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The New Zealand Tech Alliance is a group of independent technology associations from across New Zealand that work together to ensure a strong voice for technology.
Visit Tech AllianceThe New Zealand Tech Alliance is a group of independent technology associations from across New Zealand that work together to ensure a strong voice for technology.
Visit Tech AllianceKia ora readers, Last week, I was working on the NZTech annual report in preparation for our 25 July AGM. It has been a crazy busy year for the New Zealand Tech Alliance and across the entire tech ecosystem. Check out these numbers… New Zealand Tech Alliance 22 tech associatio
July 15, 2019
New Zealand tech organisations, through NZTech, are happy to see the government continuing to improve and evolve the recently launched research and development tax credit scheme. NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says they have been supportive of the tax credit scheme but concerned that there
July 12, 2019
Most Kiwi companies do not record being hacked FintechNZ says, despite Cert NZ’s latest report showing almost 1000 New Zealanders reported hacking issues in the last quarter. The Cert NZ report shows New Zealanders from Invercargill to the Bay of Islands suffered cyber security incidents, with
July 12, 2019
Auckland – Gene editing has a crucial role to play in reducing emissions to deal with climate change, BiotechNZ executive director Dr Zahra Champion says. The issues and benefits of gene editing must accelerate discussions by the biotech industry and academic researchers to conv
July 10, 2019
Last week, the Government announced a pivot to Industry Transformation Plans. This is a new approach to industry policy, aimed at growing more innovative industries in New Zealand and lifting the productivity of our key sectors. According to MBIE, the plans will be industry led and Gover
July 8, 2019
Wellington – The national blockchain group has appealed to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her government to adopt a more dynamic attitude or it could prove costly to the New Zealand economy, given blockchain tech’s likely global impact. BlockchainNZ executive director Mark Pasca
July 3, 2019
Kia ora Readers Currently, there is quite a lot happening in the world of Government regarding to tech. Tomorrow morning the revised 2019 New Zealand Cyber Security Strategy is launched by Minister Faafoi. After a budget commitment of $2 million it will be interesting to se
July 1, 2019
Facebook’s Libra currency will put New Zealand on the verge of a cataclysmic change in the way Kiwis think about financial services, FintechNZ general manager James Brown says. But will the big banks in New Zealand be ready when the Libra currency launches next year, he says. “We want cha
June 26, 2019
June 25, 2019 Nearly 80 percent of New Zealanders are concerned about how their identity is managed online, Digital Identity NZ executive director Andrew Weaver will tell an international business conference in Singapore this week. Weaver has been invited to speak at the Seamless Asia summit
June 25, 2019