Professor Shaun Hendy from Auckland University, who led a team of scientists developing mathematical models of the spread of the virus across the country that influenced the government's response to the outbreak. Shaun leads our webinar and is joined by experts from Data Ventures and BERL.
About this event
If you would like a recording of this webinar please email webinars@taituara.org.nz.
The cost of this webinar is $250+GST per council.
During COVID-19 scientific facts, data modelling and assessing the impacts on the “NZ Team of 5 million” was first and foremost in determining what was happening and how we could recover.
Making sense of post COVID-19 environment is a tough task, especially when the data is uncertain and rapidly changing. This webinar delves into important questions like:
· What is the data telling us about New Zealand’s recovery in the short and long term?
· What data-driven lessons can we learn to gain better insights into the state of communities?
Professor Shaun Hendy is joined by Drew Broadly, Chief Executive at Data Ventures and Hugh Dixon, Research Economist at BERL.
Presenters
Professor Shaun Cameron Hendy
Physicist, University of Auckland Read ProfileProfessor Shaun Cameron Hendy
Physicist, University of AucklandProfessor Shaun Hendy MNZM FRSNZ teaches in both the Department of Physics and the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Auckland. He was founding Director of Te Pūnaha Matatini, a national Centre of Research Excellence, and is a co-founder of the green fintech company, Toha. He has won a number of awards, including the Callaghan Medal, the Prime Minister’s Science Media Communication Prize, and the E. O. Tuck medal for applied mathematics. In 2020, his team was awarded the Prime Minister’s Science Prize for their COVID-19 response. He co-authored Get Off the Grass with the late Sir Paul Callaghan in 2012, and has since written two other books, Silencing Science and #NoFly.