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• IBM veteran takes on A/NZ MD role

  Katrina Troughton has been appointed managing director of IBM Australia and New Zealand.

• NZ spooks want IT expertise

  New Zealand Government intelligence organisations — the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) — are both on the lookout for IT staff.

• NZ a global talent leader

  New Zealand has been branded a global leader in its ability to enable and attract talent, in the Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2019, compiled by Insead.

• Bidding war for tech talent to boost salaries

  Recruitment consultancy Robert Walters is tipping salaries for the most sought after digital technology skills to rise 10 percent in 2019 as a result of growing demand and shortage of supply.

• Amazon dumps AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women

  Amazon.com's machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women.

• Push for code of conduct to help fight sexism in security

  However bad you think gender disparity is in the information security sector, the reality is probably worse: Research backed by information security association (ISC)² and the Center for Cyber Safety and Education reveals that women represent only some 11 per cent of the security workforce.

• Local Google head jumps ship to Domain

  Jason Pellegrino will take the helm at Domain, with the Google managing director for Australia and New Zealand next month joining the property business as chief executive.

• Intel CEO resigns after probe of relationship with employee

  Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has resigned after a probe found a consensual relationship with an employee violated company policy.

• NZ government continues search for chief technology officer

  The Government has re-advertised for a chief technology officer after failing to find a suitable candidate from the first round of applicants late last year.

• Skills, not technology, the biggest challenge, says Westpac CIO

  Westpac group CIO Dave Curran has flagged skills sourcing as one of the biggest challenges facing banks, and says IT staff will have to get used to constant reskilling.

• Prospects for women in tech looking up

  In the lead up to International Women’s Day (Thursday 8 March) the executive director of Tech Women New Zealand, Edwina Mistry, says there are encouraging signs of more Kiwi women taking up technology jobs.

• Xero appoints former Microsoft Australia head to CEO role

  Former Microsoft Australia chief executive Steve Vamos will take on the CEO role at Xero, effective 1 April.

• Taranki school students get to study Wi-Fi

  ​PrimoWireless, (which operates a wireless broadband network for internet access in the Taranaki area), Massey University and New Plymouth Girls’ and Boys’ high schools have secured funding from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Curious Mind's Participatory Science Platform to investigate wireless connectivity in the region.

• NZTech aims to get more girls into IT careers

  Citing research that it says shows tech firms with a balance of men and women make more money, the New Zealand Technology Industry Association (NZTEch) is seeking to persuade more schoolgirls to take up careers in IT.

• ‘True’ DevOps engineers in high demand, says Hays

  Recruitment specialist Hays has released its latest quarterly report on the job market, identifying high demand for “true DevOps engineers,” “top level principal and technical leads,” front end and full stack developers and native iOS and Android developers.