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NZ tech leadership
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CIO SummitAI Is Not a Technology Rollout: Sharesies and RUSH on the People Work That Makes Adoption Stick
Julie Gill, Vic Roper and Heather Polaschek explain why trust, capacity, work redesign and the CIO-CPO partnership determine whether enterprise AI creates value.
CIO SummitFrom Tracks to Technology: Garry Collings on Modernising 3,800km of KiwiRail
KiwiRail's Garry Collings explains how drones, LiDAR, digital twins, private 5G and governed AI are changing the inspection and operation of New Zealand's national rail network.
CIO SummitAKQA: AI Can Scale the Story, but Human Judgement Still Holds the Pen
AKQA's Justine Leong and Tara McKenty brought humour and hard questions to the CIO Innovation Summit, showing why shared authorship can build trust but infrastructure without taste only produces noise.
CIO SummitInvisible exhaustion, the concern for those delivering change - Abbie Stevens transforming continuous change
The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners' Abbie Stevens explains how leaders can spot transformation fatigue early, measure team capacity, build recovery into work and replace control with trust.
CIO SummitAI Adoption Is a Company Change: Inside the CIO Summit's Collaborative Culture Panel
Leaders from Inland Revenue, ProCare, Kiwi Property and DLA Piper explain why successful AI adoption depends on clear outcomes, safe experimentation, human judgement and conversations that build trust.
CIO SummitVinod Bidarkoppa: AI in a Broken Process Is Just Faster Inefficiency
The former Walmart International CTO told the CIO Innovation Summit that enterprise AI will only scale when leaders rebuild the data, processes, platforms, economics and operating model beneath it.
CIO SummitFoundations First: How Beca's CFO Decides When AI Is Worth Scaling
At the CIO Innovation Summit, Beca CFO Mark Fleming and Oracle NZ's Jason Langley laid out what actually separates AI that scales from AI that stays a pilot: a business case, a data foundation, and the discipline to say no.
CIO SummitInnovation Isn't Invention: Lessons From the CIO Summit's People, Planet and Purpose Panel
Xero's James Bergin, Scentian Bio's Jonathan Good and Creative HQ's Holly Beals on what actually separates real innovation from a shiny new idea, and why saving the planet stopped being enough on its own.
CIO SummitGerard Florian's Keynote: Stop Trying to Out-Plan AI, Start Trying to Out-Adapt It
ANZ's former tech chief Gerard Florian opened the CIO Innovation Summit with a framework for leading through AI's pace, not just surviving it.
Innovation - Kiwi IngenuityNaut to 80 km p/hr in 5 Seconds - with electrifying Kiwi innovation and the future of boating
AFQY rides Ngaru powered by Naut the Electrical Propulsion engine with Naut's Lindsay Faithfull and Collin Davis with a big announcement teased.
StrategyCullBeck's $20 million raise shows NZ deep tech can go the distance
Wellington spinout CullBeck lands $20m for hydrogen steelmaking, reported as the largest first raise by a New Zealand deep tech company.
CloudXero and Revolut team up to smooth the road for Kiwi exporters
Xero and Revolut Business launch a two-way integration in NZ, syncing multi-currency banking and bills for exporters and online sellers.
StrategyTreat connectivity like water, TUANZ says, to close the digital divide
The Tech Users Association wants connectivity recognised as essential infrastructure, with one in ten New Zealand households still offline despite world-leading fibre.
SecurityTUANZ wants security by design, not security only for those who can afford it
The Tech Users Association is calling for enforceable cyber rules and system-level accountability, arguing individuals and small businesses can no longer carry the risk alone.
PeopleChloe Kyrke-Smith joins Tax Traders as Head of Product
The New Zealand tax pooling fintech has appointed a senior product leader from Xero, Flick Electric and Blackpearl to guide its next stage of growth across Tax Traders and Taxi.
AIThe Kiwi at the heart of a US$1.45 billion AI bet
Auckland-raised Jeff Hawke's Odyssey lands US$310m with NZ money aboard, while a wave of Auckland AI seed rounds rides in behind it.
PeopleMatthew Flatt joins Inde to lead its data practice
Christchurch technology firm Inde has appointed Matthew Flatt, formerly of PGG Wrightson, as Technical Director of Data, Intelligence and Architecture.
PeopleOne NZ turns to its finance chief: Nick Judd named CEO as Jason Paris departs
One NZ has appointed chief financial officer Nick Judd as its next chief executive, with Jason Paris stepping down after nearly eight years at the helm.
AIThe $70 Million AI Push Begins: NZIAT Funding Goes Live This Month
NZIAT's seven-year, up-to-$70m AI research platform reaches its July 2026 funding start, with five heavyweight Kiwi consortia in the running.
PeopleSteve Bush takes the helm at Tait Systems NZ for the emergency network build
Telecommunications veteran Steve Bush has become chief executive of Christchurch-based Tait Systems NZ, stepping in to steer the final stretch of New Zealand's Public Safety Network radio rollout.
TalentKēhua wants to end ghosting in recruitment, and it is very NZ that it exists
A New Zealand built platform named after the Māori word for ghost is taking on recruitment's worst habit: leaving candidates in silence.
AIThe applause for AI pilots has stopped. Now boards want the money
AI pilots are stalling worldwide while boards demand hard returns. What the shift to proof means for NZ tech leaders.
StrategyThe CIO job has quietly become a different job
The CIO role is shifting from IT operator to enterprise leader: bigger remits, CEO ambitions, new rival titles and real burnout pressure.
CloudThe cloud bill just became a board conversation
AI workloads are pushing cloud costs up and FinOps into the C-suite. What the 2026 numbers mean for NZ tech leaders.
SecurityWhen the voice on the call is not your CFO
AI has made phishing fluent and faces fakeable. What NZ's latest threat data says, and how the board conversation on cyber resilience is shifting.
CloudThe cloud has come home. Sovereignty is still deciding where it lives.
AWS and Microsoft now run full cloud regions in Auckland. What onshore hyperscale changes for government, regulated sectors and Māori data sovereignty.
SecurityWhen one vendor sneezes: two years of big outages and the new resilience conversation
Two years on from CrowdStrike, major outages keep proving the point: concentration risk is systemic, and boards now want resilience, not uptime.
StrategyThe tech debt reckoning: why legacy modernisation stopped being optional
AI ambitions, security exposure and retiring skills are forcing the legacy question. What the numbers say, and what NZ can learn from its own wins.
StrategyLight touch, heavy calendar: the new privacy and AI rules facing NZ tech leaders
New privacy and AI rules are landing at home and abroad. What IPP3A, the Biometric Code and the EU AI Act mean for NZ tech leaders.
StrategyProving tech ROI when every dollar gets a second look
NZ's recovery is fragile, global IT spend is booming elsewhere, and Kiwi tech leaders are being asked to prove every dollar. What the numbers say.
TalentThe talent squeeze has changed shape, not gone away
NZ tech talent in 2026: fewer people leaving, a two-speed salary market, scarce AI and security skills, and a squeezed graduate pipeline.