Joint Institutions Breakfast Event - 27th September, 2016

This annual event promises to be as exciting as ever, please make sure you sign up today (RSVP is essential)!

Title: From ORCS to AZURE
Guest Speaker: Scott Houston
When: 7:15am for 7:30am start on 27 September 2016
Where: Wellesley Boutique Hotel, 2 Maginnity Street, Wellington 6011
Cost: $15.00 for members of any of the three hosting institutions, $25.00 for any guests.
RSVP: Essential to murray.milner@xtra.co.nz (Numbers are limited so first in first served for registrations)

All members and guests of the IEEE Central Section, IET Wellington Network and IPENZ Wellington Branch are welcomed to a special event, hosted by all three institutions on the morning of 27 September 2016 in Central Wellington. The guest speaker for this event is Scott Houston, ex CTO of Weta Digital and more recently founder and CEO of GreenButton, who will speak on the topic of “FROM ORCS TO AZURE” from a CTO, CEO and entrepreneur perspective.

An Introduction to Scott Houston:

Scott Houston was the Founder and CEO of GreenButton, an award winning global cloud computing software company. GreenButton was acquired by Microsoft in May 2014 and Scott now works with other Hi-Tech companies that are expanding offshore. During his time at GreenButton the company won many accolades including NZ Emerging Hi Tech Company of the year, Fastest Growing Tech Company in the Deloitte Fast 500 and a number of Innovation awards. Scott was also a finalist in the E & Y Entrepreneur of the Year awards in 2012 and named an "Innovation Hero" by the Innovation Council in 2015.

Previous to his time at GreenButton Scott was the NZ Regional Manager for Silicon Graphics, Chief Technical Officer at Weta Digital for the "Lord of the Rings" movies and Founder of the New Zealand Supercomputing Center. Scott now sits of the board of Nyriad, LINQ - a Wellington based software company, ARANZ Geo - a Christchurch based geological software mining company, the Wellington ICT Grad School and he is a NZTE Beachheads Advisor.

Introduction to Scott’s Topic:

Scott Houston will talk about his journey from being the Chief Technology Officer at Weta Digital during the Lord of the Rings trilogy, to founding a start-up company here in Wellington and through to being acquired by Microsoft in 2014. GreenButton was the first company in Australasia to be acquired by Microsoft and is a great example of Wellingtonians being at the forefront of technology on the world’s stage.