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Fastest, farthest and by Friday
“Fastest, farthest and by Friday” is how HCL Technologies’ HR Leader ANZ & Japan Kamal Chauhan described the pace of Hamilton’s IT industry.
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2019 Best Design Awards finalists
Stark Property’s Panama Square and The Riverbank Lane have been named finalists in the 2019 Best Design Awards. The Best Design Awards is an annual showcase of excellence in graphic, spatial, product, interactive and motion design, brought to you by The Designers Institute of New Zealand
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How will Te Waka’s Economic Development Agency Capability Funding benefit Waikato organisations?
Funding will be used to assist organisations to develop PGF applications. Te Waka is aiming to achieve the following outcomes for Waikato organisations.
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Te Waka granted funds to accelerate region’s access to Provincial Growth Fund
Te Waka has been successful in securing Economic Development Agency Capability Funding at $200,000 per year for two years.
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Waikato Hospitality Champions Celebrated at Regional Awards
The festivities were hosted by The Restaurant Association of New Zealand and local food group Waikato Food Inc at The Atrium, Wintec. The highly anticipated awards recognised everything and everyone that is hospitality – from front of house teams, kitchen crews and baristas to bar stars, restaurants, and top industry personalities.
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Raglan Coconut Yoghurt becomes NZ’s first carboNZero certified yoghurt company
Global headlines are increasingly highlighting the urgency of the climate crisis, and in the small town of Raglan (population 3,500), a local yoghurt company decided it was time to take action. “It’s easy to sit back and think ‘well, the problem is too big, what can I possibly do about it’, says co-founder Tesh Randall (aka Mrs Coconut), “But unless businesses start taking responsibility for the emissions they create, things will never get better.”
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Shaping a ‘slice of heaven’ for Waikato
Land opportunity, lower traffic congestion, and being on the doorstep of Auckland’s International Airport are huge advantages for the Waikato, according to a panel discussion hosted by Deloitte and Waikato Economic Development Agency, Te Waka.
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Science thrives in the Waikato as Kudos Awards names finalists for 2019
This year’s Kudos Awards finalists continue to prove that science thrives in Hamilton and the Waikato.
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LearningWorks and Open Polytechnic collaborate
LearningWorks and Open Polytechnic have teamed up to co-develop a course that will train on-job assessors through online and blended learning.
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Waikato hosts record-breaking Indigenous scholars conference
Hamilton has hosted a historic NAISA conference, in what has been hailed as a record-breaking meeting for Indigenous scholars from around the world.
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Did you talk to 30,000 people a year when you were 20 years old?
GirlBossNZ is a social enterprise working to empower women into careers in leadership, entrepreneurship, and STEM.
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Wrapping up Fieldays 2019
Fieldays 2019 was officially opened on 12 June by the Rt. Hon. Jacinda Ardern and New Zealand National Fieldays Society President Peter Carr with 128,747 visitors coming through the gates over the four event days.
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