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Mike had a virtual chat with Serena Chen discovering how and why she is fascinated and focused upon design within the security realm of tech. Serena currently works as a Product Designer at the Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) but her sights are set on companies further afield ....

Serena also co-hosts her own podcast called, "Things of Interest":
"... a podcast that encompasses, in its purest form, things that we find interesting. Our discussions often center around technological advancements and how they affect social issues. As two socially-conscious millennial nerds, who better placed to talk about artificial intelligence, leadership, modern dating, the job market, and fandom? Probably no-one."

- https://serena.nz/
- https://www.thingsofinterest.co/
- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/serena-chen
- https://twitter.com/sereeena
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9wViHbIN3olD34uPBkp60w

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A double session from Hiria as we catch up on the goings on with Whare Hauora.

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Cassandra Gray, a relatively new lover of New Zealand, a relatively new gamer, and a relatively new Weta Workshop employee has a story of "following your dreams" AND making it happen.

Casandra is newly appointed Assistant Events Coordinator at Weta Workshop, works with the Magic Leap team, is Chairperson at the NZ Game Developers Association, and on the NZ Games Festival committee. Feeling like you don't do enough, we did?

So much to learn, how to get here, how to make it happen when you're here, and never say no.

- https://twitter.com/cassjadegray
- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/cassandra-gray
- http://cassandra-jade-gray.tumblr.com/
- https://nzgda.com/about-us/board/
- https://nzgamesfest.com/meet-the-team/

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Viv has a squee moment and catches up with Harper Reed at this year's Kiwifoo event (https://www.baacamp.org/). Harper worked as CTO on the Obama 2012 campaign, casually sold his startup to PayPal and recently left them to work on what’s next - hence his visit to Aotearoa.

Harper has a fine Twitter profile that seems to sum him up beautifully:
"A normal person doing normal things. Check out this guide to my tweets: http://bit.ly/r1GnK // I take photos and operate computers. Books are my friends."

Viv finds out what makes him tick and why fun is the most important thing of all.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Reed
- https://harperreed.com/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/harperreed
- https://twitter.com/harper
- https://github.com/harperreed

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Martin Krafft reached out to us late in 2018 during a Twitter conversation around "GDPR" and was keen to have a yarn about that plus online identification ... and of course we said, "Come on in!" ... and now you can hear exactly what he has to say about it, why blockchain is NOT the answer (despite having made a bit of $ from cryptocurrencies ;), and how control should be with the individual at all times.

- https://keybase.io/madduck
- https://twitter.com/martinkrafft
- https://github.com/madduck
- https://stories.ehf.org/ehf-fellow-martin-krafft-5ea6ddb5cecc
- https://keyp.io/

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At the start of March worldwide many people came together to celebrate 'open data' and unlock the value hidden within. Here in New Zealand we were first amongst many with events in Dunedin Christchurch, and Wellington.

We visited aimee whitcroft and Dr Thomas Hartley, organisers of the Wellington event, had a chat with them about what it was all about and then a brief chat with the teams and what they were endeavouring to solve.

(and after a long day of hacking Mike may have then met a few at the pub afterwards)

- https://accessgranted.nz/episodes/2015/10/19/ep-71-unfck-your-business-with-aimee-whitcroft
- https://www.eit.ac.nz/staff/thomas-m-hartley-dr/
- https://www.data.govt.nz/blog/international-open-data-day-saturday-2-march-2019/
- https://www.data.govt.nz/

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Note: you should also listen to part 1 and part 2 of the #WiDSWellington 2019 Speaker series.

The day of the event and we got to catch-up with a staaaaaack of people including ALL of the speakers not already represented on the podcast (see above), and all of the exhibitors. With so many people we asked 3 simple questions 1) Who are you; 2) Who are you representing; 3) Why this event?

With so many people to talk with this is both a long podcast AND we have added timestamps / chapters for you to skootle forward to the people you want to hear from.

1.35: Speakers Frances and Donna

Frances Krsinich (MBIE) and Donna Cormack (Senior Research Fellow, Te Rōpū Rangahau Hauora a Eru Pomare, University of Otago, Wellington)

10.44: Sponsor

Fiona Thomson (Analytics Manager at the Social Investment Agency) with colleagues Akaliesh and Simon.

18.38: Speaker LIsa

Lisa Chen – Chief Analytics Officer at Harmonic Analytics

22.12: Sponsor

Akash Jattan representing Revera and Qrious.

25.14: Speaker Ake

Dr Sally (Ake) Nicholas – lecturer in linguistics at Massey University.

34.17: Sponsor

Mandy and Andrew from Red Hat.

42.31: Speakers Kathryn, Nasca, and Vidette

Dr Kathryn Hempstalk – Head of Data and Insights at Trade Me.

Nasca Peng – Nasca is a statistical analyst and the leader of confidentiality network in Stats NZ.

Vidette McGregor – Group Manager of the Population Modelling group at NIWA.

52.22: Sponsor

Joss from Stats NZ (Open Data Programme)

57.35: Speaker Liz

Liz MacPherson – Government Statistician, Chief Executive of Stats NZ, and the Governent’’s Chief Data Steward.

105.33: Sponsor

Sunesh Samarasingh from Enterprise IT.

112.15: Sponsor

Evelyn and Antonia from MBIE.

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"Hiria Te Rangi - 1 March at 13:54 ·

HOLY WHAT!! Whare hauora, got through to round 2 out of almost 7000 organisations!!!

WOW ...so I might be going to Dubai.."

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Part two in the run up to the (sold out, but watch the live stream on Saturday: https://data.sim.vuw.ac.nz/widsw2019/streaming/) Women in Data Science (WiDS) Wellington event we find out who, what, where, and why from four of the speakers - you will hear from:

AGATE PONDER-SUTTON
Agate has been doing data science, with and without that title, in industry and academia for slightly less than twenty years.
- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/agatepondersutton

DAME DIANE RROBERTSON
Diane is a successful social sector entrepreneur, giving her a unique combination of strong business and financial skills with strong social sector credentials. She has written and managed databases for a variety of businesses and agencies
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Robertson
- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/dame-diane-robertson-768b43a8

EMMA VITZ
Emma is an actuarial analyst at Finity Consulting in Auckland. She graduated from Victoria University in 2017 with a Bachelor in Science in Statistics and Psychology.
- https://twitter.com/EmmaVitz
- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/emma-vitz
- https://github.com/EmVitz
- https://medium.com/@emmavitz

KATE KOLICH
Kate Kolich is the Director of Data Systems and Analytics at the Social Investment Agency, where her team supports data and analytics capability for the social sector by acting as an integrator through the provision of the secure data exchange and developing analytical methods and products to measure outcomes for social wellbeing.
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/katkolich/
- https://twitter.com/Kat_Data

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Moved to local Wellington cult beer bar, Hashiho Zake, to find out from Hiria that the PledgeMe products are being tested, that getting $ for social investment in New Zealand is hard, what "social investment" actually is is not mandated in NZ, and that the boys may have a plan to get $100,000 ... watch this space.

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