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As part of sharing the Wellington podcast love here is our crossover recording with Laura Keown who graciously hosted us at the Wellington Access Radio studios where she produces the weekly B Side Stories."Stories from the people who make Wellington tick! B-Side Stories takes us beyond the mainstream to celebrate the unsung heroes, rebels and enthusiasts who shape the fabric and flavour of Wellington, New Zealand.B-Side Stories is aired every Tuesday from 5-6 pm on Wellington Access Radio."It was both illuminating to hear why Laura has taken on and grown the show, what it's like to have actual equipment, and how much swearing is allowed.- https://soundcloud.com/b-side-broadcasts- https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/b-side-stories/id1180813833?mt=2- https://www.facebook.com/bsidebroadcasts/- https://twitter.com/laurabkeown- http://www.accessradio.org.nz/And Laura's episode interviewing us is: https://www.accessgranted.nz/jibberjabber/2018/5/17/b-side-stories-finds-out-what-makes-us-tick------------------------

Together with Brenda Wallace and Amber Craig, Hiria Te Rangi have created Whare Hauora with one mission and one mission only, "An Aotearoa, where your home, does not make you sick."It started a few years ago and we are proud to be sharing Hiria's own story just as Whare Hauora launches into two key pilots, and gears up for a public release of their sensors via a PledgeMe campaign: http://www.wharehauora.nz/preorder-1/Start-ups are hard, actually making a difference is tough, and doing it with open and transparent principles could mean it was a step too far - but not with Hiria and the team, they are determined and Whare Hauora *is* going to help bring health to all Kiwis.Get involved - http://www.wharehauora.nz/get-involved-1/- http://www.wharehauora.nz/- https://twitter.com/WhareHauora- https://www.facebook.com/wharehauora/- https://twitter.com/N3rdyByN4ture- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/hiriaterangiBrenda Wallace 2015 episode (and now we know what the secret project was): https://www.accessgranted.nz/episodes

It took 24 hours for 10 teams competing in the first ever international ActInSpace hackathon to come together, produce a thing and pitch before an esteemed set of judges ... and they did it! Te Mārama won first prize, a trip to Toulouse where they go head-to-head with all other international winners! Apart from the trip on the 'vomit comet' + support and IP, they are up for so much networking with ALL the big players in the space industry it's almost frightening.Te Mārama, whose startup idea will reduce the amount of repairs that humans do in space by cost effectively using VR to control repair robots remotely, is made of five team members – Mahima Seth (Auckland), Ben Tairea (Wellington), Maddy King (Wellington), Zeus Engineer (Christchurch) and Jonah Belk (Dunedin).SUPPORT OUR KIWI TEAM!The team fly out this weekend (23rd June) and they need YOU to be right behind them at the final on 27th June!1: Like their YouTube video to help win People's Choice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_mCyG5Dk4E2: Follow them

Maru Nihoniho chats around her passion for storytelling, game making, and how to make the leap from one industry into another.After listening with Maru I think we can all agree that the journey to games developer has, for Maru, been one of the highest adventure, courage, and certainly following her dream. We salute and thank you Maru for showing the way.AND, watch out The Guardian, coming to a games console near you VERY soon ...- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/marunihoniho- http://www.metia.co.nz/- http://www.metia.co.nz/metia-interative---our-games.html- https://twitter.com/marunihoniho------------------------------------------------------Access Granted podcast featuring Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Vaughan Rowsell, Dave Lane, and others sharing the NZ people from tech, social media, startups and upstartsAll our past shows are on our websitehttps://www.accessgranted.nzFollow and Like us on:https://twitter.com/AccessGrantedNZhttps://facebook.com/AccessGrantedNZhttps://linkedin.com/company/

Paul Fraser, Advisory Director at EY, and Mike have been mates since the old days (hence the photo, that was NOT taken at the recording) and were key in the growth of Wave Adept and the subsequent acquisition by Cloud Sherpas. However, they come at life with a very differing view point with Paul focussing very much on services (Mike is more of a product person) and with this talk we hear about the good, bad, and sometimes difficult sides of services and consulting thereof.Paul is also a non-user of social media, so you're just gonna have to email him :)------------------------------------------------------Access Granted podcast featuring Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Vaughan Rowsell, Dave Lane, and others sharing the NZ people from tech, social media, startups and upstartsAll our past shows are on our websitehttps://www.accessgranted.nzFollow and Like us on:https://twitter.com/AccessGrantedNZhttps://facebook.com/AccessGrantedNZhttps://linkedin.com/company/access-granted-podcastSubscribe

