Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will set a world first opening Techweek on Monday as she will attend as a hologram. The prime minister will be the world’s first national leader …
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17 May 2018
Technology will soon help make New Zealand’s farms more productive while also making lakes and rivers cleaner, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says. “As a nation Kiwis keep talking about …
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15 May 2018
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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19 February 2018