New Zealand’s largest exporter of premium quality lamb, beef, and venison products, Silver Fern Farms has teamed with technology company Lynker Analytics to form a new joint venture called Prism Earth Ltd (Prism).

The 2023 Beef and Lamb New Zealand Awards were held in Christchurch last week. These awards celebrate the people, innovation, technologies and management systems that make New Zealand’s grass-based red meat industry world-leading.

The AI Forum of New Zealand launched its Explainable AI (XAI) white paper on November 8th 2023. The white paper provides a comprehensive overview of XAI in New Zealand and it will help organisations and individuals make informed decisions about how to use XAI responsibly and ethically.

Virtual Eyes has won the Innovation Award at Stormwater 2023. This year, the innovation showcase was refreshed in order to celebrate any and all new ways of thinking or doing, that are aimed at improving stormwater outcomes across Aotearoa.

Environment Canterbury has taken its first steps into using AI to identify pests from aerial imagery. A successful pilot in South Canterbury has shown that AI may provide an efficient way to inspect large swathes of land for biosecurity threats such as Nassella tussock.

Wellington technology company Lynker Analytics has been selected by Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand to capture building outlines from publicly owned aerial imagery over the next three years

Lynker Analytics together with partners Snap IT and Teem Fish Monitoring are researching methods to automate the measurement of fish for use in processing sites and on commercial fishing vessels in New Zealand.

Environmental science and engineering specialists PDP and Lynker Analytics have been selected by the Ministry for the Environment to jointly develop a new approach to assess riparian areas across New Zealand using AI.