Access Granted NZ

Access Granted - Our last call, ka kite ano

December 18, 2019 20:39 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MB

That’s it folks - thanks for everything and goodbye. -------- We were a New Zealand podcast (2014 - 2019) sharing behind the scenes of Kiwi tech, media, and startups - https://accessgranted.nz/ It was hosted by Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, and Vivian Chandra

Victoria MacLennan - Why do I do all this stuff

December 15, 2019 20:40 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MB

Here it is, the final Access Granted interview and it gives us enormous pleasure that we have managed to ensure our very first ever guest , Victoria MacLennan long time friend and supporter of the show, bookends this AG run (June 2014 episode 3, Victoria MacLennan - Our First Ever Interview: https://accessgranted.nz/episodes/2015/8/31/ep-3). We simply ask, “So what’s been keeping you happy since 2014” and boy-oh-boy do we get an answer to fill the airwaves, you can get a sense of how Vic’s l...

Dr Karl Löfgren - Computer says no

December 08, 2019 22:28 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MB

A discussion with Sarah Bickerton* about how we seem to focus on the commercial world led us to having a cracking chat with Dr Karl Löfgren who is Associate Professor at the Victoria University (of Wellington!) School of Government. We asked about the speed of change within government, the hurdles to government adopting new technology, and why it seems that many give the New Zealand government (small 'g') such a hard time. This was a conversation we, especially Mike, could've continued well ...

Shiffy Nayar - Leaving a legacy

December 01, 2019 23:23 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MB

Shiffy Nayar is leaving a legacy and she’s not afraid if you’d like to do the same. Chatting with Shiffy we discover her More Than Rubies initiative that has awoken from it’s slumber - get involved: "... a movement for young women empowering them to make healthy and informed decisions by equipping them with the practical skills they need to achieve their dreams." During her day job Shiffy is a senior manager at Tensing focusing her talents upon the crazy and wild world of "transformation" b...

Dave Moskovitz - Education is the most important tool

November 25, 2019 20:37 - 44 minutes - 41 MB

The fifth of our birthday re-visits ("where are they now") has Mike and Dave catching up to discuss what has happened in the 3 years since our June 2016, "Brute force your way to success" episode. How does Dave see the New Zealand startup/ investment 'scene', what's he been working on since 2016, and what would he love you to hear based upon his ever evolving experience - if there's one thing to hear, this is it, scroll to the end. - https://dave.moskovitz.co.nz/ - https://nz.linkedin.com/i...

Tamara Buckland - Mental health 1st aid

November 18, 2019 20:03 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MB

Tamara Buckland has experience to share and, as it all comes together, she is now teaching others how to ensure they too look after themselves and their teams. With a discussion about diversity, wellness, and sustainability of teams within all types of teams, not just tech, we have someone that walks the walk as New Zealand evolves it's maturity away from the Silicon Valley view of what it is to be a startup. Evolve with Tarama! - https://www.tamarabuckland.co.nz/ - https://nz.linkedin.com...

Chris McDowall - Magic Internet people

November 13, 2019 01:13 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MB

Today Viv ends her time with Access Granted by chatting with Chris McDowall. Chris and Viv first met at Kiwifoo earlier this year when he showed us a sneak peek of his latest project. If you haven’t seen the “We Are Here” book yet, check out the link below, it is beautiful and amazing. Chris first got into maps playing Dungeons And Dragons and learning about geography at university and he hasn’t looked back since. - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-mcdowall-6057b427/ - https://www.masseypr...

Gavin de Steur - The (digital) human touch

November 12, 2019 06:21 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MB

In the penultimate Viv hosted podcast she gets to go and talk with Gavin de Steur at Uneeq, well in fact she gets to talk to Gavin AND an online virtual human. Gavin, originally from South Africa, is interested in bringing back the emotional human-to-human connection and with UneeQ (formerly Faceme), started here in NZ, he has that opportunity. Uneeq has recently expanded out to Asia, Australia, Europe, and the USA which bring with it a challenging growth path because of the many different c...

Ben Kepes - Feel the fear & do it anyway

November 06, 2019 22:36 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MB

As Access Granted moves towards the end it is our good fortune to have started the wonderful "where are they now" series to celebrate our 5th birthday year. With Ben Kepes we not only catch-up on how the past 4.5 years have treated him since we last chatted in May 2015 on his "In the cloud" episode but also share some of his insights gained on the way. Listen to the end, Ben has some gorgeous advice and insights to all taking their own "startup" journey. - http://www.diversity.net.nz/ - htt...

