TechTALK

24/06/2025

🚀 AIoT Global Summit: Economic Growth
Transforming Industries and Infrastructure | Sponsored by TechTALK
15 July 2025 | Virtual
12:30 – 14:30 NZST,
10:30 – 12:30 AEST,
17:30 – 19:30 PST (-1 Day)

This breakout explores how AI and IoT are reshaping entire industries — from healthcare and property to crypto, marketing, and beyond. Discover how organisations are leveraging emerging technologies to drive innovation, improve compliance, and create lasting value. A must-attend for leaders and technologists looking to unlock real-world impact through digital transformation.

🔍 What to Expect:
• Insights into how AI is advancing patient care and diagnostics in medicine
• The role of AIoT in redefining property valuation, urban development, and sustainability
• How industry leaders are prioritising problems over tools to guide effective transformation
• Blockchain and crypto compliance strategies powered by AI for fraud detection and trust
• Building bold, high-impact brands using AI to cut through the noise

👩‍💻 Who Should Attend:
Innovation leaders, CIOs, digital strategists, healthtech professionals, real estate experts, and anyone exploring AI-driven transformation.

🎤 Featured Speakers:
Ehsan Vaghefi, President & CEO, Toku– “AI-Powered Medicine: Bridging the Gap from Algorithm to Application”
Carmen Vicelich, Founder & Global CEO, Valocity Global – “Powering economic growth through innovation: The AIoT revolution in property, people and planet”
Nicholas Fourie, Vice President & CIO, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare – “Putting the Problem before the Technology”
Shireen Chetty, Director of Azure, Microsoft – “The Era of AI”
Hanieh Khalesi, Data & AI Lead, Microsoft – “The Era of AI”
Jamil Geor, Chief Technology Officer, Easy Crypto – “Fraud and Compliance in the Age of AI”
Stanley Henry, Chief Executive Officer, The Attention Seeker

Breakout Co-Chairs:
Helena Bahrami, Ph.D. – Founder and Director, Helium AI Solutions
Igor Portugal – Technology Innovator & Author

💡 Join us to discover how traditional industries are merging with next-generation tech to drive operational excellence and economic growth.
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24/06/2025

🚀 AIoT Global Summit: Economic Growth
Technical and Foundations Breakout | Sponsored by Amazon Web Services (AWS)
15 July 2025 | Virtual
12:30 – 14:30 NZST,
10:30 - 12:30 AEST,
17:30 - 19:30 PST (-1 Day)

This breakout dives deep into the technical backbone of AI and IoT integration, focusing on building scalable, intelligent, and production-ready systems. From conversational AI to real-time data insights, attendees will explore practical innovations shaping the future of technology. Ideal for engineers, developers, and solution architects seeking cutting-edge techniques and frameworks.

🔍 What to Expect:
• How to design conversational AI that bridges natural language and machine understanding
• Architecting scalable data platforms for streaming IoT insights into actionable outcomes
• Leveraging AI/ML with IoT for intelligent video analytics and monitoring systems
• Strategies for moving GenAI applications from concept to production
• Best practices for building secure, maintainable, and scalable AIoT systems

👩‍💻 Who Should Attend:
Engineers, Architects, Developers, Data Scientists, R&D Teams, and Technical Decision-makers working on the frontlines of AIoT transformation.

🎤 Featured Speakers:
Tyler Merritt, CTO, UneeQ – “At Last! We've taught the machines to speak our language. Conversational AI personified”
Sam Sehnert, CTO, Custom D Ltd – “From IoT Streams to AI Insights: Building Intelligent Data Platforms”
Greg Breen, Senior IoT Specialist Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS) – “Video-based driver monitoring with AWS IoT and AI/ML”
Sanjeev Sharma, Engineering Director, Parrot Analytics – “Building GenAI Apps: From Foundational Concepts to Production-Ready Solutions for Innovation and Productivity”

Breakout Chair:
Shimi Baliti – Manager, Solutions Architecture, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

This is where AI meets IoT. Don’t miss it:
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11/08/2021

Kia Ora,

It is my pleasure to invite you to the 3rd TechTalk anniversary and TechTalk #18 on Thursday, 26th Aug at 6 pm hosted at GridAKL. We want to celebrate this occasion with all our friends and community and all tech lovers.
We are looking forward to meeting you again during the event.

TechTalk is a platform to share and discuss a wide variety of technological ideas, in the form of short and engaging talks.

19/06/2021

We are excited to announce our next TechTALK event #17 by the theme: Digital Lean: Enhance Organisational Performance with Industry 4.0 with a specific sub-theme: Supply Chain.

