With more redundancies at Callaghan Innovation as its disestablishment looms and the public service union taking a legal case to stop Health NZ shedding tech workers, we seem to willing to jettison highly skilled workers even as we pursue a growth agenda.

The latest Technology Investment Network snapshot of the tech sector reveals solid growth despite tough economic times, but with the first reduction in headcount in several years as our tech firms restructured to cut costs.

Our research shows AI can subtly – and at times overtly – heighten biases. And the involvement of HR professionals may worsen rather than alleviate these effects. This challenges our belief that human oversight can contain and moderate AI.

Now’s a good time to think to the future, to the growth times that will no doubt come, and the tech skills, AI or otherwise, that will help you make the most of them.