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April 26, 2018
Hacking agriculture with PGG Wrightson
We recently facilitated a hackfest with PGG Wrightson focused on paperless and mobile processes. PGG Wrightson is a leading provider to the agricultural sector, a mission to “help the country grow”. The hackfest provided an ideal opportunity to bring together people from right across PGG Wrightson, to understand how technology can help them act with speed and agility and focus on being customer centric.
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April 11, 2018
AI-Day - inspiring and igniting New Zealand's AI capability
AI-DAY was a full-day conference held at the ASB Waterfront Theatre in Auckland's Wynyard Quarter. Leaders in every sector gathered, keen to learn how AI will impact their organisation and the world around them. Analytics technical lead Konrad Jarocinski reports back from the day.
March 27, 2018
Global Integration Bootcamp kicks off in Auckland
This year's Global Integration Bootcamp kicked off in Auckland on Saturday 24 March 2018. The community-driven event, the second of its kind, happened around the clock in 15 locations across 10 countries worldwide.
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March 12, 2018
MicroStrategy World 2018 - vision for the intelligent enterprise
Michael Saylor, President, Chairman and CEO of MicroStrategy presented his vision for the future Intelligent Enterprise during his key note speech at MicroStrategy World 2018 held in Las Vegas this year. Sefton Thesing attended the conference, and reports back on some of the highlights.
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March 7, 2018
New white paper on cyber threats
We collaborated with other industry specialists to contribute to this new white paper on the evolution of cyber threats – one of the few authoritative documents about the impact of cyber security issues in the New Zealand context.
February 19, 2018
Tauranga Hackathon: Data Science for Financial Portfolios
Last month, consultants from our analytics and innovation lab teams were part of a hackathon at Craigs Investment Partners in Tauranga.
February 14, 2018
Know your cyber risk
What is the cyber security risk profile of New Zealand organisations? What mechanisms are needed to make businesses more digitally secure? Adam Dodds of IDC addressed these questions and more at a recent series of events in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
February 5, 2018
Putting research into action: innovation lab interns report back
Rose McColl and Alisha Thakkar have been working in our innovation lab over the summer, as part of their Master in Information Technology Degree at Auckland University. Their internship is coming to an end soon, so we wanted to catch up to find out how the summer has gone and what they have been working on.
December 14, 2017
Gaming the digital curriculum with augmented reality
Last month we co-hosted an event, Gaming the Digital Curriculum, with Marianne Malmstrom and the MiniDevs of Newlands Intermediate School. Held at PROJECTR in Wellington, the event brought together educators, developers, AR enthusiasts and learners to hear about a project that has been designing learning opportunities based on real world challenges, using augmented reality technologies.
December 12, 2017
Information Technology Students Tackle Text Analytics
We’re delighted to welcome Rose McColl and Alisha Thakkar to our innovation lab. They are studying towards a Master in Information Technology degree at the University of Auckland and are with Theta for a 10-week summer internship.