenna@on-cue.co.nz
www.on-cue.co.nz