It's ranty, it's heated, it's wide ranging, it's loads of fun and really YOU need to be here (next one is Thursday July 19th, 4pm-6pm at Golding's Free Dive in Wellington.Enjoy (and we make no apologies for sound quality ... you gotta come along really ;)Our System Error Collection: https://www.accessgranted.nz/system-error/------------------------------------------------------Access Granted podcast featuring Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Vaughan Rowsell, Dave Lane, and others sharing the NZ people from tech, social media, startups and upstartsAll our past shows are on our websitehttps://www.accessgranted.nzFollow and Like us on:https://twitter.com/AccessGrantedNZhttps://facebook.com/AccessGrantedNZhttps://linkedin.com/company/access-granted-podcastSubscribe to the show however you want:https://www.accessgranted.nz/subscribe/

NZ Rise kindly asked us to record their May 2018 "Privacy fireside chat" with the wonderful John Edwards, NZ Privacy Commissioner, and the skilky tones of Miki Szikszai (Snapper CEO).- https://www.privacy.org.nz/- https://nzrise.org.nz/- https://twitter.com/jce_pc- https://twitter.com/mikiszikszai------------------------------------------------------Access Granted podcast featuring Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Vaughan Rowsell, Dave Lane, and others sharing the NZ people from tech, social media, startups and upstartsAll our past shows are on our websitehttps://www.accessgranted.nzFollow and Like us on:https://twitter.com/AccessGrantedNZhttps://facebook.com/AccessGrantedNZhttps://linkedin.com/company/access-granted-podcastSubscribe to the show however you want:https://www.accessgranted.nz/subscribe/

AG show stars Kate Henderson and Kai Koenig, came along with their fellow organising buddy, Nick Parfene, to let us all know about the 3rd annual Mobile Refresh conference in Wellington on September 7th.They are keen to get the word out, especially the call for 'papers', ie, are you up for giving a talk. It can be anything to do with mobile development, deployment, marketing, and, getting the apps into people's hands to make a difference.They are particularly keen to maintain and increase their diversity of speakers, especially women which we wholeheartedly support!Note: this is a platform agnostic event designed for ANY mobile developers, be that iOS, Android, or mobile webapps!- http://mrw.gdg.nz/- http://twitter.com/GDGWellington- http://slack.gdg.nz/------------------------------------------------------Access Granted podcast featuring Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Vaughan Rowsell, Dave Lane, and others sharing the NZ people from tech, social media, startups and upstartsAll our past s

DAY 5 ... and that's a wrap on Techweek TV for 2018!The team (minus Mike who had to rush off to run a 24 hour hackathon) take us through the time in Christchurch, share some thoughts on the whole week and relax into an amazing job well done.ALL the videos are available from source - https://www.facebook.com/TechweekNZ/ - and on our dedicated page - https://www.accessgranted.nz/techweektv-2018 - that also includes some highlight photos and a link to ALL our week's photos.A big shout out to ALL those that watched, liked, and shared the live videos. A massive hug from all the team to all the team, Courteney, Jono, Mike, and Raj.What a blast it all was!------------------------------------------------------Access Granted podcast featuring Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Vaughan Rowsell, Dave Lane, and others sharing the NZ people from tech, social media, startups and upstartsAll our past shows are on our websitehttps://www.accessgranted.nzFollow and Like us on:https://twitter.com/AccessGrantedN

Day 4, and after a narrow escape from a sticky AirNZ created situation, the team were back live on Facebook - brilliant work from the lads, Jono, and Courteney!We review the day, Courtney gives her thoughts on the morning's speakers and we're in and out of your ears as fast as a rabbit, being hunted by the quick fox.See you all in Christchurch tomorrow for the final day of #TechweekTV: https://www.facebook.com/TechweekNZ/------------------------------------------------------Access Granted podcast featuring Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Vaughan Rowsell, Dave Lane, and others sharing the NZ people from tech, social media, startups and upstartsAll our past shows are on our websitehttps://www.accessgranted.nzFollow and Like us on:https://twitter.com/AccessGrantedNZhttps://facebook.com/AccessGrantedNZhttps://linkedin.com/company/access-granted-podcastSubscribe to the show however you want:https://www.accessgranted.nz/subscribe/

