2026 NZ Hi-Tech Award Winners and Highlights

Paul Spain:
The New Zealand Tech Podcast to you by Gorilla Technology, Proactive and strategic it. I’m Paul Spain and it was such a privilege to attend the 2026 Hi-Tech Awards Gala dinner on Friday. A really inspiring evening celebrating the incredible organisations and individuals that have helped lift the New Zealand tech sector over the last 12 months. And super pleasing to also have our political leaders in attendance, including Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Leader of the Opposition Chris Hipkins. In this episode we are featuring some short and insightful interviews that cover winners across six of the categories of the 2026 Hi-Tech Awards. A huge thank you, of course, to our incredible show partners, One New Zealand, Spark, 2degrees, Workday, Fortinet and Gorilla Technology. We appreciate their support of the New Zealand Tech Podcast and New Zealand’s tech and innovation ecosystems. First up, we’re talking with Vaughan Ferguson, known as founder of Vend and also Pam Ferguson Trust.

Paul Spain:
He was awarded the Tait Communications Flying Kiwi for 2026.

Paul Spain:
Vaughan Ferguson, congratulations on winning the Flying Kiwi Award. This is, this is a huge recognition and it’s an incredible honour. So well done. I’m keen to just, you know, understand, you know, what is, what does this mean to you after, you know, many years and many achievements to, you know, to be recognized in front of your peers at the Hi-Tech Awards in this way?

Vaughan Ferguson:
Well, I mean, an incredibly emotional moment for me. I think it’s these sorts of recognitions that it’s not why you do it. And very much the imposter syndrome thing where it’s like, what the.

Vaughan Ferguson:
I’m unworthy.

Vaughan Ferguson:
What the hell’s going on? But then upon reflection, it’s like actually thinking about all the teams of people who have been working on the initiatives that I’ve just been very privileged to be part of. It’s, it’s great as a validation of their hard work. I just get to seem to take all the credit, which seems very unfair.

Paul Spain:
And, you know, you, you shared a little bit of a message in your, in your, you know, speech from the stage. How would you, how would you sum that up for, you know, in terms of encouragement and a prod to those, you know, listening or watching this chat?

Vaughan Ferguson:
The other weirdos who are listening? Yeah, well, I mean, I don’t think there is a blueprint for what it takes to do innovation or be successful. I think in my experience, it’s the people who don’t normally fit the systems, who fit outside the square, who have found it awkward, are the ones who have the more creative lenses on the world and see things a little bit differently. And too often they get ignored. But if you just take the time and give them their voice, a platform, you’ll learn a thing or two and you’ll see the world differently and maybe change it.

Vaughan Ferguson:
So that’s kind of the mission that I think Zoe and I are embracing at the moment, is spending our time with founders who don’t. I wouldn’t describe them as your atypical founder, and honestly, it’s bringing us the

Vaughan Ferguson:
most joy at the moment.

Paul Spain:
Fantastic.

Vaughan Ferguson:
It’s super fun.

Vaughan Ferguson:
Yeah.

Paul Spain:
And, you know, what’s, what’s, what’s next for, you know, in terms of what, what you see for New Zealand and for, for yourself as, as part of the.

Vaughan Ferguson:
Well, I mean, obviously innovation is a key, a key fuel to the engine of, of the economy. And it’s something that, you know, Master’s Kiwis have always been good at, you know, taking a couple of things and smashing them together and figuring out new solutions. So loving seeing more of that, in particular in the hard tech stuff. You know, we. It kind of feels like we’ve been through the software area and we’re going back to our roots of like number eight wire and building. Building things, which is really exciting to see, like, really hard stuff, which is nice to see us leaning into that. And then of course, there’s the whole AI thing, just kind of consuming everything. So I’m finding it interesting digging into that and how we can ensure that we retain our sovereignty of ideas and that we’re not delegating our brains out to offshore technology, making sure that we’re leveraging the tools to make sure that we’re keeping our sovereignty of ideas here.

Paul Spain:
And anything else you’d like to add?

Vaughan Ferguson:
Yeah, I’ve got a few little fun projects that I’m working on. I’m a little bit hesitant to share them right now because if I tell you, then I’ll have to deliver follow through is the social pressure of doing it.

Vaughan Ferguson:
Just watch the space. There’s a few cool things that I think going to be coming out soon.

Paul Spain:
Cool. All right, thanks so much for.

Vaughan Ferguson:
Yeah, thanks, buddy.

