Into the mighty Taranaki, or "Taradise" as Adrian called it :) We were invited by Graham Nelson and Jacqui Elley to visit the Manifold co-working space in New Plymouth and, it is a gorgeous working arena into which a number of Taranaki start-ups are beavering away at changing the world. ------------------------------------------------------ We share New Zealand tech, social media, startup people's stories. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch! Mike’s (@MiramarMike) backgr...
May 10, 2017•1 hr 15 min
We were both intrigued as to how Farming2020 event would gel/clash with the ideas espoused at Silicon Mahia and the answer came with our chat with Peter, the driving force behind the event, and the innovators we spoke to ... listen up. ------------------------------------------------------ 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 stu...
May 09, 2017•52 min
A trip to the East Coast is always fun and the Silicon Mahia day was FULL of fun! And it was full of Maori mana as the packed event heard by speaker after speaker say that there is nothing to loose by stepping into the future, remember the past explorers and reach for the stars – it was stirring stuff. ------------------------------------------------------ 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 i...
May 08, 2017•38 min
A relatively quiet Sunday for the #twnz17 road-trip catching up with one of the our original show-starts, John Curtis, who has set-up Taupo's first co-working space, Kloud Collective. ------------------------------------------------------ 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 K...
May 07, 2017•29 min
A gorgeous drive from the Auckland to Tauranga and out to see Pascale and the team at the Windermere Campus of Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology where they have brought together 8 teams of students to create, validate and pitch a full business idea ... all in 2 days – now that's a Mashup! ------------------------------------------------------ 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...
May 06, 2017•55 min
At AR/VR Garage we walked into a surreal moment - we had an audience waiting for us to perform :) We have a wide ranging series of conversations, a wander around the AR/VR Garage, a look at the weekend's Minecraft set-up and quiet chat with those that came along. * Belinda Hope from AR/VR Garage * Daniel Crayford from VersoVR * Rebecca Caroe, @rebeccacaroe and Creative Agency Secrets * Minecraft setup * John McDeermott (@Farfields_0x04), IOT Meetup and Future Realities event * Ira Munn (Stuff.co...
May 05, 2017•47 min
We fly to Auckland to kick off our TechWeek road-trip and we were invited to squeeze in BizDojo @GridAKL as our first venue – and what a wonderful place and people it was. We are on our way!! * Avishek Kumar from closed loop * Hamish Campbell (@polemic) from Koordinates * Eva Perrone (@eva_perrone), Activation Manager at BizDojo @GridAKL * Rob Hanks co-hosting the Future Realities event and from Curiat * Jenn Clamp, National Coordinator of TechWeekNZ & Lauren Peate (@lmpeate) from Edmund Hil...
May 05, 2017•36 min
We are gearing up for an epic TechWeek. Here's a quick preview of whats going to happen. We kick off our week with a meeting of some of the organisers of the Wellington events. We talk to: * Irwin from the Hutt STEMM Festival who tells us about the amazing things happening in the next two weeks. * Erica Anderson from Xero who is running a Everyday Security Without Screens session * Raewyn Tse who is the project coordinator for Techweek * Karl Stafford from the Wellington ICT graduate school who ...
May 03, 2017•31 min
Paul Spence (@geniusnet) has been around the startup and tech scene for a long time but we start with our pre-take off checklist as Paul was a pilot and aviation meteorologist before heading into tech. Most will know Paul from iwantmyname.com, a domain management company he started with Lenz Gschwendtner and Timo Reitnauer. Paul is also very active in the community (not only in tech) and always looks to help people where he can with his insights into startups, community and collaboration. More r...
Apr 18, 2017•40 min
David Preece wanted to be a yacht designer when he grew up but ended up starting his own company making yacht instrumentation. Now David concentrates on making containers using SmartOS at his company 20ft.nz. We also talk about the investor eco system and the next steps for 20ft.nz ------------------------------------------------------ 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 Riversd...
Apr 11, 2017•38 min
Richard MacManus (@ricmac) is an author and tech columnist and prior to that he ran a popular technology blog called ReadWriteWeb (now ReadWrite). He founded RWW in April 2003, building the business into one of the leading technology blogs in the world which he then sold the company to SAY Media in December 2011. We talk about how Richard came to the decision to move on from RWW and get into his novel writing and the new role with the newly created Newsroom. Mike and Richard also discuss how to ...
