Wellington-based software developer Arcanum delivers enterprise AI technology that could shake up the energy sector. The business applies the latest technologies in machine learning and Artificial Intelligence, taking large data sets and generating new insights into the data. These are complex patterns in data which Arcanum processes and can add business value to.

Flux Federation, a subsidiary of Meridian Energy that provides end-to-end Software as a Service (Saas) to energy retailers, has used the Covid-19 pandemic to its advantage.

Chief client officer Jessica Venning-Bryan says in June last year the company’s executive team began conversations about what the Future of Work will look like.

There’s a common saying that no matter how terrible the day, the sun will rise the next morning.

When a shroud of Covid-19 negativity darkened the world, Eco Geek Business Development Manager Jonny Parker saw that the sun might shine even brighter than it had before.

“You don’t get the opportunity to help change an energy system every day,” Hiringa Energy chief executive Andrew Clennett says.

ChargeSmart chief executive Nigel Broomhall was on his third trip to this US in 2020 when countries started going into lockdown in response to Covid-19.