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Access Granted NZ
by AG Crew
🎙️ Behind the scenes of #tech, #media, and #startups #podcast 🤗 Hosts of @WellyTechNZ 🎧 Find us on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify and your podcast app
Episodes
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Access Granted - Our last call, ka kite ano
That’s it folks - thanks for everything and goodbye. -------- We were a New Zealand podcast (2014 - 2019) sharing behind the scenes of Kiwi tech, media, and startups - https://accessgranted.nz/ It was hosted by Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, and Vivian Chandra
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Victoria MacLennan - Why do I do all this stuff
Here it is, the final Access Granted interview and it gives us enormous pleasure that we have managed to ensure our very first ever guest , Victoria MacLennan long time friend and supporter of the show, bookends this AG run (June 2014 episode 3, Victoria MacLennan - Our First Ever Interview:...
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Dr Karl Löfgren - Computer says no
A discussion with Sarah Bickerton* about how we seem to focus on the commercial world led us to having a cracking chat with Dr Karl Löfgren who is Associate Professor at the Victoria University (of Wellington!) School of Government. We asked about the speed of change within government, the…
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Shiffy Nayar - Leaving a legacy
Shiffy Nayar is leaving a legacy and she’s not afraid if you’d like to do the same. Chatting with Shiffy we discover her More Than Rubies initiative that has awoken from it’s slumber - get involved: "... a movement for young women empowering them to make healthy and informed decisions by…
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Dave Moskovitz - Education is the most important tool
The fifth of our birthday re-visits ("where are they now") has Mike and Dave catching up to discuss what has happened in the 3 years since our June 2016, "Brute force your way to success" episode. How does Dave see the New Zealand startup/ investment 'scene', what's he been working on since 2016,...
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Tamara Buckland - Mental health 1st aid
Tamara Buckland has experience to share and, as it all comes together, she is now teaching others how to ensure they too look after themselves and their teams. With a discussion about diversity, wellness, and sustainability of teams within all types of teams, not just tech, we have someone that...
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Chris McDowall - Magic Internet people
Today Viv ends her time with Access Granted by chatting with Chris McDowall. Chris and Viv first met at Kiwifoo earlier this year when he showed us a sneak peek of his latest project. If you haven’t seen the “We Are Here” book yet, check out the link below, it is beautiful and amazing. Chris…
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Gavin de Steur - The (digital) human touch
In the penultimate Viv hosted podcast she gets to go and talk with Gavin de Steur at Uneeq, well in fact she gets to talk to Gavin AND an online virtual human. Gavin, originally from South Africa, is interested in bringing back the emotional human-to-human connection and with UneeQ (formerly...
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Ben Kepes - Feel the fear & do it anyway
As Access Granted moves towards the end it is our good fortune to have started the wonderful "where are they now" series to celebrate our 5th birthday year. With Ben Kepes we not only catch-up on how the past 4.5 years have treated him since we last chatted in May 2015 on his "In the cloud"…
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Kristen Lunman & Natalie Ferguson - The outcome is the really exciting part
Kristen Lunman and Natalie Ferguson were last on the show just under a year ago and this the third of our 5th birthday celebration, and they are still “obnoxiously happy”. Of course Natalie is taking her third step into the AG limelight after being an early guest back in July 2014. We find out…
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Sh*ts & giggles – The AG Team with Owen Evans
As part of our 5th birthday Owen Evans turned the tables on Mike, Raj, and Viv and interviewed us. Of course with AG now closing down at the end of 2019 the sense of optimism about the future can been seen as unfounded. We would still like to have this published - a moment in time.
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Sam Marsh - Move away from "gaming = bad"
Sam had only 30 minutes with us as he rushed from work for quick chat about the Wellington Gaming community at our latest lair, Hashigo Zake, before skootling up to a tournament. Listen as Mike asks what a game is. Wonder as Raj and Sam get nostalgic about games. Be intrigued as Sam explains how...
