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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Meet Scott Brown – the Kiwi carpenter with 275K subs on YouTube
Scott Brown's face may be familiar to many of you. The Auckland-based carpenter has over 275,000 followers on YouTube, and if you've ever searched the web for carpentry-related DIY advice, you've...
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...
RUSH’s Danu Abeysuriya’s No BS cybersecurity tips “…proactivity goes a very long way.”
RUSH Digital’s CTO and founder Danushka Abeysuriya has watched with growing horror the recent spate of cybersecurity attacks directed at New Zealand businesses.
He doesn’t usually write content focused on helping everyday...
Q&A with Pav Hundal – Love it or hate it, Swyftx makes it easy...
There’s no more divisive word in tech at the moment than “cryptocurrency”.
Either you see crypto as a giant Ponzi scheme or the future of money - or perhaps a bit of...
Enlighten Designs’ Damon Kelly – on creating technology that has a positive impact on...
Software and design companies come and go - few have been around as long as Hamilton-based Enlighten Designs which was formed in founder and CEO Damon Kelly’s caravan in 1998; today...