LINQ customers, partners and the LINQ team come together for the first time, to show what happens when you put value, not just activity, at the centre of your transformation work.
Over two free half days you'll see the newest capabilities in LINQ, including Economic Process Modelling (EPM) and AI, hear directly from people using LINQ to solve real problems and pick up modelling skills you can use the same week, whatever seat you sit in.
Two half-day sessions Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 November 2026 — a free, fully virtual event across two half days, covering New Zealand and US time zones.
This year's conference doubles as a first look at where LINQ is heading, not just where it's been.
See how EPM data goes into your model and comes straight back out as insight. The 'What is Economic Process Modelling and how does it work?' session with Ian Clarke and Antony Williams shows exactly how to capture the value metrics and see the results, whether you're the one entering the data or the one using it to make a call.
Before you commit a dollar to an AI initiative, you can model it first. Build a model of what changes when AI comes into a process, compare it against how things work today, and use that comparison to build a roadmap grounded in strategy and ROI rather than hype. John Baigent from Attune Consulting shows how this plays out in practice in his session on using LINQ to define the ROI of AI.
Across both days you'll see live demonstrations of LINQ mapping how people, systems and information connect end to end.
The heat highlights exactly where work backs up, so you can see cost, time and capacity pressure at a glance, and model the fix before you commit.
Data, Analytics and AI advisor, researcher and author
Doug Laney is the person who put a name to the value of information. He originated infonomics, wrote the bestselling book of the same name, and followed it up with Data Juice: 101 Real-World Stories of How Organisations Are Squeezing Value from Available Data Assets. He's a three-time Gartner thought leadership award winner, a World Economic Forum advisor, a Forbes contributing author, and co-chairs the annual MIT Chief Data Officer Symposium.
Most organisations still measure their processes on cost alone, which is why so many transformation programmes, AI included, run on conviction rather than economics. Doug's keynote introduces Economic Process Modelling (EPM), a way of reading every process as an asset factory that produces revenue, reduces risk, creates options and generates information, not just cost.
Why attend: measure what a process costs, and you can run it. Establish what it's worth, and you can decide whether it should exist at all, be amplified, or be torn out. This talk is the economic foundation for everything else on the agenda.
Wing Commander, Deputy Director Information Warfare, Information Command, NZDF
Carolyn Pezaro is Deputy Director Information Warfare within Information Command, New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF), and a Registered Psychologist with more than 20 years' service. She's held operational and leadership roles across deployments to Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands, Syria and Israel, including service as a United Nations Military Observer.
As technology, social media and AI reshape the information environment, the human mind has become a contested space. Caro explores how state and non-state actors work to influence perception and decision-making, and what that means for organisations trying to build genuine cognitive security.
Why attend: a rare, defence-informed take on information as both an asset and a risk, from someone who deals with it at a national level.
e-Judiciary Adviser to the Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea, Longitude 174 Limited
Alison Holt is an internationally recognised expert in data governance, with a career spanning director, general manager, research fellow and virtual CIO roles. She's authored three books on IT and data governance and has spent the last eight years as e-Judiciary Adviser to the Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea.
In this interview session, Alison talks through the realities of building digital justice systems: what it takes to design services for one of the most complex, highest-stakes sectors there is, why a digital twin matters for planning, and how her team came to map the Constitution of Papua New Guinea itself.
Why attend: a genuine case study in applying digital and process thinking to an environment where the stakes could not be higher, and proof these ideas hold up well beyond the corporate world.
Pick and choose across two tracks: hands-on LINQ sessions for the people doing the modelling, and real customer and partner stories for anyone judging the return.
Start from a blank screen and watch structure build in real time. A practical, no-experience-needed way into LINQ, and a good warm-up before the deeper sessions.
Rework, alternative paths, loops, volume, scenarios, navigation, the practical questions that come up once you're actually building. This session is the shortcut to modelling faster.
Business analyst skills are about to be in serious demand. Learn how to add LINQ to your toolkit, extend your impact, and sell your insights upward to the leaders who need them.
The value metrics behind EPM, how they live inside LINQ, and how to see the results in Insights. Built for the curious, whether you're capturing the data or making the decision.
Extend your view beyond people, technology and process to include data and information, and see why work happens the way it does, not just what happens.
An interactive session, not a presentation, on the thinking behind LINQ and how to apply it to your own business improvement and transformation work.
Real stories from the organisations and partners using LINQ, including the numbers behind their transformations. Sessions are being confirmed now and will be published here shortly.
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11 & 12 November 2026 · Free · Fully virtual
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