Tribal Group, a global provider of education technology SaaS solutions, has been awarded a three-year contract with the University of Waikato to deploy the Tribal Student Marketing & Recruitment solution.

In what might just be a New Zealand first, budding esports stars can now study this booming industry as part of their university degrees.

"There is a lot of work happening in the sector in New Zealand but currently it is quite scattered and not very well connected."

Like any balance of supply and demand, there's a frustrating gap between what graduates are taught and what the market needs.

Te Ipu o te Mahara, which means ‘A Receptacle of Consciousness’, is an institute that will explore real-time analytics in big data and machine learning.

The build, which covers the university’s data centre, campus, and wireless environments, will support more than 12,000 students and 1,600 staff.

A supercomputer dubbed ‘The Ferrari of computing’ has been installed at the University of Waikato.

"We need a profoundly different approach to individual data rights and protection - one that recognises collective identities."

Bachelor of Engineering student Kaitlin Te Rito has scooped the Kordia Women in Technology scholarship for 2020.

Data scientists at leading New Zealand universities have gained $13 million in government funding for a project that will help to solve critical environment problems facing New Zealand.

"People are still of the opinion that gamers are the nerds in the corner who have no social skills, doing something that won’t take you anywhere in life. But this initiative is a step towards showing people that esports can lead to many opportunities in a billion-dollar industry.”

"There is a definite shortage of cyber security professionals in the industry and through the cyber security challenge, we hope to create a more aware and cyber-ready generation in the face of the growing cyber security threats."

Emily Sopers has just won Kordia’s first ever Women in Technology Scholarship, which was established to address gender imbalance in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector.

Dr Ko is off to Australia to become the University of Queensland’s UQ Cyber Security chair and director.

The scholarship is established to acknowledge and support up-and-coming female talent and future technology leaders.

A researcher at the University of Waikato has created a ‘NetStinky’ way of telling whether your home internet network has been breached.

The Waikato might be one of the best at producing innovative ideas, but it’s not so good at commercialising them.

“A lack of diversity means a lack of important voices in these decisions and will ultimately lead to harmful blind spots in our near future."

“With IoT, data is coming so fast and being produced so quickly we need to be very, very efficient."

"While some systems claim to be using artificial intelligence to analyse transactions, this is the most sophisticated tool available in New Zealand."

"Militaries can be very closed bubbles, so that’s why I think having a centre for research excellence is a good thing."

The new Aura Professor of Cyber Security will focus on risk assessment research and delivery, particularly in penetration testing.

“The University of Waikato will be the first (ISC)² OTP in New Zealand, which will be a milestone for the information security community here."

“Every half-second a unique malware or virus is created somewhere in the world," says Dr Ryan Ko.