Massey Business School’s Actionable Insights Series presents:

New Zealand Prosperity Live is a groundbreaking new tracker of national wellbeing and business health, blending AI and real-time data from multiple sources. This event introduces its first results—revealing strengths and possibilities in education, housing, income, and more. Discover how business, government, and community leaders can use these insights to create a lasting impact.

Date and time:

Thursday, 11 September 2025 from 5.30 to 7:00 PM5.30 to 6:00 PM

Networking and refreshments; 6:00 PM start for presentation.

Venue:

Foodstuffs North Island, 35 Landing Drive, Mangere

Connect, network, and gain insights from top leaders:

Chris Quin - CEO, Foodstuffs North Island

Chris Quin has spent more than 30 years leading some of New Zealand’s most well-known businesses through significant changes and challenges.

As CEO of Foodstuffs North Island, he leads a co-operative of over 320 locally owned grocery stores – New World, PAK’nSAVE, and Four Square – serving communities across the North Island. He’s also Managing Director of Foodstuffs NZ, a Director of The New Zealand Initiative and Chair of the Giltrap Group.

Before joining Foodstuffs in 2015, Chris spent 24 years at Spark (formerly Telecom), where he played a key role in one of the country’s most significant corporate transformations. As CEO of Spark’s retail and digital divisions, he helped shift the business from a traditional telco to a modern, customer-focused digital services company – one of the biggest brand and structural evolutions in New Zealand’s corporate history.

Chris is at his best in complex, fast-moving environments – whether it’s keeping food moving during COVID-19, navigating supply chain disruptions, or finding new ways to deliver better value for New Zealand shoppers. Above all, he’s passionate about building strong, resilient organisations that make a real difference to New Zealand’s economy and the communities they serve.

Rachel Mackintosh - National Secretary, E tū

Rachel Mackintosh is the National Secretary of E tū, New Zealand’s largest private sector union, and is the Vice President of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi. She has long been interested in the world beyond GDP. As a unionist, her aims are for decent work in an Aotearoa that honours Te Tiriti o Waitangi, with adequate incomes, security, quality work environments and a sense of agency for all. She was involved in the drafting of a new International Labour Convention (c190) that was passed in 2019, creating a new human right – to have a world of work free from violence and harassment. Rachel is also a lay leader at the Auckland Unitarian Church, where the kaupapa looks to build a beloved community where everyone is able to flourish.

Professor Christoph Shumacher - Director Knowledge Exchange Hub, Massey University

Christoph is a Professor of Innovation and Economics at Massey University, the Director of the Knowledge Exchange Hub, a Member of the Artificial Intelligence Research Association, and a National Business Review (New Zealand) columnist.

He is the co-creator of GDPLive (gdplive.net), the world's first, and still only, real-time GDP tracker powered by artificial intelligence (AI), and the New Zealand Shared Prosperity Index (sharedprosperity.co.nz); a product of Christoph's interest in identifying and understanding critical social and economic issues through machine-learning driven big data analytics.

Christoph is a leading machine learning and AI researcher with broader interests in theoretical and experimental game theory, behavioural, mathematical and health economics.

Christoph has published in top international journals such as the Journal of Health Economics, Applied Economics, the European Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Industrial Economics, Complex Systems Informatics and Modelling Quarterly, and Economics Letters. He appears regularly on TV and national radio and was the resident economist on New Zealand's current affairs program Three60.

Christoph holds under and post-graduate degrees in Engineering and International Business, a PhD in Economics and a certificate in Big Data and Social Analytics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA.