Recently, leaders from Aware Group had the opportunity to travel through Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam. After two and a half long years of connecting virtually and delivering projects from a distance, we were finally able to meet with our partners and customers in the region again! It was fantastic to reconnect in person, supporting regional…
Global Award winning Microsoft Innovation Partner Aware Group have today confirmed the appointment of The Instillery founder and award-winning kiwi tech entrepreneur Mike Jenkins to the role of Chairman of the Board of Directors. Since handing over the reins of CEO at The Instillery and successfully exiting in March 2022, Mike is actively pursuing an…
City councils are facing ever-growing challenges to improve the way they manage their transport networks. Since 2018, Hamilton City Council has been partnering with Aware Group to develop innovative solutions to solve urban transport problems under their Smart City initiative. As a very forward-thinking council, HCC had been exploring ways to incorporate technologies like computer…
Aware Group today announced it has earned the Analytics on Microsoft Azure advanced specialisation. This specialisation is a validation of a partner’s capability in planning and delivering tailored analytics solutions, following Microsoft and industry best practices. The Analytics on Microsoft Azure advanced specialisation can only be earned by partners that meet stringent criteria around customer…
Earlier this month, Microsoft Malaysia held the 2021 Microsoft Malaysia Partner Awards, celebrating their top partners for the success they had in empowering local organisations through technology. We are honoured to announce that Aware Group was named Azure Partner of the Year for Microsoft Malaysia! We have been investing our effort and expertise into Malaysia…
In 2011, the city of Christchurch was hit with several high-magnitude earthquakes, tragically costing more than 180 lives and causing billions of dollars in damage to the city. One of the most severely damaged buildings in the earthquake, and one of those most noticeable as you walk through the downtown area, is Christ Church Cathedral….
Cities and campuses are constantly making decisions regarding the planning, development, zoning, and maintenance of their pathways; decisions that impact public safety, affect operational efficiencies and change how pedestrians and other non-car traffic interact with their environment. To make the right decisions for the city or campus, planners need access to accurate data on their…
Windows 11, the first major update to the Windows operating system in over six years, was officially released to the public on October 5, 2021. We’re very proud to say that we are playing a part in the rollout of this long-awaited release! Microsoft simplified the user experience to put productivity, creativity, and ease at…
We’ve been utilising emerging technologies to produce some pretty unique solutions for years. But an age-defying Olympic competition across two countries is not something we expected to help out with. [email protected], as it has been dubbed, was Ryman Healthcare’s brilliant idea to increase engagement for thousands of their residents all across New Zealand and Australia. Using augmented reality…
Due to exponential growth and demand, Aware Group is expanding our New Zealand operations with the addition of a dedicated Wellington office and local team. We’ve been producing innovative AI and Cloud Data solutions for some of the world’s largest organisations for years, and with another office being added to our network, our ability to…
Tertiary institutions all across the world struggle with providing accurate, timely data regarding the utilisation of their campuses and facilities. Because this data is vital to running campuses as efficiently as possible, Lincoln University enlisted Aware Group’s help to automate how they collect and report information in order to optimise space usage. With the support…
Agriculture is arguably the world’s most important industry. With the demand for food increasing at an unprecedented rate and the focus on sustainable growing more vital than it has ever been, the agricultural industry is constantly being tasked to improve efficiency and output while reducing its usage of the world’s natural resources. Aware Group is…
As global leaders in emerging technologies, Aware Group has been at the forefront of innovation surrounding Artificial Intelligence. In early 2020, we introduced Aware AI, a flexible solution suite for building, deploying, and operating cognitive AI-enabled applications that opens the door for organisations to an almost endless list of use cases. Aware AI combines software,…
Microsoft has officially announced the finalists for the 2020 Microsoft New Zealand Partner Awards, and we are incredibly excited to announce that Aware Group is a finalist in three categories: Azure Innovate, Azure Migrate, and Optimising Operations! Aware Group has had the opportunity to work with many amazing customers over the past year, and we…
We have another Dashboard in a Day event coming up on. This is a hands-on virtual event with live presenters and technical specialists from Aware Group to guide you through the material. Date: Dec 03 2020 Time: 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM Time Zone: New Zealand Daylight Time (UTC+13:00) Country: New Zealand Format: Virtual Power BI is a business analytics service that…
Announcing Aware AI™ by Aware Group As emerging technology leaders in the Asia Pacific, Aware Group are proud to announce a range of Artificial Intelligence Solution Accelerators that will help organizations tackle digital transformation challenges and opportunities. Aware AI™ is a flexible solution suite for building, deploying and operating cognitive AI-enabled applications that enable many…
Overview Hamilton is growing fast and Hamilton City Council is focussed on making sure the city’s infrastructure is aligned to support that growth, whilst ensuring Hamilton is a liveable city for members of the community. Hamilton City Council (HCC) manage almost all roads across Hamilton, handling a vast and growing number of vehicles per day….