Kristen Lunman & Natalie Ferguson - The outcome is the really exciting part

November 04, 2019 22:16 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MB

Kristen Lunman and Natalie Ferguson were last on the show just under a year ago and this the third of our 5th birthday celebration, and they are still “obnoxiously happy”. Of course Natalie is taking her third step into the AG limelight after being an early guest back in July 2014. We find out what has changed, a lot with Hatch, what still makes them happy and where it’s all heading … catch up with 2 close show friends and amazing women in tech. - https://nz.linkedin.com/in/kristen-lunman-3...

Sh*ts & giggles – The AG Team with Owen Evans

November 04, 2019 00:16 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MB

As part of our 5th birthday Owen Evans turned the tables on Mike, Raj, and Viv and interviewed us. Of course with AG now closing down at the end of 2019 the sense of optimism about the future can been seen as unfounded. We would still like to have this published - a moment in time.

Sam Marsh - Move away from "gaming = bad"

October 29, 2019 01:10 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MB

Sam had only 30 minutes with us as he rushed from work for quick chat about the Wellington Gaming community at our latest lair, Hashigo Zake, before skootling up to a tournament. Listen as Mike asks what a game is. Wonder as Raj and Sam get nostalgic about games. Be intrigued as Sam explains how the esports community is growing. Wonder as they all hear about how much $ is in gaming. Question as Mike asks Sam, "Come on, esports isn't sport, it's gaming?" - https://www.rangaguyproductions.com...

Ed Strafford - Trust yourself

October 21, 2019 21:46 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MB

Ed Strafford is a thinker, a big thinker with an amazing brain that can see the future of education within New Zealand. He is also a person that connects those that do with the intention of bringing about deep and meaningful collaborations. We find out from Ed how he ended up in a tech role, what his current favourite project is, and where it's all leading with the future of Aotearoa education? Finding out what the last 10 years taught Ed about working in government is also a grand topic we...

Samar Alrayyes & Charlie Gavey - Never done the T-Rex thing

October 14, 2019 21:33 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MB

Meeting at the 2019 TechFugeesNZ hackathon Mike recognised two very clever, passionate, and dedicated wahine in Charlie and Samar ... and they got on like a house on fire. Samar is currently an Azure Digital Transformation Specialist at Microsoft but really she would say that she is all about, "Empowering organisations to digitally transform their business with Microsoft Azure". Charlie is the Product Manager of Search at Trade Me and Advisor Member of InternetNZ's .NZ Policy Panel. Both Ch...

#WellyTech System Error - Come & be a tall poppy

October 07, 2019 21:50 - 24 minutes - 22 MB

A small and boutique collection for the Wellington System Error discussion - thanks to all that came and gave their views on the following 3 topics: - What are your views on the Hippocratic Licence? https://github.com/ContributorCovenant/hippocratic-license - What's the one thing (emotional, physical, etc) that the #WellyTech 2019 event can bring? - What do we think about the Christchurch Call and where it's at? If you have anything to add, do you disagree with what was said - get involve...

Healthy Homes Hikoi - Time for a break

October 01, 2019 04:53 - 7 minutes - 6.97 MB

The episode in which Hīria decides to have a Whare Hauora rest ... only for a month, and only because she needs to focus upon earning $ to get a production run done. We wish Hīria all the best for the next few weeks and we'll be re-joining her sometime in November to catch-up on where's she's got to. Hugs, all the AG crew, x ------------------------------------------------------ The Whare Hauora update is brought to you by Hīria Te Rangi and Access Granted NZ. All the episodes: https://ww...

Owen Evans - Nobody wants to buy your sh*t

September 30, 2019 23:29 - 49 minutes - 45 MB

Owen Evans, second of our 5th birthday re-visits, is the CTO at JRNY and was last on the show back in August 2014, "Owen Evans - Data Lake", a true pioneer! Back in 2014 Owen had co-founded a company named Hoist from which he learned heaps (see the show title). He has since been at senior roles at 8i, and Zapier, a board adviser for other startups, and co-hosted the successful Web Developers Conference NZ (WDCNZ) which is back! Owen has a tonne of experience he passes on, how to support peo...

