Shopify’s Shaun Broughton – on innovating in a pandemic, the future of shopping and...
For the uninitiated, Shopify isn’t a consumer-facing app you can shop through - although Shopify does have one of those Shop (but more about that below) - but an immensely-powerful commerce...
Meet Pavan Vyas – the man behind the NZ Covid Tracer app
Pavan Vyas is our quiet tech superstar. He arrived in New Zealand as an immigrant in the mid-90s, found he had a knack for coding and took computing at Auckland University....
Meet Mitchell Pham: The man responsible for helping the government “understand digital”
Mitchell Pham is chair of the Orwellian-sounding Digital Council for Aotearoa.
Appointed in December 2019, the 49 year old tech entrepreneur leads a now six-strong group of ‘well-connected experts’. One founding member,...
Digital Provenance – what it is and why it’s important to you…
Many will be familiar with the idea of provenance in art; the provenance is the documentation that authenticates a particular piece of art. Digital provenance is the same for digital objects.
With...
Exclusive: Lenovo’s new ‘Tiny-in-One’ is all for ‘future-proofing’
Lenovo's VP and GM of Visuals Business Stefan Engel breaks down the current state of the workplace environment, understanding the need of "elegance" in a device and the benefits of the company's latest ThinkCentre Tiny-in-One Gen 5.
Interview with utecture’s Kyle Donovan – on “game-changing” the building experience
utecture is a cloud-based digital building platform that combines dynamic design presentation, documentation and workflow management.
It offers builders simpler planning, faster decision-making, reduced duplication and greater accuracy and control over projects.
For...
Ollie Hill has worked at HP for 20 years…now he’s in charge (and he...
Most international tech companies exist in the abstract; big, sleek organizations removed from the New Zealand community. Yet Oliver Hill, the Country Manager of HP New Zealand, has a vision for...
Interview with cyber security expert Ian Raper – NZ businesses “attacked 580 times a...
Cybersecurity is an ever-changing space. Plug a vulnerability here and criminals pivot and change their tactics. The growing number of ransomware and DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks on high-profile NZ...
Meet the curator of Steam’s New Zealand games collection
This week I opened Steam on my desktop to be greeted by a sight I’d never seen before: a celebration of PC games made in New Zealand, with discounts of up...
Exclusive: NordVPN knows which sites contain the ‘most significant amount of malware’
We chat with CTO at NordVPN Marijus Briedis explains the dangers of AI in phishing attacks and putting up with 300,000 malware infections per month.