Our 15 minute wrap up from Tauranga and the "10 Billion Mouths" event talking agritech/agtech and foodtech alongside investors from the US and innovative startups.We talked with:- Arama Kukutai- Graeme Mueller- A taste taste of Sunfed Chicken- George Kellerman- Steven Saunders & Alistair Scarfe- Sarah Nolet- Rosie Bosworth- Richard Wildman------------------------------------------------------Access Granted podcast featuring Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Vaughan Rowsell, Dave Lane, and others sharing the NZ people from tech, social media, startups and upstartsAll our past shows are on our websitehttps://www.accessgranted.nzFollow and Like us on:https://twitter.com/AccessGrantedNZhttps://facebook.com/AccessGrantedNZhttps://linkedin.com/company/access-granted-podcastSubscribe to the show however you want:https://www.accessgranted.nz/subscribe/

DAYS 1 and 2 are in the can - we have Techweek TV as a going concern, it's happening!We learned that #ai is writing media, #electric bikes are fun, the passion of the many to #collaborate and grow the #newzealand #tech industry, what #UpStarters is, how awesome #cricket #bats are made, and Techweek NZ is a massive beast!We'll be LIVE tomorrow from the #Tauranga headline event chatting with #Agritech, #foodtech, and all things #food.12pm-2pm - let us know where you'll be listening from!- DAY 1 VIDEO: https://www.accessgranted.nz/coming-soon/2018/2/22/techweektv-good-for-the-world-open-day-1- DAY 2 VIDEO: https://www.accessgranted.nz/coming-soon/2018/5/22/techweektv-good-for-the-world-open-day-2- All about us and Techweek TV: https://www.accessgranted.nz/techweektv-2018- Techweek TV page: https://techweek.co.nz/techweek-tv/------------------------------------------------------Access Granted podcast featuring Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Vaughan Rowsell, Dave Lane, and others sharing the N

We thank Hamish McGregor who took time out of his busy schedule to meet Mike in Miramar between flights, and it was well worth it. Hamish discusses the kin2kin (https://kin2kin.com/) app that he co-founded in Wanaka, it's origin, the journey of a startup, being an entrepreneur, and how having an idea and even the first release is only the first tiny steps.[Mike: kin2kin is probably one of the few apps we've encountered via the podcast that I have instantly seen how it would help in my life. The idea of shared family photos via wifi frames makes my heart sing.]- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/hamish-mcgregor-4324b114- https://kin2kin.com/- https://www.facebook.com/kin2kinapp/- https://twitter.com/kin2kinapp------------------------------------------------------Access Granted podcast featuring Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Vaughan Rowsell, Dave Lane, and others sharing the NZ people from tech, social media, startups and upstartsAll our past shows are on our websitehttps://www.accessgranted.nzFo

Following on from last week's Ben talking AI we have another :) Ben Reid is Executive Director at Artificial Intelligence Forum of NZ and we were extremely fortunate to have some time with Ben on the day that the "Artificial Intelligence: Shaping a Future New Zealand" report was released upon the world."This report is the culmination of a one year research project led by the AI Forum with research partners IDC and Sapere. The research examined the New Zealand and international AI industry landscapes, investigating AI’s potential impacts on New Zealand’s economy and society. The report identifies key AI opportunities, in the public, private and education sectors, that New Zealand can invest in now to actively shape the effects on our collective future."We could wax on lyrically about what it says but let's leave Ben to tell you and after you read it for yourself ...- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/benreid- https://twitter.com/ben_r- https://aiforum.org.nz/- [PDF] http://resources.aiforum.org.nz/AI+Shaping+A+Future

Ben Rose, General Manager, Direct and Partnerships at nib, joined us via the magic of the Internet to take us through how nib are experimenting with Artificial Intelligence through the use of chatbots and machine learning to automatically answer clients questions.Ben also explains how a seemingly "stuffy" insurance company has an attitude of this century and not the last, and how they have "online" in their DNA that enables agile experimentation. He also advises that companies of all sizes in New Zealand should start working out how AI can help their company - it's not expensive, but it is something to get one's head around.- https://nz.linkedin.com/in/mrbenrose- https://twitter.com/mrbenrose- https://www.nib.co.nz/------------------------------------------------------Access Granted podcast featuring Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Vaughan Rowsell, Dave Lane, and others sharing the NZ people from tech, social media, startups and upstartsAll our past shows are on our websitehttps://www.acce

