Inspired Exporting: Richard Conway & Ari Sargent

Join us to hear our world-class speakers share with us their exporting journeys, the highs and lows, lessons, and ideas that will inspire you!

Our speakers are:

Ari Sargent – Ari was founder and CEO of Powershop and Flux Federation. He might dress like a washed up DJ, but over the past decade he has spearheaded the radical transformation in electricity retailing in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. An engineer with nearly 30 years experience in the energy industry, Ari launched Powershop as a startup in 2009 after being frustrated with the industry’s legacy systems and outdated attitudes towards customers. A tech geek at heart, Ari saw a massive opportunity to use the flexibility, transparency, speed and lower cost structures offered by digital technologies to provide a fundamentally different (and better) experience for energy utilities partners and their customers. Ari has built a power company customers love and a global software business and is now a freelance strategy & innovation consultant in search of another market disruption opportunity.

Richard Conway- Richard is an active entrepreneur, investor and mentor. In 2009 Richard immigrated to New Zealand and started his company, Pure SEO. Pure has grown to become New Zealand’s largest and most awarded specialist SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) agency. Amongst other awards, Pure SEO have been named in the Deloitte Asia Pacific Tech Fast 500 for the past six years (no other New Zealand company has achieved this), and have received an AUT Excellence in Business Support Award. They were also the only New Zealand agency to win the Google Engage All Stars competition.

Be captivated by brilliant, out-of-the-box thinking, and reinvigorate your export aspirations at this ‘Inspired Exporting’!

Thank you to the principal sponsor of this event, Priority One

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