PAORANGI \ IMPACT
Haratua May 5 - 7, 2025
Pōneke Wellington
In May 2025 we gathered in Pōneke, kanohi ki te kanohi for our conference NDF25 PAORANGI \ IMPACT.
The conference is over, but you can relive it and catch up through the recordings and photos.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Tui Te Hau (Rongomaiwahine, Te Arawa, Ngāti Tuwharetoa) is a senior executive and innovation strategist, and founder of Bird Island, a boutique consultancy focused on innovation for global good.
She has designed national programmes in the innovation and entrepreneurial space. This included the Lightning Lab, the blueprint for business acceleration in New Zealand and Mahuki, the world’s first accelerator for the culture and heritage sector.
Formerly, the lead of the Māori enterprise team for New Zealand’s international trade agency she supported the export aspirations of major indigenous entities and provided in-market support to NZ exporters as Trade Commissioner Melbourne. She has extensive experience in the culture and heritage sector supporting efforts to tell our nation’s rich stories and is an international speaker on innovation in the culture and heritage sector.In her most recent role with the National Library, she led a team that developed educational experiences around our nation’s founding documents; He Whakaputanga, the Declaration of Independence, ti Tiriti o Waitangi and the Women’s Suffrage Petition. This included the journey to pay equity e-learning module, the ‘are we there yet’ speaker series and other resources for student and adult learners.
Tui works with entities focused on impact investing, STEM education, student entrepreneurship, a global knowledge exchange programme and supporting the next generation of Māori creatives.Her current directorships include the Institute of Directors, Mary Potter Hospice in Wellington, Endometriosis NZ and the Dev Academy.
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Dave Patten has recently (June 2024) retired as Head of New Media at The Science Museum Group, UK, where his role included managing all aspects of new media and AV, from conceptual design, prototyping and production to project managing external developers and production companies. He has a background in electronics and computer science, and worked at the Science Museum nearly 40 years, developing exhibitions and leading development teams. He developed the technical systems for the Science Museum’s Wellcome Wing and Dana Centre, which opened in 2000 and 2004 respectively.
Recent work includes Web Lab, the multi-award winning collaboration with Google, Engineering Your Future, an interactive exhibition for teenagers on engineering and a secondment to Frost Science in Miami to help develop exhibitions and systems for a new museum which opened in 2017. As well as managing the New Media team spread across multiple sites at the Science Museum Group he also ran the Science Museum Groups Digital Lab Initiative which experiments in emerging technologies. Dave is now an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Science Museum Group documenting the museum's recent past from a non curatorial perspective.
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Cade is joining us with the support of the Goethe-Institut.
Cade Diehm is the founder of the New Design Congress, an international research organisation forging a nuanced understanding of technology's role as a social, political and environmental accelerant. He studies, writes, consults and speaks regularly on topics such as digital power structures, privacy, information warfare, resilience, internet economies and the digitisation of cities.With a background in information security, interface politics and digital systems, Cade and his team at New Design Congress work tirelessly to tease out and weave threads that can be pulled together to build a truly hopeful future.
Cade has collaborated with organisations across the world, including Signal, Google, Mozilla, Bauhaus Earth, Webrecorder, Open Archive, Superbloom Design, Furtherfield, C/O Berlin, Art Sonje Center, the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights, the International Institute for the Environment and Development, the European Commission, the World Health Organization, the London College of Communication, Protocol Labs, the Deutschland Bundestag Prototype Fund, the Center for Digital Resilience, the Algorithmic Transparency Institute and many others.
Cade resides in Berlin with his partner and two Shiba Inus, Ripley and Kodak.
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Paula Bray has over twenty years' experience working in cultural heritage institutions, including the State Library of NSW, Powerhouse Museum, Art Gallery of NSW, and the Australian National Maritime Museum. She is currently the Chief Digital Officer at State Library Victoria where she is leading the Library’s digital future through compelling digital experiences that place the visitor at the heart.
