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• Tech Futures Lab offers training for Salesforce CRM

  Students can gain job-ready skills and a direct route into the Salesforce economy, which IDC predicts will create 3.3 million new jobs globally by 2022

• Tech Futures Lab joins AWS Academy

  Cloud computing has become the norm for organisations globally, and the technical skills that students develop through this programme will position them well for careers today and in the future, says Tech Futures Lab CEO Frances Valintine

• Fonterra wants its 22,000 staff across the globe to become 'lifelong learners'

  Dairy co-operative encourages 22,000 staff across the globe to work on internal projects outside their normal roles

• Rebecca Chenery of Watercare: Distilling the chief digital officer role

  After three years as business transformation manager, Rebecca Chenery made the leap to the newly-created position.

• Waiting to be disrupted: KPMG survey finds NZ CEOs less confident in their organisation's ability to deliver digital transformation

  Fewer CEOs feel they are disrupting their sector rather than waiting to be disrupted, according to the 2018 KPMG New Zealand CEO Outlook Survey

• Movers and shakers: Meet the 7 new members of the digital economy and digital inclusion advisory group

  Plus: David Reiss at Equinox IT, Ana Server of 2degrees, Anthony Leverington of NGINX, and Potentia's diversity in tech forum.

• Frances Valintine heads digital economy advisory group

  Government Digital Services Minister Clare Curran announces first appointments to the group

• ‘I can see our future leaders in this group’

  South Auckland teens lead IT youth movement

• Call to rethink ‘tertiary education requirement’ for work in the digital era gains support

  We expect a thousand businesses backing this initiative by the yearend, says Frances Valintine, who co-led the NZ Talent initiative.

• Leaning in: How to break stereotypes and beat imposter syndrome

  A panel discussion at NZTech week provided an insider view of women in technology.
  

• 2017 Hi-Tech Awards winners announced

  Frances Valintine is 2017 Flying Kiwi

• Tech Futures Lab offers executive course on digital transformation

  For most professionals taking two to three years out for further education is not an option. The programme provides a year's worth of higher learning in 10 weeks, says Frances Valintine of the Mind Lab.

• Ian McCrae on teaching digital tech: 'Why not deliver content via broadband?'

  Orion Health’s CEO says our ICT sector wants to help deliver in secondary schools, but the Ministry of Education needs to join the party.

• ​Digital curriculum in NZ schools: ‘How much longer do our children have to wait?’

  Ian McCrae, Frances Valintine and Ian Taylor urge Education Minister Hekia Parata to overhaul the curriculum now, and not spend another year on reviews.