http://www.taiao.net/blog/ The latest Blog feeds from www.taiao.net en-us Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:30:18 +1200 Rocketspark http://www.taiao.net/blog/post/168876/august-2026-e-newsletter/ 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 more information about: AI Hackathon 2026 Spotlight on Weka.ai Latest episodes on the Quantum Machine Learning podcast ... Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:31:51 +1200 http://www.taiao.net/blog/#post168876 http://www.taiao.net/blog/post/165938/may-2026-e-newsletter/ 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 more information about: International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)QML Podcast episodeProject Team spotlightWhat’s coming up ... Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:13:02 +1200 http://www.taiao.net/blog/#post165938 http://www.taiao.net/blog/post/165540/april-2026-e-newsletter/ 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:New podcast episode - do quantum models really work?A new TAIAO Talks episode - exploring weka.aiResearch & Publications pageWhat’s coming up... Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +1200 http://www.taiao.net/blog/#post165540 http://www.taiao.net/blog/post/162927/march-2026-e-newsletter/ 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 more information about:New Zealand International Olympiad team wins gold and silverWeb Search and Data Mining Conference 2026 (WSDM)A brand new TAIAO talks episodeLearning opportunity - Agentic AI What’s coming up... Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:21:57 +1300 http://www.taiao.net/blog/#post162927 http://www.taiao.net/blog/post/161567/february-e-newsletter-2026/ 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 more information about: AI Science and Summer LabA deep dive into the first series of the TAIAO podcastA website update – ‘Highlights of the month’What’s coming up... Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:29:42 +1300 http://www.taiao.net/blog/#post161567 http://www.taiao.net/blog/post/159791/january-e-newsletter-2026/ 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:Welcome back!Highlights from the AAAI WorkshopWhat’s coming up... Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:03:03 +1300 http://www.taiao.net/blog/#post159791 http://www.taiao.net/blog/post/158300/december-e-newsletter/ 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 celebrate the many achievements this year in the AI and data science space by the TAIAO team.... Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:51:51 +1300 http://www.taiao.net/blog/#post158300 http://www.taiao.net/blog/post/153778/october-e-newsletter/ 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:Delphitech wins global awardHackathon highlightsIntroducing TAIAO TalksProject Team spotlightWhat have we been up toWhat’s coming up... Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.taiao.net/blog/#post153778 http://www.taiao.net/blog/post/154624/artificial-intelligence-for-earth-and-environmental-science-aiees-workshop/ 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, and resource depletion become more urgent, AI offers scalable, data-driven tools to help monitor, model, and address these challenges.This workshop supports PRICAI 2025’s mission to advance AI research and applications across... Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:34:56 +1300 http://www.taiao.net/blog/#post154624 http://www.taiao.net/blog/post/151073/taiao-data-and-expertise-help-power-global-finalist-recognition-in-the-world-bank-climate-risk-challenge/ 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 competition, the team has been invited to present its prototype at the Quantum World Congress (QWC) in Washington, D.C., in September 2025.The TAIAO project played a decisive role in this achievement. Through TAIAO’s open onl... 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