Paul Spain:
Cheers.

Paul Spain:
Now we hear from Arash Tayebi and Noreen Wilson from Kara Technologies, winner of 2040 Ventures Hi-Tech startup company of the year.

Paul Spain:
Well, great to have you both on the podcast.

Paul Spain:
Very keen to hear a little bit

Paul Spain:
about what you do. How do you describe it, your company for the first time, what is the description that you tend to give for Kara Technologies?

Arash Tayebi:
So Kara Technology is a platform that, like its name, uses technology to provide a better accessibility to the deaf community by translating information and services into sign language. Well, we are normally not here to replace the human interpreters. We are here to harvest the power of technology, how we can support the interpreters, how we can support the deaf community by providing better access to the information to sign language.

Paul Spain:
Fantastic. And so how does that play out? What does that look like? Who are your customers?

Arash Tayebi:
So our customers are the businesses and organisation who wants to make their services access to the deaf community. So you might be bank, you might be a hospital, you might be an educational, an institute provider every time you want to communicate to the public. Normally those communications are not very accessible to the community. That’s where we come in and make the email platform accessible by translating that into sign language. Well, we do it in two different way in some application that you want to announce something super fast and the time is critical, such as the timetable for bus changes. So our AI can help to make that messages to be accessible into sign language so deaf community will hear it at the same time as other communities. Sometimes when you have the crucial information, such as educational information, which are very, very important to be translated accurately. So we have a new technology that we recently developed by the Noreen and her team was we call it CAD hybrid, which AI do the first pass and human interpreters can come and edit.

Arash Tayebi:
So we have the scalability of AI and the knowledge and skill of humans combined together. Because when you think about artificial intelligence, people say, oh, human versus artificial intelligence. At cora, we believe that we can combine the power of those two, and that’s where the real magic could happen.

Paul Spain:
Arash, how did this idea come about?

Arash Tayebi:
It’s a very, very interesting story. So around 2016, I was doing PhD at Auckland University, and I feel that I’m top of the world. I’m studying in the engineering number one schools in New Zealand, and all of a sudden I got a disease called Meniere. And because of that, I lost hearing in one ear. And there was a chance of getting other ear infected as well. For me, the big question was, why we don’t have any deaf students who are doing PhD in electrical engineering and why is that? So I went to the Charleston Deaf Education center and asked the same Question. I met with amazing team of deaf. So technically they educate me about the importance of sign language.

Arash Tayebi:
So we partner up with them and we said, okay, we know the tech, you know the culture and problem, and let’s work together to provide a solution. Let’s do one step at a time. Actually, that was a place I met Nareen Noreen, used to work for Deaf Education Center. You can tell more.

Noreen Wilson:
Yeah, yeah, I did. Used to work at Depudation center as the senior resource lead there. And so really what Arash is saying is it’s been our partnership with the community from day one. And I think that is something that we can really hold as something to be honored and powerful, that it’s not just a tech company creating what they think the solution is for a barrier or for an issue that they believe is out there. Arash and the team really came to the community, found out where the real issues are, what real access looks like, and from there we were able to create a real amazing platform and software that we are now in Kara.

Paul Spain:
Well, congratulations on your success at the NZ Hi-Tech Awards.

Paul Spain:
What’s next?

Paul Spain:
What does the future look like?

Arash Tayebi:
So again for us, it was very interesting. We start from New Zealand and all of a sudden we received so many interests outside of the New Zealand. So we work in the us we start working in Singapore based on the learning that we had. We want to bring all the learning back to New Zealand. We want now to work with deaf community, with Interpreter association, with the technology company, and see how we can make OTRA technically one of the world best country and most accessible country for deaf community. And we cannot do it by ourselves. So we are part of the puzzle. And there are so many other groups that can help us and our vision is how we can bring them all together and work collectively to make that vision a reality.

Paul Spain:
Fantastic. Well, all the best for this next stage.

Arash Tayebi:
Thank you. Appreciate it.

Paul Spain:
And now we’re talking with Jock Richardson and Peter Tait from TCS, this year’s winner of Kiwibank Most innovative Hi-Tech Solution for a More Sustainable Future.

Paul Spain:
Great to have you on the podcast. Maybe you could describe for listeners what TCS is all about. Well now that’s a big in a short summary.

