university of auckland - News, Features, and Slideshows

News

• University of Auckland taps RPA and now champions it in the wider community

  The university gains new roles, providing a course on one of the most highly sought skills in the marketplace and preparing Kiwi youth for the future of work

• In depth: Perfecting digital platform strategies - maturity first, then transformation

  Firms must embrace both the front- and back-office benefits of networked ecosystems

• Watercare wins global award for digital transformation

  One of eight companies recognised for superior technology deployments at annual Inforum

• In depth: Changing lanes - the platform-service strategy

  Only by decoupling technology infrastructure from the business itself, can organisations realise the true potential of digital transformation

• Peter Beck joins University of Auckland faculty

  “Being appointed an adjunct professor is incredibly humbling but at the same time, I can appreciate the irony," says the Rocket Lab CEO, who left school at 17 to take up an apprenticeship and never went to university

• Kiwi bioengineer jets off to NASA to study drones for planetary exploration

  The University of Auckland PhD student is one of three Kiwis selected for the 16 week programme at the NASA Ames Research Centre in Silicon Valley

• Movers and shakers: Angela Cunneen of VMware, Bruce Cotterill of RUSH and Amit Gupta of Ecosystm

  ICT leaders on the move and in the news

• Movers & shakers: Alan Grainer joins Enlighten Designs, Dr Mahsa Mohaghegh heads Women in STEM at AUT, Pip Marlow leads Salesforce ANZ

  Technology and digital leaders on the move and in the news

• How to deliver ‘pure, unfiltered innovation’: Lessons from a Gen Z CTO

  Enterprises have to be prepared to tap the talents of centennials like Sukhans Asrani, 20, who is already working as a software developer and growing a startup, while completing his university degree

• ‘There's no such thing as change fatigue’: Former UK Ministry of Defence CIO Mike Stone

  The KPMG global advisor talks about navigating geopolitics, driving cultural change and the most disruptive technology on the horizon

• Put digital transformation and data together: What do you get?

  The replacement of an analog and a manual process with a digitalised one does not necessarily mean better results.

• Forum introduces high school students to a career in AI

  Two Kiwis working overseas - Alex Kendall of Wayve.ai and Craig Neville Manning of Sidewalk Labs - will talk about working on some of the hottest AI projects

• Movers and shakers: Tim Aynsley is new head of ICT at Mercury

  Takes over from Nisha Clark who has moved to Downer

• Movers and shakers: Tammy Auranen & Iain Urquhart at Northpower, Alin Ungureanu at Chelmer

  Plus: TeamTalk wins telecommunications managed services deal with Powerco

• Robotic process automation revisited: What's really going on?

  Our study examines whether RPA has indeed delivered these benefits to clients as well as shed light on the state of this emerging technology and its service providers.