Shopify’s Shaun Broughton – on innovating in a pandemic, the future of shopping and...

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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...

Enlighten Designs’ Damon Kelly – on creating technology that has a positive impact on...

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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...

Exclusive: James Dyson talks about talented Kiwis, embracing failure, and what happened to the...

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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....

Interview with Snowball Effect’s – Simeon Burnett – “Right now it’s a great time...

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If you’re a New Zealand business that wants to raise capital or an investor who wants to invest in a private company your first port of call is likely to be...

Ollie Hill has worked at HP for 20 years…now he’s in charge (and he...

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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 utecture’s Kyle Donovan – on “game-changing” the building experience

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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...

Annie Taunga – Behind the scenes at Weta Digital

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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...
Meet Mitchell Pham

Meet Mitchell Pham: The man responsible for helping the government “understand digital”

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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,...

Meet the curator of Steam’s New Zealand games collection

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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...

BizPay’s David Price – on how BNPL is “empowering SMEs to better manage their...

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BNPL - Buy Now, Pay Later - is how an increasing number of Gen Z and Millennials are paying for their goods. See something you like? Buy it now with a small...