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Hiria's back with her weekly Whare Hauora catch up, and whilst it's fun, exciting, and definitely a rush running a startup there are times when it's stressful, draining, and lonely - it happens to each and every startup and we thank Hiria for allowing us to be alongside her in the journey

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James Macnee lives in the idyllic north of New Zealand where he is a consultant in the tech world designing systems that enable rapid delivery while increasing stability for such agencies as Ministry of Social Development and others.

James is also founder of Dev2, an charity that, through the support of people like you, is able to educate, equip and employ poverty-stricken young people from the Philippines in web development and bring them and their families out of the cycle of poverty.

Back to the his work at MSD we talked about a few of the benefits seen out of this new way of working:
- David Habershon CIO - mentioned DevOps was the highlight of his year.
- Significantly higher quality and throughput. Going from 1000s of support tickets for some project to under 10 per release and delivering more. It's hard to believe. The business mentioned for the first time couldn't spec new features fast enough. They could not keep up with the pace of the development teams.
- Enabling the business rapid feedback ---- Before it was years of lag, by the time I finished it was 4 weeks
- Moved from contract based relationship to collaboration - building trust
- Engaged happy people. People love working when their work makes a difference and they are clearly adding value.
- In a KPMG audit at MSD they said they have never seen such a positive change over such a short period.

James says it was great to be involved in this and to work with such people and his job was simple; "I created a bit of vision, removed blockers and generally got out of the way so that awesome, smart people could make things happen."

- https://www.leanit.co.nz/employees/james-macnee/
- https://dev2.academy/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmacnee

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Keeping up with Hiria as the Whare Hauora journey continues with partnerships, agreements, terms, and the potential to ‘go public’ with some sort of social enterprise … listen to this space.

Oh, and Hiria is “all in”: with her stall (she was the very first person to signup) at the #WellyTech 2018 event … a costume was mentioned, we can’t wait - get your free ticket: https://wellytech.accessgranted.nz/

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We welcome not just Sarah Bickerton (PhD Candidate, Tutor, and Research Assistant at Victoria University of Wellington) to the podcast but our co-host Vivian Chandra and her first recording ... and it was a meeting of kindred spirits as they are both Physics undergrads who then ended up doing more sociology!

Whilst Sarah she doesn't work *in* tech right now, she is working *with* tech to work out our political participation. She is also helping to redefine political participation, what a public sphere vs a private sphere is, and what that even means in this day and age where all of our so-called spheres are owned by corporations.

- https://www.victoria.ac.nz/sog/research/student-research/phd/sarah-bickerton
- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/sarahbickerton
- https://twitter.com/sarahhbickerton

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Tony McDonald (CEO) and John Weaver (GM) of McDonald's IT joined us for a run through the many facets of their company - from offering transition to cloud services, full IT management, re-carpeting a business and providing full information security.

Tony started the company out of a desire to stop the small businesses of Wellington being stung by the major IT vendors and service companies and they have grown their offerings to become someone that can remove the stress of being a business and allow them to focus on what it is they actually do.

Tony also runs a record company and his son will be playing at this year's #WellyTech event - check out the details and get your FREE ticket: https://wellytech.accessgranted.nz/wellytech-2018/music

- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/tony-mcdonald-29705312
- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/johnweaver
- https://www.mcdonaldsit.co.nz/
- https://www.plasticgroove.co.nz/
- https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/drinks/106657443/wellington-man-sells-epic-beer-bottle-collection

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People, they talk, mostly about tech stuff but not always - it's all about the community and letting them have their voice, and so we do ... enjoy (if you can).

Heads-up: Raj and Mike are likely to change the format of these recordings in 2019 so that we get a more concise discussion whilst still allowing the #WellyTech community to come together and have their say - watch the blog for updates.

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The definition of a “social enterprise” is one that, here in New Zealand, is very woolly at the edges however Thankyou Payroll are old hands at being one, with their very definite approach.

Christina Bellis (CEO) and Catarina Gutierrez (Marketing Manager) enjoyed a beer with the lads and talked them through how they see "social enterprises in New Zealand, how Thankyou Payroll is growing, why it matters to them personally, and how they ended up in such an organisation.

- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/christina-bellis-0a84221a
- https://twitter.com/meCatarina
- https://mecatarina.com/
- https://thankyoupayroll.co.nz/

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Hiria is back from the west coast of the USA and has many a tale to tell - no least how she has re-found her mojo thanks to all the amazing start-up people she met. And thanks to her focus on her startup she takes us through the plans, the challenges, and the changes …

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Chats with nearly all the 2018 Mobile Refresh speakers and organisers during the conference held in Wellington on 7th September. This was the third annual conference that sees itself growing and growing - don’t miss out on 2019, http://mrw.gdg.nz/.

We asked each of the speakers 3 questions:

Who are you?

What bring you to 2018 Mobile Refresh?

What did you tell the session attendees?

Enjoy the answers from the following (not in order):

- Zarah Dominguez - Keynote - 12 Years On: A Retrospective

- Ilia Kopylov - Breaking the ice with Natural Language Processing

- Inaki Villar - Dexs, R8 & 3.2

- Sam Jarman & Jie Li - Android and iOS, a 100% fully serious comparison

- Bridget Cowie - Golang ❤️ Mobile

- Luke Sleeman - Build Better Android Apps with Vector Assets

- Michal Pearse - Superheroes & Forgetful teenagers Remote Device Management for iOS

- Christie Davis & Valerie Chan - iRow, Practical Machine Learning in iOS

- Enrique Manas Lopez - TensorFlow for Mobile Developers

- Jennifer Doherty - But doesn’t everyone with a smartphone speak English

- Nazlina Quadir - The Power of Storytelling - My Accidental Journey as a WomenTechmakers

- Tony Parrott - Mobile Testing, Automation, Manual or Hybrid

- Kate Henderson + Kai Koenig - Conference organisers

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Conrad Johnston or Queen Olivia St Redfern, two amazing people in the same body and he has a lot to tell you.

From the start-ups, the early partying, the change of life, and the social media explosion, he has lessons to learn and pass on at every moment.

Ladies and gentleman, and especially Phil, we give you Conrad / Olivia!

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/laquisha/
- https://twitter.com/conradrjohnston
- https://thequeenolivia.com/
- https://twitter.com/queenoliviastr

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New Zealand tech, media, & startup podcast hosted by Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, and others. Hosts of #TechweekTV and #WellyTech

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