Collaboration is the new business strategy

Collaboration was one of the main themes from the Rutherford
Innovation Showcase. We have two speakers to address this from
different perspectives. Dr Sue Watson, Global CEO of Kea, will explain
how to engage with over 30,000 Kiwi expats. Professor Keith Popplewell from Coventry University will talk about the SYNERGY Project, which facilitates SME collaboration.

Kea: Communicating with Kiwi Expats

An Introduction to Kea, New Zealand’s Global Network
An overview of members (32,000 Kiwi expats)
How Kea plan to engage with their members

Supporting network enterprise collaboration through adaptive knowledge services

The SYNERGY Project, funded by the European Commission investigated
the feasibility of providing support for networks of enterprises, primarily small to medium sized enterprises, who come together to compete as a collaborative virtual organisation for business opportunities, which would be beyond the reach of any of them acting alone. The resulting software service prototypes include management of collaboration knowledge for individual enterprises and virtual organisations, risk management, a collaboration moderator, and collaboration patterns embodying evolving best practice.

Services can be delivered through a native SYNERGY portal, but in fact
exploitation is developing around delivery as a “product in white” where clusters of users can brand a platform and customise services and access to their own requirements. Services can also be assembled in rather different ways to meet very different needs, and validation work included application on the one hand in an existing SME cluster trying to improve its capture of new opportunities, and on the other, a cluster of pharmaceutical research SMEs and universities, who came together to try out the collaboration support for SYNERGY, and then discovered a number of new drug leads as a result.

Event Details

5;00 to 7;30pm, Thursday 17 November 2011
Auckland Town Hall Ground Floor Council Chamber
301, Queen Street, Auckland

Go to http://www.aucklandict.org.nz for more information and to RSVP.

This is the last formal networking event of Auckland ICT in 2011.

Event: Leveraging on opportunities and business in New Zealand

Please join us at Waka Māori to hear New Zealand Minister of Finance Bill English present on the opportunities for investment in New Zealand.

The evening will open with a haka pōwhiri, a formal Māori welcome ceremony which will be performed by members of Ngāti Whātua, the people of Tāmaki Makaurau.

Peter Johnston, Chair of Te Awe Māori Business Network will discuss the rise of an indigenous iwi economy in New Zealand and opportunities to engage with the organisations that are at the forefront of this new economic force.

Former All Black and member of the 1987 Rugby World Cup winning team Grant Fox will wrap up with his views on the tournament so far and will reflect on high performance in sport and business.

Mention will be made of the Wynyard Quarter Innovation Precinct as announced yesterday by Minister Wayne Mapp and will be of interest for members of the business community

Well known New Zealand entertainer, comedian and broadcaster Pio Terei will be MC for the event.

Venue: Waka Māori
Address: Te Wero Island, Auckland Viaduct
Date: Monday 17 October 2011
Time: 6pm (haka pōwhiri starts at 6.15 pm) followed by light food and refreshments.
Please RSVP to this prestigious event by 16th October 2011
Event organiser: Megan Yorston
megan.yorston at aucklandnz.com Tel +64 9 365 0532
http://www.investauckland.com/

War Stories from the ICT Trenches

Auckland ICT will hold the October meeting. The theme is War Stories from the ICT Trenches

The three speakers Ian Miller, Luigi Cappel, Kevin Andreassend will share their experiences about going global, lessons learnt and establishing their role in the market place.

Ian Miller
Owner of Nutshell, supplying personal wireless accessory products since 1997. Ian has discovered that locally sourced possum, those pests of the environment, are perfect; their pelt are naturally anti-static. This makes them ideal to protect smart phone

Luigi Cappel
Managing Director, SoLoMo Consulting Ltd, How do people find out about your company, your skills and specialist expertise? How do they even know they might want to? Luigi will share about his book publishing activiies with Amazon.

Kevin Andreassend
MD of ICE AV Technology Ltd started his journey in the audiovisual sector literally under the dining room table as a 7 year old Today his company has a major focus on the international market with interactive, display and simulations technology.

We look forward to you joining us where we feed you, help you network and where you can learn some insights.

The meeting will conclude with a short AGM. Followed by further networking.
Registrations to attend are made at Eventbrite on this link
http://www.eventbrite.co.nz/event/8841441991/eorg

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Auckland ICT September Event will combine with Getting IT right our Main speaker will be Rod Drury, to set the scene the evening will be MC’ed by Scott Groomebridge

5.00pm Registration, drinks & finger food
5.40pm Offer & Seek
5:50pm MC Scott Groombridge Founder of Getting IT Right and Managing Director of Sead

Scott Groombridge is the founder of Getting IT Right, a non-profit initiative which aims to improve IT in New Zealand. Scott has over 20 years of IT industry experience working in a variety of roles including project and test management in New Zealand and abroad.

He has worked on projects across many industries, including telco, utility, manufacturing and banking. Currently Scott is the managing director of Seâd, an IT recruitment specialist. In this position he has the opportunity to talk to a large number of IT people and has recognised a general consensus that too many projects are failing.
He founded Getting IT Right in March 2011 to provide and promote best IT practices and has since been engaging with business leaders, IT professionals and industry groups to drive for positive change in New Zealand IT.