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Ed Strafford - Trust yourself
Ed Strafford is a thinker, a big thinker with an amazing brain that can see the future of education within New Zealand. He is also a person that connects those that do with the intention of bringing about deep and meaningful collaborations. We find out from Ed how he ended up in a tech role, what...
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Samar Alrayyes & Charlie Gavey - Never done the T-Rex thing
Meeting at the 2019 TechFugeesNZ hackathon Mike recognised two very clever, passionate, and dedicated wahine in Charlie and Samar ... and they got on like a house on fire. Samar is currently an Azure Digital Transformation Specialist at Microsoft but really she would say that she is all about,...
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#WellyTech System Error - Come & be a tall poppy
A small and boutique collection for the Wellington System Error discussion - thanks to all that came and gave their views on the following 3 topics: - What are your views on the Hippocratic Licence? https://github.com/ContributorCovenant/hippocratic-license - What's the one thing (emotional,...
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Healthy Homes Hikoi - Time for a break
The episode in which Hīria decides to have a Whare Hauora rest ... only for a month, and only because she needs to focus upon earning $ to get a production run done. We wish Hīria all the best for the next few weeks and we'll be re-joining her sometime in November to catch-up on where's she's got...
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Owen Evans - Nobody wants to buy your sh*t
Owen Evans, second of our 5th birthday re-visits, is the CTO at JRNY and was last on the show back in August 2014, "Owen Evans - Data Lake", a true pioneer! Back in 2014 Owen had co-founded a company named Hoist from which he learned heaps (see the show title). He has since been at senior roles…
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#climatestrikenz Greta Thunberg's full UN speech
Last week the world went on strike to protest the inaction from the power structures of society with regard to the current climate emergency and today New Zealand is showing their determination to be heard. So what can we, a podcast do? We have an audience, and so we are publishing the audio of...
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Jordan Carter - The status quo is not good enough
Jordan Carter, first of our 5th birthday re-visits, is the Chief Executive at InternetNZ and was last on the show back in October 2017, "Jordan Carter – The plan is not to have a plan". Since then he's got a 'new' job, restructured the organisation, and been a part of the Prime Minister's...
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Stephen Clarke - Accidentally surviving time
There's nothing simple about Stephen Clarke, he is a mind on legs with a wealth of experience from the records / archival world with a focus on standards (published we'll have you know). Set yourself down, get a cup of tea, and take a journey through the world as seen through the incredible mind…
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Healthy Homes Hikoi - Plan for business with a business plan
Hīria with the latest in the her journey of being being a founder, chief do-it-all, and startup good person as she fights to keep the value and integrity of the data collected from the community in THEIR hands and not transformed into megabucks and tracking resources for others....
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Emily Mason - The nerd herder
Emily Mason is a woman with a mission, in fact multiple missions from starting a company with values (Frank Advice), ensuring evidence based policies are created, and assisting philanthropic donors the greatest impact in their endeavours (Impact Lab). From a life of government work to running a...
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Heathy Homes Hikoi - More shoulders to carry the load
Listen to Hiria, Kaiwhakahaere at Whare Hauora, and then PLEDGE - 5 days (at time of publication) left: https://www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/6226-manawa-smart-home-sensor-kit-for-community-organisations ------------------------------------------------------ The Whare Hauora update is brought to…
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#WellyTech System Error - Winter BBQ
Fantastic turn out in the very loud Hashigo Zake lounge for this coming together of the #WellyTech community to meet, greet, and ponder 3 topics on the podcast, namely: 1: How can a social enterprise grow beyond it's initial idea? 2: Using AI is merely sending money overseas to the big vendors.…
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Paul Armstrong - Unicorn included
Paul Armstrong has a long history in providing ICT consultancy to organisations in New Zealand and further afar with a long and illustrious career at Synergy/Fronde - but that's all history now! Paul takes us through the ups and downs of his career, and how he is excited again to be at TipoTapp...
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Heathy Homes Hikoi - 1st board meeting!