#climatestrikenz Greta Thunberg's full UN speech

September 26, 2019 19:52 - 5 minutes - 4.87 MB

Last week the world went on strike to protest the inaction from the power structures of society with regard to the current climate emergency and today New Zealand is showing their determination to be heard. So what can we, a podcast do? We have an audience, and so we are publishing the audio of Greta Thunberg’s emotional and, to some, confrontational speech at last Friday’s UN Climate Summit with the hope that it will inspire each and every one us into more direct and noticeable action. Go...

Jordan Carter - The status quo is not good enough

September 25, 2019 19:56 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MB

Jordan Carter, first of our 5th birthday re-visits, is the Chief Executive at InternetNZ and was last on the show back in October 2017, "Jordan Carter – The plan is not to have a plan". Since then he's got a 'new' job, restructured the organisation, and been a part of the Prime Minister's "Christchurch Call" in reaction to the terrorist shootings earlier this year. Jordan has a LOT to catch us up on so listen in and then get along to Nethui 2019 at Wellington's Te Papa to continue the conve...

Stephen Clarke - Accidentally surviving time

September 24, 2019 08:48 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MB

There's nothing simple about Stephen Clarke, he is a mind on legs with a wealth of experience from the records / archival world with a focus on standards (published we'll have you know). Set yourself down, get a cup of tea, and take a journey through the world as seen through the incredible mind of Steff Clarke ... and YES, you will want to take some threads and continue them, so get in touch with him. - https://nz.linkedin.com/in/steffclarke - https://twitter.com/steffclarke -------------...

Healthy Homes Hikoi - Plan for business with a business plan

September 19, 2019 21:23 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MB

Hīria with the latest in the her journey of being being a founder, chief do-it-all, and startup good person as she fights to keep the value and integrity of the data collected from the community in THEIR hands and not transformed into megabucks and tracking resources for others. ------------------------------------------------------ The Whare Hauora update is brought to you by Hīria Te Rangi and Access Granted NZ. All the episodes: https://www.accessgranted.nz/whare-hauora/ Get all the Wh...

Emily Mason - The nerd herder

September 16, 2019 22:54 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MB

Emily Mason is a woman with a mission, in fact multiple missions from starting a company with values (Frank Advice), ensuring evidence based policies are created, and assisting philanthropic donors the greatest impact in their endeavours (Impact Lab). From a life of government work to running a startup is takes a special sort of person, Emily is that person. Listen in as she details the hurdles, the joy, and the focus needed to step out from under the wings of the large organisation - you wi...

Heathy Homes Hikoi - More shoulders to carry the load

September 15, 2019 00:53 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MB

Listen to Hiria, Kaiwhakahaere at Whare Hauora, and then PLEDGE - 5 days (at time of publication) left: https://www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/6226-manawa-smart-home-sensor-kit-for-community-organisations ------------------------------------------------------ The Whare Hauora update is brought to you by Hiria Te Rangi and Access Granted NZ. All the episodes: https://www.accessgranted.nz/whare-hauora/ Get all the Whare Hauora updates: - http://www.wharehauora.nz/ - https://www.facebook.com...

#WellyTech System Error - Winter BBQ

September 13, 2019 23:35 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MB

Fantastic turn out in the very loud Hashigo Zake lounge for this coming together of the #WellyTech community to meet, greet, and ponder 3 topics on the podcast, namely: 1: How can a social enterprise grow beyond it's initial idea? 2: Using AI is merely sending money overseas to the big vendors. 3: Consultancy is dead. See you at the next #WellyTech get together: https://accessgranted.nz/coming-soon/recording-system-error | RECORDING: System Error - Spring Is Sprung (Thursday, September 26, ...

Paul Armstrong - Unicorn included

September 10, 2019 00:45 - 54 minutes - 50 MB

Paul Armstrong has a long history in providing ICT consultancy to organisations in New Zealand and further afar with a long and illustrious career at Synergy/Fronde - but that's all history now! Paul takes us through the ups and downs of his career, and how he is excited again to be at TipoTapp bringing the cloud unicorns to all those that need to both move and develop upon the major cloud services out there. For those that need to sell (and let's be honest, who doesn't) Paul has a fascinat...

Heathy Homes Hikoi - 1st board meeting!

