Peter Diamandis In 2010, Kevin Rustagi was frustrated. So were his friends Aman Advano, Kit Hickey, and Gihan Amarasiriwardena. These four recent MIT grads had been thrust into the working world, where they quickly discovered they hated their outfits. Business clothes sucked. And it didn’t make sense—athletes got to perform in all sorts of high-tech [...]
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and the Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) are partnering with the manufacturing and food and beverage sectors to develop an Industry Transformation Plan that seeks to help improve these sector’s productivity, employment opportunities, job quality, wages, and international competitiveness. The programmes of work will identify, and progress, [...]
Tēnā koutou and greetings, We are delighted to let you know that we are staging an invitation-only Virtual Indigenous Trade and Connections Event under the auspices of the Indigenous Business Sector Group which is part of the Australia New Zealand Leadership Forum (ANZLF). We encourage you to register your interest to attend. The purpose of [...]
The MacDiarmid Institute is delighted to announce the continued funding of the Discovery Scholarship Programme, for Māori and Pasifika students in tertiary science. This is an extension of their long running DiscoveryCamp programme, and is designed to support students studying in the physical sciences, chemical/materials engineering, Māori sciences or sciences related to sustainable innovation. The scholarships [...]
By Bonnie Jade Kake - Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whakaue, Te Whakatōhea Matakohe Architecture + Urbanism is a kaupapa Māori design studio based in Whangārei. We work collaboratively with Māori communities to progress their marae, papakāinga and whenua development projects, and with mana whenua groups to express their cultural values and narratives through the design of their [...]
Poutama Trust: Collaboration key to success for Māori businesses Attending the Te Hono Stanford Bootcamp IV in 2015 confirmed what Poutama Trust CE Richard Jones had known about the benefits of collaboration. “We were collaborating before bootcamp, but [going to bootcamp] helped validate that this was a good path for us to go down, simply [...]
The new cohort of SheEO NZ Ventures was announced this week with a LIVE online celebration to meet the successful Ventures! The SheEO community from around the world all joined the call to watch. It was a historic moment for the SheEO New Zealand community as 60% of the 2020 cohort is Māori and 36% [...]
Rotorua lawyer, Tania Te Whenua (Tūhoe, Whakatōhea), has been appointed to the Governance New Zealand Women on Boards Executive Committee. With support from Poutama Trust, Tania was able to enrol in Governance New Zealand’s chartered governance programme earlier this year. To Tania’s delight, she graduated at the top of her classes with first class distinction [...]
Steve McLean and Aimee Hiini (Tūhourangi) are the owner/operators of McLean Drilling Limited. Their business takes them all over the South Island/Te Waipounamu drilling and laying fibre optic cables for Chorus under the UFB2 sector. They also complete work for Enable Networks building fibre optic infrastructure in private laneways and extending the network where required [...]
What started out in early 2018 as a discussion with Waiū Dairy on the possibility of producing a plant based beverage has now morphed into one of Poutama’s largest collaborative groupings, MIHI (Movers In Hemp Innovation). MIHI recently held its third annual hui at the Riddet Institute, Palmerston North with 45 people turning up for the [...]
