12:00pm DOORS OPEN

12:25pm MIHI WHAKATAU

12:30pm EQUALIZE INTRODUCTION Alex Casey

12:35pm GOING FOR GOLD

Olympian and world record holder Dame Valerie Adams joins journalist and sportswoman Madeleine Chapman to discuss the triumphs and challenges of a life striving for victory, inclusion and equity on and off the field.

1:05pm SHORT BREAK

1:15pm THROUGH THE GLASS CEILING

Join three glass ceiling breakers who have charted a course to success in a male-dominated world: Naomi Ballantyne is the first woman in the world to found two life insurance companies, Alexia Hilbertidou is building a network of young women to move confidently into STEM subjects, and US Soccer President Cindy Parlow Cone is the first woman to hold that role. They discuss their journeys with Sarah Cowley Ross.

1:55pm SHORT BREAK

2:05pm TAKING THE LEAD

To make change requires taking charge. Filmmaker Chelsea Winstanley is on a mission to empower wāhine to own and control the filmmaking process from conception to distribution. Human rights masters graduate and Counties Manukau rugby board member Arizona Leger eloquently urges us to challenge the status quo. They share a conversation about moving to the front.

2:35pm SHORT BREAK

2:40pm CHANGING TIMES

In the early 1970s, the NZ feminist movement was on the rise and Football Fern Barbara Cox took the field for the first time. 50 years on, how much progress has been made, what has changed, what remains the same? Join two mother-daughter combos – Barbara and her daughter Michele Cox, the first parent child combo to play together in a football international (in 1987), and the writers and artists Kim Meredith and Courtney Sina Meredith - to take a lively intergenerational look at how much (or little) progress has been made, in conversation with Alex Casey.

3:20pm SHORT BREAK

3:30pm CORRECT THE INTERNET

Former Football Fern Rebecca Sowden, founder of the Correct the Internet campaign which highlights and corrects the inconsistency of searchable facts that disadvantage sportswomen gives a lively talk on how media, traditional and digital, distorts women’s stories followed by short Q&A with Alex Casey.

3:50pm SHORT BREAK

3:55pm THE EQUITY FIGHT

Achieving equity, financial or otherwise, requires tenacity and skill. From pay parity to representation at the board table or in the sporting CEOs office, victories remain hard won. Three exceptional women who have walked the talk – Sport NZ CEO Raelene Castle, US Women Players Association ED Becca Roux, and public law expert and Global Women member Mai Chen – share stories of the battlefield with Sarah Cowley Ross.

4:30pm FINISH Alex Casey

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