Kevin Park has a background in start-up incubation, growth management, and sales strategy. While he initially pursued a career in medicine, he eventually found his calling in the start-up world, working for organisations such as The Icehouse, Vodafone and Crimson Education. During his time at university Kevin was involved in Spark/Velocity as a participant, a committee member, and later a judge. Currently, he is the Vice President of Sales at Hectre, an orchard management software company, where he is responsible for their revenue growth strategy.

Meet Nova Jackson - a Bachelor of Commerce student double-majoring in Management and Operations and Supply Chain Management, a mother, and a Programme Adviser at the Business School’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE). As a Programme Adviser, Nova is part of the team who organise and facilitate our suite of workshops, events, and development programmes.

The AI rostering software solution, RosterLab, won the University of Auckland’s Velocity $100K Challenge in 2020 after Engineering PhD student Isaac Cleland made a last-minute entry to the entrepreneurship competition. RosterLab is based on his research with Associate Professor Andrew Mason and Dr Michael O’Sullivan into developing new techniques for mathematically optimising large and complex roster models.

Are innovators born or made? This is the underlying query of a forthcoming study, contrasting participants in programmes delivered by the University of Auckland Business School’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) with non-participants.

The University of Auckland’s second ever Terrible Ideas hackathon once again put the theory that there is no such thing as a bad idea to the test – this time with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence.

RisosEnterprises Ltd. is embarking on a mission to revolutionise water safety with a novel, trademarked, handheld water pathogen detector, called the Waicorder. The start-up team have received support from the Business School’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) and received a $1 million MBIE Smart Ideas Grant to enable the development of a proof of concept.

Every year, retailers lose $150B USD to theft and organised retail crime. Auror, the 2012 runner-up of the Velocity $100K challenge, is changing the game with its world-leading crime prevention and detection intelligence platform.

The University of Auckland’s latest cohort of inbound study abroad and exchange students have embraced the opportunity to learn about innovation and entrepreneurship as tools to address climate issues. Students were given the opportunity to participate in the University’s Generation Changemakers programme, organised by the International Office in partnership with the Business School’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE).

Avasa is an Auckland Bioengineering Institute spin-out working to make microvascular surgery quicker and safer by commercialising a tiny medical device.

Charlotte Print is a current Bachelor of Law and Arts student, and the 2023 CEO of the student-led Velocity entrepreneurship development programme. She leads a volunteer committee of 30 students who organise a year-long programme of inspirational seminars, workshops and competitions for the benefit of hundreds of University of Auckland student and staff participants.