23 October 2024
Kia ora, The NZ IoT Alliance is gearing up for another year of collaboration, and I’m pleased to welcome our new Executive Council members: Jenna Whitman from Callaghan Innovation, Edwin Lim from HGM Legal, and Steven Dirven from Shape Technology. We’re thrilled to have you on board and look forward to working with you on some exciting initiatives this term. You … Continue reading "NZ IoT Alliance and BlockchainNZ Ledger of Things Whitepaper – Volume 1"
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22 October 2024
Spring has brought fresh beginnings for IoT Alliance New Zealand, and we’re thrilled to introduce the newly elected members of our Executive Council. Each of these industry leaders brings unique expertise and passion to the table, ready to drive the next wave of innovation and collaboration in Aotearoa’s IoT community. Jenna Whitman, Callaghan Innovation Jenna … Continue reading "NZ IoT Alliance and BlockchainNZ Ledger of Things Whitepaper – Volume 1"
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21 August 2024
I recently provided the foreword for NZ IoT Alliance member Chorus’ report on 'Solving problems with fibre-enabled IoT’. In this, I stated that New Zealand is at an inflection point, with a future that connects data, devices, and people to unlock the next phase of economic growth.
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13 August 2024
The New Zealand IoT Alliance was launched in 2017 and is governed by an independent elected Executive Council and there are vacancies for five positions in 2024. Our key purpose is to actively contribute to the prosperity of New Zealand through accelerating the uptake of IoT. We aim to accelerate IoT innovation by promoting collaboration across … Continue reading "NZ IoT Alliance and BlockchainNZ Ledger of Things Whitepaper – Volume 1"
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09 February 2024
Kia ora, Welcome to 2024! If 2023 was all about the leaps in generative AI, this year, we’re setting the stage for IoT to shine. At the close of 2023, the New Zealand IoT Alliance team crafted a strategy to help build a more connected Aotearoa. Our goal is simple: use IoT to promote sustainability, … Continue reading "NZ IoT Alliance and BlockchainNZ Ledger of Things Whitepaper – Volume 1"
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26 October 2023
Kia ora, Last month, our executive council chair, Kriv Naicker, and executive director, Alison Mackie, hosted our annual general meeting where we presented on the previous 12 months, our strategic vision, core activities for 2023, welcomed the new executive council, and said some farewells. It’s been an interesting year with generative AI being all that anyone could … Continue reading "NZ IoT Alliance and BlockchainNZ Ledger of Things Whitepaper – Volume 1"
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25 October 2023
The Auckland ICT Graduate School at The University of Auckland is hosting a ‘Green Futures Hackathon’ from 20 November 2023 – 9 February 2024. As a supporter of this event, the IoT Alliance is calling on its community for anyone who is interested in joining as a mentor or who can assist in the hackathon with a … Continue reading "NZ IoT Alliance and BlockchainNZ Ledger of Things Whitepaper – Volume 1"
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16 August 2023
Kia ora, Last week, NZ IoT Alliance hosted a webinar ‘Next Tech Frontier: Exploring IoT and Multi-Modal AI’. We were fortunate to hear from Fraser Paine, Aware Group, Steven Dirven, Shape Technology, and our own chair, Kriv Naicker, who provided an in-depth exploration of the merging areas of IoT and multi-modal AI, offering exciting insights and possibilities. It opened with … Continue reading "NZ IoT Alliance and BlockchainNZ Ledger of Things Whitepaper – Volume 1"
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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
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
There were 607 suicides in New Zealand last year in addition to 40x more suicide attempts. Suicide devastatingly impacts approximately 135 people per death. We need to do more to stop the pain and suffering of suicide. Over the weekend of 14-16 October, we plan to run, walk, bike, row or swim
September 28, 2022
September 28, 2022 An unfortunate side-effect of a technology or a product becoming successful in today’s world are the cyberattacks that follow. Cyberattacks are increasing globally and in New Zealand every year, IoT Alliance executive director Alison Mackie says. “IoT is no exception
September 28, 2022
An unfortunate side-effect of a technology or a product becoming successful in today’s world is the cyberattacks that follow. IoT is no exception and as we see greater IoT adoption, we will see all kinds of attacks on IoT products, users, software, hardware and networks. There have already been w
September 27, 2022
The Smart Cities Working Group is a group of like-minded individuals who have been meeting regularly since May 2022 to discuss how IoT technology can be used to advance and assist the development of a smarter city environment. Members of this Working Group are all passionate about IoT technol
September 15, 2022
It’s been a great time in the tech space with the NZ Hi-Tech Awards being hosted in Wellington last Friday. With a turnout of close to 1100 people, including the Prime Minister and the Mayor of Wellington, it was a night to enjoy all the great innovation being developed here in Aotearoa. Congratu
August 11, 2022
LocationTech thanks the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) for theopportunity to submit on the Advanced Manufacturing Draft Industry Transformation Plan. Thissubmission is in response Priority Two, increasing investment in advanced technologies and processesto lift productivity
July 14, 2022
NZ IoT Alliance thanks the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) for the opportunityto submit on the Advanced Manufacturing Draft Industry Transformation Plan. This submission is inresponse Priority Two, increasing investment in advanced technologies and processes to lift producti
July 14, 2022