Last week Tim and I attended the MTANZ New Zealand Healthcare Congress in Auckland. The two-day event brings together representatives from clinical, research providers, health technologies, sellers, and businesses to debate all things health around the theme Innovate, Adapt, Evolve. It was a reminder about what a dynamic and fast moving area this is in New Zealand, and the highly innovative companies and research organizations participating.
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Imagine a world without Google search. It's almost a basic human right to be able to Google these days. Well the data giants aren't all Adwords and fancy glasses - Google.org is the non-profit arm that applies 1% of Google resource and profit to social impact and solving global issues with technology.
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Recently I had the privilege to judge the ‘Launch New Zealand Agritech Innovation Awards’ at the Fieldays, the premier agriculture trade show in New Zealand.
Right here at the very heart of agriculture is where number eight wire thinking originates, and this year was no different. From early raw right through to some well considered and resolved ideas, No.8 Kiwi ingenuity was abundant in the new crop of entries on display within the Fieldays Innovation Centre.
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An absolute cracker.
I have just finished reading Imagine - The Science of Creativity by Jonah Lehrer (Text Publishing 2012). Tim read it a few weeks back and the book is going around the studio. Great find bro!
This is one of the best books I have read recently on creativity, perhaps minus the introduction (why Jonah chose the P&G Swifter example I do not know, probably a poor example in an opening pitch on the topic of the power of imagination - the world really doesn’t need another mop).
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After throwing a couple of Inspiration Sessions out we brought this one closer to home – physically and philosophically. The new Vagabond Café below the Locus Studio hosted Jake McLaren talking about his journey from product design to sustainability via Nokia, Formway, and his current role as Environmental Consultant at PE INTERNATIONAL.
The Campaigner
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When I first heard the name Nicola Bell, she was just a year into her position, featured on the cover of Her Magazine, which I was designing at the time. When the cover photos came through, her optimistic, warm smile and smart heels made it immediately apparent that she is not your typical corporate.
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During a trip to the US Med Tech conference Advamed last October, Timothy Allan heard the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centre for Devices and Radiological Health (CRDH) discuss developments of medical device evaluation strategies and how computational modelling and simulation is accelerating medical device development.
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Recently we had great pleasure in having Sally Rosenberg join the Inspiration Sessions hall of fame to talk about her experienced corporate risk, crisis, and programme management background. Her candid and humorous review of her life journey was loved by the crowd. The talk was beautifully intertwined with proverbs, quotes, morals, and views on love and spirituality, all juxtaposed against the complexities of crisis and risk. Here Sally’s pioneering story:
Pioneering
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Being there with your customer was the message from both speakers at the last BOP Marketing Professionals event, Turning Consumer Insights into Real Bottom Line Sales, held at the Tauranga Chamber of Commerce. For one of the speakers it meant literally being where the customer is, and for the other it meant getting into the customer’s shoes, or in this case, bra.
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Waikato Innovation Park partnered with Callaghan Innovation to hold the first in a series of practical application workshops last week. The session drew a design engineering audience with an opportunity to hear from Callaghan Innovation material scientists and industry specialists talk about innovative materials and coatings.
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