Peter Tait:
So we’re a microprocessor development technology company and our primary focus has been around the dairy industry and milk collection has been a big part of that for the last 10, 15 years. So it’s something that we’re passionate about and it’s something that we’re always looking to see. How we can improve on and get the best out of it, really.

Paul Spain:
And what’s the particular innovation that you think has put you on the stage at the NZ ITECH Awards?

Peter Tait:
And it’s our work that we’ve done around heat pumping mainly. And, you know, the technology that we developed back in 2015 was to basically transform the way that milk is collected from the farm. But of course, the ongoing problem of carbon emissions and noise and, you know, that are associated with milk tankers was something that we’ve been looking at for a number of years to try and see whether we can come up with a resolution around it. So developing that technology also meant how do you make it sustainable from a componentry and how do you manage lithium phosphate batteries to the optimum and how do you pump milk to the optimum speed and performance? And there’s a whole raft of technology that goes around to getting that to. To work successfully.

Jock Richardson:
So we’ve essentially enabled the tanker to turn off when it gets on farm. So it doesn’t have to drive a hydraulic pump anymore, it doesn’t have to have a PDO driving a hydraulic pump. Yeah. So saves millions of litres of diesel a year if we can get it onto all the tankers.

Paul Spain:
Fantastic. Fantastic. What’s really next for TCS, now it’s time to sort of scale out this innovation.

Jock Richardson:
Yeah, we want to see E pumping on every tanker in New Zealand ultimately. But then for TCS, we haven’t taken our technology offshore and we’ve got a lot of interest at the moment out of Australia and South America. So, yeah, really excited to be taking it offshore for the first time.

Paul Spain:
And what does that look like is that you need an injection of capital. What’s the thing that will enable you

Paul Spain:
to take this global?

Peter Tait:
That’s an interesting question. And at the moment, we are funding ourselves internally and we are looking for the opportunities as they arrive. And we’ve got several opportunities that are on the table at the moment to take it offshore into South America and Australia and what have you. And, of course, the ongoing technology of getting electric pumping on all the tankers throughout New Zealand. Open Country Dairies have been an absolute, an amazing company for adopting these new

Peter Tait:
technologies, helping us test it in the field. And, yeah, they’ve been awesome. But I think, in answer to your question, we’ve got a really great supply chain. We get a lot of New Zealand businesses that are supplying hardware to us. We’re doing a lot of assembly and I think we can fund it. I think we need probably some help getting connections in Some of the markets and the likes of nzt, I reckon can help us with that. I don’t think there’s too many obstacles, none that are insurmountable.

Paul Spain:
So what are you looking for?

Vaughan Ferguson:
More people.

Paul Spain:
What, what do you think of it?

Jock Richardson:
Yeah, we’ve just brought a couple more people on in manufacturing. Yeah, I think we’ll need some, some more in the kind of technician space.

Jock Richardson:
Yeah, some got a couple of great

Jock Richardson:
technicians which have really helped us bring the E pumping on. But if we go offshore, we’re probably going to need to get, you know, replicate that in some of those markets.

Paul Spain:
And what can you share in terms of your size, in terms of numbers of people?

Peter Tait:
Yeah, look, we’re relatively small business, there’s only 20 of us there in Hamilton, but as I said, we’ve got a lot of manufacturing that gets done by our suppliers.

Paul Spain:
Fantastic. Great. Well, we’ll wish you well.

Peter Tait:
Thank you.

Paul Spain:
Congratulations.

Peter Tait:
Yeah, cheers Paul.

Paul Spain:
Cheers.

Vaughan Ferguson:
Thank you, Paul.

Paul Spain:
Look better.

Paul Spain:
Well, very pleasing to have Matty Blomfield join us on the NZ Tech podcast again. It’s been many years. He is founder and chief executive of Hector, winner of NZTE Most Innovative Hi-Tech Agritech Solution and also Greenmount and Poutama Trust, Māori high tech company of the year. Well, Mattie Blomfield, congratulations on your wins at the high tech awards. Maybe we could start with sort of your kind of mini introduction when you’re telling people about Hectare, what you do.

Dr Yoram Benit:
All right, thanks very much, Paul, thanks for having me. The mini introduction is an analogy. So we’re in the fresh produce sector. We’re a hardware enabled SaaS company. So what that means is we have both hardware and software. The people that we solve a problem for are packing large amounts of fruit. Because of the quantities they deal with, it’s very hard to know what they have. And if you don’t know in detail what you have, it’s kind of like trying to run a retail store where you’re trying to sell clothing but you don’t know what sizes you have, you don’t know what colors you have, but you’ve got orders coming through and you’re trying to match that with your inventory.

Dr Yoram Benit:
The problem with the fresh produce seek though is like when you make a mistake and you pull something out of inventory and it does, doesn’t match what you’re trying to deliver to, it tends to sit around in a box and decay. Right. So it’s, it’s far more perishable than, than something that hangs on a, a shelf or a rack. So it’s a big problem. And they use about lose about a third of almost a third of fresh produce before it reaches the consumer. And so that’s the area that we play in. And we’re trying to have a big impact on reducing the amount of food loss by scanning fruit, giving our customers accurate data on what it is that they have so that they can plan their storage, their packing, their sales logistics and have less loss and make more money from the fruit that they have, which goes back to the grower and helps the grower make more money as well.

Paul Spain:
Fantastic.

Paul Spain:
Yeah, I mean, that sounds like a really good mission to be focused on. Tell us a little bit about the journey so far, how you know, how long you’ve been working on these problems for and you know, what sort of pivots have you made along the way?

Dr Yoram Benit:
Yeah, well, we are officially 10 years, 10 years of speaking to growers in this industry and building out solutions for them. So nothing’s fast. What we do today is very different to what we started with back, back back then. And that’s, that’s through some intentional decisions along the way around how we wanted to play on a global stage. And so there are, there are a lot of software tech companies out there and in a lot of countries and this in the ag industry, there are many local providers and there are a lot of regulations that you have to meet. And so we intentionally have pivoted away from orchard management software, which is where we began to where we are today, which is scanning fruit.

Dr Yoram Benit:
and then it, even within scanning fruit, we’re in this vertical niche where we, we capture fruit on the same day it’s picked. But there are, there are other companies out there that have grading equipment and fruit gets graded and it gets scanned. We’re very different to that. So we have our space. I think if you’re outside the industry, you’d really have no idea where is this gap and the problem. And even people in the industry don’t know the problem. So in some ways it’s a new thing that we’re trying to provide. There’s not a lot of really any incumbents.

Dr Yoram Benit:
We are the incumbent and we’re the best of what we do around the world when it comes to setting up our fixed camera system called ARC and scanning trucks as it drives underneath and getting large scale accurate data very quickly. But yeah, a series of intentional decisions over many years to get to this point.

Paul Spain:
Fantastic. And you’re largely generating revenue internationally. Tell us how you’ve built up that international customer base.

Dr Yoram Benit:
Well, you have to get out there, I think closing deals remotely or telesales or over zoom or it doesn’t. In the ag industry, you still have to have trust and relationship with the person that’s buying. And it, the sales cycle is a bit longer. They’ve been burnt out by a lot of tech offers in the past as well. So there’s promises of things that kind of come about and then they don’t really happen. And like robotic harvesting is a, is an example of something that’s really not come to fruition over, over almost two decades. And so, so they’re, they’re hesitant to buy. And what that means for us is we, we have to set up people, either our own team or have some trusted advisors that we work with in markets in order to have any success.

Dr Yoram Benit:
And that’s also a very interesting industry because we could do really well in Washington state in the US but another market like Spain really doesn’t, you know, it doesn’t matter that we’ve done that in the US they’ll say, okay, but what have you done in Spain? Same. Same with an Italian customer. Okay, but who are you working with here in Italy? And, and even then it’s like very regional. It doesn’t matter that you work in South Tyrol, it’s okay, but who are you working with in Bologna or who are you working in Piemonte? And so it’s like you really have to get in there. And so our team is positioned around several different countries, our sales and cs. I spend a lot of time in these markets myself and if I didn’t do that, I really wouldn’t know what’s going on. It’s a tricky one. There is no simple answer.

Paul Spain:
And what can you share in terms of things on the financial front, how you’re funded and how your growth is.

Dr Yoram Benit:
So agtech in general is very, very difficult, I think. And there’s slower growth compared to other verticals. We had a very strong year. 2025 grew by about 85% year on year in terms of ARR. And I think what was really compelling and given for these recent awards is we had around 150% net revenue retention, which is evidence of how much our customers expand after they start working with us and also having having high retention. And so for us, those are really key underlying metrics that we are targeting kind of a year on year basis. And if we can keep that up, this is a little bit really substantial company in the next few years. We do have big ambitions and where we want to take it we have a belief that the underlying technology itself is useful to the pack houses and distributors of fruit around the world and the crops that we deal in.

