InsurTechNZ October 2022 Newsletter

05 October 2022

This year, for the first time, the New Zealand Insurance Awards will feature the InsurTech Start-up of the Year, recognising innovation that enhances, extends or replaces a traditional approach to servicing insurance customers’ needs.

Striving for digital equity in education

04 October 2022

EdTechNZ strives to see digital equity in education so all learners and educators have better access to digital tools, equipment, skills, and training, leading to better learner outcomes.

NZTech Inform – skills for our digital future

03 October 2022

Tech skills shortages continue to plague NZTech’s members and New Zealand’s greater tech sector. As a result the issue is consuming a substantial amount of our time and effort as a team. This includes addressing the issue from both an educational and immigration perspective. Unfortunately there is no quick fix or silver bullet for this … Continue reading "Expanding the diversity conversation beyond tech meetups – Christchurch"

BlockchainNZ Pod E08 with Paul Stonham on Enterprise DLT & Tokenising Assets

29 September 2022

Latest BlockchainNZ Podcast Episode | BlockchainNZ Pod E08 with Paul Stonham on Enterprise DLT & Tokenising Assets

FinTechNZ – embracing local innovation

29 September 2022

It’s been another whirlwind month and the pace continues as our ecosystem further evolves. We’ve been facilitating valuable discussions at events, welcoming record levels of new members and actively collaborating across sectors. Our purposeful community is growing in strength, scope and reach!

Hope Upstream: Pursuing Prevention

28 September 2022

There were 607 suicides in New Zealand last year in addition to 40x more suicide attempts. Suicide devastatingly impacts approximately 135 people per death.

Bigger, growing organisations likely to be targeted by attacks

28 September 2022

IoT is no exception and as we see greater IoT adoption, we will see all kinds of attacks on IoT products, users, software, hardware and networks.

BlockchainNZ - Easy Crypto sponsorship announcement

28 September 2022

BlockchainNZ is delighted to announce Easy Crypto as the inaugural sponsor of the BlockchainNZ podcast! The podcast was co-founded by BlockchainNZ council members, Jeff Nijsse and Bryan Ventura, in mid-2022, to early success. Podcast episodes are hosted by Jeff Nijsse, and available to listen here. Easy Crypto has been an active member of BlockchainNZ for … Continue reading "Expanding the diversity conversation beyond tech meetups – Christchurch"

Successful AI in Action

27 September 2022

We are an inclusive community that encourages our members to participate, and this year’s Summit was marked in its diversity of age, gender, ethnicity and industry.

Seeking FinTechNZ Executive Council Nominations 2022

22 September 2022

There is now an opportunity to put yourself forward or nominate someone else for a role on the FinTechNZ Executive Council.

Latest News: ‘The merge’ - no small feat

21 September 2022

This past Thursday there was a noteworthy event in the crypto space. The Ethereum main chain was upgraded from a proof-of-work consensus algorithm to a proof-of-stake one. Like a train switching from an old well-worn track to a shiny new one, it went seamlessly, which is a big win for Ethereum, but also for open source developers who had been planning the transition for the past seven years.

Towards a Better Digital Identity Trust Framework in Aotearoa

21 September 2022

It’s a great pleasure to share with you DINZ Reflections Report, a seminal piece of work that DINZ’s Digital Identity Trust Framework working group has developed over several months.

FISA – Self Assessment Go-Live 18 October 2022

21 September 2022

After six years of development by expert volunteers, thousands of hours of refinement and industry review, over 120 questions, 12 benchmarks and 9 focus areas, the FISA Self-Assessment is now ready to support New Zealand financial entities to assess and improve their integrity systems.

Expanding the diversity conversation beyond tech meetups – Christchurch

Today, diversity and inclusion (D&I) is top of mind for most boards and executives. Many businesses have policies and initiatives in place to look at how they can improve D&I within their organisations. However, we find most of these programmes are focused on improving the internal gender statistics, often in the form of meetups run by … Continue reading

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