We are New Zealand data and environmental scientists using artificial intelligence to solve some of the biggest environmental issues facing New Zealand.
National winners of the AI Hackathon 2026
A huge congratulations to the Wise Group team who took out the national final of the Aotearoa Hackathon 2026 with their AI-powered tool that helps Workwise employment consultants support more people with mental health and addiction challenges into meaningful work.
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National winners of the AI Hackathon 2026
Read more about the team from the Wise Group and their AI-powered tool that helps Workwise employment consultants support more people with mental health and addiction challenges into meaningful work.
October newsletter
In this newsletter, you’ll find more information about:
National winners of the AI Hackathon 2026
Spotlight on TuiML
Latest episodes on the Quantum Machine Learning podcast
PAKDD 2027 in Wellington
August newsletter
In this newsletter, you’ll find more information about:
AI Hackathon 2026
Spotlight on Weka.ai
Latest episodes on the Quantum Machine Learning podcast
May newsletter
In this newsletter, you’ll find more information about:
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
QML Podcast episode
Project Team spotlight
What’s coming up
An initiative supported by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), TAIAO is committed to promoting and facilitating the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and data science in New Zealand's environmental sector.
Recognising that good data is essential to research, understand, and set policy for effective management of our natural environment, the team at TAIAO are working to develop new machine learning methods that are tailored to process environmental data gathered from our New Zealand context.
TAIAO uses AI models to analyse vast amounts of historical and real-time data, and identify patterns to predict future trends, such as extreme weather events. Through this mahi, we aim to break barriers by enhancing industry capability, and pioneer new machine learning methods to process vast amounts of data in real-time to meet today's pressing demands.
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