Dr Yoram Benit:
And so if we get the technology right and really nail it in and how it can be rolled out and in different countries, then this business has the opportunity to become a multi billion dollar company from New Zealand, solving something very difficult that is impactful and yeah, that’s the part that we’re after.

Paul Spain:
Fantastic.

Paul Spain:
Well, congratulations on the progress to date. And you’ve recently done a series A funding round, I believe.

Dr Yoram Benit:
Yeah, that’s right, Yep. So we had an oversubscribed round. We went out to the market looking for 10mil and closed about 12 and a half, which is as much as we wanted to take. But it’s great for us. It certainly gives us more time and capacity to go out there and do things right. Sometimes you do have to make these trade offs between short term and longer term and when cash is tight, those trade offs are more pronounced. And yeah, I’m really grateful that we were able to pull that off because now there are things that we’re going out after that we just couldn’t do before and that includes unlocking defects. So being able to detect defects from a single scan, it’ll be game changing for the citrus market, for the Apple market.

Dr Yoram Benit:
Yeah. Very excited for us and the customers that we work with today that are really looking forward to having that technology from us.

Paul Spain:
That’s great. And what could you share in terms of a key lesson or two that you’ve learned along the journey so far? I know there’s probably lots.

Dr Yoram Benit:
Look, look, this one, this one’s. It goes both ways. But don’t do ag tech. That’s the, that’s the lesson. But at the same time, now being in this industry for 10 years, I, I love this industry. It’s so honest and brutally hard and even our customers go through so much pain. Just talking this morning about some Polish customers that have lost their crop for three years in a row. It’s wild.

Dr Yoram Benit:
And the relationships in it though, and the people that we deal with like it’s awesome. And solving something hard and not being easy to roll it out there across the world, all of these things that make it hard or what make it worthwhile is my advice. Don’t do a tech, but at the same time, what an industry. I love it and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Paul Spain:
Fantastic.

Paul Spain:
And maybe a leadership insight, something that you’ve learned about leading. Leading, Hector.

Dr Yoram Benit:
I think something that is True for us after all this time is the types of people that are in the company and the culture that we’ve maintained. We’ve been careful about the types of people that we bring in, but also we take action when something’s not right. And so just thinking about leadership, we have a very supportive group of people in this company. In fact, I’ve had, I don’t know how many people have worked in this business over the last 10 years and they’ve said, this is the best company I’ve ever worked for. For me, that’s super meaningful. But I think a big part of it, it just comes down to two things. The people here really look out for each other and they look out for each other because you need kind of higher for a certain type of person for that to be true in the first place. And then that’s.

Dr Yoram Benit:
If you operate like that, that’s how others are going to do it too. And then the other one is this kind of mission driven thing. I don’t think anyone, you know, when they’re seven years old and they’re thinking about being a fireman or a doctor or a lawyer, when they grow up, was thinking about size and fruit. And yet when they’re here, for some reason, we just want to do that so well, better than anyone else. And it’s such a dedicated mission that people, they’re sometimes spending the weekends or late evenings or just really, really trying to make sure that that customer is getting value from our product. This level of dedication, being on a mission together, that’s, I think, what people really enjoy. You spend so much of your time working, you may as well enjoy the time that you do it.

Paul Spain:
Anything else you’d like to add, Matty?

Dr Yoram Benit:
I’m grateful, grateful for where we’re at and we’ve got a long way to go and hopefully over the coming years and we unlock more for this industry around the world that we have an impact. And if that’s true, then I’m sure you’ll, you’ll hear about us again. We’ll pop back up again and not just disappear into the ether. I really think we can do big things. Yeah.

Paul Spain:
I’m really, really impressed by your tenacity, Matty, and, you know, exciting to see you, you know, recognised at the high tech awards.

Dr Yoram Benit:
All right, thanks very much, Paul. Appreciate the support.

Paul Spain:
And to wrap up the show, we’re hearing from Dr. Yoram Benit. He is chief executive of Tait Communications, the winner of the Grand Gong, the PwC Hi-Tech Company of the Year for 2026. Welcome Dr. Yoram Benit to start with, for you know, anyone that maybe you know, has heard the name of, you know, previously Tait Electronics, now Tait Communications. But, but you know, doesn’t know too much around what, what you do. How, how would you, you know, you sum that up.

Dr Yoram Benit:
Thank you.

