2014–2015 Business Links Seminars

Information about Business Links seminars held in 2014 and 2015.

CAGTR Business panel discussion on integrated reporting (Auckland)

10 December 2015, 5.30 pm

Level 4, 50 Kitchener Street, Auckland

Users say corporate reporting is no longer fit for purpose – hence the call to New Zealand business for Integrated Reporting.  The panellists at this session will outline the benefits, progress to date (both domestic and international) and also propose some future actions for decision makers that might make Integrated Reporting more “top of mind”.

Panel speakers

Warren Allen
Jane Diplock
Mark Hucklesby
Ann Webster

CAGTR Business Links panel discussion on integrated reporting (Wellington)

15 October 2015, 5.15 pm

Grant Thornton, Level 15, Grant Thornton House, 215 Lambton Quay, Wellington

Users say corporate reporting is no longer fit for purpose – hence the call to New Zealand business for Integrated Reporting.  The panellists at this session will outline the benefits, progress to date (both domestic and international) and also propose some future actions for decision makers that might make Integrated Reporting more “top of mind”.

Panel speakers

Warren Allen
Jane Diplock
Mark Hucklesby
Ann Webster

CAGTR and APCA Business Links seminar—Would the Asian Pacific region benefit from harmonisation of copyright laws throughout the region?

20 May 2015, 7.30 am

Government Building, Lecture Theatre 1

The theme is inspired by a recent call from the European Copyright Society for Union-wide harmonization of copyright that would ‘enable the EU legislature to re-establish itself as a global leader in copyright norm setting’. The seminar will include brief presentations by the panel members, followed by discussion and questions from the audience.

Speakers

Lida Ayoubi, PhD candidate in Law at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Jonathan Barrett, Senior Lecturer in the School of Accounting and Commercial Law at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
Kate Duckworth, Partner at Catalyst Intellectual Property and a leading intellectual property specialist.
Susy Frankel, Professor of Law at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University and Chair of the Copyright Tribunal.

Business Links breakfast seminar: Should Wellington become a Super City?

17 February 2015, 7.00 am

The Local Government Commission has presented its draft proposal for one council for the whole of the Wellington region (with eight Local Boards).

At this seminar Graham Sansom will present the background and key issues relevant to the proposal, while John Shewan will present the case for the proposal and Philip Barry the case against.

CAGTR Business Links seminar—Professor Margaret Woods

8 October 2014, 5.30 pm

Rutherford House, Lecture Theatre 2

“What has gone wrong with risk management?”

The world is awash with standards, codes of practice and regulations for the management of corporate risk, and yet risk management failures happen again and again in all of the major economies. Why are the rules and guidance not working? Is the problem at the regulatory, organisational or individual level?

In this seminar Margaret Woods will use case study examples from major global organisations to illustrate and seek to explain the persistent repetitive cycle of increased regulatory guidance followed by further risk management failures. Her view is that the root of the problem lies in a focus on structures and systems rather than people and information flows, and that the traditional “three lines of defence” model needs to be redrafted. Margaret introduces the idea of risk management problems arising from imbalances of power and knowledge within organisations, and the scope for such imbalances to sow the seeds of disaster.

Margaret Woods is Professor of Accounting and Risk Management at Aston University. In 2008 she worked at the Centre for University Finance and Management in Tokyo, and has also held visiting professorial positions at Luneberg University (Germany) and Pace University (New York). Margaret is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Certified Accountants and her career spans both academia and industry. She is the co-ordinator of the European Risk Research Forum which has over 200 academic and risk practitioner members from across the world. Her great interest is in risk and performance management with a focus on banking and financial services and in 2011 she was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts in recognition of her work in the area of financial services. Margaret’s aim as a researcher is to produce work that is both useful to the business community as well as being academically rigorous.