The March 2025 New Zealand AI Productivity Report highlights Auckland Council’s adoption of artificial intelligence to manage stormwater infrastructure more effectively.

The Energy Efficiency & Conservation Authority (EECA) has launched an interactive, map-based dashboard to support the growth of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure nationwide. Its goal is to accelerate EV adoption by ensuring sufficient charging points within communities.

New Zealand’s largest exporter of premium quality lamb, beef, and venison products, Silver Fern Farms has teamed with technology company Lynker Analytics to form a new joint venture called Prism Earth Ltd (Prism).

The 2023 Beef and Lamb New Zealand Awards were held in Christchurch last week. These awards celebrate the people, innovation, technologies and management systems that make New Zealand’s grass-based red meat industry world-leading.

The AI Forum of New Zealand launched its Explainable AI (XAI) white paper on November 8th 2023. The white paper provides a comprehensive overview of XAI in New Zealand and it will help organisations and individuals make informed decisions about how to use XAI responsibly and ethically.

Virtual Eyes has won the Innovation Award at Stormwater 2023. This year, the innovation showcase was refreshed in order to celebrate any and all new ways of thinking or doing, that are aimed at improving stormwater outcomes across Aotearoa.

Environment Canterbury has taken its first steps into using AI to identify pests from aerial imagery. A successful pilot in South Canterbury has shown that AI may provide an efficient way to inspect large swathes of land for biosecurity threats such as Nassella tussock.

Wellington technology company Lynker Analytics has been selected by Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand to capture building outlines from publicly owned aerial imagery over the next three years

Lynker Analytics together with partners Snap IT and Teem Fish Monitoring are researching methods to automate the measurement of fish for use in processing sites and on commercial fishing vessels in New Zealand.

Environmental science and engineering specialists PDP and Lynker Analytics have been selected by the Ministry for the Environment to jointly develop a new approach to assess riparian areas across New Zealand using AI.

Lynker and the Colorado Natural Heritage Program (CNHP) at Colorado State University, have been commissioned to identify and map changes in valley floor wetlands and beaver ponds throughout the Colorado River Basin over the past decade.

Lynker Analytics has extended the coverage of its rooftop solar estimate service to an additional 150 urban areas across New Zealand. These estimates are now freely available through homes.co.nz and Harrisons Energy Solutions.

The Aotearoa AI Summit 2021, Good for Aotearoa, good for the world, was held at the AUT City Conference Centre in Auckland on May 12th. Over 200 attendees across academia, government and industry gathered to debate how Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning

A new way to identify and map natural wetlands, using artificial intelligence, is being developed by two local companies as part of a contract agreement with the Ministry for the Environment.

In a New Zealand first, homes.co.nz has partnered with Lynker Analytics, and New Zealand’s leading solar power provider, Harrisons Energy Solutions, to help Wellington homeowners realise the solar power potential of their homes.

Lynker Analytics has been selected by the NZ Ministry for the Environment to lead a consortium to inventory the extent of forest loss in New Zealand during 2017 and 2018.

Over 50 practitioners and enthusiasts attended our BizDojo Market Lane, Wellington location to hear Principal Data Science, David Knox speak about Practical Active Learning for Image Classification.

Attendees from across the public and private sector at the official launch of Lynker Analytics in Wellington, New Zealand on February 20th