• Awarded MNZM
• Join 15 others for honoured for IT
• First Indians recognised for IT
• Finalists - Wellington Airport Community Awards '24
• Finalists - New Zealand CIO Summit & Awards Community Tech Champions '24, one of 3 finalists
• Winners - New Zealand India Central Association Business Awards

• India FTA submission (16 chapters & 81 points) to the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade
• “Diverse Histories of Computing & Information in Australasia” for the Communications of the Association for Information Systems - with Dr Janet Toland, paper under review

• 5 events
• 20 speakers; >50% women
• 4 PhDs; 3 women
• Over 300 registrations

• Mentored 12 individuals
• Maintained a 5/5 rating
• Top 1%, Community Care & People’s Choice Badges on topmate.io

• 120 LinkedIn posts
• Grew followers to 1,200
• Just under 100% YOY growth

• 35 conversations to partner, collaborate & grow
• Support & advice to 10 businesses in NZ & India
• 25 professional networking events attended
• Created a backlog of 25 ethnic & business success stories to showcase

• 4 press releases for NZ, Australia & India
• 7 interviews
• Over 35 sets of media coverage and counting
• Featured in The Times Of India The Economic Times Doordarshan Kendra RNZ Reseller News NZ MSN and others
• Viral on social with >20,000 HNIs & Ultra-HNIs reached on WhatsApp
  

𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘡 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘕𝘡; 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴

• The NZ economy is the toughest we have seen
• India offers alternative markets, capital, skills & talent
• Indian IT professionals are valuable natural resources
• Agencies must engage deeper & broader
• Nikhil Ravishankar is the visible tip and there are several others
• His promotion highlights issues to be addressed
• Ethnic Communities, International Relations & International Trade go hand-in-hand to accelerate NZ’s economic growth & success

Self-funded, we contribute to this and look forward to collaborating with progressive govt agencies

Natasha D'Costa (Telles) Nilesh Kapoor Jai Goradia Eric Barrett Rahul Sen Urvashi Yadav Farheen Hussain Ketan Shah SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)