The technological revolution is impacting on every aspect of life, with Christchurch businesses at the forefront of innovation in an ever-changing world.

IDC Asia Pacific has three New Zealand projects shortlisted as finalists in the 2018 IDC Asia Pacific Smart Cities Awards. The annual awards highlight and acknowledge outstanding smart city initiatives in the Asia Pacific region and this year attracted over 180 entries.

Dezeen today releases a short documentary, called Elevation,  setting out how drones could revolutionise the way people travel,
transform how buildings are designed and built, and radically alter the form cities take.

Elevation also discusses the impact of drones on the construction industry, how flying machines will construct buildings - 
presenting recent experiments where drones are used to lay bricks to create structures or weave cables to manufacture a bridge.

"I believe there will be a huge impact on the built environment once we actually start using these machines in construction,"
says Ammar Mirjan, a researcher at Gramazio Kohler Research at ETH Zurich who worked on a project exploring aerial construction.

The New Zealand Tech and Innovation Story, the UpStarters, launched this morning by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at Techweek ’18, is a key milestone in supporting our tech and innovation companies to promote themselves on the world stage.

Innovative research that is good for the world is set to fascinate participants at Techweek18: UC People Making a Difference.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will set a world first opening Techweek on Monday as she will attend as a hologram.

Ingram Micro has been appointed as a distributor of Huawei in New Zealand, signing up the tech giant a matter of months after parting ways with Cisco.

Ahead of the premiere of a new documentary on the life and work of Sir Paul Callaghan, a few of his friends and colleagues – including Anne Salmond, Bill Manhire, Nicola Gaston and Shaun Hendy – share their memories of the great man on The Spinoff today.

Liquid Voice has announced the immediate availability of Liquid Analytics. This new contact centre tool includes the latest generation transcription engine, developed by Speechmatics in partnership with the University of Cambridge, and uses deep neural networks to achieve an average accuracy of 85% on recordings. The Liquid Analytics transcription engine has been independently benchmarked and consistently outperforms other leading systems to deliver unrivalled operational insight to increase contact centre productivity and performance.

To adapt, businesses need to innovate, and to be innovative, they need people who
break the mould, who have expertise in the arts, dialogue, …