A collective of modern-day wayfinders.

Peia Patai · Te Puna Marama Voyaging Foundation

Founder and chair of Te Puna Marama, reviving the traditional art of navigation on Rarotonga. The gathering is facilitated with the wayfinding process itself, the same process that revived celestial navigation after six hundred years.

It has been a dream of mine to come home and teach the knowledge of traditional wayfinding. I have been very fortunate to be one of two people that have been gifted this knowledge in the Cook Islands. Therefore it becomes a responsibility for me to teach my own people these skills.

Pā Rob McGowan

A senior rongoā practitioner and expert witness to the Wai 262 claim on mātauranga Māori. His Tīwaiwaka kaupapa holds that people are not the masters of the mauri but part of it, a question worth putting to anyone building intelligent systems. Joins us in Rarotonga.

Milne Bay Organics · Ao Cacao

Led by Rhona Conn in Papua New Guinea, Milne Bay Organics grows the cacao for Ao Cacao, founded by Thomas Netana Wright. Together they build tools that let communities take regenerative agriculture into artisanal products, small batch and high grade. Thomas speaks on agricultural trade.

June Hosking · Te Ipukarea Society

President of Te Ipukarea Society, the Cook Islands environmental NGO incorporated in 1996 to help care for te ipukarea (our heritage) and to advocate for a sustainable, healthy, biodiverse and beautiful environment. June speaks on the ocean.