Auckland's Innovation Future: The next steps

Auckland ranked lowest in the “Innovation” and “Knowledge” areas compared to our peer international cities in last year’s State of the City report.

Although Auckland has promising advantages in foodtech, fintech and gaming, other cities are accelerating faster and Auckland has funding and infrastructure limitations. Although Auckland’s universities remain magnets for students and research, the supply of skills is not keeping pace with the needs of fast-moving technology sectors and the amount invested in R&D has a lot of room to grow.

The Committee for Auckland is hosting a panel discussion, Auckland’s Innovation Future: the next steps, to address this. It will highlight the good progress underway but also focus on the key opportunities and constraints that Auckland has, and identity the next steps needed.

Our panelists have extensive knowledge and experience in innovation, technology and business growth through their experiences within their respective fields.