Steve West has achieved serial disruption by now. The young Kiwi entrepreneur will be in Tai Tokerau on 15. March to workshop with young Northlanders on how to change the world using cool technology. Steve first developed a technology to digitise the analog DJ business when he and his friends started Serato in 1997. After … More EV and Music Disrupter in Northland
I like the following thought provoking piece by the Singularity University on digital disruption. It is important to consider the societal change this will trigger. NIC is convinced that times haven’t been better to capitalise some of these opportunities for the best of Northland. Rather than being disrupted, we can and should become the disrupters. … More Digital Disruption
NIC’s subsidiary the Northland Transport Technology Testbed (N3T) has identified a number of challenges on Northland rural roads. road safety dust on rural roads We have put together a consortium of regional and national businesses, as well as researchers to assist addressing these Northland challenges. If you like to know more about this, please contact … More Addressing rural road challenges
Northland is not like Europe, North America or Asia. The climate is different, the people have different housing requirements. Yet, we still build in an American style one-off housing style in Northland. Should we consider designing and building houses which meet our socio-economic and climatic environment? Should we look at evaluating different types of building … More Sustainable/ affordable building for Northland
NIC is proud to announce that one of NZ’s best industrial designers, Alain Brideson, is coming to Northland. http://www.brideson.com Alain is one of NZ’s most foremost industrial engineers. He has designed a globally leading autonomous concept car – including drone landing platform at the back. This car was showcased to US President Obama and German Chancellor … More Kiwi Innovator Series 04: Alain Brideson
NIC strongly believes that innovation & entrepreneurship will assist Northlanders to thrive and enjoy life further. One exciting example is Thought Wired. This is an innovative technology developed by passionate entrepreneurs/ scientist in New Zealand. They are helping New Zealanders with severe physical disabilities to use their brain waves to communicate with their family, friends … More Start-up encouragement in Northland
NIC brought BAXTER, the collaborative robot, to the Science Fair from Tuesday 30. August afternoon to 1. September 2016 as part of our Kiwi Innovator Series. We had over 150 young & mature, curious minds, checking out Baxter, flying drones, learning about induction power and other fun science projects. The Science Fair displayed over 250 … More Kiwi Innovator Series 03: Baxter and youth innovation at Science Fair
Four time Olympic Gold Medal Winner and Americas Cup Winner Sir Ben Ainslie (pictured) has been actively involved in environmental campaigns for a number of years and has partnered with 11th Hour Racing, which promotes the health of the marine environment. Ainslie said: “As a sailor I’m constantly aware of my surroundings. Sailing at venues … More Olympic Gold Medalist promotes ocean conservation
Connecting Northlanders with NZ’s top sustainable innovators NIC, a Northland-based business incubator on a mission to bring sustainable innovation to the region, today announced eight guest speakers for its Kiwi Innovators Series. Global Forum Educator Award Winner and Microsoft Global Innovative Educator Chris Clay will head the next Kiwi Innovator workshop to be held on Friday, May … More Kiwi Innovator Series 02: Chris Clay – Educationalist & Entrepreneur
On December 8 last year 195 nations agreed at the COP21 meeting in Paris to limit climate change impacts. It is not so much the content of the agreement but the fact that most nations have agreed to agree, take action and monitor their respective action, that make this event an important one. On a less … More Climate change urgent reminder that sustainable action is needed
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