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Nat Dudley launched her UX career in a queue at Auckland's annual Gather event ... actually it started even earlier with a random conversation in a bar. From these events Nat has emerged as one of the countries top UX designers with a true empathetic approach to her work.

Nat discusses not only her career, her approach to design but how there are very few, if any, true career paths for UX people within New Zealand.

We also covered equability and diversity within tech, and what that means for all of us. Especially us as we heard about the most awesome "Do Better at Conference Diversity" that Nat wrote sometime ago and which we are taking to our hearts for all #WellyTech events.

- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/natdudley
- https://twitter.com/natdudley
- http://conference.hopper.org.nz/
- https://www.webstock.org.nz/talks/be-kind-design/

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We receive an update from Hiria as she traipses the West Coast of America in search of knowledge, connections, and investment ... 


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Andrew Mayfield (or "Andrew Fantastic", it's not a drag name) loves creating and measuring impact as he discusses Optimal Workshop and how they are "growing at the speed of revenue".

Andrew has a range of advice for startups, from, "Don't use fonts made out of dots', through, "Don't send this podcast to the shareholders", to, "If you want to run a big business, learn to run a small one first".

We also like, "Call it a plan rather than proposal".

- https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewmayfield/
- https://twitter.com/andrewfantastic
- https://www.optimalworkshop.com/team
- http://www.uxnewzealand.com/

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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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Hiria outlines new organisations wanting to use/trial the sensors, but many of them are siloed and Hiria wants to connect the right parts/people together ... the work continues.

The team are working on showing what you can get from the data such as the change that is that is occurring in your house and what can be done about it.

Hiria will travel to America to talk to many people in San Diego at a summit about domestic violence and also venture to San Francisco to look for people interested In investing.

Oh, and Hiria is worried about getting the sensors through the US TSA - follow Hiria's journey on Twitter.

- https://www.sigfox.com/
- https://nzosa.org.nz/peoples-choice/
- http://www.ivatcenters.org/san-diego-summit/

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Nicole Ferguson is the CEO at Research and Education Network New Zealand (REANNZ) which provides leading edge services for our country’s top researchers and educators, who often need access to technology that cannot be provided by commercial networks.

Nicole, according to the ancient Mike, is a young CEO and Nicole disavows him of that view as she discusses the journey to the CEO role.

Nicole also has some great views on women in tech, the tech community, the collaboration that REANNZ has to engage within across the world, and that their ultimate goal is a network that, "moves data at the speed of thought", whilst making time to innovate

Oh, and we talk about breakfast drinks - Bloody Mary

- https://reannz.co.nz/about/our-people/nicole-ferguson/
- https://twitter.com/nicolerferg
- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/nicolefergusonnz

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Hiria takes us through the Whare Hauora Pledgeme, running pilots for teams in Waikato, and why they have pushed out manufacturing until February.

Hiria also has three BIG announcements!

1 – Hiria is going to Dev Academy, https://devacademy.co.nz/

2 – Hiria is going to San Diego to learn and San Francisco to get funding
New company called Ruruhau (a social Enterprise) which is the R&D arm of Whare Ha-

3 – Nominated for the NZ Open Source Awards, https://nzosa.org.nz/finalists2018/

And finally, they need to hire an ops manager - is that you?

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Philip Fierlinger has worked amongst the "gods of Silicon Valley".

Raj and Philip have a fascinating run through Philip's design life, from the early days in film, before his design love took over,. They discuss design, what it is, and why it's essential to your business, and how it has played such a pivotal role for Philip in such roles as co-founder of Xero.

Also check out this lot - Philip learnt to code at 12, came up with the smartphone concept 16 years before Apple, started a company that had the Beastie Boys as their first client, created an online music store prototype, amongst the first people to use Quicktime VR, and was a beta tester for what became Flickr.

Finally, Philip is a local surfer, hosts a podcast for Massey design students allowing them to meet the industry, and advisor to many New Zealand-based startups.

*phew*, so much goodness for your ears ...

- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/fierlinger
- https://twitter.com/skyrize
- https://www.alchemypodcasts.com/
- https://twitter.com/AlchemyPodcasts

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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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We have met many people that are driven by passion, a deep desire to change the world for the best, and yet we have never met someone quite like Rohan Wakefield.

Rohan, and all the team at Enspiral Dev Academy, have, for a number of year, been beavering away in Wellington and Auckland ensuring that the ever growing New Zealand tech sector has the people and skills required.

It's not just about the pure technical skills and you will hear Rohan discuss the core skills that he is so energetic about - being able to work with other, diversity, and ultimately empathetic - it is these skills that mean we will produce products and service that will shine to the world,

- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/rohanwakefield
- https://devacademy.co.nz/author/rohan/
- https://twitter.com/rohanwakefield

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With Hiria in all parts of the country drumming up support from individuals, corporates, and the healthy industry we had to jump onto a quick Google Meet to catch up.

Some big learnings (maybe even a pivot), some new rewards and only SEVEN DAYS TO GO!

https://www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/5701-whare-sensors-that-tell-you-when-your-home-is-making-you-sick

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Priscilla Loong is the Activation Manager at Te Papa's STEM accelerator, Mahuki. Having kicked off a cracking startup, The Misprint Co , from a Startup Weekend Priscilla has been ensuring the health wealth, and well being of the Mahuki cohort and they are now into their 4th programme.

FInd out what an "activation manager" is, what "STEM" stands for, and how you could be involved ...

- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/priscillaloong
- https://www.mahuki.org/about/mahuki-team/priscilla-loong
- https://soundcloud.com/user-761753163/priscilla-podcast
- https://twitter.com/priscillaloong
- https://misprint.co/

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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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