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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Facebook’s outage, Tesla vs the rest, Vaccine Passport, Broadband futures – Fibre vs 5G vs Starlink
Paul Brislen and Paul Spain discuss Facebook’s long facepalm, Tesla sales through the roof, Ultra-Fast Broadband vs 5G vs Starlink and more.
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NZ Sales & Marketing Insider – Episode 19: Alex Radford
Ben talks to media industry leader Alex Radford, co-founder of agency D3, on how to drive the very best results through media, both directly and with agencies. Full of insights and actionable tips for those wanting to better understand this crucial element of successful campaigns and communications.
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Remodelling Meal Kits – MenuAid’s Toby Skilton
If your family is like Vincent’s, then you’ll love meal kits but hate the packaging –polystyrene meat trays, foil bags and more plastic wrap than a Grey Lynn building site. Is there a way to get the convenience of a meal kit with the discernment of a sustainable shopper? Toby Skilton reckons there is. He and partner Elise Hilliam have launched MenuAid, a meal kit for the conscious consumer.
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The Love Oat – Morgan Maw, Boring Oat Milk
New Zealand grows great oats and makes excellent oat milk, in Sweden. Yes NZ oats are shipped to Sweden where they are processed and returned to our shores to be bottled and sold as NZ-made. That hardly seems the sustainable alternative we all hope for. The madness of that scenario is finally being redressed by a new player – the Boring Oat Milk. Vincent speaks to Boring founder Morgan Maw.
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AWS coming to NZ, New Surfaces, Flying Microchips, China vs crypto + more – with Brett Roberts and Paul Spain
Brett Roberts and Paul Spain discuss AWS coming to NZ, new Surfaces, Microchips that fly + and much on the latest NZ Tech Podcast.
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*Photo: Tim Dacombe-Bird, New Zealand Country Manager for AWS’s Public Sector
NZ Sales & Marketing Insider – Episode 18: Sir Ray Avery
Ben speaks to Sir Ray Avery, the podcast’s first Knight Grand Companion of The New Zealand Order of Merit, scientist, inventor, philanthropist and raconteur. Listen as Sir Ray reflects on his experiences and why he sees himself as a salesman.
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News of the week with Sarah Putt and Paul Spain
Listen in as Sarah Putt and Paul Spain discuss the tech news of the week.
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Vote Climate! The Team Aiming for the Vector Board, via Entrust
Coming up: an election you probably won’t vote in for an entity you’ve probably not heard of. That’s right, it’s the tri-annual vote for the Entrust board, the majority shareholder of Vector Energy, Auckland’s electrical lines company.
But wait, before you turn over and go to sleep, this time around it’s different. A consortium of climate campaigners and motivated professionals is challenging the comfortable incumbent alliance of C&R, formerly known as Citizens and Ratepayers, which have dominated the Entrust board for the last 500 years. To explain what they’re up and what it all means for the climate, I’m joined by Rohan MacMahon and Dewy Sacayan, candidates in the new party which is called More For You Better for Climate.
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See the More For You, Better For Climate website: https://www.moreforyoubetterforclimate.nz/