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The former CEO of Auckland economic growth agency ATEED says it would be unprecedented to fire directors of council-controlled organisations. Auckland Transport's board chair resigned on Saturday night, and new mayor Wayne Brown has called for the chair of Eke Panuku Development Auckland to also stand down. Employers and Manufacturers Association CEO, Brett O'Riley, says resigning on Saturday was a very early call. LISTEN ABOVE  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

ATEED is running a crisis summit today to discuss how Auckland should respond to the pandemic. Economic activity in the city is forecast to drop 6 percent this year. Nick Hill is ATEED's chief executive.

Auckland is holding a crisis summit today to work out a Covid recovery plan for the city's fragile economy. Its tourism and economic development agency, Ateed, is predicting 40,000 to 50,000 Aucklanders may lose through jobs through the coronavirus recession. The general manager for tourism at Ateed, Steve Armitage, told our reporter Amy Williams the focus now is on attracting more domestic tourists for events in spring and summer.

Auckland City hoping to thrash out Covid-19 recovery plan; ATEED running crisis summit on pandemic; Judith Collins on time to election; Three New Zealand-Koreans killed in landslide; Ashley Bloomfield on Covid tracer app usage.

At a meeting held earlier this month, with village co-coordinators by ATEED (Auckland Tourism, Events & Economic Development), it was announced that there will be no Tuvalu village at Pasifika Festival in 2021, & that it will be replaced with a new space combining smaller Pacific nations. Molia Alama Tulafono, village coordinator for Tuvalu Village spoke with Brian, from Pacific Breakfast for more. To add your feedback to this decision, please phone Molia on 022 0353 892. Photo: Auckland NZ See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Stronger Than You Think! In this episode, we talk through the early stages of growing our community and what it's like to just get started with a full, clear picture of what's ahead. This courageous approach is important for enabling innovation, and building an idea with lean resources. This episode also features Joel from TSI, Keu from ASK Q, Kathie from ATEED and Ray the founder of GameTan.

Auckland has taken a massive hit from Covid 19 and more pain is to come. A report for the business association Heart of the City by independent economists Strateg.Ease suggests a loss of nearly 12,500 jobs in the Auckland CBD alone. The city council's economic development agency, ATEED, estimates nearly $14 million has been lost in major events cancelled or postponed due to the pandemic - with the future of others uncertain. What is the plan for the economic recovery of our latest city? Kathryn talks with Nick Hill, Chief Executive of Auckland Tourism Events and Economic Development, Heart of the City Chief Executive Viv Beck and ANZ Chief Economist Sharon Zollner.

In this episode Friday Download host - Jordan Small - is joined by Leon Grice (NZUS Council Chair) and Pam Ford (General Manager - Economic Development, ATEED) for a look at the big events of the last year, make some predictions about 2020, and look ahead to 2020 and 2021 and the big events happening in Auckland and what Pam and her team are doing to set the conditions for innovation, start-ups and creative businesses to thrive.  Enjoyed the quick fire segment asking my guests to make some calls on the next year - listen to the episode to hear their responses to the following questions:   How would you rate the probability of NZ and the US agreeing an FTA in 2020?  What impact will the ongoing impeachment proceedings and a likely Senate acquittal have on President Trump's 2020 presidential reelection prospects - negative, neutral, positive?  Who will be the Democratic Party presidential candidate? And VP candidate?  Is the US-China trade war our new normal - a 100 year war?  Looking out to the next decade - will we see flying cars? For comments and feedback:Email: thefridaydownload@nzuscouncil.orgFacebook: facebook.com/nzuscouncilTwitter: twitter.com/nzuscouncilWebsite: nzuscouncil.orgLinks to clips used during the podcast:   Prime Minister Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern speaking in the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shootings on the 15th of March 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/15/one-of-new-zealands-darkest-days-jacinda-ardern-responds-to-christchurch-shooting A clip from the late 1950s on the NAS Jet Propulsion Labratory talking about the US response to the Russia's first moves into space with Sputnik 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ezHG7vHgfE] Credits – opening and closing music:Happy Boy Theme Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/About the NZUS CouncilEstablished in 2001, we are a non-partisan, non-government organisation focused on advancing New Zealand's interests in a strong bilateral relationship with the US.

