Liz Berryman
Founder and CEO
chnnl

Dr Elizabeth Berryman has been involved with HiNZ since 2015 where she attended a conference that really ignited her passion for health technology. Elizabeth has a wealth of experience within the health sector, starting her career as a Registered Nurse in community Maori Health, before becoming a Medical Doctor.

After founding a peer-mentoring program for medical students and seeing its success, she is now wildly passionate about supporting people’s mental wellbeing through digital tools. Elizabeth has been past President of the Otago University Medical Students' Association, New Zealand Medical Students' Association, and currently sits on the Wahine Connect and Health Informatics New Zealand Board.

Elizabeth is focused on e-mental health solutions that help workplaces combat issues such as employee burnout, depression, anxiety and suicide, and is an active researcher in this space. Becoming a principal investigator in a University of Otago research project using smartphone Apps to measure well-being and mental health. Now the founder of CEO of her own solution e-Mental Health solution, chnnl, a scalable & unprejudiced solution to help organisations & individuals protect and prioritise mental wellbeing. chnnl provides an anonymous, safe space for employees and is a tool for organisations to embrace the human side of the business.

Erica Lloyd
Director Public Sector Strategy
Soul Machines

Erica Lloyd leads the Health, Education and Public Sector practise globally for Soul Machines. A world leading A.G. I research organisation focused on accelerating the collaboration of humans and machines. Soul Machines creates astonishing, autonomously animated Digital People to empathetically enable the democratization of healthcare and other services. Erica is an executive leader with a background in broadcasting, technology, science policy and innovation ecosystems in both the private and public sector.

Watch this video to find out more about what Soul Machines do and learn about the digital brain and how it functions

Toni Gutschlag
Deputy Director-General, Mental Health and Addiction
Ministry of Health

Toni has spent her career working in the health sector with a significant portion of that in mental health and addiction related roles.  She has been involved in leading a number of change and improvement programmes and is passionate about ensuring that the system is focused on better wellbeing outcomes for all people.

Toni has significant experience in psychosocial responses and recovery, and emergency management having worked in health in Christchurch through the earthquakes and the 2019 Mosque attacks.

Within her role at the Ministry of Health she played a lead role in development of the psychosocial response to COVID-19 during the lockdown periods and preparing for future resurgences.

Tania Cargo
Clinical Psychologist
University of Auckland

Tania Cargo (Ngāti Manu, Ngāti Maru, Tainui) is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychology and the Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Auckland. She is a strong advocate for ensuring Te Tiriti O Waitangi principles are upheld in bicultural research practices. She is on the New Zealand Psychologist Board, an executive member of  He Paiaka Tōtara (Māori Psychologists Association) and a past board member of ANZACBT. Tania was the CBT advisor to the SPARX programme, coordinates the post-graduate CBT programme and is the third year, clinical psychology training programme co-coordinator. Along with Associate Professor Sarah Hetrick, she is the co-theme leader of the Resilient Teens, A Better Start/E Tipu e Rea (National Challenge Science, funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment). Her expertise lies in working with Māori pēpi, tamariki, rangatahi me whānau to create culturally responsive, evidence-based wellbeing tools.

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Rebecca McBeth
HiNZ News Editor

Rebecca McBeth joined the HiNZ team as editor of eHealthNews.nz in January 2018. Rebecca was previously news editor at Digital Health Intelligence in London and prior to that, was the senior health reporter at The Christchurch Press, where she won a NZ Canon Media Award and a NZ Reporting Diversity award. Based in Auckland, she is committed to communicating news, experience and knowledge throughout New Zealand’s data and digital health sector.