Dr Yoram Benit:
Head communications design, develop and manufacture public safety critical communications not only for public safety, but also for utilities, transportation and mining. Recently we have launched a set of products also to get into the enterprise market. To summarize, we are providing critical communication for first responders at moment that matters, right? So those systems are very reliable, should be extremely reliable, robust on the air at all times. You know, other commercial networks don’t stand in harsh conditions, weather conditions and that system, the public safety network or the utility networks has to send house conditions and provide communications at all times. So that’s overall we, the center of the headquarter is here in New Zealand with over 800 people here in New Zealand. And most of our revenue comes from out offshore and we have our installed bases across the globe with over 130 countries.

Paul Spain:
Yeah, that’s incredible. When you look at the judges pick of Tait Communications as a high tech company of the year, what do you think it is in particular that’s caught their attention? Cause we’ve got some pretty interesting companies that were also nominated. You know, what do you think it is? Is it your current growth? You know, there are other areas that sort of particularly stand out from your perspective.

Dr Yoram Benit:
So back in 2021 we were at around $150 million in revenue. In 2025 we achieved over half a billion dollars in revenue. And I would say our innovative solutions towards the public safety, end users and utilities got us to where we are today. We listen to the market. We are not developing product and solutions that are coming from in house without close connections with the market rather than we have fitted in from North America, South America, from Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia, and of course here from customers in New Zealand. And what we are tailoring is solutions that address problems that they have in the field. And those solutions are very innovative solutions. As that technology progresses, you have to

Paul Spain:
have

Dr Yoram Benit:
multiple solutions coming together. We call it a converged solution. And a converged solution today is not only land, mobile radio, but also cellular and cellular at the same time brings video streaming, real time crime center, workflow management and all those are coming together and we continue to innovate and we are going to continue to surprise the market for years to come in next year and the following year.

Paul Spain:
Fantastic.

Paul Spain:
What do you think it is about the DNA of Tait that sees the company. Here we are, I think it’s 57 years on from being founded and we’re seeing this great growth, exciting innovation. Why is that happening?

Dr Yoram Benit:
The big difference between us and our competitors is that we listen, we listen to our customers and when necessary, customize solutions. No other company would go and customize a solution because it’s like deviating from the main line. But Tait does that and it does that. Give you many examples with the emergency agencies here in New Zealand. Right. We’re talking St. John, we’re talking New Zealand police fire and Wellington Free Ambulance. Right.

Dr Yoram Benit:
Each of the agency has different requirements and different things that they need in order to operate and we’re bringing those into them. We are the only company that would go the extra mile and develop something very, very unique that will address a problem they have. So I think being very, very close to our customers, listen to them and address their issues, put us in a very, very unique position in the market.

Paul Spain:
That’s fantastic.

Paul Spain:
And how have you built up the trust? Because the sort of networks that you are providing, public safety networks and so on, you know, they need to be incredibly robust otherwise there’s going to be some pretty serious fallout.

Dr Yoram Benit:
Absolutely. So take for example the public safety network here in New Zealand that we are building throughout the country. That system is very, very robust and has the required resiliency. We remember what happened with Gabriel in the North Island. So we are designing the system as such to withstand those kind of harsh weather situations, whether it’s extra batteries, whether it is extra generators. You know, some of the sites are off grid sites. No, no power. So we were making sure that withstand few days without being able to get to those sites.

Dr Yoram Benit:
And when you talk about linking backhauls, you have multiple redundancies to make sure that if one side goes down, the other would take over. Not only from the capacity and the range perspective, but also the coverage to provide first responders with the ability to communicate at all times. There is no other option because those, those systems are very critical.

Paul Spain:
Well, I trust you really enjoyed hearing from the incredible awardees that we had on the episode. And of course a huge congratulations to all the other winners and finalists from the Hi-Tech Awards for 2026. Stay tuned of course, because we will be talking to more of those who were featured in the Hi-Tech Awards in future episodes and we’ll have some more in depth interviews coming too. Be sure to listen or watch every week to ensure you’re up to date with the best insights from New Zealand’s incredible tech sector and a big thank you to our amazing show partners, including Workday, Fortinet, 2degrees, Spark, One New Zealand and Gorilla Technology. If you’re not already following us on Spotify, YouTube or your favourite social or audio platform, now’s your chance. This is Paul Spain signing up for another week. I will catch you again on the next episode. Catch you then.