Keynotes
Guess who's coming to conference? You should be! And why? Because Poropitia - Outside the box will make you want to change the way you work. And because this is likely to be the only conference you'll attend this year which has its very own Comics Laureate as a keynote. 
Dylan Horrocks, Comics Laureate to the conference Proudly Sponsored by the National Library of New Zealand Dylan Horrocks is a New Zealand comic artist and writer, born in 1966. His published work includes the graphic novel Hicksville (1998), which has been translated into French, Italian and Spanish; the comic book series Pickle (1992-1997) and Atlas (2001-); and "Milo's Week," a weekly political comic strip published in the New Zealand Listener (1995-1997). He has also written comics for DC Comics and Vertigo, including a 25-issue run on Hunter: the Age of Magic, 19 issues of Batgirl and 3 issues of Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight. He has won an Eisner Comics Industry Award and his work has been nominated for other awards in America and Europe. He was awarded the University of Auckland-Creative NZ Literary Fellowship in 2006. Dylan has lectured widely on comics, art and writing. His essays have been published in magazines and books in New Zealand and overseas. As an illustrator, he has contributed to a number of children's books and magazines, including the School Journal and Nickelodeon magazine. Currently Dylan is working on the serialisation of Atlas and on a short graphic novel called The American Dream. He lives in Maraetai with his wife and two sons.  Professor Marilyn Waring
Proudly sponsored by The Architecture Office Marilyn Waring has a BA (Hons) from the Victoria University of Wellington and a DPhil from Waikato University. She holds a personal chair in the Institute of Public Policy at AUT University. Marilyn is internationally known for her work in political economy and development assistance and human rights. Her book Counting for Nothing is an international bestseller and is the basis of the Canadian documentary Who's Counting. In 2007 Marilyn Waring and Christa Fouché edited Managing mayhem, a collection of eighteen essays by specialist contributors who explore some of the complexities and issues surrounding work-life balance in New Zealand.
Marilyn has held Fellowships at Harvard and Rutgers Universities. She is a Member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Professor Waring has been appointed as a lay member to the Board of Judicial Studies. This Board oversees the Institute of Judicial Studies, which is the professional development arm of the New Zealand Judiciary. She has also accepted the position as the gender and governance adviser to the RAMSI Mission (Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands). In the new year honours Marilyn was awarded a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to women and economics.  Professor Mason Durie
Proudly sponsored by Architectus Auckland Mason Durie is a member of the Rangitane, Ngati Kauwhata, and Ngati Raukawa tribes. He has a medical background as a specialist psychiatrist. From 1986-1988 he was a Commissioner on the Royal Commission on Social Policy and was appointed to the chair in Maori Studies at Massey University in 1988. He is currently Professor of Maori Research and Development and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Maori) at Massey University. He chairs Te Kahui Amokura, the Maori Standing Committee of NZVCC and leads the Guardians Group of Secondary Futures. In addition he is on the governing body of Te Wananga o Raukawa, a tribal tertiary education institution based at Otaki.  Dr Diane Mara
Proudly sponsored by National Library of New Zealand Diane is a graduate of Auckland University and of Victoria University of Wellington where she completed her doctorate in education in 2007. Her thesis was on Pacific women graduates in tertiary education and the construction of their various Pacific ethnic identities in those contexts. She has also completed research in the areas of Pacific early childhood education, bilingual literacy and has published work which has informed teacher education courses across New Zealand. Diane has worked with Pacific women in the community for over 30 years mainly within the national organisation PACIFICA Inc (Pacific Women's Council). She is currently National President. Diane also works as a consultant on Pacific issues to a number of government agencies and is a member of national committees such as the Pacific Women's Economic Development Board and the UNESCO Culture and Heritage Subcommittee. At the Eastern Institute of Technology in Hawke's Bay (EIT) Diane is currently working on a number of regional community focussed social research projects and lecturing on action research to early childhood education diploma students.
 Mark McCrindle
Mark McCrindle MA, BSc. (Psychology), QPMR trained as a psychologist, and is now an accredited Qualified Practising Market Researcher. His highly regarded research and reports into the changing times, trends and emerging global generations have built his reputation as a futurist, demographer and social commentator. Mark is the Director of McCrindle Research, which counts amongst its clients over 50 multinational organisations and 100 of Australia's largest corporations. Recent clients include: Deutsche Bank, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Westpac, CGU Suncorp, ANZ, Merrill Lynch, Jetset Travelworld, Salvation Army, Singleton Council, Health Care Providers NZ, Mitchell Communications, Austereo, Marriott International. Mark is renowned for his engaging presentations as a keynote speaker and in workshops, covering topics such as changing times, changing trends; analysing the emerging issues that will shape the future; from Boomers & Xers to Generation Y & Z; engaging with today's students (a post-literate, multi-modal, tech-savvy generation); marketing to the "new generation," recruiting, training and retaining diverse generations; leadership and communication in and for the 21st century.... Want to see more?
Visit http://www.mccrindle.com.au  Professor Lawrence Lessig
Proudly Sponsored by Datacom Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Chicago. Much of his work has focused on law and technology, especially as it affects copyright. He represented web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. His current academic work is in the area of influence and "corruption." Other areas of teaching and writing include constitutional law, contracts, and the law of cyberspace.
Lawrence Lessig has won numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, and was named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing "against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online." He is the author of Code v2 (2007), Free Culture (2004), The Future of Ideas (2001) and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999). He is CEO of the Creative Commons project, and is on the board of MAPLight and the Sunlight Foundation. He has served on the board of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and Public Knowledge. He was also a columnist for Wired, Red Herring, and the Industry Standard. For more, see Lawrence Lessig's blog: http://lessig.org 2008 LIANZA conference and the Faculty of Law at The University of Auckland are co-hosting Lawrence Lessig's New Zealand visit. He will make a keynote presentation at the LIANZA conference and will also present an address to a law audience at the university.
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