September 08, 2019 22:24 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MB

Big updates from Hiria Te Rangi, Kaiwhakahaere at Whare Hauora. Hiria has had her first formal board meeting with her Directors: Amber Craig, Jay Daly, Dianne Minee - always good to communicate where the organisation is and where it should be heading. And then Hiria has been out and about speaking "The Power Of A Grandmother" TEDxWellington: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHq1waE-qIY Hiria also spoke at JAFAC conference, "How Whare Hauora product development is driving the decolonisation ...

Kylie Reiri - Better decisions everywhere

September 04, 2019 22:25 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MB

Kylie Reiri is one of those treasurers of New Zealand, a values focused wahine leading a data scientists focused company working on the issues that matter to all of us. Once you've heard Kylie explain where she comes from, how she wants data to make a difference through actual supporting better decisions, for instance services provided by central government, then we would highly recommend her talk given earlier in 2019 at Hack Aotearoa (link below) - https://nz.linkedin.com/in/kyliereiri - ...

Jessica Manins - Shoot friends with fart guns

August 27, 2019 21:16 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MB

Tweet from Jessica Manins, @JessicaManins - Aug 19 "When Sir Richard Taylor plays your game @beyonddotfun and says it’s the most fun he’s had in #VR it’s hard not to feel like this #oddball #comingsoon #VR" There's no better introduction to Jessica Mannins' new venture, Beyond, than that - and having played / experienced it both Mike and Raj agree it is the best social VR fun ever. Listen to Jessica's plans for her co-founded company, where it all came from, why VR has tickled Jessica for s...

Healthy Homes Hikoi - nerds unite!

August 22, 2019 23:17 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MB

Hiria is here! More on her journey, speaking at TEDxWelligton and the Zero Carbon Challenge PledgeMe campaign: https://www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/6226-manawa-smart-home-sensor-kit-for-community-organisations --- Whare Hauora has created Manawa: a smart home sensor kit and platform that measures the temperature and humidity of rooms in homes and tells you if your home is making your whānau sick. We built Manawa specifically for whānau, so they gain insights into their health and wellbeing, v...

Rowan Simpson - Capture, measure and share. Appropriately

August 14, 2019 09:13 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MB

Rowan Simpson provides an episode that replicates his professional life, one of two halves. From being the first non-family member employee of TradeMe before moving on to Xero in it's early years. Since then Rowan has taken his experience and insights to many companies as investor and director, spreading the product development messages, and sharing his approach to tech business with all that are keen to hear (check out his Hoku Ideas page linked below). Why is this show akin to his professi...

Trent Mankelow - Try not to break anything

August 12, 2019 18:15 - 33 minutes - 31 MB

Trent Mankelow is currently the acting CEO of Summer Of Tech whilst Ruth McDavitt is off being a parent for the year and is loving it. With Trent's contacts he's looking to bring many more companies into the fold (you could be reading this in one right now, get involved with the link below). Trent has had a life of entrepreneurship co-founding Optimal Experience, being the Chief Product Officer for Vend, and most recently as Trade Me's inaugural Chief Customer Officer - not a bad Kiwi lineup...

Duncan Greive - The media hustle

August 07, 2019 20:12 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MB

With Duncan Greive, Managing Editor of The Spinoff website and co-host of the #realpod, you know you're going to get insight into the New Zealand media scene and where it's all heading to with Facebook and Google gobbling up all the advertising revenue. At the time of recording with Viv The Spinoff were in the throws of launching their Members feature, allowing readers (like all of us at AG) to help support the ongoing work - do it here: https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/25-06-2019/announcing-t...

Marie-Claire Andrews – Poke sticks and see change happen

August 06, 2019 17:17 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MB

Marie-Claire Andrews for a long time ran the event app start-up Show Gizmodo, and with a life change out to the Wairarapa she keeps connected to the industry via various international event groups. Being out in Carterton however she looked for a co-working space, couldn't find one, talked to the local mayor at a BBQ, and we now have 3Mile :) Marie-Claire is bursting with enthusiasm for the region, the community, and most of all the possibilities that the Wairarapa and all NZ regions have ove...

Brough Johnson - Does culture create media or media create culture

August 01, 2019 09:18 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MB

Brough Johnson, co-founder of Narrative Muse, and a person that is happy bringing together and community is very important to her. Coming from the TV and film industries for a number of years Brough she discovered that yes there is the content out there for LGBTQ+ audiences but it was harder to find than the mainstream and so from a review site to a full recommendation service Narrative Muse serves this community. Ever asked, “How do I ensure we have a diverse company?”, well Brough has a ...

