CODE Presents: Hitting the Sweet Spot with Digital Transformation

An overview of how PwC NZ has taken a business and citizen led approach to their Digital Transformation. By scaling Agile across the firm, PWC have been able to better improve their prioritisation and build momentum on automation and digitising traditional services. PWC’s citizen led transformation is about upskilling their people, enabling and empowering staff to innovate and make change unimpeded.

Title: Hitting the Sweet Spot with Digital Transformation

Presenter: Nathan Richardson (Chief Digital Officer) and Anja Strogies (Manager Global Tax) at PwC New Zealand

Date: Tuesday 28 September

Time: 2 - 3 pm NZST

Location: via ZOOM

Bio:

Nathan Richardson

Nathan Richardson is currently the Chief Digital Officer at PwC New Zealand, leading a team of digital specialists helping to digitise and transform the firm. He has 30 years of experience in business and technology, with a strong emphasis on digital transformation.

Nathan’s career started as an Officer in the New Zealand Army, where he studied and trained as an Engineer. After seven years in the military, he changed career to become a Software Engineer in the private sector. He has a vast amount of experience working in multi-cultural environments, mostly in leadership roles. Some of the more notable roles were Chief Technology Officer, ABN AMRO Bank Asia Pacific based in Singapore and Head of IT Infrastructure Westpac NZ and Head of Payments Solutions Delivery Westpac.

Nathan’s niche is building businesses and facilitating groups of people to solve business problems, as well as developing and implementing new innovative solutions. He specialises in helping businesses to transform to new ways of working, from strategy through to execution. This often means facilitating the definition of business and technology strategy and then engaging and building capable teams to deliver outcomes.

Anja Strogies

Manager in the field of Global Tax and proud digital accelerator with 6.5 half years of experience at PwC in Sydney, Australia, Germany and finally here in Auckland, New Zealand. Anja has been a leader in the technology space for several years now, embracing and facilitating agile working practices, including self-empowered team culture.

Zoom information:

Zoom meeting details will be sent 24 hours before the event to all registered guests

We ask that you turn off your microphones and cameras for bandwidth reasons.

Questions can be typed in on the Zoom chat.

Presentations will be recorded and published on the CODE website.

For more information please contact: Alisha Castelino a.castelino@auckland.ac.nz

Regards,

Ilan Oshri

Director, Centre of Digital Enterprise (CODE)