Most New Zealanders are ambivalent about artificial intelligence and its impact on the future, but new research has found 68 percent of respondents in a national survey were concerned about the potential for AI to make biased, unfair or inaccurate decisions. Details of the survey have been released today in the Artificial Intelligence Forum on …
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02 May 2018
Te Papa Tongarewa museum’s first chief digital officer Melissa Firth, who built a digital team almost from scratch, has been named among the top 100 CIOs in New Zealand for 2018.
16 April 2018
The announcement of the world’s first self-driving electric air taxi being piloted in Christchurch is just one of the examples of New Zealand becoming a living tech laboratory, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller said today.
14 March 2018
How New Zealand can meet the challenge of feeding some of the predicted global population of 10 billion by 2050, will be a major focus at a Techweek event in Tauranga in May.
07 March 2018
The worm has turned in the tech world as a wave of females are joining the tech community, according to national and global reports.
05 March 2018
Pioneering digital doctor Lance O’Sullivan today blasted the New Zealand health system at the international Digital Nations summit in Auckland. He said healthcare for Kiwis was poor and it was a ‘shitty’ system. More than 500 people, including 200 from overseas, are attending the summit which has been organised by NZTech and Conferenz. “My job …
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20 February 2018
The appointment of a chief technology officer (CTO) for New Zealand is critical for the future of the country if we hope to be a thriving digital nation by 2030, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says. Graeme explains why here: Want to know more? Sign up for the NZTech weekly update, it’s free and will take less …
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19 February 2018
Spark Digital chief executive Jolie Hodson, who is speaking to the international Digital Nations summit in Auckland today, has painted a picture of dramatic tech changes in New Zealand over the next 12 years.
19 February 2018
The appointment of a chief technology officer for New Zealand is critical for the future of the country if we hope to be a thriving digital nation by 2030, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says. He was speaking at the international Digital Nations Summit in Auckland today and reiterated that technology is going to drive the New …
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19 February 2018