The BCNZ Pod keeps you up to date on the blockchain and cryptocurrency community in and around New Zealand.

Widespread digital changes in New Zealand agriculture are occurring at a critical point with increasing global food demand, economic and environmental sustainability, and the response to the climate crisis, AgriTechNZ chief executive Brendan O’Connell says.

AUCKLAND, 31 August 2022 – Technology Investment Network (TIN), in association with the Consortium for Medical Device Technologies (CMDT), has today released New Zealand’s second Healthtech Insights Report, offering a deep dive into the country’s largest tech industry sub-sector, Healthcare Technology.  The report provides a closer look into New Zealand’s healthcare technology sector based on data … Continue reading "New Zealand Healthtech Insights Report offers timely deep dive into NZ’s largest tech industry sub-sector"

We were delighted to join in the celebration of the launch of Grabbit Games' interactive Google stories at the beginning of July. Grabbit Games worked closely with Google, Media Design School and a team that consisted of more than 15 Media Design School students.

As a membership-based organisation, BioTechNZ is run by an elected Executive Council and there are vacancies for seven positions in 2022.

The 2021 EdTechNZ Aotearoa EdTech Excellence white paper found that more than 90% of New Zealand EdTech businesses export or have ambition to export.

Giving tamariki the opportunity to access and learn about virtual reality was the aim of a three-day wananga at Pākōwhai Marae.

Celebrating the work of others in our sector is good for all of us. It’s an act of good citizenship that recognises both our individual and shared work in building a smart ecosystem. Ecosystem citizenship behaviour encourages collaborative approaches, collective action for the sector and indirect social exchanges (such as the behaviour of paying it forward and supporting the development of others in the community). We’ve had some opportunities to recognise the good works of others in the last month and look forward to further opportunities.

Digital assets are increasingly important in modern society. They are used for an expanding variety of purposes — including as valuable things in themselves, as a means of payment, or to represent or be linked to other things or rights — and in growing volumes. Electronic signatures, cryptography, smart contracts, distributed ledgers and associated technology have broadened the ways in which digital assets can be created, accessed, used and transferred. Such technological development is set only to continue.

This month was another great month for our biotech companies. BioTechNZ ran a very successful workshop in Wellington last week - Accelerating Crop Bioprotectant Development from New Zealand - with 50+ people in attendance. As well, the BioTechNZ Executive Council has been out and about talking to Government ministers about the role of biotech in New Zealand (traditional to modern biotech).