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A lawyer leading tech projects? In AI that's actually a reality. Andrew Dentice gave a rundown of how Hudson Gavin Martin are trialling, not yet deploying, their own AI projects. Sharing the "drinking their own champage" perspective on the regularltory aspects of AI -- which the key term for is: Guardrails Three key points: 1. Govenernance is the first thing you do 2. To start small to and trial tools 3. Be Specific about use case Regarding regulatory matters about what's happening in NZ compared to the rest of the world is: We're not as far along as others, however we do have existing laws that cover it. I missed Andrew's speech and #AI did not write this for me, all information was provided by Anchali Anandanayagam AI! The extra photo is us standing in the Food truck que where I took down the info! Any misinformation, "don't talk to me, talk to my Lawyers" 👍🦁😎 Thanks Simon Martin! M2 Magazine #M2AISummit Tim Lawrence & Andre Rowell

A masterclass in mindset was not a hallucination by the audience as Anna Mowbray ad a fireside Chat with Andre Rowell at the M2 AI Summit. While discussing what is happening with ZEIL an #AI driven job site designed to disrupt the monopolistic nature per country of dominant job boards who haven't evolved since inception bar a few additional features, we learned what Ill say the the Mowbray edge is. Mindset. No surprises there, but we gained a glimpse into some of the life experiences including from her Father's influence with: Powell principle. Dad always drove our curiosity Dad pushed us to not do Uni but to experiment. The 3 things she looks for in a team member - the one i remember now is positive attitude at all times espcially through the tough times ❤️🔨😎 Last point as I will be sharing snippets of the video on Ryan The Lion Productions over the coming weeks including more of the mindset in Anna and Rochelle Moffitt dancing up a storm before she went on stage. That's the attitude part. 💃🤟🏼👏🏼 "At 35 I decided ZURU wasn't going to be the last mountain I climb" and Anna went on torecognise that big mountain to ascend. Great stuff M2 Magazine, Tim Lawrence and the whole team! #M2AISUMMIT #AI

"The health system is over worked, burning out, and the huge demand for care is growing" That was Paul Roseman opening problem statement (slightly paraphraed) at the M2 Magazine AI SUMMIT this morning. TL/DR - AI based tools have dramatically improved efficiency abd accuracy, below is the detail. This is heartwarming tonsee as a primary carer who has seen all the inefficiencies in general across the health system in detail since 2008 Kirti Desai (MInstD) and June McCabe I look forward to hearing more respectively and am excited by what I saw great work across the team at ProCare! Speaker notes: RPA (Robot) Heart Attack Risk Assesment tool: see the flow chart of the first inage - 102 decision to decide heart attack risk level done by the RPA model - A Human Nurse takes 6 mins to do this - Every three of these we get to do another do, a 15 min human consultation - The range of Robots responses from ordering more services to accurately measure the risk of Heart Attack - Doing the work of 3 FTE across multiple practices. - Deploying "the robot" a clinic jumped from 40% measured to 70% measured in a month - The flow on benefits of high risk getting earlier treatment is substantial - This tool helps positively affect the poorest and highest at risk areas that traditionally were under served MRI general Practice programe: - The second photo - The GP MRI programme runs on trust. - We use Machine Learning to review clinical use of MRI to maintain quality (and trust of the funders) - Machine compares referrals with radiology reports and determines whether the referral was good.. - Retrospective clinical governance - Facilitates delegation of responsibilities - Speeds up the system Nabla Copilot: AI powered medical notes: - Not just transcription but converts to true medical note - Most DR didnt train as typists - As a patient you want you DR engaged with you, not the key board AI is not a replacement for understanding your business, it augments your business. #M2AISummit

Reflecting on the economy and the potential of AI to make a difference, Andre Rowell opens the M2 AI Summit. Painting a picture of how important the lessons of today from all the speakers could be to all the business leaders in attendance... And the room is full. It's great to see so many leaders here today and their roles give you a flavour including Emma Burte (Innovation) and Andrew Choat (CISO), Bain Hollister (Software Development/AI), Paul Shale (AI consulting), Kevin Rowland, CITPNZ (CIO) among hundreds of other to give you a taste. Bring on the day, bring on #AI #M2AISummit

