Broadband: NZ vs Australia vs Singapore – Vaughan Baker, MyRepublic
Paul Spain talks with Singapore-based Vaughan Baker (My Republic) about matters affecting Telecommunications in New Zealand and around the region – with not only NZ insights – but discussion about Australia’s National Broadband Network and Singapore’s Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network.
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Building for Zero – Andrew Eagles, Green Building Council
Buildings are responsible for around 20 percent of New Zealand’s carbon footprint. Which makes the building sector a critical part of the ambition to be net-zero by 2050. And yet our homes are notoriously damp, cold, and energy inefficient. And get this, the construction sector emits the equivalent of one million cars on the road every year. Who knew? Andrew Eagles does. The chief executive of the NZ Green Building Council spoke to Vincent about what’s going wrong and what’s right in the built environment.
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Artificial Intelligence vs NZ students, Weta Digital $2.3B sale to Unity + NZ Police play crims on Facebook
Paul Spain and Nathan Mercer discuss the big tech topics – including Unity’s buyout of Weta Digital for $2.3B, Autonomous Truck and Farm Vehicles, Surface Laptop SE + Windows 11 SE, Artificial Intelligence vs NZ students and how NZ Police play crims online.
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Live from COP26 – Olivia Wannan, Stuff
Olivia Wannan is one of a handful of New Zealand journalists to attend COP26 in Glasgow, rubbing shoulders with the rich and powerful to watch as the world’s climate policy is argued and hopefully agreed to. Oliva is a climate reporter for Stuff.co.nz and she joined Vincent on the close of day five to talk about protestors, methane, and Indonesian reticence.
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E-Biking On a Roll – Mike Tritt, Electrify NZ
If you think you’re seeing more e-bikes on the roads, you’re not wrong. In New Zealand, their sales are soaring. But it wasn’t always this way; the e-bike revolution started with motivated people and, in this country, one of the early movers was Mike Tritt, a former Greenpeace staffer who founded the retail chain Electrify NZ. Mike talked with co-host Ross Inglis about the business of e-bikes and what needs to happen next in terms of policy and infrastructure.
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NZ Tech Podcast – Paul Spain and Stephen Phillips
Squid Game cryptocurrency, US Treasury tracks $7.3B ransomware, guns on robot dogs, Surface Pro 8 hands-on, plus highlights from Microsoft Ignite 2021, and more.
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NZ Sales & Marketing Insider – Episode 21: Angela Earl
Ben talks to Angela about what makes a media salesperson tick, how to build great client relationships and the power of listening.
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James Shaw’s rotten week – with Dr David Hall and Dr Victoria Hatton
Last week Climate Change Minister James Shaw’s announcement was met with stinging criticism. Generation Zero said it was a ‘disgrace’. Forest&Bird described it as a ‘clear lack of policy’. Newsroom’s Marc Daalder called it ‘disappointment’. So what’s all this then? The criticism was a response to the just announced Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document, which is neither a plan, nor a draft of a plan, but discussion document about what could go in to the plan. Vincent discussed the fuss with Dr David Hall, climate policy specialist at AUT university and Dr Victoria Hatton, climate change and sustainability director at PWC.
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See the document in question here.
And an excellent summary by Stuff
NZ Sales & Marketing Insider – Episode 20: Luke Meurant
Ben talks to Luke about how to get the best results out of your creative partners, the pivotal role of creativity in creating work that works, and what he’s learned working for some of New Zealand’s biggest local and global brands.
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Hydrogen at the docks – Rosie Mercer, Ports of Auckland
How do you kickstart New Zealand’s hydrogen fuel network? Enter Ports of Auckland. It is one of the world’s first ports to open a hydrogen refuelling facility, the first stage in an ambitious plan that will eventually see the ports running on green hydrogen manufactured on-site. With a green hydrogen plant in the South Island now in scope and a fleet of hydrogen-fueled trucks already plying the main arterials, hydrogen infrastructure is on a roll.
Our new co-host, Ross Inglis, talked to sustainability general manager Rosie Mercer about the new direction for the Ports of Auckland.
Introducing Ross!
This week, Vincent is joined by new co-host Ross Inglis, a Kiwi comms executive who has spent many years in Asia working in telecommunications and tech sectors. Returning to NuZild four years ago, Ross has doubled down on his passion for bikes, ditched his car and thrown his wait behind causes such as Bike Auckland.
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Bill Bennett & Paul Spain – Rocket Lab, Vista, 2degrees/Orcon
Bill Bennett & Paul Spain discuss the big tech news topics of the week – including Rocket Lab, Vista, 2degrees/Orcon merger, upcoming Apple announcements + more.
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*Photo Credit: RocketLab USA – Electron on the pad for Don’t Stop Me Now
Rethinking Suburbia with Climate Change Editor – Eloise Gibson, Stuff
Suburbs are the invention of another era. Far flung from the city centre, removed from places of work and largely made of stand-alone houses, suburbs could only have happened thanks to the motorcar. But with transport our second largest GHG emitter, it’s time to rethink the way we move – and it all starts with where we live. A clutch of new approaches are emerging, from intensification to careless neighbourhoods and placing housing around public transport nodes. But not everyone likes the new approach. To discuss how are suburbs changing I’m joined by Eloise Gisbon, climate change editor at Stuff.
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