In the lead up to our AI Summit taking place in Auckland on 12 September we are running a hackathon series across New Zealand.  The top teams will be pitching at the Summit to be the overall winners. 

Open banking is stimulating the New Zealand economy as the finance market is growing and maturing, FinTechNZ executive director Jason Roberts says.

NZTech is the not-for-profit that has been bringing together and representing New Zealand’s technology ecosystem. 

Media Design School has received the accolade of having Prickly Jam, a film made in collaboration with students at Media Design School, screened at the world famous Comic-Con International: San Diego on Saturday 23 July.

Aotearoa’s first Digital Trust Hui Taumata is taking place on Wednesday. While the event alone is significant enough, this month let’s look at the programme in more detail to consider what it might offer up in terms of the future for digital identity in New Zealand and around the world. To help with context, I offered my perspective on some emerging trends in the form of a Q&A here.

It’s a big week for security, privacy, identity and trust!  

Discover NZTech’s origin story and its rise as a collective impact platform in The Evolution of NZTech report

Tak Suzuki is the co-founder of Senkusha, a funding platform looking to support and grow emerging artists, musicians, and athletes through NFT sales. Tak is soon to be a physiology graduate from the University of Auckland, he loves experimenting with new tech, and has an impressive CV at a young age. In this conversation we talk about: Music labels and the motivation for a crowdfunding platform, NFTs, mp3s, transparency, and minting on Ethereum, and the upcoming launch with artist Ash Supé.

As we shoot past the halfway point of 2022 and  take time for Matariki reflections, I’m excited for the sector growth opportunities ahead. I’m especially grateful for developing relationships in person. In the next few months we will see agritech visitors coming to New Zealand and agritech innovators heading overseas.  This is the time to form and cement new relationships.

Neurodivergent people in New Zealand workplaces are at risk of being overlooked, with a third reporting their condition has negatively affected their career advancement, latest research shows.