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...
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,...
Exclusive: Bitdefender antivirus is so good ‘even our competitors use us’
Bitdefender's Director of Threat Research Bogdan Botezatu explains the need to educate everyone on even the simplest cyberattacks, dealing with up to 550 new threats a minute and how a baby...
Exclusive: James Dyson talks about talented Kiwis, embracing failure, and what happened to the...
For someone who has earned billions over a lifetime of design and engineering, at 75, Sir James Dyson is very willing to accept that not everything he touches turns to gold....
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....
Intel’s Dino Strkljevic – giving gamers “more performance for their money”
Dino Strkljevic is Intel's Business Development Manager, for Australia and New Zealand. He’s also an avid and very successful gamer, and a self-described “OG extreme overclocker”.
He has held world records in...
Interview with CENNZnet’s Nicole Upchurch – on its new Litho NFT marketplace and why...
Nicole Upchurch is CEO of CENNZnet, a New Zealand built public blockchain and Decentralised Application platform and has 15 years of experience transforming some of NZ’s largest companies through periods of...
Interview with A/NZ Zoom head Michael Chetner – “putting people at the forefront of...
The pandemic and the overnight move to hybrid working has meant enormous growth for Zoom - whether it be for business, education, entertainment or just catching up with family and friends...
Annie Taunga – Behind the scenes at Weta Digital
The Lord of the Rings holds a special place in Annie Taunga’s heart; it was her first visual effects project and the first time she saw her name in credits.
The series...
Jannat Maqbool: My career in tech
The technology industry has grown exponentially in the last few decades, however, only 26 per cent of employees are females. With this in mind, Techwomen was developed in order to encourage...