Discover: March 2024

Check out some of our most popular articles and content from March.

International Women's Day

The theme of International Women's Day (IWD) for this year was "Count Her In: Invest in Women. Accelerate Progress."

In honour of this, we decided to showcase two of our wonderful graduates.

Jump over to Facebook to watch our interviews with Wednesday Wilson and Meera Patel .

IWD 2024: Why real equity needs to be the goal in emerging tech

“Emerging technologies have the power to address inequity and to support inclusion and diversity of thought – or they can cement the gaps and increase the divide. We need to get it right.”

In honour of International Women’s Day, Associate Director Tracey Cotter-Martin spoke with ITBrief on equality, equity, and emerging technologies in a rapidly changing world.

Read the full article online.

Chorus delivers ultrafast broadband – even faster with Agile

“It was a real step change when we moved our delivery method from a traditional waterfall to an Agile model. We were delivering quicker, we were faster in providing improvements for customers, and our operational business reduced its costs as well.” - Chorus Platform Manager Martin Tyson .

Working with Datacom, Chorus NZ Limited moved to an IT delivery model that allows it to keep up with the pace of change required by its customers and quickly deliver new products and services to market to meet changing needs.

Read more about our work with Chorus.

Continuous improvement ethos underpins data centre success

“We see our data centre solutions as the heartbeat of our customers’ businesses, underpinning all their operations, that is what drives us to be the best data centre partner we can be,” says Tom Jacob, Director - Data Centres, Datacom.

Learn how Datacom is working with Uptime Institute to benchmark itself against other data centre providers to ensure it can continue delivering best-in-class excellence, day after day.

AI For Creative Industries Event

We were proud to play host for part of the AI for Creative Industries Conference, with the AI Forum NZ , Wētā FX , WeCreate and Creative HQ .

With a packed agenda and some truly inspiring guests, including Head of Technology Forecasting Laura Ellis and Head of AI Research Danijela Horak from the BBC , and CTO Kimball Thurston of Wētā FX, it was a thoroughly inspiring and thought provoking two days.

Check out our brief recap post.

Meeting our future tech leaders

In March, our Tahi office was excited to open our doors to 90 students from our tertiary partners across Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and give them insight into what a future in tech could look like.

Check out our Facebook post to learn more!

Out and about

March was a huge month for events!

• Our team had a fantastic time at the National Cybersecurity Summit in Wellington sharing our expertise around Zero Trust security in an AI world and the importance of critical infrastructure resilience.
• Associate Director Tracey Cotter-Martin moderated a panel at the Bridgewest Ventures Impactful Innovation conference diving into the complexities of harnessing AI technologies in a rapidly changing world. Check out our recap.
• At Lenovo ’s TechDay24 event, Datacom Practice Lead Chris Scicluna shared his expert advice for delivering a successful AI solutions.

• Datacom partnered with Riverbed Technology for three stops on the Public Sector Digital and CX Roadshow 2024, in Canberra , Sydney and Melbourne. Our teams shared their insights into how deep, real-time insights can enhance user experiences and simplify support management in the public sector.
• Datacom's Tracey Cotter-Martin and Midu Chandra were joined by The University of Waikato lecturer Jessica Turner, Chair of Priority One Todd Muller, and CEO of RocketShip Partners Greg Sheehan at the Priority One Western Bay of Plenty DayBreak Summit for a fantastic panel discussion delving into the future of work in a rapidly changing world.

The Datacom DataPay team had a great time at the Australian Payroll Summit in Brisbane . A very special thank you to everyone who stopped by our stand and had their badge scanned in support of the Queensland State Emergency Service (SES). For each badge scanned, Datacom committed a donation to the SES and our team was proud to raise $250 on on the day. Datacom was delighted to further match those funds for a total donation of $500.

Datacom was proud to be a platinum sponsor of this year's ServiceNow Summit in Auckland, and to host a fireside chat alongside our customer Vector Limited .

Recent wins

• We were delighted to be named this year's Adobe Digital Experience Emerging APAC Partner of the Year. This award is a wonderful recognition of our team's dedication to continual development and their hard work in delivering exceptional experiences for our customers.Thank you to our fantastic team members and to Adobe for our ongoing partnership. Read more about the awards.
• We were proud to win Chrome Education Development Partner of the Year at the ASUS Business Partner Awards. Read more about this recognition of our team's fantastic work.

Looking for more?

Datacom director of PSG Ross Salisbury discusses findings from our recent cloud report and shares how businesses can use data insights to make measurable progress towards their sustainability goals .

Managing director Peter Nelson sat down with BusinessDesk NZ to discuss his career journey so far, his philosophy on making a difference with his work, and what he learned from his biggest professional mistake. Read more (paywall).

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