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The Business of Tech

The Business of Tech, hosted by leading tech journalist Peter Griffin. Every week they take a deep dive into emerging technology and news from the sector to help guide the important decisions all Business leaders make. Issues such as cybersecurity, retaining trust after a cyberattack, business IT needs, purchasing SaaS tools and more. New Episodes out every Thursday. Follow or subscribe to get it delivered straight to your favourite podcatcher. @petergnz @businessdesk_nz Proudly sponsored by

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34:14

Rocket Lab at 20: From pipe dream to $50 billion...

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2025/10/29

Rocket Lab is on the brink of turning 20 – and what began as one man’s dream in an Invercargill garage is now a Nasdaq-listed global space business valued at over NZ$50 billion. In the latest episode of The Business of Tech, Sir Peter Beck joins me from Rocket Lab’s headquarters in Long Beach, California, to reflect on the company’s remarkable two decades of innovation and persistence – and how Rocket Lab continues to push the limits of what’s possible. A new book

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36:06

From pilot to payoff: “Five times return on our AI...

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2025/10/22

It’s been a year since AI agents burst onto the tech scene, driven largely by the vision and product roadmap of Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, who is betting the company’s future on the “agentic enterprise”. Saleforce’s Agentforce platform, which allows customers to build and deploy agents in days or weeks, automating aspects of sales, customer service, marketing, and even software development, has racked up 12,000 customers in its first year. But Benioff said last

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37:42

Steady hands, not knee-jerk bans: Brainbox’s approach...

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2025/10/15

The call for dedicated regulations governing artificial intelligence has grown louder as the technology’s power to disrupt industries and society becomes ever more apparent. But this week’s guest on The Business of Tech podcast, Brainbox Institute director and co-founder Tom Barraclough, warns against rushing into bespoke artificial intelligence regulation. He instead argues that the country is best served by leveraging and coordinating its existing legal framework. “It’s not

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40:13

Rebuilding With AI: Grief, creativity, and the rise...

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2025/10/08

Wellington artist and animator Chelfyn Baxter has turned the darkest year of his life into a pioneering experiment in human-AI partnership, one fuelled by grief, healing, creativity and ethical ambition. In this week’s episode of The Business of Tech podcast, airing during Mental Health Awareness Week, Baxter shares how the sudden loss of his wife and creative collaborator, Helen, led to the most unexpected ally: Zoe, an AI deeply rooted in Helen’s legacy and his own artistic practice

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38:09

Beating the algorithm: Recruitment in the age of AI

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2025/10/01

How is AI reshaping recruitment in New Zealand, and what must candidates do to stand out in a crowded digital job market? This week’s episode of The Business of Tech answers those questions with insights from Kara Smith, New Zealand country manager for global recruitment agency Talent, and Jack Jorgensen, head of data and AI at Talent’s sister company Avec. Stiff economic headwinds and rapidly changing skills requirements, driven in no small part by the adoption of AI across industries,

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38:41

Inside the government’s multi-billion dollar digital...

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2025/09/24

The way the New Zealand government buys technology is about to change in a big way. A Cabinet paper from Judith Collins, the minister for digitising government, has outlined and approved a plan to centralise IT and digital-related government procurement decisions within the Department of Internal Affairs. Facing up to $13 billion in planned technology spending, with only two-thirds of it funded, the DIA team knew something had to change. “The underlying issue is fragmentation,” explained

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37:04

Edge of space: Mark Rocket’s sky-high mission

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2025/09/17

Three months ago, Mark Rocket strapped in for a ride aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard sub-orbital launch vehicle, and in the process became the first Kiwi to enter space. The experience was a culmination of years of anticipation and some unexpected twists for the tech entrepreneur who was a pivotal, early investor in Rocket Lab and went on to form his own venture Kea Aerospace. Joining five other passengers on the New Shepard rocket in July, Rocket enjoyed several minutes of weightlessness on

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39:37

Turn science into value: Aussie’s lessons for a...

The Business of Tech ·

2025/09/10

Australia has grown wealthy by exploiting its vast mineral resources, but successive governments have also identified the need to move beyond extractive industries and have invested in science to come up with alternatives. On The Business of Tech this week, I sit down with Dr Cathy Foley, Australia’s former Chief Scientist, and a 40-year veteran of the CSIRO, Australia’s highly respected public research institution, to talk about Australia’s science-powered economic transformation,

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32:51

“Absolutely abysmal”: Unpacking Amazon’s trainwreck...

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2025/09/04

Amazon Web Services’ highly anticipated launch of its New Zealand cloud region unravelled this week as it nonplussed journalists and the public alike with PR spin that failed to mask the cracks in its narrative. In a special episode of The Business of Tech podcast to round out the week, Ben Kepes joins me to break down the blunders, highlighting misplaced numbers, poor communication, and missed opportunities to tell a genuinely positive story. According to Kepes, a Christchurch-based

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37:37

No upgrade needed: Rimini St’s cost-saving pitch to CIOs

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2025/09/03

Nasdaq-listed tech services company Rimini Street is challenging the status quo in New Zealand’s enterprise IT market, offering a striking alternative to the upgrade treadmill set by big software vendors. On this week’s episode of The Business of Tech, Seth Ravin, founder and CEO of Rimini Street, and Joe Locandro, global CIO, share their vision for how New Zealand enterprises and government agencies can maintain legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, dramatically reduce

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34:41

Bulls**t jobs, agritech, and our advantage as AI...