Big updates from Hiria Te Rangi, Kaiwhakahaere at Whare Hauora. Hiria has had her first formal board meeting with her Directors: Amber Craig, Jay Daly, Dianne Minee - always good to communicate where the organisation is and where it should be heading. And then Hiria has been out and about…
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Kylie Reiri - Better decisions everywhere
Kylie Reiri is one of those treasurers of New Zealand, a values focused wahine leading a data scientists focused company working on the issues that matter to all of us. Once you've heard Kylie explain where she comes from, how she wants data to make a difference through actual supporting better...
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Jessica Manins - Shoot friends with fart guns
Tweet from Jessica Manins, @JessicaManins - Aug 19 "When Sir Richard Taylor plays your game @beyonddotfun and says it’s the most fun he’s had in #VR it’s hard not to feel like this #oddball #comingsoon #VR" There's no better introduction to Jessica Mannins' new venture, Beyond, than that - and...
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Healthy Homes Hikoi - nerds unite!
Hiria is here! More on her journey, speaking at TEDxWelligton and the Zero Carbon Challenge PledgeMe campaign: https://www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/6226-manawa-smart-home-sensor-kit-for-community-organisations --- Whare Hauora has created Manawa: a smart home sensor kit and platform that measures...
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Rowan Simpson - Capture, measure and share. Appropriately
Rowan Simpson provides an episode that replicates his professional life, one of two halves. From being the first non-family member employee of TradeMe before moving on to Xero in it's early years. Since then Rowan has taken his experience and insights to many companies as investor and director,...
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Trent Mankelow - Try not to break anything
Trent Mankelow is currently the acting CEO of Summer Of Tech whilst Ruth McDavitt is off being a parent for the year and is loving it. With Trent's contacts he's looking to bring many more companies into the fold (you could be reading this in one right now, get involved with the link below).…
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Duncan Greive - The media hustle
With Duncan Greive, Managing Editor of The Spinoff website and co-host of the #realpod, you know you're going to get insight into the New Zealand media scene and where it's all heading to with Facebook and Google gobbling up all the advertising revenue. At the time of recording with Viv The…
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Marie-Claire Andrews – Poke sticks and see change happen
Marie-Claire Andrews for a long time ran the event app start-up Show Gizmodo, and with a life change out to the Wairarapa she keeps connected to the industry via various international event groups. Being out in Carterton however she looked for a co-working space, couldn't find one, talked to the...
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Brough Johnson - Does culture create media or media create culture
Brough Johnson, co-founder of Narrative Muse, and a person that is happy bringing together and community is very important to her. Coming from the TV and film industries for a number of years Brough she discovered that yes there is the content out there for LGBTQ+ audiences but it was harder to...
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Healthy Homes Hikoi - Looking for a co-founder
A bubbly and busy Hiria let's us know that the product is ready to go, she's prepping for some talks and is focusing her last week in the Zero Carbon Challenge on the PledgeMe campaign to get 200 kits to organisations. btw: product pricing is very hard :) Hiria has also published a stack of…
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John Hart - This project has got legs
John Hart, otherwise known as FarmGeek, has had a life in tech for a number of years however with a change of lifestyle to become a farmer he has now combined tech and a rural viewpoint to take on introducing tech to the community and how New Zealand needs to be more than sheep. Recently Raj and...
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Paul Brislen – Those damn cellphone radiation waves
Paul Brislen is a well known voice on 'lesser radio', TV, media, and all over the webs with his commentary on the New Zealand tech industry alongside a deep understanding of the telecommunications field. Some fascinating truth about 5G, the Russian fake news, how in-building 5G needs help ... oh,...
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John Hart + Tamara Olliver - Engraving bananas
On a recent Wairarapa road trip Mike and Raj caught up with John Hart and Tamara Olliver at the current location of the Masterton Fab Lab, a space for them to, "equip our whole community with 21st century skills so we can all participate in the world of making with technology!" John and Tamara...