Pre Season Ep 02 with Nick Manarangi. Once you pluck up the courage to reach out to a new connection, someone you really wanna chat to and hopefully partner with, do you know how to manage your first face to face with them? The bro Nick Manarangi hit me up on Linked In and wanted to catch up, we'd never met before so my deal to him was, we can catch up and we'll record our first ever korero as a podcast as an example of HOW TO CHAT to someone you want to connect with, in a way that doesn't waste anyone's time. This is our chat. It includes my 6 step process I follow when meeting with people for the first time, which happens multiple times a week: Have a reason Prepare Listen First Analyse Share Actions I also share a bit of my journey with Nick about how I ended up in the Te Haa o Manukau partnership with Auckland Council departments TSI, ATEED, Grid AKL and Panuku Development.... it may or may not get me in trouble!

The busted knee of a Hollywood heartthrob has dashed initial plans to film a live-action Netflix remake of a hit anime series in Auckland.It was revealed last month the streaming giant would film Cowboy Bebop, starting John Cho and employing more than 400 people, in and around the city until December.Cho and his co-stars had been spotted around Auckland before Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED) chief executive Nick Hill confirmed principal photography was planned in Auckland.A source close to production told the Herald today Cho injured his knee on set in Auckland on October 5."The injury was a freak accident. It happened on the last take of a routine and well-rehearsed scene. It wasn't anyone's fault."Production on the show would continue after a seven- to nine-month break while Cho recovered, the source said."We are committed to the show and to John. We're also committed to bringing back as much of the other cast and crew as possible."We'll know more about the new production schedule once John's prognosis is clear."A Netflix spokesperson said the company's "thoughts are with John"."He has our complete support as he recuperates from this injury."Cowboy Bebop crew. Photo / SuppliedThe 10-episode first season of Cowboy Bebop, a live-action version of the cult Japanese animated science fiction series of the same name, employed more than 400 people – the largest ever for a television production in Auckland.It is the first Netflix original series to be filmed in New Zealand.Cho — known for his roles in the rebooted Star Trek film franchise, as well as Harold and Kumar — stars in Cowboy Bebop as Spike Spiegel, described by Deadline as "an impossibly cool "cowboy" (bounty hunter) with a deadly smile, a wry wit and style to spare".He travelled through space with his ex-cop partner to hunt down the future's most dangerous bounties.Actor and rapper Mustafa Shakir, known for Marvel's Luke Cage and who plays Jet Black in the reboot, had also been seen around Auckland and had been posting pictures to social media, including a stunning visit to Piha Beach.The series also stars Daniella Pineda as amnesiac bounty hunter Faye Valentine and Alex Hassell as Vicious, the Syndicate's most notorious hitman and also Spike's archenemy.Daniella Pineda has also been getting in on the Insta-action, posting some gorgeous holiday snaps from Whitianga.Cowboy Bebop is a co-production between Netflix and Tomorrow Studios (a partnership between Marty Adelstein and ITV Studios).A company of Netflix's global reputation choosing to film a major new series in Auckland was a huge vote of confidence in the quality of the city's screen industry, Hill said last month."This is a high-value production that will bring new jobs, direct spend and global kudos. The onus is now on all Aucklanders to help the production team have a great experience here – with true manaakitanga [hospitality]."A Netflix spokesperson said at that time they were excited to work with ATEED and Tomorrow Studios to produce their first Netflix original series in New Zealand with the "thriving Auckland screen industry community"."With first-class production facilities and unique landscapes, Auckland is an ideal place to create great screen content."Cowboy Bebop's production base was an East Tamaki warehouse fitted out by Netflix to meet its studio needs under an initial two-year licence with ATEED, which had leased the site for screen production use for five years.Cowboy Bebop is the latest boost to the region's billion-dollar screen production and post-production industry.It June it was revealed a "huge" part of Amazon's Lord of the Rings series — set to be the most expensive TV show ever at $1.5 billion plus - would be produced in New Zealand.Auckland's screen industry gross revenue was $2.43 billion in 2018, down from $2.66b in 2017, and out of a total of $3.3b for the country. 

