The Icehouse Alumni Conference 2024

When & Where Is The Conference?

What You'll Get From The Conference

• World Class Speakers and Motivators 
• Inspiration on tap, with takeaways that can be applied to your business
• Reflection sessions allowing time to digest what you have heard
• Connection with Kiwi Business Owners & Leaders that have journeyed with The Icehouse
• A chance to reunite with your personal Icehouse programme cohort
• Complimentary morning tea, lunch, and social drinks

Sam Stubbs

Sam Stubbs is Founder and Managing Director of Simplicity, a non-profit, low-fee KiwiSaver and Fund Manager with a mission to make Kiwis richer and smarter with money. 

Sam Stubbs was most recently the CEO Of Tower Investments, a KiwiSaver default provider. Before that he was Managing Director of Hanover Group, and spent 10 years working for Goldman Sachs in London and Hong Kong. He previously worked for Natwest Markets, Fay, Richwhite and IBM New Zealand.

He has been a Board Member of the Financial Services Council, and a member of the Government Taskforce on Financial Services.

Sam has an MA (Hons) from the University of Auckland.

Sam is the father of two children. He dreams of Simplicity and sailing around the world. 

Nicola Taylor

Nicola is the co-founder of successful fintech company and accredited B Corp, Tax Traders and new start-up, Taxi. Nicola is driven by the pursuit of equity in the tax system and a deep desire to see business as a force for good in the world. She believes that the workplace should be a place of joy and satisfaction and has built this into the companies she has co-founded from their earliest days.

Nicola has a great start-up story and is a champion for SMEs in this country. Taxi is her new venture and provides a new source of affordable working capital to all Kiwi businesses, powered by their provisional tax payments. Taxi arose out of Nicola’s dissatisfaction with the lack of access for SMEs to this kind of working capital when working with large corporates in the 2021 Auckland lockdown.

Steven Joyce

Steven Joyce has a unique combination of commercial and political experience. 

He served as a senior economic Minister in John Key-led National government of New Zealand between 2008 and 2017.  Over nine years in cabinet he held the portfolios of Finance, Economic Development, Science and Innovation, Transport, and ICT, and spent seven years as Minister of Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment.   

He led the Key government’s economic growth programme, the Ultrafast Broadband rollout, and the country’s largest highway building programme in decades. Steven was also the Campaign chief for the National Party for five national elections.   

Prior to entering politics he was a successful radio entrepreneur, starting his first station Energy FM in New Plymouth, and building it up to become the listed company RadioWorks NZ Ltd, New Zealand’s second-largest radio company. 

Steven authored a best-selling book last year on his time in both politics and radio, called “On the Record”.   He currently provides strategic commercial, marketing and public policy advice to a range of clients in the finance, technology, education, and construction sectors across Australia and New Zealand.   

More To Be Announced

We'll be announcing more speakers as we get closer to the Conference, so keep an eye out!

2023 Highlight Video - See what all the fuss is about! 

The buzz at The Icehouse Alumni Conference is a highlight of the year. Alumni coming together in-person to bounce ideas around and gain inspiration.

Watch the highlight video, showcasing 2023's conference and what attendees got out of the day.