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• Vodafone 5G network goes live across New Zealand

  “If 4G was ‘the era of the smartphone’, 5G will be the ‘era of connected everything’,” says Vodafone NZ CEO Jason Paris

• Wellington Airport provides travellers sneak preview of 5G

  Teams up with Vodafone to offer travellers a chance to try 5G speeds for free - but only for five minutes at a time

• Spark trials 5G service on the water for Emirates Team New Zealand

  "The America’s Cup is as much a technology race as a yacht race,” says Dan Bernasconi, head of design for Emirates Team NZ

• Firms combining AI and IoT far more competitive than those using only IoT - study

  “It is fair to say that most successful IoT operations are actually ‘AIoT’ operations,” says Oliver Schabenberger, chief operating officer at SAS.

• Genesis first NZ energy retailer to provide ‘advanced gas meters’

  Giving customers a digital solution for gas provides them with the benefit of full visibility across all of their energy use at home, says Nigel Clark, executive general manager, wholesale operations.

• The Kiwi retailer in the age of Industry 4.0

  The Warehouse Group CDO Michelle Anderson and CMO Jonathan Waecker on how the retailer is leading through ‘the perfect storm of technologies’ impacting every business

• Get ready for blockchain to reshape society

  The pre-eminence of blockchain in society will start to emerge by 2030, but enterprises will need to start preparing for it now, writes David Furlonger of Gartner.

• Spark switches on first 5G wireless broadband

  Spark switches on first 5G wireless broadband

• CIO upfront: Assessing NZ’s readiness for 5G

  Organisations must ensure that their approach to 5G considers the influx of endpoint devices producing enormous amounts of information, as well as a holistic assessment of the storage, security and compliance of this data, writes Matt Oostveen, chief technology officer at Pure Storage

• How CX changes when your customer is a 'thing'

  Digital society is emerging around us. It is the collection of people, organisations and things that are engaged in persistent digital interactions. What’s more, Internet-connected things and ambient artificial intelligence are gaining the ability to act on behalf of human customers. But what does CX (customer experience) even look like for a thing?

• 5.8 billion enterprise and automotive IoT endpoints in use by 2020: Gartner

  The CIO’s team will need to start developing a policy and architecture-based approach to support business units’ objectives, while protecting the organisation from data threats, says Alfonso Velosa, research vice president at Gartner

• The downside of IoT: Kiwis uncomfortable with smart devices listening in

  The 2019 Unisys Security Index finds New Zealanders are selective about which situations they deem acceptable for an organisation to collect data from social media, online purchases, smartphones and wearable devices

• Vodafone tests five 5G sites in Auckland

  “We’re going to have at least 100 cell sites upgraded by December when we switch on our 5G network,” says Vodafone NZ technology director Tony Baird.

• Nokia wins 5G network deal with Vodafone NZ

  “We are excited to be working with Nokia to deliver a commercial 5G network for Vodafone and New Zealand, building on our proud heritage of being first to deliver to Kiwis, the best mobile technology available at the time, including 2G, 3G, 4G and now 5G,” says Tony Baird, technology director, Vodafone New Zealand.

• Movers and shakers: Leanne Buer, Paul Littlefair and Russell Ambrose

  SUSE appoints former SAP executive as its first female CEO