Access Granted NZ

We talk to Mark Pascall from 3Months (@3monthsNZ) about Blockchain and the Internet of Things and how it all fits together.

Mark's background is Acoustical Engineering (the branch of engineering dealing with sound and vibration). He came to Wellington for the kite surfing and found a role at the one firm that specialised in Acoustical Engineering leading on to software engineering around many firms in Wellington. 

Mark set up 3Months, a company that specialises in natural ways people can interface with tech, IOT and the application of Blockchain as well has having a history of being one of the first companies to use the Agile Methodology. 

For Mark collaboration has become second nature and is a way all industries can work together to complete in the global market place. 

We also get the best explanation on how Blockchain actually works.

This one has a few “Wow” moments enjoy ...

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
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Wow 100 episodes! And what a great way to celebrate that with a chat with Jessica Manins (@JessicaManins) about the exciting world of VR.

Jessica has been involved in start ups for a while and we talk to her about her latest venture – The New Zealand VR/AR Association (http://www.vrar.nz/) launch. Their mission @VRARNewZealand is to create a collaborative network of companies and individuals encouraging new ideas, innovation and support for New Zealand’s virtual, mixed and augmented reality industry.

Also thanks from Mike and Raj for continuing to support our podcast.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

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[Part 2 of this interview, "Evidence based entrepreneurship" is now available]

You may know about Dan Khan (@leancto) from Lighting Lab and Creative HQ. Originally from England, Dan hit the ground running as soon as he landed in New Zealand, straight into the tech and start-up scene. We also talk to Dan about the good old days of computing and programming – including creating role playing games on computers.

Way back when, Dan was also part of a team that created one of the 1st online communities (a social network) and worked with WAP (old school mobile internet).

Dan has been involved in a range of projects, startups and ventures and also mentored many entrepreneurs and now he’s part of ZeroPoint Ventures where he’s helping more startup get to where they need to be.

We also talk about Euro board games and craft beers, cooking and eating the ultimate curry and the best “last meal” sandwich.

We ran out of time to capture Dan's full story, so will get him back on again soon.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

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“Culture is what do not what we do say”

This is the continuation of the amazing chat we had with aurynn shaw (@aurynn / http://eiara.nz/ – part 2 of a chat we had last week). Mike and aurynn talk further about “Engineers disease” – jumping straight to proposing solutions rather than working with people to understand the problem 1st. “You think you know enough to solve the problem”.

“Engineering is the easy part, but the talking to others and not ruining their day is the the hard part”.

We also dive into (and some of the origins of) 'sexism in tech'.

This may start a great debate, let it marinate and please leave comments or talk to us on Twitter and/or Facebook.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

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We chat with aurynn shaw (@aurynn / http://eiara.nz/), part 2 of a chat we had months ago – The Default Human - as the team talk about devops in organisations, the cultural as well as the technical aspects, and how change can occur – for the right reasons.

aurynn shares a story of how Devs can have a “we're better than you” mentality much like sports rivalry which isn’t important and then introduces us to “Engineers disease” – which is a conversation for another podcast.

Anna (@where_is_anna) from PledgeMe is also back to give us an update on the amazing things happening on the site.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

Follow and Like us on:
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Time for another session with Mauricio Freitas (@freitasm, owner of Geekzone) as we dive into a few topics of the day.

OS//OS Conference  http://www.opensourceopensociety.com/
Paper vs Digital notes e.g. OneNote 
Product placement of tech in film and television
Tech myths perpetuated by film and television 
Jason Bourne 
Geo blocking
People injuring themselves with PokemonGo
Advertising vs paywall
What's new on Geekzone.co.nz

Enjoy ...

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

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We were invited by the NZRise team to attend at the ITx conference where we caught up with many people in the industry.

In this segment we talk to Vikram Kumar (@vikram_nz) about his talk on Blockchain and with Sunit Prakash (@sunitprakash) about the tech industry, skilled migrants and how he found the conference. Bonus: we had much fun with the team from Ghost Boards who were showing their skills at ITx. “Like an iPhone, but for your feet”.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

Follow and Like us on:
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We were invited by the NZRise team to attend at the ITx conference where we caught up with many people in the industry.

In this session we catch up with Victoria Mclennan (@optimalhq) and Ian Apperley (@ianapperley) from NZRise. We talk with Dave Lane (@lightweight) about an open source projects that involved notice bird life and explains what a Cacophonometer is and what its used for. And finally we chat with Ruth McDavitt (@ruthmcdavitt) from Summer of Tech to talk about the supposed “recruitment shortage”.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

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The lightning talks focused on disruption in the technology sector and its potential. Each person had 5 minutes to talk, with 1 minute for Q&A.

The session went for one hour, and at the end delegates had the opportunity to connect with those spoke. Ian Apperley facilitated these talks, and to the following people were the speakers:

Clint Van Marrewijk (ThunderMaps)
Nicolas Erdody (Open Parallel)
Mike Riversdale (Miramar Mike)
Josh Vial (Enspiral)
Ruth McDavitt (Summer of Tech)

They cover disruption from many angles including, planning, software, business, education and recruitment. A great session.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

Follow and Like us on:
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We were invited by the NZRise team to attend at the ITx conference where we caught up with many people in the industry (which will follow in Ep 94-95). In this session we talk to the Wellington mayoral candidates and get their views and ideas for the Tech sector, very interesting conversations.

Also check out Ep 93b where we cover the live mayoral debate from the ITx Conference.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

Follow and Like us on:
https://twitter.com/AccessGrantedNZ
https://facebook.com/AccessGrantedNZ
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