Sue trained initially as a primary school teacher and then went on to spend 17 years as head of continuing education at Otumoetai College. During this time, she completed a Bachelor of Education with a strong focus on adult education issues and needs. Sue has been with Connexis TITO since 2015 as a member of their national field team. She is an ardent believer in life-long learning & workplace training and loves to ski.

Stacy started with Civil Contractors New Zealand at the start of 2018 as Technical Manager. Prior to this appoint, Stacy has worked in various areas of the civil engineering and supporting industries. Starting off in a civil engineering laboratory in Hamilton, he worked on a number of, at the time, high profile jobs. After this he turned his hand to crushing and screening by doing time at Svedala and then Metso Minerals. Originally starting at the Barmac VSi factory in Matamata he worked with the quarry solutions team to develop Metso Minerals quarry product offering. Post this, Stacy worked for Winstone Aggregates and Green Vision Recycling supplying aggregate to the wider industry. Since starting at Civil Contractors New Zealand, Stacy has been involved in the various client and CCNZ lead committees. CCNZ engage with industry, clients and industry stakeholders to provide a collaborative working environment to promote and ensure a sustainable contracting industry.

My current field of research is most easily defined as mechatronic assistive technologies for rehabilitation. The field can be broadly defined as belonging to the larger fields of prosthetics, robotics, mechatronics, neurology, and assistive technologies. For the past 5 years, I have maintained an active research program that acknowledges the value of Mātauranga Māori and its influence on a world that is striving for sustainability. My research investigates the relationship between people, the world, and technology. He aha te mea nui o te ao? he tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata. I have also recently been engaged in developing the STEM workforce through disrupting the narratives around Māori student success in STEM.

Naomi Manu is the founder of the highly successful Pūhoro STEM Academy and with an influential and dynamic board established Pūhoro Charitable Trust to futher the Pūhoro STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and mātauranga) kaupapa. Pūhoro is the most comprehensive indigenous STEMM kaupapa in the world and is now a nationwide kaupapa providing a scalable solution to increase Māori STEMM capability. The Pūhoro approach is by Māori for Māori and leverages a kaupapa Māori approach to build STEMM capability. Pūhoro students exceed nationwide passrates of non-Māori and are six times more likely that other Māori school leavers to enter tertiary education at bachelor degree level. Naomi is passionate about Māori development and has enjoyed a career across both the public and private sectors advancing outcomes for Māori.