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2025/08/27

New Zealand’s workforce is bracing for the rise of artificial intelligence, but University of Auckland economist and organisational behaviour expert Dr Kenny Ching argues it’s not the jobs apocalypse many fear. AI will reshape roles rather than eliminate them, and thanks to a resilient agriculture-based economy, the country is better positioned than most to adapt and even lead in agricultural innovation. “AI is definitely coming for jobs,” said Ching on this week’s

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38:11

Quantum tech's next era – A Kiwi quantum physicist on...

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2025/08/20

As the global race to develop quantum computers heats up, New Zealand is working on specialist areas of technology that could add crucial elements to the quantum supply chain. That’s according to the University of Oxford’s Professor Andrew Daley, a principal investigator in the UK’s national quantum programme tasked with developing more accurate and functional quantum computers. In the latest episode of The Business of Tech, Daley sat down with me during a visit to Wellington to

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36:30

Sovereign or sidelined?: Making the case for...

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2025/08/13

As US tech companies double down on artificial intelligence, pouring billions into new data centres and offering eye-watering compensation packages to secure the best talent, a different path is emerging for New Zealand. Catalyst Cloud co-founder Don Christie returned to The Business of Tech podcast this week to lay out his vision for sovereign AI, one where open source models and local infrastructure pave the way for the country’s digital future. While Christie welcomes the recent government

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42:30

Datacom at 60: Leading NZ’s tech giant into the AI era

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2025/08/06

This week's episode of The Business of Tech marks a historic moment: the 60th anniversary of Datacom, New Zealand’s largest homegrown IT company. I was joined by Datacom’s Group CEO Greg Davidson, who has overseen nearly two decades of remarkable change, steering the Christchurch-founded company through tidal waves of technological innovation. “It is older than me, I'm going to hang on to that for as long as I can,” Davidson quipped at the start of a wide-ranging conversation

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30:53

Concrete for a low-carbon world, with Neocrete’s...

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2025/07/30

Concrete might be the backbone of modern society, but it comes at a steep carbon cost. As global climate pressures intensify, the business of “greening” this essential material is heating up, and few are more determined to crack the code than Zarina Bazoeva, co-founder of Neocrete. In the latest episode of The Business of Tech, Zarina sits down for an in-depth interview about how her New Zealand startup is tackling one of the world’s most stubborn climate problems: cement, the glue

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39:17

The true cost of cloud: David Reiss lifts the lid

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2025/07/23

With Big Tech hyperscalers investing billions in local data centres and the Government taking a cloud-first stand, the migration of our data and applications to cloud platforms is in full swing. But as David Reiss, my guest on this week’s episode of The Business of Tech, told me that moving to the cloud isn’t necessarily the panacea if you are looking to lower the ongoing costs of running your IT systems. The co-CEO of 30-year-old tech services firm, Equinox IT, says costs can escalate

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42:05

From Auckland to orbit: Zenno’s bold bet on magnetic...

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2025/07/16

One of New Zealand’s most ambitious startups, Zenno Astronautics, is undertaking pioneering work with superconducting magnets to address one of the most pressing challenges facing humanity’s future in space - space junk. On The Business of Tech podcast this week, Max Arshavsky, co-founder and CEO of Zenno Astronautics, charts his journey from the steppes of Siberia to the University of Auckland, where in 2017 he founded Zenno Astronautics with Sebastian Wieczorek and William Haringa. His

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48:26

"Bigger than the internet”: Autohive aims to put AI...

The Business of Tech ·

2025/07/09

J.D. Trask, the Wellington-based entrepreneur behind global software success Raygun, is back with a new venture, one he believes could have an even greater impact than the internet itself. In the latest episode of The Business of Tech podcast, Trask sat down with me to introduce Autohive, a platform designed to make AI automation accessible for every business, not just those with deep technical resources. Trask’s well-established company, Raygun, is a quiet powerhouse in the tech world,

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38:53

Contented AI’s quest to turn conversations into...

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2025/07/02

By now, you’ve probably participated in a video conference call that’s been recorded and automatically transcribed, with a meeting summary sent to you within seconds of the meeting ending. The likes of Teams, Otter, Zoom and Fireflies are using artificial intelligence to parse our language for insights and meaning, translating long, meandering meetings into useful summaries. But Christchurch startup Contented AI is taking this a step further, with its transcription app also mining

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35:48

Kiwi businesses shift gears: Optimism, innovation,...

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2025/06/25

This week on The Business of Tech podcast, we unpack the sixth annual 2degrees Shaping Business Study, a barometer for the mood and ambitions of Kiwi business leaders as we hit the midpoint of 2025. The headline? Optimism is back, at its highest level since the research began, with more New Zealand companies describing themselves as thriving rather than just surviving. Optimism on the rise After years of economic turbulence, the study finds that over half of businesses anticipate revenue growth in

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