6.00pm Rod Drury
“Getting to 100,000 customers” Lessons learnt scaling a global tech company from New Zealand
Rod is CEO and founder of NZX-listed Xero an online accounting solution for small businesses. Xero recently announced 100,000 customers in 100 countries.

One of New Zealand’s leading technology entrepreneurs, Rod is a member of the New Zealand Hi-Tech Hall of Fame, NZ Hi-Tech Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006 and 2007, World Class New Zealander for ICT in 2008 and an Honorary Fellow of the NZ Computer Society.

Rod is a Director of the New Zealand Stock Exchange and is a member of Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Commerce Advisory Board.
6.45pm Prize draw and further networking
7.30pm Finish

You must register and pay through Eventbrite. Please enter what you “Offer & Seek” in the registration form this will be emailed on the day to all attendees.

The meeting will be held at the Unitech Campus, Carrington Road
Mt Albert, Auckland.
Date: Thursday, 20 September 2012 from 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Auckland ICT President’s Blog now smart phone friendly.

One of the most important aspect companies should be preparing for is the rapid adoption of web access from smart phones and tablets. Is your web site mobile friendly? Check out the Auckland ICT President’s web site via this custom branded QR.

NEW Qualifications in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation

AucklandICT President, Kevin Andreassend, believes that a workforce with highly developed business knowledge that can maximise innovation, opportunities is one of the keys to ensure a growing ICT Export sector.

Two new qualifications in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Commercialisation are going to be introduced by the Business School in 2012 in response to demand from students.

The Business School understands that employers are looking for graduates who have business knowledge and an understanding of innovation, entrepreneurship and commercialisation of research or other ideas.

The new programmes are a Grad Cert / GradDip in Innovation and Entrepreneurship targeted at those who have a non-business Bachelor’s Degree and want to develop an understanding of business fundamentals and knowledge of how value is created through creative thinking, science and technology, leading to the introduction of commercially successful innovations by small, large or new organisations.

The PG Cert / Masters in Commercialisation and Entrepreneurship is for those who wish to develop core knowledge and skills essential to moving research and innovation from the lab to the market place. You will learn how to test and validate customer needs and market demand, protect intellectual property, obtain funding, sell research related innovations and develop successful commercialization projects.

These programmes are for people who are interested in working in start-ups, or with an established small, medium or large innovative organization.

Further information about these programmes can be found on the links above or go to http://www.business.auckland.ac.nz/prospectus.

Alternatively you can contact Darsel Keane, Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning on d.keane at auckland.ac.nz.

AucklandICT promotes its members on the HoloDesk

AucklandICT, an Auckland based industry organisation takes advantage of the Holo-Info-Desk to promote its members at the Rutherford Forum industry conferences in September.

Holo-Info-Desk Multi Touch Information Surface

The Rutherford Forum activities are part of the Rugby World Cup related activities to promote NZ business and innovation. http://rutherfordinnovationshowcase.co.nz

AucklandICT is an industry organisation based in Auckland, New Zealand. Members come from a range of industry sectors that serve requirements both locally and international that are predominately in ICT (Information, Communication and Technology)

Each month the organisation meets to listen to a key note speaker, share success updates, networking and more recently have begun to actively utilise social media and online platforms. Within AucklandICT there is the Electronics Interest Group (ETG) AucklandICT that meets once a month over breakfast to discuss projects, topics of interest, training.

Contact events@aucklandict.org.nz @aucklandict http://www.aucklandict.org.nz

The Strategy of Pricing and the impact on your company value

How can pricing strategy can increase company value? In the tech sector this is a topic that is at the forefront of the fund managers and investors as the explosion in Apple, Google, Linkedin and myriad of other large and smaller tech companies. Whilst most in NZ will never achieve the Fortune 500 status, neverthless the same issues are just as real.

Book 18th August in your diary as the date for this month’s networking event of Auckland ICT. We have an interesting topic, a great speaker and an impressive new venue – TelstraClear Smales Farm Office Park. TelstraClear are sponsoring the event.

Lance Wiggs will share some of his experiences with a number of technology companies to show how to approach pricing to maximise the value of your company. This will be an interactive session, so come prepared with questions and to share your views.

Lance is a consultant and director. He spent time with McKinsey in the USA, advised Trade Me, was a co-founder of Pacific Fibre and several other start-ups including PowerKiwi, which retails FlowerPower on Powershop. He is a Director of Texmate NZ limited, Cadimage/Archicad and a Councillor on Internet NZ.

Lance has a B Technology (Product Development) and an MBA in Strategy and Finance from Yale. Read more on his blog Lance Wiggs.

Remember – both knowledge sharing and ‘who you know’ play a big part in business success. Be sure to pass this invitation on to your colleagues and contacts.

Do check on the latest News and Member News on the Auckland ICT website: http://www.aucklandict.org.nz

NZ2011 Checklist – for Auckland ICT members

Rutherford Innovation Showcase

Auckland ICT will be exhibiting at the Rutherford Innovation Showcase from 26-28 September. We invite all members to participate by:

Submitting material to be displayed on the HoloDesk, which is an interactive touch screen.

