FM Summit NZ, Case Study

Facilities That Think Forward

At FM Summit NZ 2017, Morris opened the national gathering of New Zealand’s facility managers with a keynote designed to shift the profession’s posture from reactive to regenerative. Speaking to a sold-out audience of professionals managing airports, hospitals, transport hubs, and smart buildings, Morris introduced a radical truth: facilities aren’t static backdrops—they're adaptive ecosystems at the centre of community mobility, wellbeing, and resilience. His message: if your infrastructure can’t learn, anticipate, or optimise, it’s not future-ready.

Shift: From tactical service oversight to strategic, human-centric, future-first infrastructure leadership.

The result?: Morris’s keynote reshaped how FMANZ members viewed their remit, placing them squarely at the centre of mobility-aligned infrastructure strategy.