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The International Organisation for Standards (ISO) published its first AI standard last year.

The New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards celebrate our country's top businesses and individuals in the tech industry, highlighting leading innovations in electronics, software, biotechnology, creative sectors, agritech, telecommunications, and digital media.

Introducing Zincovery Zinc is the fourth most-used metal in the world, relied upon for galvanization to prolong the life of steel products.

We gave a Large Language Model (Google’s NotebookLM) a PDF copy of our annual report and everything you are about to hear, including the super-optimistic breezy American presenters, is what we got back.

For this article, I had the pleasure of spending an hour with Rod Drury, founder of Aftermail and Xero for a chat about what he’s up to now and where he sees opportunities for New Zealand to lead on a range of important technologies that will improve the state of our planet.

Estimated to be worth more than NZD$1 trillion annually by 2030, the global cleantech market is growing rapidly due to investment in clean energy technologies like solar and wind, and growing consumer demand for more sustainably produced materials.

GovGPT aims to provide accurate and referenceable information from a range of Government websites through natural language conversations, to help businesses access the information they need faster, and more easily than through a browser.

Now in its second year, the report welcomes three additional companies that have achieved significant milestones and have demonstrated outstanding innovation, joining the 16 celebrated last year.

Introducing Basis NZ We’re all using more electricity than ever before.

Introducing Fabrum Hydrogen is widely regarded as a key pillar in a future clean energy ecosystem.

The term Deep Tech refers to advanced technologies that are based on significant scientific or engineering innovation.

Opportunity We need more cutting-edge medical breakthroughs to produce medical devices and treatments that can improve health outcomes for everyone.