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• Scientists to swap dusty old kilogram for something more stable

  While the extra accuracy will be a boon to scientists, for the average consumer buying flour or bananas, 'there will be absolutely no change whatsoever'

• Digital ethics and privacy emerge as top tech trend to prepare for in 2019: Gartner

  People are increasingly concerned about how their personal information is being used by organisations in both the public and private sector, and the backlash will only increase for organisations that are not proactively addressing these concerns, says Gartner vice president David Cearley

• Kiwi students invited to 'walk on Mars'

  The virtual mission to the red planet will take off from the Manukau Institute of Technology on Aug 11

• Icebreaker CEO Rob Fyfe on leading from the front in any business environment and taking on the competition

  Rob Fyfe discusses the transitions - and constants - of his career from CIO to CEO, and to another chief executive role.
  
  

• Gartner reveals the top 10 strategic tech trends for 2017

  These trends will set the stage for the Intelligent Digital Mesh, says Gartner vice president David Cearley.
  

• Strong appetite emerging for adding tech-savvy directors to established company boards

  Institute of Directors and EY share pointers on how to prepare for this role

• Doing business with Rich Chetwynd of ThisData: Startups, security and skiing

  The best advice he has received? 'Listen,' says the CEO of security company ThisData.

• Inside the modern battleground

  A heads up on the four technology trends that CIOs have to prepare for.

• P2P currency exchange startups disrupting the finance sector

  New Forrester report says banks and international money firms should be worried - but they can ‘outsmart’ the disruptors.

• Movers and shakers: Grant Taylor of Acland Holdings and Lukasz Zawilski of NZQA

  Plus: Microsoft NZ Imagine Cup winners, Charity-IT’s hackathon and the Ntec New Zealand Computer Museum.

• Dateline Nelson: Innovation upstream at NZ King Salmon

  IT manager Simon Gutschlag takes the perspectives of a biologist, an environmentalist and a technology evangelist at New Zealand King Salmon.

• Doing business with Ed Hyde of Qrious

  The CEO of the data analytics company talks about making the leap from telecommunications to the arena of ‘smart data’.
  

• Movers and shakers: Making the transition from IT exec to CEO

  Plus, a round-up of appointments and events in the business technology sector.

• Samsung touts ‘effortless multi-tasking’ features of Galaxy Tab S

  Samsung is setting the industry bar higher for the entire mobile industry, says JK Shin, CEO and president of IT and mobile division.

• ‘Adapt or die, evolve or be left behind’: Geraldine McBride

  “If you don’t figure out how to be relevant to millennials in the next five years, you may be out of business in the next decade,” says the CEO of MyWave and former SAP North America president.