NZ Tech Innovation is being protected by Māori. Let that sink in. Its something you may not have thought, considering Māori only make up 4.8% of the IT Industry and are largely thought of in other negative contexts before you'd think of innovation and tech. "Because Māori are speaking on behalf of Māori, but the rest of us are benefiting from this lens." Said Aleisha Amohia regarding the work done around Māori Data Sovereignty. "At the moment we're seeing almost a recolonization of Māori data through the importation of a lot of AI algorithms that were built with someone else's worldview. And that in itself presents a risk, a risk around cultural safety" "The rest of the world trust NZ so much, but we don't trust each other" - added Donald Christie. I reflected on that point having recently posted about the NZ Hi-Tech Awards Hall of Fame with Flying Kiwi's which is a list of tech exporters representing globally trusted tech brand and thought you're right, it's like we don't want to see others we know succeed, while the world loves us - https://lnkd.in/gD365ZAM The presentation covered a range of work, and notably to this point is Koha - a Library System use by 18,000 Libraries worldwide, with 500 different developers having committed code to it. Aleisha did her first open source contribution into KOHA and of the examples shared one that stood our is Auckland University of Technology which combines KOHA combined with Ufind to create AIR - the rainbow collection with 20 years of research on LGBTQI "Working together, the collective over the individual ensures the product is more robust, more inclusive" said Aleisha who went on to ask: "How do we build tech that doesn't compromise on our values?" "When we ask about about the users, the people, then that answers the question about what tech as we build it collectively as data is is more than information it's our identity, our whakapapa, our toanga"  Aaron Creighton added, "Models you stand up and write your own code which means you know whats in them, Open Source communities create their own." "The Human centric approach to #AI is when AI is developed into your software ensure you are considered and valued as your Data is is your Self Identity"   This is the benefit of Techweek NZ giving opportunity to learn about tech, and in this case, the relationships between Tech & Aotearoa, Data & Self Identity, and tech built for your values. Great work by the Catalyst team Sam Lewis.

We"ve been walking 50km in May for Sweet Louise which supports Women with Incurable Cancer and their families. There is a team of us from Consult Recruitment inspired by a colleague who lost a dear friend hence her passion to help others through this - and you may have experienced similar amongst your family and friends too. So as we do the walking, and this is my wife Nikki and dog Cooper doing our weekend walks which are contributing to my 50km - you can see my Strava results in my donation page below Leaving a couple of big days to hit the total, hope you can donate a coffees worth to support the cause, or even just an encouraging comment to spread the word, as times are tough and any support is greatly appreciated. https://lnkd.in/gQSYBd_d #Walk50kmThisMay

Digital Twins are the building blocks of Smart Cities. Smart Cities are the building blocks of Smart Countries. With an amazing array of speakers covering every subject from climate adaption, to transport, water, building and city management - you will learn about how we will better manage our future. Digital Twins are the technology platform that the various data feeds can combine to give us a virtual picture of our real world; what has happened and what could happen with simulations. Grown from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory space craft management into all areas of our world including the Boeing planes we fly in, to mainstream Construction, Products, Supply Chains - our interconnected world enabling Smart Cities. This event will educate you on all fronts over 2 days at central location of Spark New Zealand and you can purchase you ticket here: bit.ly/3UvmprF Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson will open the event and welcome attendees and international speakers to Auckland following Karakia from Riki Hollings, and Sarah Walker has welcomed you to Spark. Then there are two days of data from all four corners of the Smart Cities world including *international speakers - Here is a just taste of the speakers and the subject from the full agenda: https://lnkd.in/g2Mwv4s8 Julia McMaster - Wellington: Lessons in transport monitoring Kurt Rodgers. - Opening keynote - Networks, IoT and Data Tania Walsh & Christian Gamst- Towards Digital: Te Waihanga   Elle Archer - Smart Leadership Andrew E. - Lower Carbon, Healthier Buildings Tom Frost - Use Case: Creating a Smart Town in the Far North *Tom Pennington - Technologies for Resilient Urban Development *Karandeep Singh Chadha (KC) Panel: Using System Thinking for Climate Resilience Nick Pickering - Use case: Waste Management Juan Martinez - Digitising Water Treatment Processes  Citizens Asem Zabin - A Blueprint for Digital Success Philippe Boulanger - Digitsing Water Infrastructure Simon Oddie - A City Centre Regional Twin Brenda Pottinger - Regional Digital Twin - Marlborough Sam Wiffen - Meeting the Challenges of the Next 100 Years Keri Niven - Digital Twin Action & Impact Adam O'Connor & John Lieswyn- Pedestrian and micro-mobility monitoring Anthony Dow - MC Day 2 Maksym Khovalko & Grace de Leon Use case: Geospatial Yvonne Chan Cashmore - Presentation: Interactive Healing Environments And so many more fantastic leaders in their field over the two days. Be sure to network sharing your experiences while discussing what you hear through the sessions. Well done Robyn Francis and the Smart Cities Council - ANZ team for bringing together such an amazing event with full coverage of subjects relevant to gaining value from Smart Cities and how they can help us achieve better outcomes for the people who live in them. See you there, to purchase your tickets here: bit.ly/3UvmprF #DigitalTwins #SmartCities