Date: Thursday, 24th June 2021
Time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Time Zone: UTC+12 Auckland)
Location: Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT), Level 6, 238 Queen Street, Auckland Central, Auckland 1010

Our Speakers:
Alan Hesketh, CIO Advisory at EcoSystm
John McDermott, IoT Industry Advisor at Tech Future Lab
Magali Amiel, Director Consulting at CGI (Canada)
Peter Brown, PhD Patent Attorney at IPS

Sign up today https://www.eventbrite.com/e/techtalk-17-supply-chain-tickets-143546837455

20/05/2021

We are proud to announce our 3rd Techweek event and the 16th TechTalk seminar held at the University of Auckland, in their new, award-winning building. Exclusive to this event is a pre-event research showcase tour of some of the amazing facilities generating cutting-edge research which helps drives New Zealand’s leading university.

Register for the combined tour, networker, and seminar session now, starting with the tour at 5 pm.

Theme: Digital Lean: Enhance Organisational Performance with Industry 4.0.

Specific Sub-theme: Research and Development (R&D).

NIP Research Showcase Tour: A visit to two of our R&D labs with in-person demonstrations by researchers working on exciting initiatives in this field. Attendees MUST register for the tour at 5 pm, which will depart the foyer promptly at 5:15 pm.

Refreshments, demonstrations, and displays: Available in the Foyer outside Room 405-470 (Level 4) from 6:00 pm

Speakers: We have 4 amazing speakers with both industry and university backgrounds.

Date: Tuesday, 25th May 2021

Time: 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Time Zone: UTC+12 Auckland)

You can register using this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/techtalk-16-research-and-development-rd-tickets-143537320991?aff=erelexpmlt

Physical Venue: Room 405-470, Level 4, Engineering Building, 20 Symonds Street, Auckland (Please refer to the map) Accessible by multiple bus routes and only 15 min walk from Britomart train station.

Parking (paid): Basement, Owen G Glen Building, 12 Grafton Road

Virtual Venue: YouTube Stream start at 6:25 pm (https://youtu.be/_OK1wXYfQMg) please subscribe to join.

Great Sponsors of this Event:
The University of Auckland - NIP
IMS-Projects
Talent

05/05/2021

We would like to thank everyone who has participated in our 15th TechTALK networking event!

Fabulous and informative talks (Olaf Diegel, Robert Blache, Paul Gravatt), wonderful insightful session, such a nice host (Unitec Institute of Technology), and a perfect MC (Colart Miles).

Thank you everyone to support us in running the events.

Special thanks to our main partner IMS Projects and TechTalk volunteers who did all the hard works.

Looking forward to meeting you all again at TechTalk 16 during the Techweek NZ at The University of Auckland.

Register here for the event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/techtalk-16-research-and-development-rd-tickets-143537320991

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29/04/2021

Our 15th TechTALK event will start in 2 hours at UNITEC, 139 Carrington Road, Mount Albert.

We are looking forward to meeting you and share the business techniques of the latest industry developments.

Make sure to sign up using this link: https://techtalknz15.eventbrite.com
as there will be limited seats available on site.

28/04/2021

We are 1 day away from our 15th TechTALK networking event by the theme: Digital Lean: Enhance Organisational Performance with Industry 4.0. Specific Sub-theme: Manufacturing.

Limited seats left. Please complete your registration today!

- Date, time: 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Time Zone: UTC+12 Auckland), Thursday, 29th April 2021
- Registration link: https://techtalknz15.eventbrite.com
- Physical venue: Unitec Library (Building 180 - Room 2045), 139 Carrington Road, Mount Albert, Auckland, New Zealand
- Virtual event link: https://youtu.be/znWsDratMoU

IMS Projects, Nick Sheppard, Colart Miles, Robert Blache, Paul Gravatt, Olaf Diegel.

29/03/2021

We will be live in 7 hours.
Limited seats left. Please complete your registration.

- Registration link: https://techtalknz14.eventbrite.com
- Physical event: 6:00 pm at Techtorium, 182 Broadway, Newmarket, Auckland
- Virtual event: 6:30 pm at https://youtu.be/A5ttiKlh2oY

IMS Projects, Colart Miles, Carmen Vicelich, Dr. Lehan Stemmet, Michael Tapp, Mark S.

29/03/2021

There is only one day left till our
14th TechTalk event arranged in partnership with IMS Projects around the theme: Digital Lean - Enhance Organisational Performance with Industry 4.0 - Date, Knowledge, and Insight.

We are excited to see you tomorrow!

Make sure to register using this link: https://techtalknz14.eventbrite.com

27/03/2021

Our third speaker is Michael Tapp, Founder and Director of CYMA.

Michael completed BCom/BSc at University of Auckland and recently completed Masters of Commercialisation & Entrepreneurship. Started career developing & implementing and accounting solution before moving into consultancy. Performed various solution architecture roles before starting Cyma with some business partners 9 years ago to fill a gap in the market for a specialist consultancy in the information systems architecture space. Spent the last 6 months acting as head of architecture in Vodafone.