Police, NZ Cricket win annual RiskNZ awards
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Wellington – New Zealand Police and New Zealand Cricket have been honoured at RiskNZ’s annual awards in Wellington last night for their exemplary efforts in managing and mitigating risk management. Grant Avery, a highly qualified risk advisor who is currently helping the Treasury, won the Risk Management Professional of the […]
Read More →Baby boomers providing demand in Kiwi fitness market
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Christchurch – New Zealand is seeing a substantial increase in demand from the older ageing population for fitness, exercise and personal trainers, according to ExerciseNZ chief executive Richard Beddie. He says they now know not only that exercise is needed as people we age, but also why this is the […]
Read More →South Island gets its first liability underwriter
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Christchurch – The technology sector is booming in the South Island, especially Christchurch, Dunedin, Nelson and Queenstown, Delta Insurance’s Karl Samson, the only liability underwriter on the ground in the South Island, says. “Delta offers much more than insurance for technology risks, they are recognised as market leaders in the […]
Read More →Golden business egg in Vietnam for Kiwi companies
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Ho Chi Minh City – Kiwi companies are queueing up to do business with Vietnam and other similar sized Asian countries, a leading New Zealand tech businessman says. Mitchell, chair of NZTech, FinTechNZ and a New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE) beachheads advisor in technology business for the ASEAN region, has […]
Read More →CERT report captures just the tip of the iceberg
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Auckland – Kiwis need to keep talking about cyber security as criminals are using technologies to find new ways to undertake crime, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says. Criminals are using advanced technology but so are the good guys, he says. Biometrics, the use of thumbprints or retinal scans, are increasing. […]
Read More →Kiwi kids to take part in breaking world record
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Christchurch – School children all over New Zealand on Tuesday will be part of a world record setting event to get the most kids coding in 24 hours. Moonhack is a global event, officiated by Record Setter, to set a world record to get the most kids coding in a 24-hour […]
Read More →Johns and Sutton the supreme kitchen and bathroom winners
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Sydney – Christchurch’s Davinia Sutton and New Plymouth’s Glen Johns were named the Supreme winners at the New Zealand kitchen and bathroom Excellence in Design Awards in Sydney last night. Johns won the National Kitchen and Bathroom Association (NKBA) best kitchen award and Sutton won best bathroom. The pair have […]
Read More →NZ artist to feature in world’s biggest online exhibition
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Auckland – A leading New Zealand artist, Auckland’s Rewa Walia, will soon feature in one of the world’s biggest digital online art exhibition. Her iconic digital-symbol works will be displayed on the Wrong Pavilion website page, with a page dedicated to her work. The online exhibition will open to the […]
Read More →Gowland to be medical director of mobile surgical bus
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Christchurch – Christchurch urologist Stu Gowland, who developed the country’s first mobile surgical bus, is stepping down as Mobile Health’s managing director but will be continuing as medical director. Mark Eager, has been appointed as chief executive of Mobile Health. Mark has been with the surgical bus organisation for 10 […]
Read More →The Pure Food Co’s puree food about to take off
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Auckland – One of New Zealand’s fastest rising consumer production companies, The Pure Food Co, is about to take off as it has opened a massive new manufacturing facility in Auckland. The Pure Food Co, rated one of the rising stars in the latest Deloitte Fast 50 Index, had taken control […]
Read More →Health research should be a government priority
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Auckland – Three quarters of New Zealanders believe more funding for health and medical research should be a government priority and that the government should invest more funding in health research, according to a survey just released. The poll of more than 500 Kiwis was conducted by Roy Morgan Research […]
Read More →Canterbury produces most kitchen and bathroom entries
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Sydney – Probably because of the unprecedented earthquake rebuild, Canterbury has produced the most number of entries for the National Kitchen and Bathroom Association (NKBA) 2017 Excellence in Design awards to be announced at Pyrmont in Sydney on Friday, August 11. Auckland, easily New Zealand’s biggest city, usually has the […]
Read More →Most Kiwis do not want to follow President Trump’s lead
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Auckland – A total of 92 percent of New Zealanders do not want their nation to follow President Donald Trump’s lead and withdraw from the Paris Climate Change Agreement set in 2015. Moreover, six in ten Kiwi’s believe we should work harder with other countries to achieve the goals of […]
Read More →Rural health fronting suicide prevention-training all over NZ
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Waipukurau – A national rural organisation says it is concerned the public may believe nothing is happening in suicide prevention training. Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand (RHAANZ) says this is just not the case. RHAANZ chair Dr Martin London says RHAANZ and Pasifika community support Le Va are two […]
Read More →NZ not alone in struggling to attract tech women
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Auckland – New Zealand is not alone in attracting and retaining women in tech, a leading tech specialist says. Andrea Hancox, NZTech’s national director of government relations, says the whole world faces the issue of attracting and retaining women in tech and introducing tech to young women as a choice of […]
Read More →NZ health sector learning to embrace the tech world
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Auckland – A leading digital health expert says the New Zealand health sector is still slow to embrace the tech world. Dr Robyn Whittaker is a public health physician researcher at the National Institute for Health Innovation and a lead at Waitemata District Health Board’s Institute for Innovation and Improvement. […]
Read More →NZ cannot hide from the tyranny of distance
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Auckland – New Zealand cannot hide from the tyranny of distance anymore as it faces a multitude of threats similar to any other developed nation, an international risk management expert and University of Auckland senior lecturer Dr Bridgette Sullivan-Taylor says. New Zealand’s issues managers need to constantly reconsider how and […]
Read More →NZ to stage international tech event before the D5
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Auckland – Living up to New Zealand’s reputation as a standout digital nation, the tech sector and the government will stage a major international tech summit in Auckland next year, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says. The Digital Nations conference on February 18 and 19 2018 will be a forerunner […]
Read More →NZ has major fitness problem
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Chrisjtchurch – New Zealand has a major problem committing to active participation, ExerciseNZ chief executive Richard Beddie says. Too many of the government messages in the early 2000s focused on slogans such as walk to the bus stop when that was never the answer to the looming inactivity, diabetes and obesity […]
Read More →NZTech expansion sign of rampant tech sector growth
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Auckland – The substantial growth of the country’s umbrella tech organisation NZTech is indicative of the rapid expansion of the nation’s fastest growing industry, says its chief executive Graeme Muller. NZTech has its eighth annual meeting in Auckland today and NZTech now represents more than 400 organisations across the New […]
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