Heath is a creative and producer, and has been involved in the photography industry in New Zealand for more than 20 years. After leaving the advertising industry he opened his first studio in 2010, and has been working with many of New Zealand's top brands and agencies since.

Heath is deeply passionate about generative image AI, and recognized the potential for it to greatly benefit brands in their image creation. He opened Matter Studio in 2023, New Zealand's first AI focused content studio.

Matter leverages emerging AI technology alongside decades of experience in production, photography, and post-production; providing clients with unprecedented access to world class imagery, without much of the time, money and labour traditionally associated with highly stylised photography. 

Libby is passionate about co-creating magical and intelligent experiences to all ranges of enterprises in New Zealand through the IBM Ecosystem.

Currently Libby is a Data & AI Partner Technical Specialist in IBM New Zealand and prior to this role, she spent 4 years designing, developing and leading virtual assistant teams in the Telco industry as a Business Transformation Consultant / Cognitive Engineer at IBM.

Libby dedicates her time to being essential to her business partners, listening and ideating on the problem their customers have and dreaming up together the best solution with Data & AI at the centre of it all.

In the background, Libby is the co-chair of Women@IBM and does gardening and sewing in her spare time. Libby is always looking to build up her network of people that challenge her in different aspects of her personal and professional life and enjoys learning new things and expanding her mind.

Rollan joined Pure SEO as a content writer in January 2019, just three months after arriving in New Zealand. He was promoted to Director of Content Marketing in 2022.

Hailing from the United States, Rollan graduated from the University of Nebraska in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts, having majored in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing and minored in film studies. He joined the Pure SEO team after four years working with international professionals in South Korea and Vietnam as an education faculty manager and ESL teacher.

Rollan is an avid reader and writer of speculative fiction. He has a passion for classic film and enjoys staying current on the latest music. Having lived internationally for nearly five years, Rollan’s wanderlust has metastasised and the next adventure is never far away. Rollan is a scuba diving enthusiast and seldom plans a holiday far from the coast. Five years of unrelenting travel has conditioned Rollan to maintain a home life that can fit in a suitcase. He spends most of his free time with his wife Lauren or working on the next great American novel.

Over the past 15 years, Adnan has showcased leadership in transforming brands through advertising and marketing technology for better business outcomes. As a Sydney native, he began his career at Initiative Media before joining Microsoft to manage premium ad partnerships. In 2009, Adnan became one of the first four founding employees of Facebook ANZ and one of the first five in the Asia-Pacific, helping to establish and grow operations in ANZ for six years.

Adnan later advised early-stage ventures and startups and has spent the last 7-8 years consulting and leading strategy in marketing & advertising technology innovation for clients like Cisco, Canon, Hyundai, Toyota, Honda, Comvita, BNZ, Turners, and more.

Recently, Adnan co-founded Stitch, a consultancy formed by industry veterans focusing on data, advertising, and marketing technology to drive measurable outcomes. Clients include Trilogy, Turners, AA Smartfuel, Tourism NZ, Forsyth Barr, Vend, Merck Sharpe & Dohme, Skills Consulting Group, Real NZ, Treble Cone, Cardrona, Amisfield, Coastguard NZ, Duco Events, Harrison & Grierson, Gardiner Family Apothecary (in Ireland), Real Thread (in the US), Kate Sylvester, Juliette Hogan, Kathryn Wilson, NZ Rugby, Colliers, and NZ Sotheby's International Realty.

Adnan is a 3X TVNZ Marketing Awards Winner 2022 and a 2X Gold Effie Awards Winner 2022.