Jun 9, 2021 | Business & Economics
Facebook and Google, and other large technology companies, are some of the most powerful companies to ever exist. They touch every aspect of our lives, and decisions made by a few CEOs in Silicon Valley have a bigger impact on billions of people than their own...
May 25, 2021 | Science & Technology
Māori are at the forefront of indigenous AI, creating new areas of technological and cultural discourse. With deep kete of traditional knowledge, whanau are hosting broad discussions on the future impact of global tech like AI, IoT, Autonomous Driving and Big Data,...
May 18, 2021 | Science & Technology
Biodiversity loss and climate change are paramount global existential threats. A conservation scientist must wield a scientific Swiss army knife to successfully undertake research in these topics that informs policy. James Russell has been researching conservation and...
May 16, 2021 | Science & Technology
Humans are quite good at thinking, relative to other animals, plants, and rocks. But we are, perhaps, sometimes not as good at it as we might be. Fortunately, perhaps, our ability to think has given us the means to upgrade our ability to think, both at an individual...
May 11, 2021 | Politics & Society
The Minister of Health has said that COVID vaccine passports are “almost inevitable”. There is, however, a lack of clarity about just what has to be done to ensure that such passports are ethical and effective. They pose significant ethics and human rights risks and,...
Apr 14, 2021 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
Is tax the ticking time bomb of our generation? That is the focus of this lecture hosted by the University of Auckland Law School. Featuring a panel of tax experts, this seminar will discuss current and pressing tax issues such as tax and the property market, wealth...
Apr 8, 2021 | Science & Technology
The synthesis and study of molecules is at the heart of chemical research. One of the most challenging aspects is the development of methods to synthesise molecules for the first time. In this talk Professor David Barker will describe how taking up the challenge to...
Mar 30, 2021 | Science & Technology
In her inaugural lecture held at the University of Auckland, Professor Jan Lindsay gives an insight into her research into volcanoes all over the world. A consistent focus of her research has been on improving societal resilience to volcanic hazards – in the early...
Dec 2, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
Quality journalism has long sat at the heart of the democratic process – with a commitment to uncover the facts, and hold the powerful to account. Yet in a society increasingly plagued by misinformation and conspiracy theories, public trust in news organisations is...
Dec 1, 2020 | Science & Technology
Statistics is all about making sense of data. The ecological sciences are a statistician’s paradise, continually generating new types of data that need to be made sense of, due to a surge in innovative technologies for studying the populations and behaviour of wild...