Submitting hi-res images that could be used for banners.

Volunteering to be on our booth during the break periods over the three day event.

Attending some of the sessions. There is no charge, but you do need to register in advance.

Some members may wish to have their own booth. See the Exhibitors page for information about exhibiting.

Our September event will be the South Pacific Entrepreneur Event on Tuesday 27 September. We will have a second HoloDesk on display for this event.

Copyright Act – Is the NZ Govenment supporting a dying model?

The pending copyright act is causing many to grumble in New Zealand with the government since the release of it’s guidelines for enforcement of the Copyright Act. The act is based on a business model that even the US studios themselves readily admit is on the way out, and being replaced by online on-demand services like Hulu and Netflix.

On the one hand, there’s still the spectre of disconnection from the internet should your account be deemed to have infringed on copyright material three times. On the other, the cost of sending out the notice of infringement that the rights holders must pay has been set at $25 per notice, which should curb the more vigorous among them.

In addition there’s a list of 13 requirements these notices must include for the ISP to take them seriously. This list includes New Zealand contact details for the rights holders, IP address of the alleged offender, identification of the software used to offend, a signed statement identifying the rights holder as being the actual rights holder and the time and date (down to the second) of the alleged offence.

Globally there have been unscrupulous lawyers filing thousands of these notices without the legal right to do so, and we’ve seen companies spamming competitors with them just to tie them up in legal knots for a while.

These kinds of practices hopefully won’t happen here, and having a reasonable price for each notice means we won’t end up like the French where tens of thousands of notices are sent each month.

But the $25 price point is still well shy of the price some ISPs quoted. Those smaller players will be doing all of the investigations manually and that means cost – cost which will ultimately be borne by the customers.

On top of that, as business managers you’ll also be shouldering an increased cost of compliance. You’ll have to revisit your HR policies regarding this kind of thing, you’ll have to look at your security processes and firewalls to see whether or not you can identify an individual user on the network. If you have open internet access for customers or clients you’ll have to work out whether or not you continue to offer the service. While some of you will no doubt have these processes in place, smaller businesses may not be willing nor able to pay the cost and so will simply close down access and that’s a bad thing in my view, far outweighing the benefits of having this kind of regulatory regime in place.

The ISPs were supposed to get 6 to 12 months’ notice – instead they have only a handful of weeks in which to get their houses in order. It will take time for them to build the processes and implement systems, hire and train the staff and ensure that when they identify an alleged offender, they’ve got the right person.

The big concern and implication is that say an employee downloads a piece of content that an owner alledges they should not have, and they do it from their office computer (on your IP address) then there is a high risk of your company loosing its connection to the internet.

Another case of meddling by a Government struggling to stay relevant. Incidentally the USA offered to write the NZ Copyright laws…go figure !

Opinions are that of the poster, and not AucklandICT.
Content provided from TUANZ.

New Zealand IPv6 Task Force gears up for World IPv6 Day

The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force, that includes NZICT Group, is pleased to announce its support for World IPv6 Day, a global event sponsored and organised by the international Internet Society (ISOC) and several large content providers to test public IPv6 deployment. AucklandICT encourages all its members to keep uptodate on issues relating to the IPv6 change over and to establish their preparedness.

World IPv6 Day runs over 24 hours, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (from 12 noon New Zealand time) on 8 June 2011.  Task Force Technical Convenor Dean Pemberton says mass adoption of IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is critical to the future of the Internet. He describes World IPv6 Day as a watershed moment, one that all New Zealand organisations should be aware of.

“The Internet has grown so quickly that the pool of IPv4 addresses used by most computers and devices has run out. IPv6 allows for trillions more IP addresses; more than enough to fuel the next stage of the Internet’s growth.

“World IPv6 Day aims to motivate all organisations to prepare their services for IPv6. On the Day a swath of major providers including Google,  Facebook and Yahoo will be among many global firms offering their content over IPv6,” he says.

The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force is right behind World IPv6 Day. It has registered with ISOC as a participating organisation and strongly encourages all New Zealand content providers and ISPs to take part.

On World IPv6 Day, Pemberton will be speaking at a video seminar entitled ‘IPv6 through the crystal ball. What a future with IPv6 might look like’. The seminar is being held on the afternoon of 8 June NZT.  For more information visit http://tinyurl.com/3ed5cfg .

The Task Force is also repeating its survey of IPv6 readiness in New Zealand, with preliminary results to be published on the Task Force’s website on World IPv6 Day.  ICT services firm Gen-i (on behalf of Task Force member Telecom) has launched a target dual-stack test webpage for World IPv6 Day, along with a link to an information page – www.ipv6test.co.nz.

Can you reach IPv6-only websites? Check your connectivity using the

‘IPv6 Check’ widget on the Task Force’s website (www.ipv6.org.nz).

In recent months sponsorship of the New Zealand IPv6 Task Force has expanded to include support from InternetNZ, FX Networks, Microsoft and InspireNet.

More information about World IPv6 Day is available at:

http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day

www.ipv6.org.nz/world-ipv6-day