Healthy Homes Hikoi - Looking for a co-founder

July 30, 2019 11:54 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MB

A bubbly and busy Hiria let's us know that the product is ready to go, she's prepping for some talks and is focusing her last week in the Zero Carbon Challenge on the PledgeMe campaign to get 200 kits to organisations. btw: product pricing is very hard :) Hiria has also published a stack of updates as LinkedIn videos, go check them out And finally, as Hiria hear's others are now able to "pitch" the product she is looking for a co-founder by asking around and gonna go 50/50. - TEDxWellingt...

John Hart - This project has got legs

July 29, 2019 20:28 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MB

John Hart, otherwise known as FarmGeek, has had a life in tech for a number of years however with a change of lifestyle to become a farmer he has now combined tech and a rural viewpoint to take on introducing tech to the community and how New Zealand needs to be more than sheep. Recently Raj and Mike were invited to "Hemp & Crickets - Oh My!" at which John and the Breadcraft team showed off, "sustainable food using alternative sources of protein - the way of the future" using crickets. And t...

Paul Brislen – Those damn cellphone radiation waves

July 24, 2019 23:05 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MB

Paul Brislen is a well known voice on 'lesser radio', TV, media, and all over the webs with his commentary on the New Zealand tech industry alongside a deep understanding of the telecommunications field. Some fascinating truth about 5G, the Russian fake news, how in-building 5G needs help ... oh, and those extra darned 5G radio waves will NOT give you cancer, sheesh! Paul and Viv cover the latest tech trends, how data has become key but then ugh use of our personal information, taxing the t...

John Hart + Tamara Olliver - Engraving bananas

July 22, 2019 23:27 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MB

On a recent Wairarapa road trip Mike and Raj caught up with John Hart and Tamara Olliver at the current location of the Masterton Fab Lab, a space for them to, "equip our whole community with 21st century skills so we can all participate in the world of making with technology!" John and Tamara explained the Fab Lab's mission, successes, current home, and their future! We are left wondering WHY AREN'T THERE MORE IN NEW ZEALAND - you will to! - https://www.facebook.com/pg/fablabmasterton - ht...

Hiria (Whare Hauora) + Access Granted's First Birthday

July 17, 2019 22:36 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MB

Whilst Whare Hauora has been around for 2+ years we only joined them on their journey 1 year ago ... but SO MUCH has happened in the intervening 12 months that we thought we'd have a wee celebration (coffee and tea all round, thanks Dom) and a review of how far Hiria and the ever growing Whare Hauora has come ... ------------------------------------------------------ The Whare Hauora update is brought to you by Hiria Te Rangi and Access Granted NZ. All the updates: https://www.accessgrante...

Rebecca Jones & Nathan Donaldson - Watch the water behind your laptop

July 15, 2019 23:30 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MB

Looking after the team is spoken much on our podcast but we've yet to have had such a focused discussion on what that means day-to-day as we had with Nathan Donaldson (CEO) and Rebecca Jones (Agile Coach) from Boost. We cover a bit of background, especially how Rebecca made the move from hospitality to Agile Coach, before diving into how to support, grow, and love the teams within your organisation. We even talk about what the means for salary increases using Boosts medieval 'grading' approa...

Tash Bettridge - Protecting whanau through cyber security

July 11, 2019 03:29 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MB

Viv first met Tash Bettridge when volunteering with kids at a STEAM workshop at OMGTech - from being a teacher to reinventing herself as a cyber security consultant Tash is one to watch out for. "Aesthetically Pakeha", is a phrase Tash uses and whilst it's funny it's also slightly sad how passing privilege affects us all in different ways. Sometimes, like Tash talks about, it really works against you when you least expect it. We wish Tash good luck with her Google adventures, and perhaps we...

Ed Abraham - I love it when a plan comes together

July 09, 2019 00:02 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MB

Ed Abraham certainly has a background to wonder at, and Mike most certainly did geek out about the times Ed spent in university with Professor Stephen Hawkins. And it's that big brain of his that see's Ed heading up a company, Dragonfly Data Science, full of very VERY clever people working with data, computers, and making them solve problems that clients bring to them - gotta have a reason, otherwise it's just playing A great example is Dragonfly's work on the Te Hiku Media Kōrero Māori pro...

