Kirsten 'KP' Patterson is the Chief Executive of the Institute of Directors (IoD) New Zealand that has over 10,500 members.

In this conversation we talk about all things governance, corporate and not for profit, climate, some trends in the tech industry including AI and DAOs, and a favourite topic of mine - responsibility - where is the parental supervision? 

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Timestamps:

01:31 IoD; for-profits & NFP

08:00 climate 

14:35 why do we need boards?   

18:00 tech trends at board-level

24:03 AI thoughts

29:22 copyright & data

33:21 DAOs 

40:06 who's responsible?

44:14 FTX had no board

50:54 an NZ rugby story

52:46 rapid fire

55:57 fin 

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Some notes from the show:

• Institue of Directors https://www.iod.org.nz/


• Air New Zealand Hydrogen fuel cell powered aircraft https://archive.ph/3GXLz


• Global Network of Director Institutes http://gndi.org/


• chatGPT & data privacy https://theconversation.com/chatgpt-is-a-data-privacy-nightmare-if-youve-ever-posted-online-you-ought-to-be-concerned-199283 


• National Party uses AI  in ads https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/24/new-zealand-national-party-admits-using-ai-generated-people-in-ads?ref=dl-staging-website.ghost.io


• AI in the boardroom (VITAL) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4339413 


• FTX's woes (Harvard Business Review) https://hbr.org/2022/12/ftx-and-the-problem-of-unchecked-founder-power


• Elizabeth Holmes 11-year prison sentence https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/what-elizabeth-holmes-did-theranos-prison-b2348733.html 


• Wellington Homeless Women's Trust https://www.whwt.org.nz/


• Across the board podcast https://www.iod.org.nz/news/articles/across-the-board-podcast/# 

Contact KP:

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  Twitter https://twitter.com/iodnz

  
  


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  LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/pattersonkirsten/

  
  

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Recorded at blockheight 794099. The BCNZ podcast was founded in 2022 by Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura.