NZ Tech Podcast

Paul Spain chats with Nicola Chamberlain, a Kiwi  designer who studied at Victoria University before building a global career in product design. Based in Sweden and working with audio company Zound Industries (Urbanears, Marshall, Adidas), Nicola shares about her fascinating career and the role of the designer in both tech and non-tech products (industrial design and product design).

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Paul Spain

Special thanks to organisations who support innovation and tech leadership in New Zealand by partnering with NZ Tech Podcast:

Umbrellar Connect
Vodafone NZ
HP
Spark NZ
Vocus
Gorilla Cyber Security
Datacom
Palo Alto Networks
 

Paul Spain is joined by Karl Wright (CIO - Datacom) and Sean Duca (Vice President and Regional Chief Security Officer for Asia Pacific - Palo Alto Networks) to discuss Cyber Security leadership.

NZ Tech Podcast
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Special thanks to organisations who support innovation and tech leadership in New Zealand by partnering with NZ Tech Podcast:

Datacom
Palo Alto Networks
Umbrellar Connect
Vodafone NZ
HP
Spark NZ
Vocus
Gorilla Cyber Security

Paul Spain talks with Neil Cresswell –  co-founder and CEO at tech startup Portainer who have just raised US$6m in a Series A funding round. Learn from Neil’s journey and that of his rapidly growing New Zealand/Global startup Portainer which makes working with containerisation technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker simpler to benefit from.

NZ Tech Podcast
Paul Spain

Special thanks to organisations who support innovation and tech leadership in New Zealand by partnering with NZ Tech Podcast:

Umbrellar Connect
Vodafone NZ
HP
Spark NZ
Vocus
Gorilla Technology

Hear from George Li, a Kiwi Engineer who is helping conquer communications in deep space through his work and research with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)  and University of Michigan. George talks with Paul Spain about cube sats (satellites), the fascinating challenges and solutions to deep space communications and the journey into the space sector.

To chat live with Paul and George be sure to join the 8.30pm (NZ time nightly) Kiwi Hangout on Clubhouse soon. Use this VIP link to bypass the Clubhouse waitlist.

NZ Tech Podcast
Paul Spain

Special thanks to organisations who support innovation and tech leadership in New Zealand by partnering with NZ Tech Podcast:

Umbrellar Connect
Vodafone NZ
HP
Spark NZ
Vocus
Gorilla Technology

Josh Faraimo of Kwotimation shares the story behind his early stage startup Kwotimation which recent raised $500,000 in a pre-seed funding round lead by Hillfarrance Capital. Kwotimation is a tech company that is automating the quoting process for tradespeople.

https://www.kwotimation.com/

NZ Tech Podcast
Paul Spain

Special thanks to organisations who support innovation and tech leadership in New Zealand by partnering with NZ Tech Podcast:

Umbrellar Connect
Vodafone NZ
HP
Spark NZ
Vocus
Gorilla Technology

We exclusively discuss a cyber attack on internet provider Voyager with Founder and Chief Executive Seeby Woodhouse. Also featured - working from home vs office based working, the importance of solid home Wi-Fi and a hands on review of the latest mesh Wi-Fi being distributed by Vodafone and Vocus and a number of perspectives on cyber security - including the recent data leak at Ubiquiti.

NZ Tech Podcast
Paul Spain

Special thanks to organisations who support innovation and tech leadership in New Zealand by partnering with NZ Tech Podcast:

Umbrellar Connect
Vodafone NZ
HP
Spark NZ
Vocus
Gorilla Technology

Mark Rees shares insights from his journey at Xero including a multi-year technology pivot, to the role of artificial intelligence plus learnings and insights from this current time of COVID-19 - such as a flip in the brain drain New Zealand has grown used to.

NZ Tech Podcast
Paul Spain

Special thanks to organisations who support innovation and tech leadership in New Zealand by partnering with NZ Tech Podcast:

Umbrellar Connect
Sumo Logic
Vodafone NZ
HP
Spark NZ
Vocus
Gorilla Technology

With Spark having recently announced a partnership with Samsung to build the next phase of their 5G network, Paul Spain talks with Todd Selwyn (Head of Networks at Samsung Electronics NZ) and Renee Mateparae (Technology Evolution, Spark). 

In this episode we delve into the world of startups - learning what makes Kiwi startups so special, along with tips from the field about raising venture capital and how our approach to collaboration should change.

Linda Jenkinson – founder of multiple $100m plus businesses

Vignesh Kumar – Global from Day One

Rob Vickery - Hillfarance Venture Capital

Nitin Prasad

Steph Benseman – Icehouse Ventures

David Inggs – Rocos

Imche Fourie – Level Two

The history of Team NZ has long been a mix of pure sailing talent, innovation, technological excellence and Tenacity. Now the team are on the cusp of the starting their races  for the 36th Americas Cup.

I want to give a huge thank you to NZ Tech Podcast partners – including Vocus, Vodafone, Spark, HP, Gorilla Technology, and Umbrellar Connect.