22 July 2021
Summary Insights Report now complete!
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21 July 2021
The Playbook is a key part of the work that the New Zealand has underway in building trust, through the Digital Strategy for Aotearoa, and in helping raise awareness and guide New Zealand’s own AI journey, through the AI Strategy for Aotearoa.
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13 July 2021
The New Zealand Tech and Innovation Story (Tech Story) is a marketing initiative designed to deliver a compelling, consistent way of promoting our tech and innovation capabilities.
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09 July 2021
The Industry Transformation Plan as a whole looks at what we need to do to scale up and transform our sector to lead New Zealand's economic development. This work is being lead by the MBIE alongside NZTech.
Read More New Zealand’s tech sector continues to grow at an impressive rate. Accounting for 8% of GDP and growing at a rate of 8.3%, the sector now employs more than 100,000 New Zealanders. Despite these results, there remains a relatively low awareness of our tech and innovation capabilities on the world
22 July 2021
For the last two years, the New Zealand government has been the co-sponsor for a Artificial Intelligence project with the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution on how government and society can come together to address the challenge of regulating AI. A key part
21 July 2021
The New Zealand Tech and Innovation Story (Tech Story) is a marketing initiative designed to deliver a compelling, consistent way of promoting our tech and innovation capabilities. This will help our businesses grow internationally by attracting tech investment, tech talent and growing
13 July 2021
The Industry Transformation Plan as a whole looks at what we need to do to scale up and transform our sector to lead New Zealand's economic development. This work is being lead by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) alongside NZTech. The Skills Workstream assem
9 July 2021
Current work underway Distilling insights from IDIA interviews. Designing initiative to encourage Maori into tech careers and business enterprise Upcoming engagements / milestones Organising a small workshop to map out the pipeline from school to careers in and/or ownership of tech busin
1 June 2021
Current work underway Cornerstones being updated in light of AI Summit feedback, with draft AI Strategy being prepared. An engagement and communications plan is in development, as is work on some key projects that sit under the Strategy. Upcoming engagements/milestones Targeted engag
1 June 2021
Current work underway Sian Simpson from Public Rally will be reporting back to Callaghan Innovation and NZTE on the Discovery Phase on the needs of the SaaS Community early June (this work has been funded by Callaghan Innovation). Upcoming engagements/milestones The insights from the Dis
1 June 2021
Current work underway Discussion with i4 on how we might progress the education piece of the DDI workstream. Upcoming engagement/milestones Discussion on data held at the AI Summit. This feedback will be useful for both DDI workstream and AI Strategy. Emerging themes Raising awarenes
1 June 2021
Current work underway Brand consultant selected. Marketing Consult Group participants confirmed to assist with brand concept review and validation. NZTE Global teams engaged for brand development. Investment session this week to confirm audience problem statement and objectives. Priority Market
1 June 2021
Current work underway Set of skills recommendations currently being finalised for consultation and confirmation in June. Almost there! Upcoming engagement/milestones Initial draft coming together then out for wider consultation. Emerging themes As previously reported. Potential fu
1 June 2021