Innovation and experimentation have been at the core of Paula’s work. She set up Australia’s first dedicated innovation lab in a cultural heritage organisation, the DX Lab at the State Library of NSW. She developed an award-winning team that experimented with technology to build new ways to get access to the collection and its data, both online and onsite. She co-published ‘Open A GLAM Lab’ with 16 peers from the International GLAM, (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) Labs community, highlighting the benefits of working in an experimental practice.
OPENING ADDRESS
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Karl Chitham ONZM (Ngāpuhi, Te Uriroroi) has been a champion for the arts in New Zealand for 20 years. He is currently Director of the Dowse Art Museum, Head of Arts and Culture for Hutt City Council and has held various other roles across the arts including as a curator and educator. He has been an advocate of the arts and artists as a trustee and advisor for a number of organisations including Artists Alliance, Te Roopu Mana Toi an advocacy advisory for Creative New Zealand, Wairau Māori Art Gallery the first dedicated public Māori art gallery nationally, and most recently as the inaugural Ambassador for Barnardos Aotearoa. Karl has written for multiple arts publications including co-authoring the ground-breaking publication Crafting Aotearoa: A Cultural History of New Zealand and the Wider Moana Oceania and has been a selector and judge for dozens of national arts awards including the National Contemporary Art Award and the 2021 New Zealand at Venice Pavilion.
CONFERENCE
MAY 5-6
Venue: Harbourside
The conference will begin at 9am on Monday 5 May, with registration opening earlier. The social event NDF Connect will take place on Monday evening.
Final presentations will conclude at approximately 5pm on Tuesday 6 May.
Photo: Mark Beatty
WORKSHOPS
MAY 7
Venue: Wellington Museum
Half-day workshops, running from 9am-12:30pm and 1:30-5pm.
Join our keynote speaker for a deep dive, and explore digital experience design, data sovereignty, Wikipedia strategies, managing born digital collections & more!
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REGISTRATION
Ticket sales for the NDF25 conference are now closed.
What you’ll need to register
For each registrant, you'll need to provide:
Key contact info: Name, phone, email, address (organisation address is fine)
Dietary requirements, including allergies
Accessibility or mobility requirements
RSVP for the NDF Connect evening function on May 5
Choice of concurrent sessions - refer to our conference programme and note down the codes or presentation names.
Choice of workshops - refer to the workshop programme
Payment methods
You can pay by credit card or generate an invoice to pass onto your finance team.
Group registration
If you’re buying multiple tickets, select the group registration option below. This will generate a single invoice or credit card transaction. If your group includes NDF25 speakers, please ensure you use the speaker access code (this has been sent to speakers via email).
Questions about registration and invoicing
If you’re having problems with registrations or would like to query the status of payments, please email register.NDF25@arinexgroup.com (with cc: conference@ndf.org.nz).
Ticket prices
| Earlybird(until midday 18 March) | Regular | |
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| Conference, Full - Member | $795 | $920 |
| Conference, Full - Non-member | $935 | $1040 |
| Conference, Full - Student/Unwaged/Retired | - | $460 |
| Conference, 1 Day - Member | - | $495 |
| Conference, 1 Day - Non-member | - | $560 |
| Conference, 1 Day - Student/Unwaged/Retired | - | $320 |
| Workshop with conference pass - All | - | $135 |
| Workshop only - Member | - | $155 |
| Workshop only - Non-Member | - | $175 |
All prices are GST inclusive and in NZD. Member prices are for institutional and individual NDF members.
Not sure if your organisation is an NDF Member? Check our Supporters page. Members can simply select the member ticket prices at registration - no codes needed.
If you’re not a member yet, you can become an NDF member today!
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SCHOLARSHIPS
NDF is providing an extended scholarship program to help increase access to digital training and knowledge for under-represented groups in the cultural sector.
Applications closed on Friday 7 March.
ACCOMODATION
Together with our professional conference organisers, we’re offering discounts for the following hotels:
Oaks Wellington Hotel
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Discount: 15%
Code: EVENT15
TRYP by Wyndham Wellington
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Discount: 20%
Code: 9991271015
To apply the discount select more options -> corporate code and enter the code.
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