Robert Hickson • Apr 09, 2016 •
Wired magazine has always been somewhat of a tech fetish publication. Recently they’ve highlighted fetish tech. Silicone valley comes to “adult” toys. [I’m not revealing anything explicit here]. It’s not the sad and seedy that you may expect. These are items designed to be flaunted, or at least not to be seen as embarrassing items hidden away in a … Read More
Peter Kerr • Jun 17, 2015 •
Here’s an interesting innovation move, one to be applauded. It’s Startup Weekend Science and Research, in Wellington at Creative HQ from Friday July 3 to Sunday 5. Interesting because its the first time a non-digital (as such) Startup Weekend event’s been … Continue reading → … Read More
Peter Kerr • Jun 11, 2015 •
Right, something you can get your teeth into…literally – Lightning Lab Manufacturing. So, instead of a 12 week accelerator to figure out how to take a digital idea out to the world, the same sort of programme but aimed at … Continue reading → … Read More
Peter Kerr • May 28, 2015 •
One of the downsides of the implosion in traditional news media is that celebratory stories get little or no coverage. The general public, who in my experience love to hear of clever and innovative New Zealand companies therefore have only a minor … Continue reading → … Read More
Peter Kerr • May 05, 2015 •
Having been lucky enough to be around a couple of startup things in the past few weeks – I’ll take the opportunity to reflect. The first occasion was a Skype interview at Wellington’s Creative HQ with George Smith, the founder … Continue reading → … Read More
Peter Kerr • Apr 13, 2015 •
The OS//OS (Open Source//Open Society) conference has got itself a new definition – at least for the OS bit. OVER SOLD! What a great problem to have. But maybe the organisers had a cunning plan up their sleeve, because they’ve … Continue reading → … Read More
Peter Kerr • Apr 02, 2015 •
The name of the two day Wellington conference on Thursday and Friday 16/17 April says it all. Open Source//Open Society (OS//OS). As a digital immigrant who has, without sometimes knowing why, gone down he android path for my devices, I’m … Continue reading → … Read More
Peter Kerr • Dec 16, 2014 •
I’m a sucker for a good diagram – a picture’s worth a thousand words and all that jazz. So I thought I’d see what, if anything, came up in a search about New Zealand’s science and innovation system; diagram-wise. The … Continue reading → … Read More
Peter Kerr • Oct 29, 2014 •
The appointment of Peter Biggs as inaugural chairman of the new Wellington Regional Economic Development Agency, is an inspired bargain. I briefly dealt with ‘Biggsy’ as he is commonly known, in a former life. My observation is that he’s great … Continue reading → … Read More
Peter Kerr • Oct 07, 2014 •
Naturally it has escaped the attention of mainstream media… But, the fact is that two Kiwi IT companies are still in, and contributing to, the world’s largest IT project – the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope. (See a press … Continue reading → … Read More