Access Granted NZ

Dean Gowans and Regan Ryan, co-founders of Embrium and both from the energy sector, have created systems used throughout the power industry as we talk about legacy tech/approaches that you know, one day, you need to let go of, "... and when you do it is refreshing".

We also cover creating your own hardware to work with your software and the Internet of Things. During our chat we felt an earthquake (welcome to NZ overseas listeners) which had us discussing their quake stories and monitoring apps.

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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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This week we talk to Sandy Mamoli and David Mole from Nomad 8. We talk Agile, working with Trade Me and their new book "Creating great teams", a book about self selection – which is a way for people to pick the teams they want to work in, within an organisation. This process highlights who your members prefer to work with and how their relationships develop over time.

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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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This week we talk to Troy Hammond from Talent Army. He's a not your typical recruiter. He tells us why he decided to hang up the suit for a pair of jandals and start his own recruitment business specialising in startups. Troy has a unique perspective to the recruitment process and the industry itself.

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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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This is a quick note to let you know that we are back in action and can't wait to start the year. We have new music, artwork and a bunch of cool stories to tell this year!

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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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Wow what an amazing year, we met many great people with awesome stories to tell, this week we go through some golden moments from the past year. Have a fun break and see you all here next year.

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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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Emma Woods (@codingcockatoo) is our final guest for 2015 and what a fantastic end to our season it is. Emma takes us through how she went from burlesque dancer to one of the designers helping Provoke at their Wellington office deliver bespoke solutions for their customers. AND, like others we talked to, she is a great role model for those that decide they want to change career, researched online about coding and made it happen leading to her first paying position – do it people!

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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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What an amazing gathering of Tech, media, and Start up people! We had a vision of having a party where many people could connect and have fun. So we got together with Geekzone and Hack Miramar and came up with our end of year/christmas party – #WellyTech.

Mayor Celia Wade Brown started off proceedings talking about the great hub we have here in Wellington.

Hack Miramar organised a collaboration exercise that had everyone involved in creating a presentation of what their vision of the future of tech in Wellington looked like.

From there we recorded a quick 15 min panel session with Victoria MacLennan, Laura Reitel, Tim Kong, Ruth McDavitt and Melissa Clark-Reynolds.

The live band "Rose Road" featuring Hannah Fraser, Kerry Wood, Sharon Greally played and roaming magician Arjun entertained the crowd while the judge reviewed the collaboration pieces. Mauricio (our regular on "System Error") took the stage and presented the prizes to the winners.

It was an amazing night, it was awesome to see so many people engaging and having a great time. Thanks to those that helped in creating the event (Steph – Organiser extraordinaire, Mauricio – Man with the prizes hook ups, and Jono – Video and sound magician) and big thanks to Hopgarden for having us.

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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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This week we speak to Amelia Laundy (@amelialaundy) web dev in the API team at Trade Me. We talk about her journey coming to NZ and working and learning in the tech space in NZ. She spend time at the Dev Academy as a student and then later as a teacher. We also discuss the "Open Salary" process... 

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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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This week we speak to Brenda "I'm a Rails dev, but don't tell my friends" Wallace (@BR3NDA) who, having got her first computer at one, has grown up with computers all her life (just like a millennial). We talk about tinkering with home automation, open source, Y2K, mobile language, hacking and working at Catalyst, Weta Digital and Rabid. We also chat about a new acquisition at Rabid called OSH Park, wearable tech and its applications. 

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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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Kendall Flutey (@kendallflutey) from Banqer, an online banking system for the classroom where kids learn about many aspects of financial literacy. Kendall came from an accounting background, saw a need and jumped into development of Banqer.

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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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