
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 AllianceIn Phoenix, Arizona, cars are self-navigating the streets. In many homes, people are speaking to digital assistants, with the machines responding. Smartphones and apps can now recognise faces in photos and translate from one language to another, to name a few other examples of artificial intelligen
March 14, 2018
Hi Readers Last Thursday, on International Women's Day, I joined the TechWomen lunch in Auckland. Simultaneously, TechWomen hosted events in Wellington and Christchurch. More than 250 people joined in on the discussions. The inspirational speakers at each event also shared their stories of ho
March 12, 2018
A researcher described as a hopelessly addicted inventor who is using artificial intelligence (AI) to find native bird predators such as rats, stoats and possums, will be an interesting speaker at AI Day in Auckland on March 28. AI Day speaker Grant Ryan, from Christchurch, is trying to help make N
March 11, 2018
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is the next wave of technology and New Zealand must present a fresh window to help encourage women into tech roles. Big corporations across every industry, from retail to agriculture, are trying to integrate machine learning into their products and the global thirst
March 7, 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. World-leading meat, dairy and horticultural industries have established New Zealand’s reputation as a producer of food. B
March 7, 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. This Thursday is International Women’s Day and executive director of TechWomen New Zealand, Edwina Mistry, says tech has never been more attractive as a career for
March 5, 2018
Hi Readers This Thursday, it is International Women’s Day and I’ve been considering the global shortage of tech skills and the fact that in most countries, somewhere between 20-26% of tech workers are female. In New Zealand that number is only 23%. We can complain that firms are not employing
March 4, 2018
The head of New Zealand’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) company Soul Machines has issued a plea to New Zealand corporate companies not to fall behind in the global development of AI, the latest tech industrial revolution. Greg Cross, chief business officer for Soul Machines, says jumping o
February 28, 2018
A New Zealander who is leading one of the world’s most exciting artificial intelligent (AI) teams at Amazon in Silicon Valley is working on cutting-edge social impact projects such as catching game poachers and child sex traffickers. Kiwi Alanya Van Dervort, team manager for social good at Amazon
February 27, 2018