ALL Wellington events: https://techweek.co.nz/whats-on/filter/?Location=3At a WREDA organised event we stick our microphone under a number of Wellington event organisers and ask them, "What is your event, where / when and why should people come along?", enjoy the answers from:- Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom, Edmund Hillary Fellowship / SpacebaseNZ Space Challenge Regional Showcase - Monday 21st 5:30pm - 7:30pm /  BizDojo, 115 Tory St- Amber Joseph, New Zealand Students' Space AssociationStudents in Space Conference - Monday 21st 5:30pm - 9pm / Rutherford House - Lecture Theatre 2, Vic Uni, 33 Bunny StreetAndrew Wood, Touchtec- Your Data in Future Politics - Friday 25th 5:30pm - 8:30pm / Main Lecture Theatre, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Vic Uni, 139 Vivian SZtMinistry of Business, Innovation and EmploymentECLI: The system that saves lives - Wednesday 23rd 2pm - 4pm / MBIE, 15 Stout StNadia Webster, Service Innovation Lab- Better Rules Hack - Saturday 19th - Sunday 20th 9am - 4pm / tbc- Transitioning to an Opt

Melissa Firth, a person we have been working hard to get on the show for what seems like a lifetime ;) And it was worth the wait as she takes us through the inner workings of Te Papa, what the Chief Digital Officer role involves, how the team has been built-up in a short number of years. and their goals for the coming years.Melissa also highlights some of the attributes of her team, the organisation and the wider environment that has allowed them to experiment, deliver and ensure they aren't bogged down in "old thinking":https://nz.linkedin.com/in/melissa-firth-3b37871https://twitter.com/mslissahttp://www.mahuki.org/about/mahuki-team/melissa-firthhttps://www.tepapa.govt.nz/about/what-we-do/leadership/executive-team------------------------------------------------------Access Granted podcast featuring Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Vaughan Rowsell, Dave Lane, and others sharing the NZ people from tech, social media, startups and upstartsAll our past shows are on our websitehttps://www.acces

Adam Blackwell, a man on a mission to rid the world of not just terrible Powerpoint presentations but also give back the joy to meetings. Through the use of training and services at Stun Sells he moves people and companies to those that can engage business peers, whether that's to close a deal, sell a concept or merely to inform progress.And it's not just services but using the app, Showcase, he is able to equip those out on the road with the information that they truly need to do their jobs ... and track the usage and fine tune the information given.AND, he's worked in the US and has some brilliant tips to be aware of when flying on NZ1 to your first few big deals ... just because they say they will call you with an excited voice, doesn't mean they will.- https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-blackwell-0a47255/- https://stunsells.com/- https://showcaseworkshop.com/------------------------------------------------------Access Granted podcast featuring Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Vaughan Rows

In a quiet, yet hot corner of the University of Auckland Faculty of Engineering Mike stole away most (not all, unfortunately) of the speakers at the inaugural Women In Data Science 2018 New Zealand (https://www.widsnz.org/) to find out what they were going to say on stage - here they all are:- Professor Rosalind Archer- Liz MacPherson- Pieta Brown- Dr Lisa Chen- Amanda Hughes- Dame Diane Robertson- Kat Kolich- Emma Vitz- Alex Garkavenko(unfortunately we missed Agate Ponder, but watch this space ...)Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VKOQGxJVu4Full photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ARioZUGW8Ou5aXCC2------------------------------------------------------Access Granted podcast featuring Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Vaughan Rowsell, Dave Lane, and others sharing the NZ people from tech, social media, startups and upstartsAll our past shows are on our websitehttps://www.accessgranted.nzFollow and Like us on:https://twitter.com/AccessGrantedNZhttps://facebook.com/AccessGran

Dave Lane chats with Menno Finlay-Smits (@mjs0) about the Cacophony Project that will turn birdsong into data and use the best of breed IT technologies to dramatically improve our trapping ability. It's a cracking conversation and we'd like to thank Dave for his first episode on the podcast, here's to many more.- https://cacophony.org.nz/- https://github.com/TheCacophonyProject- https://twitter.com/birdsongnz- https://twitter.com/mjs0- http://menno.io/------------------------------------------------------Access Granted podcast featuring Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Vaughan Rowsell, Dave Lane, and others sharing the NZ people from tech, social media, startups and upstartsAll our past shows are on our websitehttps://www.accessgranted.nzFollow and Like us on:https://twitter.com/AccessGrantedNZhttps://facebook.com/AccessGrantedNZhttps://linkedin.com/company/access-granted-podcastSubscribe to the show however you want:https://www.accessgranted.nz/subscribe/