La French Tech NZ's TechTalks series continues on Thursday 28th November, 6-8 pm at SO/ Hotel, in Britomart, Auckland.

TechTalks are your gateway to industry-leading knowledge and networking for the French and French-speaking Tech community in New Zealand.

Join us and gain insights from expert speakers in exclusive fireside chats to explore how AI innovations will accelerate global trade by 2030 in NZ.

Our guest speakers for this TechTalk are:

Perrine Dhalluin - CEO of Datagrid

As CEO of Datagrid, Perrine leads the development of a sustainable data center park in Invercargill- which will position Southland as an international location for AI training clusters. Perrine previously served as CEO of Intelia Group, an integrator of telecom and IT solutions in the Pacific Islands region - and a proud supporter of La French Tech NZ.

Helius Guimaraes - Chief Data & AI Officer of Fonterra

In his role, Helius leads the development and implementation of Fonterra's Data & AI strategy, operating model, and roadmap to empower the company's workforce and achieve its long-term aspirations. Fonterra implemented a simplified data platform enabling the democratization and access to data products across the organization.

Edwin Lim - Partner at Hudson Gavin Martin

Ed is a partner at HGM, a specialist technology, media, and IP law firm, where he advises clients on technology and IP development, commercialisation, protection, and procurement. Many of his clients offer AI-powered solutions. Ed is also HGM's CIO/CISO, responsible for the firm’s technology infrastructure, security and strategy.

This will be a unique opportunity to learn more about Fintech and network with like-minded professionals from the French and French-speaking Tech community. Note that we welcome all English speakers to this event and the fireside chats are conducted in English.

Arrive at 6 pm, we’ll kick off at 6.15 pm sharp!

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About La French Tech NZ

La French Tech NZ is a growing community of French tech founders, operators and investors passionate about leveraging tech for greater purposes. Since the inception of La French Tech NZ group in 2016, we’ve built a community strong of 200+ members and 25+ registered start-ups nationwide.

We aim to create an inclusive, diverse and dynamic French-speaking ecosystem and community where technology, digital innovation and individual talents foster new opportunities to showcase French know-how and entrepreneurship.

We connect, we support, we share knowledge with the French start-ups ecosystem to capture opportunities in New Zealand and encourage Kiwi start-ups and investors to consider France as a point of entry to their European expansion.

Our mission is to accelerate connections between start-ups, entrepreneurs, investors, decision-makers and community builders with the purpose of empowering our ecosystem to take action and lead projects.