Apr 05, 2017•52 min
Matthew Bartlett (@mhjb) started his career in graphic design (and typesetting), from there he became self employed and never looked back. After a long time in front a screens Matthew got into writing, book publishing and project management. Matthew is also a Director of Loomio – open source software, built by a worker-owned cooperative social enterprise that began in 2011, when activists from Occupy Wall Street and social entrepreneurs from the Enspiral Network realised they needed to solve the...
Mar 28, 2017•54 min
Amanda Santos is a “hunter” and has extensive experience and success in supporting and guiding start-ups and other businesses in the area of sales, managing a software company and strategy. Being discouraged to go into tech, Amanda first went into sales (relishing the challenge) and from there software/services sales. Mike talks with Amanda about what her company Tekron, who specialise in advanced timing technologies, atomic clocks, services and solutions – all manufactured right here in NZ (Low...
Mar 13, 2017•55 min
Part 2 of the talk with Dan Khan, he’s started Zero Point Ventures and we talk about the evolution of the start up eco system and the processes that are needed to make companies successful and also defining what success actually looks like for NZ companies. “Instead of making a 100 million dollar company, lets make 100, million dollar companies” ------------------------------------------------------ We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you ha...
Mar 07, 2017•41 min
We head to to Shelly Bay, on the Miramar/Wellywood Peninsular, to meet Lance Lones from L2VR (@L2VRfilm) where they research, design and manufacture virtual reality cameras right here in NZ! The cinematic industry has always evolved as technology changes and here we are again, right back at the start with VR. It is exciting for those in this cutting edge industry where everything is up for grabs and everything is unknown - how will creators use these new technologies and what needs to be built? ...
Feb 28, 2017•52 min
On a sunny day outside Karaka cafe here in the Wellington lagoon, we talk to Heidi Borner the founder of Orange Umbrella a Health and Safety company that help measure organisations risk. Heidi has a background in Occupation therapy and she found an gap in the processes and how organisations approach health and safety “ so she started Orange Umbrella. We also speak to Hannah Delany who Heidi works closely with to get the heath and safety message out. We discuss how companies can and need to have ...
Feb 17, 2017•43 min
We have had a long year and this was a time to reflect, get together and have fun. We talk to many of the attendees of #WellyTech where we talk about the past year (the ups and downs) and what the future holds for the Tech community next year. Dan Randow also flips the script and interviews Raj about Access Granted's journey in digital transformation. "Thanks for your ongoing support of Access Granted. Its been a long year, enjoy the break and we will be back next year." – Mike and Raj. Thanks t...
Dec 26, 2016•46 min
We chat with Richard Hulse (@RichardHulse) who, having recently left Radio New Zealand, walks us through his amazing career and the evolution of radio in NZ from the days of reel to reel tapes to the digital landscape. We also get a history lesson how the state owned broadcaster created our first commercial station and a few interesting names come up too. Richard was also part of the team that developed the Radio New Zealand website using many languages to connect all the audio systems together ...
Dec 24, 2016•1 hr 8 min
We check in with aurynn shaw (@aurynn), continuing on from previous episodes, "The Culture of tech" and "Engineers disease" (jumping straight to proposing solutions rather than working with people to understand the problem first). We discuss ‘pattern match thinking’ and how to avoid it breaking down the barriers between Devs vs Ops as well as unpacking ’Contempt culture’ in tech a factor aurynn attempts to change within organisations. There is a lot in this one, enjoy the ride. -----------------...
Dec 05, 2016•1 hr
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 interfac...
Nov 26, 2016•1 hr 1 min
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 ind...
Oct 19, 2016•22 min
[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 communitie...
Sep 20, 2016•47 min
“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 ...
Sep 06, 2016•45 min
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) f...
Aug 30, 2016•52 min
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 ... ------------------------------------------------------ We share ...
Aug 16, 2016•31 min
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”. ------------------------------------------------------...
Aug 09, 2016•26 min
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 “recruitm...
Aug 02, 2016•30 min
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 dis...
Aug 02, 2016•1 hr 7 min
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. ------------------------------------------------------ We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech,...
Jul 26, 2016•22 min
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 cover the live mayoral debate, where our candidates each talk about their vision for the ICT sector. Also check out follow-up where we spend 10-15 minutes talking to the mayoral candidates the ITx Conference. ------------------------------------------------------ We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, s...
Jul 26, 2016•1 hr 11 min
