Age is no barrier when it comes to success in the tech world. Five of the Hi-Tech Awards Young Achievers finalists will join Techweek TV host Ryan Ashton to talk about their tech careers so far and how to encourage diversity in the industry.
What's it all about?
Be inspired by Michael Lovegrove, Jamie Beaton, Terry Miller, Ezel Kokcu and Ian White.
This Techweek TV session will appeal to those in business, government and academia
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Friday 31 Jul
12:30pm - 1:00pm
Speakers
Michael is the CEO and Founder of an insurtech startup called JRNY, which is
a platform that helps insurance providers to simplify their customer
experience and sell their products through non-traditional channels. To
date, JRNY has worked with some of the largest insurers in Asia and
Australasia as well as being listed as a top two fintech in Asia pacific by
Money 20/20, a worldwide top 100 insurtech by Fintech Global and 'the
one to watch' by Deloitte Fast 50.
Prior to forming JRNY, Michael studied Finance, Accounting and Statistics at
Auckland University before venturing into a career that included product
management and business development across both start-ups and New Zealand
enterprise companies.
Michael's ultimate goal is to have as much positive impact on New
Zealanders lives as possible. Right now, the world is $1.2 billion
underinsured. Michael is convinced that by changing the insurance ecosystem
- making it accessible, simple and easy to understand - JRNY can have a
massive positive impact on people's lives all around the world.
In another life, Michael would have liked to be a professional basketball
player. However in his current life he is restricted by his lack of
basketball IQ, skill and vertical leap. It's a great game to watch
regardless!
Jamie Beaton graduated from Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude in 2016 (two
years ahead of schedule) with a double-degree in Applied
Mathematics-Economics and Applied Math. He was also one of the youngest in
the world to be accepted to Stanford’s Graduate School of Business at age
20.
In June 2019, Jamie graduated from Stanford with an MBA and a Master in
Education as the youngest ever recipient of the Arjay Miller Award (Top 2.5%
of his class) - having simultaneously begun his PhD as a Rhodes Scholar at
Oxford.
As Co-Founder and CEO of Crimson Education, Jamie now helms a company
dedicated to levelling the playing field in world leading university
admissions. The world’s most successful college admissions company, Crimson
now boasts a global student body of thousands of students who are mentored
and tutored by over 2,4000 tutors who themselves have graduated from the
world’s best universities including all Ivy Leagues, Stanford, MIT, Oxford
and Cambridge. Crimson partners with top groups like GEMS, Inspired and
Dulwich to offer outstanding college guidance to ambitious students
worldwide.
Crimson students, who come from over 20 countries around the world, are now
4 times more likely to gain admission to the Ivy League and 2-4 times more
likely to gain admission to Oxford or Cambridge than the global applicant.
Since Crimson‘s foundation, some 1000 students have received offers from
world leading universities in the US and UK including Stanford, MIT,
UChicago, Duke, UCL, Imperial College London, LSE, King’s College London and
more. Crimson has also assisted it’s students in securing over $US68M in
scholarship funding and financial aid.
Crimson has raised more than $65 M USD from many of the world's leading
investors from strategic investors to hedge fund managers to venture
capitalists including Julian Robertson, Tiger Global, Chase Coleman, Adrian
Cheng, Jon Jacobsen, Xiaohong Chen and leading international school groups.
In 2017 Jamie was featured on the 2017 Forbes Asia - 30 Under 30 List. He
has been selected as New Zealand Entrepreneur of the Year, New Zealand
Innovator of the Year, NZ Hi-Tech Young Achiever, and Young New Zealander of
the Year. Crimson was recently selected as the youngest ever finalist of the
New Zealand Hi-Tech Company of the Year. Jamie is also one of the the
youngest people in the world to have founded a fully licensed school with
Crimson Global Academy, supported by former Prime Minister John Key, at the
age of 24.
Terry is a Wellington native, BE (Electronics and computer systems) graduate
from VUW, and Cofounder of local VR tech startup Eight360. He is also 2019
Young Engineer of the Year and a finalist for 2020 HiTech Young Achiever.
From an early age he was interested in how stuff worked and taking apart
stereos, computers, and other household technology to see what went on
inside. From there he studied mechatronics and began a career in R&D
because it seemed like the best way to get to play with cool futuristic
tech. Starting off as a hobby side-project, Eight360 has moved around a
series of leaky garages and condemned buildings as the NOVA technology was
developed, and now with investment and a growing team they are ready to take
their "crazy spinning ball of death" to the world!
Ezel Kokcu
Ian White
Ian White is the General Manager of a Deloitte Fast 50, three-time APAC Tech 500 winner, and 2019 Humankind Wellbeing Workplace of the Year finalist.He is also a 2019 CIO Awards finalist and 2019 ISANZ Winner in the Emerging Leader category.