Memia Blog Archive 2008-2021 (133 posts)

Archived from old memia.com Wordpress site. Permalinks kept - to browse the originals head to the Wayback Machine Internet Archive 27 Oct 2021

2021

• May 04 Technology Guest Speaker Invercargill “Emerging technology trends in 2021” at Techweek21 Southland Mon 24th May 2021
• Mar 11 Technology Guest Speaker Wellington "Emerging tech: opportunities for Aotearoa in 2021 with Ben Reid" at the Creative HQ Event Wed 14th Apr 2021
• Feb 24 Technology Guest Speaker in Australia on Tech Load with Sandra Spencer on Melbourne’s 88.3 Southern FM - 24 February 2021
• Feb 15 Digital Guest Speaker "Selecting the right platforms and tech" at the NZTE Digitally Speaking series Thursday 25th February 2021:
• Feb 04 Guest Speaker: "Emerging Digital Marketing Technology Trends 2021" at the NZ Tech Marketers conference: Wednesday 30 June 2021

2020

• Dec 22 Memia 2020 wrapup: Top 10 themes from a year of tumultuous change???
• Dec 04 DEC 2020: Keynote Speaker at NZ Debt Capital Markets Summit 2020 in Auckland
• Nov 25 Guest speaker on Tech Load with Sandra Spencer on Melbourne's 88.3 Southern FM
• Apr 05 Post-Covid-19 - some "axes of uncertainty" scenarios for New Zealand Inc.
• Jan 15 Think // Ahead: New Memia newsletter for the 2020s

2019

• Jan 13 Redistributive sovereign cryptocurrency - an alternative to a "wealth tax"?

2018

• May 10 Artificial Intelligence - Shaping a Future New Zealand

2017

• Sep 23 Memia Labs Monthly Digest #8 - September 2017
• Aug 20 Memia Labs Monthly Digest #7 - August 2017
• Jul 18 Memia Labs Monthly Digest - July 2017
• Jun 19 Memia Labs Monthly Digest - June 2017
• May 17 Memia Labs Monthly Digest - May 2017
• May 14 Why Neuralink and Kernel are trying to solve the right problem at the wrong time
• Apr 26 Memia Labs Monthly Digest - April 2017
• Mar 21 Memia Labs Monthly Digest March 2017
• Feb 10 Memia Labs Monthly Digest February 2017

2016

• Oct 19 “Overtaking Lane” Strategy For Digital Disruptors
• Aug 15 10 essential reads for doing Tech Business Strategy today
• Jun 17 "Driving On The Curve" - digital disruption presentation June 2016
• Jun 09 SingularityU New Zealand is happening - 14-16 Nov
• Mar 30 Introducing the Meta 2 - *Real* Augmented Reality in 2016
• Jan 19 Shivon Zilis' Machine Intelligence industry landscape 2.0 - updated for 2016

2015

• Jun 24 Introducing... the Big Idea Canvas - a more accessible business model canvas for startups
• Apr 24 Startup Weekend Christchurch - only 14 sleeps to go!
• Mar 24 3 tech trends shaping the future of software - Augmented Reality, Machine Intelligence, Blockchain
• Mar 23 Get in quickly for Startup Weekend Christchurch 2015!
• Jan 31 Memia Zeitgeist 2014 -> 2015 #2: Christchurch Re-imagined and Rebuilt
• Jan 23 Memia Zeitgeist 2014 -> 2015 #1: New Zealand Tech Industry Growth

2014

• May 15 Launching the 2014 FLUX Report for Canterbury
• Apr 22 Christchurch - City of Opportunity? (Video)
• Mar 19 Christchurch Startup Weekend 2014 - what an event!

2013

• Dec 22 So farewell, then, 2013...
• Dec 11 New Zealand SaaS company valuations - something in the water?
• Sep 24 Some useful resources for understanding and benchmarking SaaS metrics
• Sep 19 OPINION: Tech contributes 6% of Christchurch GDP, and that’s just the beginning
• Aug 18 5 years in, growing technology business from New Zealand
• Jul 23 Slicing the Pie - Startup Equity Split
• May 22 Reflections on a highly successful NZ Technology Innovation Week 2013 #TIW2013
• May 15 Christchurch Lean Startup Circle Meetup 20th June
• Apr 11 Ben Reid from Memia talking NZ Tech industry and EPIC on Canterbury's Plains FM
• Mar 27 Training and Coaching: Strategic Planning for High-Growth Technology Businesses
• Mar 03 Markets are now global – it is time for (NZ) investors to be global as well
• Jan 07 Making 2013 a transformational year for ambitious Kiwi tech companies
• Jan 07 Welcome new Memia Consultant Sam Ragnarsson

2012

• Dec 16 Presentation from "Geeks on a Plane" - EPIC Christchurch 13 Dec 2012
• Nov 22 Christchurch EPIC centre - official opening today 22 Nov 2012
• Nov 14 Silicon Valley "Geeks on a Plane" startup event visiting Christchurch, Thursday 13th Dec
• Sep 04 Computerworld Opinion Piece - Christchurch Challenge
• Aug 26 Innovation and science need to play a bigger role in New Zealand economy - new progress report from MBIE on Innovation
• Jul 31 Christchurch Innovation Precinct announcement - early thoughts
• May 18 Presentation from Startup Conference 2012 a few weeks ago: Lean startup, Lean VC
• Apr 20 You don't need to be in Silicon Valley to do a startup: top 25 startup ecosystems in the world
• Apr 04 Christchurch EPIC Campus gets a green light - Memia a founding tenant
• Mar 26 RIP Paul Callaghan - watch him once again at StrategyNZ 2011
• Mar 01 Christchurch Startup Weekend - 54 hours, 10 new businesses created, great fun.
• Jan 13 How to have the best family summer break ever: Agile holiday sprint planning

