Industry News

Q&A with BlockchainNZ member Scott Lawrie, Owner of Scott Lawrie Gallery

Crypto or blockchain? Blockchain Tell us about your organisation in 20 words or less SLG is a contemporary art gallery (bricks and mortar).  Fountain.art is our dedicated platform for curated digital art. Tell us about a “typical” day for you I stress from 8am to 11pm daily

February 23, 2023

Media Releases

Water, water everywhere now is the time for technology

Te Whanganui-a-Tara – Aotearoa will cope more efficiently with torrential weather such as record rainfall if it embraces technology faster, the NZ IoT Alliance executive director Alison Mackie says. Much of New Zealand has seen record rainfall this year as mother nature makes herself know

February 23, 2023

Events

InsurTechLive23, Sydney

Hans Frauenlob and Rob Ellis, co-founders of Sentro attended Insurtech Australia’s InsurTechLive23 event in Sydney on February 15. They were joined by two other InsurTechNZ members, InsuredHQ and Rothburys. Hans gave us a run down afterwards.  For us it was part of an effort to better und

February 23, 2023

Industry News, NZTech News

BlockchainNZ Pod E13 with Sorel Carr on FinTech

Sorel Carr is the Head of FinTech Business at BNZ (Bank of New Zealand). Sorel comes from a decade in corporate banking and has been down the blockchain rabit hole looking to inject new emerging tech such as defi into the more traditional banking world. In this conversation we discuss the centr

February 22, 2023

Newsletters

Education and innovative technology

Kia ora, It’s been an exciting start to the year here at EdTechNZ. I’d like to introduce our two new co-chairs, Amy Bucher, Head of Education Products at ADInstruments, and Jude Hadfield, Managing Director of the New Zealand entity at TTRO. We’re very excited to have such po

February 22, 2023

Industry News

StepsWeb | Founder Ros Lugg | Changing lives through improving literacy.

Used in over half of New Zealand schools, StepsWeb is an online literacy and language programme, originally started to help struggling learners, particularly those with dyslexia.  Founder, Ros Lugg, previously a language teacher, re-trained as a dyslexia/literacy specialist as a result of h

February 21, 2023

Media Releases

FinTechNZ Executive Director on BNZ’s Fintech Speaker Series

FinTechNZ Executive Director Jason Roberts recently featured on BNZ’s Fintech Speaker Series where he chatted with Sorel Carr, Head of Fintech Business at BNZ, about the current Fintech scene in New Zealand, how we stack up on the global stage and where the innovation is. View the video

February 21, 2023

Industry News

Thoughts and reflections from the front line - a teacher’s voice in education technology’

Susana Tomaz co-ordinator of the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Maths) programme at Westlake Girls School and MOE Across School Lead for the local Community of Learning February 2023 Susana is a passionate about leading transformative change in education that puts the le

February 20, 2023

Media Releases

The face of new age fintech in NZ gathering momentum

February 20, 2023 The face of financial technology is totally changing and New Zealand fintechs are on board to support major and positive climate change investments. Aotearoa is the first country in the world to introduce a law that requires the financial sector to disclose the impacts of cl

February 20, 2023