Kerry Topp - The art of what's possible

July 04, 2019 04:33 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MB

Kerry Topp is the Associate Director of Transformation and Innovation for Datacom, but fancy titles aside, he is one of those humans that is naturally full of energy and genuinely want to do good for the world. Viv and Kerry talk about tech change through a human lens, developing capabilities through hackfests, and student led innovation before tackling psychological safety, Google’s Project Aristotle and workplace bullying! Whew, get your notepad out, this one is a doozy! - https://www.li...

Ronja Gustafsson - Lifehacks in an App

July 01, 2019 23:15 - 22 minutes - 21 MB

Ronja Gustafasson came over to New Zealand a year ago and started working as business development at Nowsnapp, a startup based all over the world but developed and delivered out of Kapiti. We also talk Pirate Party from Ronja's Sweden and how it's hiding out in Miramar (who knew). The app itself takes the crowd sourcing / "share economy" approach to all those jobs that you need doing but really can't be bothered with - from taking the dog for a walk, writing that proposal*, or even just pop...

Healthy Homes Hikoi - There is no money without the people

July 01, 2019 03:47 - 15 minutes - 14 MB

A catchup with a smiling Hiria as she rides the Zero Carbon Challenge team work, and has a focused future of GETTING THE MONEY! As with all startups it's not the promises of support everyone makes it's the putting the organisational hand in the deep pocket and standing alongside. ------------------------------------------------------ The Whare Hauora update is brought to you by Hiria Te Rangi and Access Granted NZ. All the updates: https://www.accessgranted.nz/whare-hauora/ Get all the Wh...

Andy Higgs - Regaining control of our data

June 27, 2019 01:55 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MB

Blockchain and digital identity was on Andy Higgs lips on his recent Wellington visit to the GOVIS annual conference ... we got the scoop before the attendees :) Andy works for Centrality* but in a previous life was "chasing the rainbows" building MTV in Europe, working at Deloitte Consulting, and co-founding Accelerate Sport (now CSM) based in London. Awesome talk, loads of hints & tips, and plenty of links for the developers out there to use Centrality's open source code. We also get a ...

Healthy Homes Hikoi - C all of the things

June 25, 2019 21:23 - 10 minutes - 11.9 MB

Our regular chat with Hiria Te Rangi and her journey with Whare Hauora, the social enterprise startup, giving residents data about how their homes are killing hem. A visit to the Band Rotunda in Wellington on a gorgeous winter’s day finds Hiria cogitating upon all the work to do, how tiring it is, and how excited and useful it is being a part of the Zero Carbon Challenge … and she has a team member! - https://www.zerocarbonchallenge.nz/ -----------------------------------------------------...

JP Tocker - If you know you're gonna enjoy it, do it

June 24, 2019 23:04 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MB

JP Tocker shares a similar cloud journey* with Mike and they discuss this, podcasting with and about successful people, the All Blacks, but mostly the passion that has driven JP to continue doing what he does ... which can include getting you married. - https://www.jptocker.com/ - https://www.facebook.com/thejptockershow/ - https://twitter.com/jptocker - https://nz.linkedin.com/in/jptocker - https://www.instagram.com/jptocker/ * “cloud journey”, sounds distinctly Flash Gordon-esque eh ----...

Saia Mataele - Paving your own pathway to success

June 24, 2019 08:25 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MB

Talofa Lava and Kia ora! Welcome to Access Granted, taking you behind the scenes with conversations from the most interesting people of New Zealand tech, media or startups. Today Viv chats with Saia Mataele about what makes him tick and a wee bit about a few things he is doing in his spare time, from a social enterprise to connect Māori & Pasifika people here in Aotearoa to working on a Pacific-wide e-commerce platform - it's a wonder that he has anytime to sleep! So grab a drink, put your ...

Ben Forman - Story telling & building transmedia worlds

June 18, 2019 01:54 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MB

It was perfect timing for Raj to chat with Ben Forman, co-founder at Wrestler, as he was recently announced by Forbes as a top 30 under 30 ... what an amazing story he has to tell. Ben is passionate about storytelling through technology, with a strong focus on future technologies - did you know he started one of NZ's first commercial drone companies, has been at the forefront of the online video wave since before it was cool, and now runs one of NZ's top VR / AR production companies. Check ...

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