2011

• Dec 22 Happy holidays! Memia's Pick of 2011
• Nov 14 Memia Google Apps Practice moves to Arise Business Solutions
• Aug 16 Google buys Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion - defines smartphone OS market mechanics
• Jun 11 Startup Genome Report: ESSENTIAL Reading for Internet Startups
• Jun 11 Microsoft Release Windows 8 Preview
• Jun 09 SaaS Business Model Fundamentals - notes from AATC Session
• May 25 Attending All About The Cloud 2011 in San Francisco
• Apr 18 SaaS ISV financials - some industry triangulation points
• Mar 24 Rebuilding Christchurch - Rooftop Gardens concept
• Mar 21 Memia presenting NZTE SaaS and Cloud workshops for ISVs
• Feb 28 Christchurch Business Recovery - Phoenix Office Parks: Vision
• Feb 27 Christchurch Business Recovery - Collecting Temporary Office Requirements
• Feb 26 Christchurch earthquake business recovery: temporary office solutions
• Feb 25 Christchurch earthquake business recovery - the months ahead
• Feb 25 Christchurch Earthquake 22 Feb 2011 - Memia Update
• Feb 21 Notes from Accelerate 2011, 18th Feb
• Feb 16 February 7th-11th 2011: A momentous week in Mobile
• Feb 09 Hope you enjoy our new website!

2010

• Dec 18 Season's Greetings from Memia to all our customers, partners and friends
• Dec 13 Thoughts on recent NZ IRD advice on using Cloud Computing services
• Dec 02 Prevailing theme from 2010: The accelerating rate of technology change becomes clear
• Sep 19 Rebuilding Canterbury #2: Buildings of the future
• Sep 07 Rebuilding Canterbury the smart way #1: Libraries
• Sep 05 Canterbury Earthquake - free emergency help available for businesses without email
• Aug 27 NZCS Canterbury Presentation Slides - SaaS Tools for 21st Century Service Provides
• Aug 27 Exciting SaaS ERP startup Letstrade moves into Beta
• Aug 08 Memia SaaS Standard Architecture for SMEs - from NZ$31+gst per user per year
• Aug 08 New Memia Senior Associate Consultant: Rob Laidlaw
• Jul 08 #gonegoogle Clarus implements Google Apps and achieves ROI in 6 weeks
• Jun 01 #gonegoogle: Memia helps Irelands Property Management to deploy Google Apps successfully
• Apr 24 Memia becomes Authorised Google Apps Reseller
• Apr 15 Update: Ben Kepes NZCS Christchurch next Thursday 22 April: The Cloud in 2010: After the Hype
• Jan 17 Upcoming Australia / NZ CloudCamps: Sydney, Wellington, Melbourne, Perth
• Jan 17 Gartner Prediction: By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets.
• Jan 10 Cloud model software development team - Technology Architecture viewpoint

2009

• Dec 09 Notes from Cloud Futures Software Vendors SaaS Migration Conference
• Dec 06 In San Jose for Cloud Futures SaaS Migration conference
• Nov 20 Memia is hiring: XHTML, CSS, ASP.NET Developers
• Oct 12 CloudCamp Christchurch - Fri October 30th
• Oct 07 NSFW: The Cloud Computing Consultant
• Oct 06 Presenting Course at CDC 24th Nov: Productivity and Internet Technology
• Oct 06 Did you know?
• Oct 03 Amazon Web Services provisioning 50,000 EC2 server instances PER DAY
• Sep 27 Memia is hiring: Senior SaaS Test Analyst
• Sep 23 Upcoming Cloud Conferences: Auckland, San Jose
• Jul 09 Microsoft Office 2010: The Movie
• Jun 18 The software business: your risk model, should you need one.
• Jun 11 Ray Ozzie: Cloud lowers margins shocker
• May 31 Google Wave - the future of email, collaboration?
• May 07 Cloud Services in the Enterprise - slides from Canterbury Software Cluster meeting 5 May 2009
• Apr 21 Google App Engine supports Java!
• Apr 21 Ruby over ABAP - is this SAP's cloud PaaS play?
• Feb 28 Cloud Services Stack - "Above the line"

2008

• Dec 14 "Services 2.0" - that'll be our Magic Quadrant, then
• Dec 09 Secure "cloud" services offered by retail bank in New Zealand
• Nov 20 Cloud Services - Business Fundamentals
• Nov 20 Presentation from Chch DNUG,19 Nov 2008
• Nov 16 IDC market analysis: IT spend on cloud services to grow to $42 billion / 25% of spend by 2012
• Nov 10 Economist Corporate IT Survey: Cloud Computing
• Nov 03 Slides from Chch .NET code camp cloud services talk
• Oct 28 Microsoft announce "Azure" services platform at PDC - no hard pricing yet
• Oct 26 Amazon announcements: General Availability (99.95%) and Windows on EC2. Windows cost benchmarked at 25-40% over Linux to provision!
• Oct 02 Microsoft Cloud Announcements
• Sep 25 Microsoft's big Cloud launch at PDC 2008
• Sep 21 Data property rights: a banking analogy
• Sep 11 13,000 days down - nearly half way there?
• Sep 04 Cloud services enterprise architecture part 2
• Aug 29 Interesting posts on the "Principles of Cloud Oriented Architecture", and "Cloud Computing Bill of Rights"
• Aug 14 An alternative Microsoft-based Cloud Services Architecture
• Aug 10 Integrating Google Calendar and Contacts with Windows Mobile 6 - OggSync
• Aug 04 Cloud services enterprise architecture week 1 - eating our own dogfood
• Jul 30 Cloud Services Manifesto