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April 28, 2026
Why GenAI Proof of Concepts Fail in Production and How to Fix It
Moving from the early success of a promising GenAI demo/proof of concept to a reliable, scalable solution used every day across the business is often where the real challenge begins.
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April 15, 2026
Theta Adventure Racers Take on Kaikōura for Cure Kids
Our Theta Adventure Racers were back in action this month as they tackled the Kaikoura Adventure Race. This epic multisport challenge featured hiking, mountain biking, pack rafting, and navigation through the stunning Kaikōura region.
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April 15, 2026
Can Your People Spot a Vishing Attack in Real Time?
Attackers are increasingly targeting service desk and contact centre teams with convincing phone-based social engineering attacks designed to bypass security controls. Would your people recognise a vishing (phone-based phishing) attempt and respond correctly in the moment?
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March 26, 2026
Educating Whānau on Cyber Security: A New Weekly Series
Introducing Kiisha-Rose Woodhouse’s weekly Cyber Series, launched as part of her internship and the Theta Te Ao Māori Technology Scholarship.
January 22, 2026
Watch Now — The Innovation Circuit EP 9: A guide to data protection with Microsoft Purview during the AI revolution
In this episode, we’ll be discussing how to ensure your organisation’s sensitive data remains secure and confidential with Microsoft Purview.
November 12, 2025
What's New in Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025: wave 2
Watch the Dynamics 365 Business Central update with Head of Dynamics 365, Joerg Rau.
October 2, 2025
Azure North Migration: FAQs Answered by Theta Specialists
Since December 2024, New Zealand organisations have been able to start migrating to Microsoft's Azure North Data Centre. But what questions are organisations asking first? Here are our top FAQs.
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July 30, 2019
Exploring digital twins part 4: AR/VR Digital Twinning with SignalR and Mixiply
This is the final post in a series of by Rose McColl and Lillian Ho, about some recent Innovation Lab work on Internet of Things (IoT), digital twinning, and the 3D visualisation of IoT device sensor data in Mixiply, Theta’s augmented reality (AR) platform.
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July 15, 2019
Exploring digital twins Part 3: Raspberry Pi and Azure IoT Hub connection using Python
This is part three in a series of blog posts about some recent Innovation Lab work on Internet of Things (IoT), digital twinning, and the 3D visualisation of IoT device sensor data in Mixiply, Theta’s augmented reality (AR) platform. Extending from part one, this post will demonstrate sending telemetry from a Raspberry Pi IoT device to Azure’s IoT Hub, using Python.
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July 8, 2019
Exploring digital twins part 2: IoT Hub, Azure Functions and SignalR
This is the second in a series of tech blog posts by Rose McColl and Lillian Ho, about some recent Innovation Lab work on Internet of Things (IoT), digital twinning, and the 3D visualisation of IoT device sensor data in Mixiply, Theta’s augmented reality (AR) platform.
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July 2, 2019
ShadowTech Day 2019: Encouraging females into tech roles
We were involved with ShadowTech again this year, and this time around we had four very talented secondary school girls visiting us at Theta.
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July 1, 2019
Exploring digital twins part 1: Azure DevKit and IoT Hub
This is the first in a series of tech blog posts about some recent Innovation Lab work on Internet of Things (IoT), digital twinning, and the 3D visualisation of IoT device sensor data in Mixiply, Theta’s augmented reality (AR) platform.
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May 31, 2019
MiniDevs launch AR/VR platform Mixiply
For the past two years, we’ve been working with a group of students at Newlands Intermediate School, the MiniDevs, to design and develop a platform for making and sharing AR/VR games and apps, called Mixiply.
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May 17, 2019
Food Product Recall: saving time, costs and reputation
I recently attended the Food Safety and Compliance Conference in Auckland. When speaking with other delegates, it was clear that focusing attention on managing food traceability and recall processes was of great importance. Many of those in attendance were keen to find out more about the tools and systems available to manage these processes too. In this blog I’ll be laying out recall in NZ and reducing time, costs and protecting your reputation during a recall scenario. Written by Yuko Saito from Theta's ERP and Business Solutions team.
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May 3, 2019
Sharing the magic of AR/VR app Mixiply at NZ Games Festival
Last month we hosted a Mixiply workshop for kids at Capital E in Wellington, part of the NZ Games Festival 2019.
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April 17, 2019
Automating expense reporting with robotic process automation
Nobody likes entering expenses into their company’s business management system, so we decided to tackle the frustration head on. How could we make expense reporting faster? Better? Funner? (ok maybe that’s not a word but you know what we mean!). Could robotic process automation help?
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April 5, 2019
Race report: Absolute Wilderness Adventure Race 2019
Theta’s adventure racing team - Alan Moore, Jason Free and Bruce Anderson - competed this year in the Absolute Wilderness Adventure Race in Twizel as a focus for our fundraising efforts for Cure Kids. We’ve previously competed in the Cure Kids Great Adventure Race, and wanted to continue our racing and fundraising efforts. Team captain Alan Moore reports back on the challenging day.