TechTuesday November 2026
Description
Join us for an engaging session with global tech executive and board director Roz Buick, Ph.D.
Roz’s presentation will briefly outline her 30 year background working on scaling global tech businesses to become market leaders in a variety of environments and markets -
starting within academic tech innovation, and then moving into publicly traded American technology solutions (solution = Hardware, Software, SaaS & mixed) and a variety of
markets & business sizes from $0 revenue to $1B USD.
What helps technology companies scale fast - 3 things to focus on
Strategy - what is it, much more than just product innovation.
Team - how to build it, what’s leadership & team dynamics all about.
Execution - managing the chaos, noise, distraction, hype, noise, oh and AI !
Things to note:
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Agenda
- 5:00 pm
Member Registration Opens
- 5:30 pm
Non-member Registration Opens
- 6:00 pm
Canterbury Tech Updates
- 6:15 pm
Presentations
- 7:00 pm
Networking
Lineup
Roz has ~ 30 years experience leading global technology businesses and teams to digitally transform industries. A catalyst for change, she has helped lead disruptive market strategy, technology innovation & business scale-up to grow revenue, profits and market share. Focused on finding synergistic product and go to market strategies she’s successfully grown businesses across a range of sectors including agriculture, construction architecture & engineering and commercial property management. Her most recent full time position was Senior Vice President at Oracle’s construction solutions and prior to that she was Senior Vice President across Trimble’s design- construction-maintenance global businesses. Today, Roz is a Board Director & Consultant working with a number of software & AI-enabled technology companies at various stages of growth. Trained initially as a scientist she’s conducted research and teaching lectures at Virginia Tech USA and Lincoln University NZ, where her research field was in systems simulation modeling and AI applied to complex decision making. She has a Bachelor of Agricultural Sciences, a Ph.D. in plant physiology, adjuvant chemistry & simulation modeling (Lincoln Uni. NZ), and an Executive MBA (Duke Uni. NC).
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