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Hiria (Whare Hauora) + Access Granted's First Birthday
Whilst Whare Hauora has been around for 2+ years we only joined them on their journey 1 year ago ... but SO MUCH has happened in the intervening 12 months that we thought we'd have a wee celebration (coffee and tea all round, thanks Dom) and a review of how far Hiria and the ever growing Whare...
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Rebecca Jones & Nathan Donaldson - Watch the water behind your laptop
Looking after the team is spoken much on our podcast but we've yet to have had such a focused discussion on what that means day-to-day as we had with Nathan Donaldson (CEO) and Rebecca Jones (Agile Coach) from Boost. We cover a bit of background, especially how Rebecca made the move from...
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Tash Bettridge - Protecting whanau through cyber security
Viv first met Tash Bettridge when volunteering with kids at a STEAM workshop at OMGTech - from being a teacher to reinventing herself as a cyber security consultant Tash is one to watch out for. "Aesthetically Pakeha", is a phrase Tash uses and whilst it's funny it's also slightly sad how passing...
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Ed Abraham - I love it when a plan comes together
Ed Abraham certainly has a background to wonder at, and Mike most certainly did geek out about the times Ed spent in university with Professor Stephen Hawkins. And it's that big brain of his that see's Ed heading up a company, Dragonfly Data Science, full of very VERY clever people working with...
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Kerry Topp - The art of what's possible
Kerry Topp is the Associate Director of Transformation and Innovation for Datacom, but fancy titles aside, he is one of those humans that is naturally full of energy and genuinely want to do good for the world. Viv and Kerry talk about tech change through a human lens, developing capabilities...
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Ronja Gustafsson - Lifehacks in an App
Ronja Gustafasson came over to New Zealand a year ago and started working as business development at Nowsnapp, a startup based all over the world but developed and delivered out of Kapiti. We also talk Pirate Party from Ronja's Sweden and how it's hiding out in Miramar (who knew). The app itself...
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Healthy Homes Hikoi - There is no money without the people
A catchup with a smiling Hiria as she rides the Zero Carbon Challenge team work, and has a focused future of GETTING THE MONEY! As with all startups it's not the promises of support everyone makes it's the putting the organisational hand in the deep pocket and standing alongside....
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Andy Higgs - Regaining control of our data
Blockchain and digital identity was on Andy Higgs lips on his recent Wellington visit to the GOVIS annual conference ... we got the scoop before the attendees :) Andy works for Centrality* but in a previous life was "chasing the rainbows" building MTV in Europe, working at Deloitte Consulting…
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Healthy Homes Hikoi - C all of the things
Our regular chat with Hiria Te Rangi and her journey with Whare Hauora, the social enterprise startup, giving residents data about how their homes are killing hem. A visit to the Band Rotunda in Wellington on a gorgeous winter’s day finds Hiria cogitating upon all the work to do, how tiring it…
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JP Tocker - If you know you're gonna enjoy it, do it
JP Tocker shares a similar cloud journey* with Mike and they discuss this, podcasting with and about successful people, the All Blacks, but mostly the passion that has driven JP to continue doing what he does ... which can include getting you married. - https://www.jptocker.com/ -...
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Saia Mataele - Paving your own pathway to success
Talofa Lava and Kia ora! Welcome to Access Granted, taking you behind the scenes with conversations from the most interesting people of New Zealand tech, media or startups. Today Viv chats with Saia Mataele about what makes him tick and a wee bit about a few things he is doing in his spare time,...
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Ben Forman - Story telling & building transmedia worlds
It was perfect timing for Raj to chat with Ben Forman, co-founder at Wrestler, as he was recently announced by Forbes as a top 30 under 30 ... what an amazing story he has to tell. Ben is passionate about storytelling through technology, with a strong focus on future technologies - did you know…
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🎙️ Behind the scenes of #tech, #media, and #startups #podcast
🤗 Hosts of @WellyTechNZ
🎧 Find us on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify and your podcast app
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