Overview Lincoln University’s Te Waihora campus is spread over 58 beautiful hectares in the Canterbury region of New Zealand. The campus offers everything from modern teaching facilities to dining, banking and travel services. Operating and monitoring such a large facility requires significant coordination and expenditure, so it is imperative to Lincoln University that they can…
2020 has been full of unexpected events. Some of those events have forced us all to expand and innovate – not just within ourselves but also with respect to our jobs and wider industries. At Aware Group, we constantly strive to bring new and emerging technologies into play with our customers to both support areas…
At Aware Group, we have a team of awesome people (+1 office dog) who deliver AI services and products to some of the largest businesses across New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region. We have offices in NZ and America, but we’re looking to expand. A bit about our team: Our team are highly intelligent…
A New Zealand Tech Roadshow is visiting Korea this week for a series of events designed to connect innovative New Zealand tech firms with tech-savvy Korean counterparts. The roadshow is supported by the New Zealand Chamber of Commerce in Korea, known as “The Kiwi Chamber,” and the New Zealand Embassy in Seoul. As part of…
The sculpture tells the story of Matariki – the Pleiades star cluster – and the significance of the Waikato River. The work overlooks the Waikato River and stands 6.8-metres tall. The development of the interactive sculpture was led by Wintec tutor Joe Citizen. A soundtrack and interactive lighting responds to environmental, seasonal and lunar changes….
On the 6th of May, Aware Group CTO Jourdan Templeton, Nathan Holland, Fraser Paine and Jay Templeton was showing off some of the useful tech that can be used for IoT at the Microsoft Build 2019 IoT Hackathon.
Aware Group is pleased to announce it’s the winner of the 2018 Deloitte Rising Star Award for the Central North Island.
On the 4th April, Jourdan Templeton from Aware Group spoke at the CoVentured Summit & Demo Day on the use of our product framework for facial and object recognition.
It’s awesome to see plenty of locals interested in data! On the 5th April Aware Group hosted an Intro to #PowerBI training session which including running through Microsoft’s Dashboard in a day. We had members from the Waikato Regional Council, Hamilton City Council, TalkingTech as well as both Waikato Institute of Technology and University of…
On the 5th of April, Aware Group will host it’s first dashboard in a day event targeted to provide a supported first experience of Power BI. Register for the event here https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/power-bi-1-day-workshop-introduction-to-power-bi-aware-group-tickets-44540736542 If you would like to know more about Power BI go check out our Power BI page.
Over the past weekend Aware Group CEO Brandon Hutcheson worked at the Innes48 as a mentor, supporting teams from all around New Zealand competing for a the title as well as substantial prize money. During the weekend Brandon noticed a few new trends: Over the weekend 5/16 of teams competing were looking at, considering or…
Congratulations to Kane O’Donnell! Kane trained a recurrent neural net on script data from television show “The Simpsons”, so that they could generate ‘new’ script lines for each character. See the embedded report below: This work led to winning the “Just for fun” category of the Microsoft Data Insights Summit. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/congratulations-to-the-data-insights-summit-analytics-challenge-winners/ https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Data-Stories-Gallery/How-well-do-you-know-the-Simpsons/td-p/202467
Early December in 2017, after months of planning Aware Group, was officially awarded a $600k Callaghan grant for the research and development of educational machine learning across anonymised structured data sets. The purpose of the research is to develop new principles of standadised reporting, machine learning techniques and complete flow of data through new technologies to…
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