December e-newsletter
December 19, 2025
As 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.In this newsletter, we wrap up and c...
October e-newsletter
October 23, 2025
As 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.In this newsletter, you’ll find:De...
TAIAO is proud to be hosting a workshop at the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) 2025.The workshop (AIEES 2025) explores how artificial intelligence (AI) can transform environmental science. As climate change, biodiversity loss, an...
TAIAO Data and Expertise Help Power Global Finalist Recognition in the World Bank Climate Risk Challenge
August 26, 2025
A project drawing on the TAIAO programme has won international recognition, with the team DelphiQ named grand finalists of the World Bank Climate Risk Challenge, part of the 2025 Global Industry Challenge (GIC). After successfully advancing through all three phases of the co...
Hackathon 2025
August 26, 2025
The 2025 Hackathon was a huge success!
This year's Waikato Hackathon event saw 17 participants across four teams developing a range of innovative AI solutions to real world environmental problems. Team Gallagher were the winning team with their project Recraft AI: Turning Commercial Waste into Community Trea...
August e-newsletter
August 8, 2025
As 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.In this newsletter you will find:&nb...
Winners of the World Bank Climate Risk Challenge
June 23, 2025
A big congratulations to Léa Cassé and the DelphiQ team who were recently announced as the winners of the Global Industry Challenge – World Bank track at the Quantum World Congress 2025 for their innovative solution to improving insurance for communities e...
DOC Habitat annotator and classifier
May 19, 2025
New Zealand's delicate reef ecosystems need careful protection, and analysing marine imaging data is key to this effort. To support this, TAIAO has teamed up with the Department of Conservation (DOC) to create an innovative online image annotation platform. This tool simplif...
Aotearoa Species Classifier
April 10, 2025
The Aotearoa Species Classifier is the first comprehensive New Zealand-specific species classifier through Artificial Intelligence (AI).Trained using a data set of over 1.2 million expert-annotated images, the AI tool is able to identify thousands of Aotearoa’s plants, ani...
Forest Flows Monitoring
April 10, 2025
Clean, fresh water is essential for life. As land-use intensification and climate change place growing pressure on water resources, it is vital that we manage water use sustainably. Planted forests can be managed to provide beneficial water outcomes, given adequate science i...
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