
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 AllianceTēnā tātou katoa, Celebrating Taranaki Who knew a Tuesday evening in New Plymouth would be so fruitful? In May 2022 we released our AI for Environment Report, which is essentially a stock take of AI being used primarily for environmental purposes in NZ. The research pointed to two
October 25, 2022
The Executive Councils of the New Zealand IoT Alliance and BlockchainNZ have identified organisational synergies that could deliver significant societal and commercial benefits. Significant efficiency gains and security improvements can be achieved by leveraging blockchain's decentralised
October 19, 2022
Digital adoption across sectors of the New Zealand economy have never been so crucial, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says. In the primary sector digital adoption is highest in business management tools and lowest in areas such as water and effluent management, he says. “However, as e
October 19, 2022
Kia ora e te whānauAs signalled in last month’s newsletter, DINZ’s submission to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner’s consultation paper on Biometrics did proceed to plan, and we were grateful to receive OPC’s thanks and acknowledgement of the work put in by our spe
October 19, 2022
Last month we held the BlockchainNZ Annual Meeting, where myself, and our Council Chair, Bryan Ventura, presented on the progress we’ve made over the last 12 months, what our strategic vision and core activities will be in 2023, and introduced our new council members. A quick recap of o
October 18, 2022
The scientists behind Opteran spent 10 years mapping a bee’s brain. This research is now powering Opteran’s array of new capabilities using biomimicry dubbed ‘Natural Intelligence’, from enabling machines to navigate and learn autonomously as insects do in nature, to obviating the need for
October 18, 2022
Digital adoption needed to help fight climate change Last week the Government announced plans for Kiwi farmers to pay for emissions by 2025 in a world-first climate plan. In the rhetoric that followed, there was very little discussion about the need for Kiwi farmers to adopt technology to help r
October 17, 2022
Marc Krisjanous is a cyber security turned crypto auditor that been working with the C4 cryptocurrency consortium to develop the new cryptocurrency auditor certification course (CCSSA). Marc is presently undertaking the first ever audit of a business using the standard to asses their crypto sec
October 13, 2022
It was recently published by RNZ that Spark is holding customers’ geographic location data for seven years, far more than the average telco. The article investigated that although Spark holds their location data for seven years, Vodafone NZ stores their data for 14 months, 2 Degrees withheld
October 13, 2022