Who will be honored as this year's FLYING KIWI at the NZ Hi-Tech Awards? Who will be inducted into the Hi Tech Hall of Fame? Don't panic it's definitely not me, but when I visited Bob Pinchin and saw the Flying Kiwi on the waiting room table at SwayTech it made me wonder who will it be? If you read the webpage about the past winners you get a feel for the level of and diversity of achievement in the Tait Communications Hi-Tech Hall of Fame - Flying Kiwi Award: https://lnkd.in/gdcRAn2K You look scroll down the list and have a look at their profiles, all great examples of what it takes to earn such an honour. Thank you for your contribution and example for us all. 2023 Guy & Sue Haddleton 2022 Ian McCrae 2020 2021 Wayne Norrie 2019 Greg Cross 2018 Claudia Batten 2017 Frances Valintine CNZM 2016 Sam Morgan 2015 Katherine Corich 2014 Catherine Mohr 2013 Bill Buckley 2012 Sir Ken Stevens 2011 Brent Robinson 2010 Paul Hargreaves 2009 Rod Drury 2009 Selwyn Pellett 2008 Sir Ian Taylor 2008 Sir Gil Simpson 2008 Dennis Chapman 2007 Trevor Eagle 2007 Sir William Gallagher, KNZM, MBE, HonD 2006 Sir Peter Maire 2005 Fisher & Paykel 2004 Sir Neville Jordan KNZM CNZM 2003 Sir Angus Tait As sponsors of The Best Contribution to the Tech Sector Award, a different award at the Hi Tech Awards, the team at Consult Recruitment are proud to support the NZ tech industry celebrate our successes and we hope to see you there this Friday night to see who wins each award! Fly Kiwi Fly! #HTANZ

"Yes and no, I think it's yes for certain types of roles, it is still challenging and particularly to find the right person for certain roles..." Was the beginning of Lena's opening response to the question about whether there is still war on talent. The discussion flows on including Steve's additions around, "We"re seeing those headlines creep in around 'right sizing', and #AI is becoming a factor..." This is the first in a series from the CIO Leader Summit in March 2024. Each snippet will start with the facilitators questions, followed by the panelists' answers, from the panelists who contribute to that questions answer. We look forward to the discussion in the comments, with many factors at play nearly 2 months on from this event. Thank you to all for great contribution over the whole panel and event. Panel Facilitator: Marissa Brindley, Head of Tech & Innovation, Tātaki Auckland Unlimited Guests: Lee Timutimu, Māori Digital Rangatira & Advocate for Māori Tech Lena Jenkins, CDO, Waste Management NZ Steve James, GM of Tech, Woolworths NZ #Technology #CIOLeadersSummit

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?!!!!! How you respond to this or the actual challenge of a bully is what determines the outcome of the moment. If your flight and fright system react and you "fright" or "freeze" then the bully will continue, let's say "finish you off" for dramatic but real effect. If you can remain in your Exec brain (prefrontal coretex) and confidently respond, be it laugh it off or tell them to stuff off (in the appropriate way) then they will back down. And you may have to tell them twice, but once you start don't stop as backing down is like petrol on a fire for a bully while standing up to them cleverly is water on the fire. And you have (and this very important) heard yourself: STAND UP FOR YOURSELF This is super important as someone programs your mind. You can inadvertently let them program you into fear and freeze or you can program yourself into confidence. So that's my hard earned advice, which hopefully practical abd can help a parent (as Linkedin has no children) or even you as an Adult as NZ is in the top 2 to 5 countries fir both school and workplace bullying. There are many factors that play into our problem, one I will reference is our culture of emotional suppression. We don't have to be extreme to express an emotion, but that is typically what Kiwis do and that also why we don't stand up for ourselves. Happy #PinkShirtDay If you are dealing with being bullied, drop me a DM, I am not professionally trained but I can listen and encourage and support you to seek help - I've been there, help works, do it for yourself.