Dr. Pete Rive

PhD in Digital Design | Former President, Mili Pictures Worldwide | Former Chairman, Film Auckland | Senior Advisor, S23M | Published Author | Transmedia Leader & Creative Strategist

Pete Rive has operated at the intersection of creative vision and strategic rigour in ways that most professionals only manage on one side of that boundary. As President of Mili Pictures Worldwide and Chairman of Film Auckland, he led international co-productions and shaped national screen strategies at the highest levels of the industry. A PhD in Digital Design and deep expertise in human-factor design gave him the analytical framework to match the creative instincts.

He has spent his career building things that work not just creatively but systematically: organisations, strategies, productions, and frameworks that hold up when the complexity increases. As Senior Advisor at S23M and a published author, he continues to work at that frontier, helping organisations develop futures that are both ambitious and deliverable.

What Pete brings to the Master of Technological Futures is the practical wisdom of someone who has navigated technology, creativity, and commercial reality simultaneously for decades. He understands that the most important futures are built, not imagined, and he helps people understand what it actually takes to build them.