Business is Boring is a weekly podcast series presented by The Spinoff in association with Callaghan Innovation. Host Simon Pound speaks with innovators and commentators focused on the future of New Zealand, with the interview available as both audio and a transcribed excerpt.Co-working spaces can be great little communities. There’s something exciting and energising about being around people making interesting things happen, always new people with exciting news, connections you can make and a lot of people working on a global level. They are also little bubbles, and can help you forget that life isn’t like that everywhere. In fact, even having co-working spaces available isn’t all that common. Even within your own city. One person who saw the power of community, and worked to make a space happen for South Auckland, is Manawa Udy. Last year she spearheaded the crowdfunding and then establishment of Ngahere Communities that runs Te Haa o Manukau - a co-working space, and intentional community for the creative, innovative, entrepreneurial people of South Auckland to help tap their vast potential.Te Haa o Manukau is a project from the Southern Initiative, supported by ATEED through GridAKL, and is built to be a thriving heart and link to the wider innovative business space. Manawa has a background of pioneering community entrepreneurship projects such as a buy one give one model driving school and forming the PETER collective, a community of community providers to better serve the people around Mt Roskill. And as a creative director at Bob and Bob, Manawa tells these stories and others.To chat entrepreneurship and community, Manawa joins us now. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Christmas is just around the corner, we hear that phrase every year at this time, and it is.But is it Christmas or is it happy holidays? Does the word Christmas have to be denigrated, abolished, replaced by other words because Christmas contains the word, Christ? These days, in what governments have decreed is a secular society, it's no longer appropriate. Helen Clark spent most of her prime ministership drumming that message in.Religion has no place in the business of the state, except to most of us who grew up with Christmas as the most magical exciting time of the year and something to look forward to all year as we ploughed our way through the three terms of school.Many resent the interference of the state in our celebration of Christmas, and the interference of the social engineers who would have us celebrate happy holidays, send greetings cards, enjoy the festive season, have a piece of festive cake, and go to the local Santa parade, not Christmas parade.It's parade season, and in most towns now it's the Santa Parade and Father Christmas is Santa Claus.In Auckland, the Council funding organisation ATEED is withdrawing public funding for the parade, which has been running every November for 85 years. Its long-term Destination Auckland 2025 Strategy aims to grow tourism and the local economy in a sustainable way.It says the Farmers' Santa parade no longer fits and is not a big driver of domestic tourism into Auckland.General manager of Destination, Steve Armitage says the Chinese lantern festival and the Diwali festival have programmes of activity sustained for a week or so and are more promotable and likelier to attract more visitors.In the 2016/17 financial year, those two festivals attracted 1450 and 2810 bed nights respectively. The Parade is no longer a priority event.Which is very sad for a city whose vibrancy and community spirit are enhanced by the parade, which attracts hundreds of thousands of families, of parents and their kids, into the usually virtually deserted CBD and lights up the faces of onlookers with delight, as they watch a colourful array of favourite characters, marching groups, bands, clowns, floats of every description, and of course Santa in his sleigh, the most identifiable icon of them all.  The grinches who would deny us Christmas, say it would offend those who subscribe to religions other than Christian ones in our new multicultural society. That's their excuse for shutting down the word Christmas, but their true agenda is that they themselves have decided Christmas is no longer an appropriate word and would have us wish each other Happy Holidays rather than Merry Christmas. People from those other religions and cultures phone me on talkback and tell me they are not at all offended. They are offended by the accusation that they are offended. They themselves take their kids to the parade to witness this Western heritage spectacle, just as we transpire welcome to participate in the lantern festival and Diwali.Steve Armitage says the Pride Parade is another example of an event seeing solid growth in terms of attracting visitors from outside of Auckland. But that parade is now in chaos and its future in doubt.He says the Santa parade runs for just a few hours on one day of the year and the mayor and council are looking for alternative revenue streams, to reduce the dependency on ratepayers.The parade this year was facing a $100,000 operating loss. Last year's loss was $78,000.That's despite the support of several sponsors and more than a 1000 volunteers.It's not only Auckland that has parade problems, Christchurch City councillors are also reportedly confused as to why a Santa parade was not classed as a major event and supported by that city's events agency.Do councils, known for spending millions on feasibility studies and expensive decorative mirrors and screens in libraries and heaven knows what, have some social responsibility to help foster such an...

2018 can feel quite progressive and doing pretty well, if you’re in the right bubble. But in many ways oh boy there’s a lot still to do. Like with tampons and pads. Half the population needs them, yet they are mainly made with synthetic and potentially harmful materials, and have attached to them in some places  luxury taxes and in many places a stigma around them. Which is where the Organic Initiative comes in, to provide an organic alternative and foster the movement to recognise safety and health around periods. A radically sustainable and progressive company it was co-founded by today’s guest a few short years ago. Helen Robinson is a wildly accomplished founder of a start-up - having been CEO at Microsoft New Zealand in some of its most dominant days, a board member of nationally and globally significant bodies like ATEED and a winner of the Supreme award at the Women of Influence awards. To talk the journey and the mission, Helen joins us by phone from America where she is with Oi/  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

One week ago, on the second week of this podcast, we had a lovely chap in to talk about the Techweek that was going on. A week to bring in local and international experts to talk about how tech can solve today's problems and advance tomorrow's industry. It was a great success and it's now back for its second outing.To discuss what the week has in store, we are again joined by Patrick McVeigh, general manager - business, innovation and skills at ATEED. Not sure which events to catch? Read The Spinoff's Techweek'17 recommendations here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.