Thrive Wellington

Jacqui and I spent yesterday at Thrive Wellington. About 350 people attended a series of excellent motivational presentations. Just the ticket when set against the darkening international financial clouds.

We spent much of the day (and evening) with Gareth Davies from International Business Wales. The timing was good. John and Tim are currently engaged in direct discussions with the Welsh Assembly and its different agencies back in the UK. And Gareth managed to give a good plug for Pingar during his own presentation to the conference.

There are clearly close connections between IBW and the NZ ICT community. That became clear during the presentation. IBW has for the past two years run the Technium Challenge International. And for the past two years, the winners have come from New Zealand. First it was Xero from Wellington and last year it was TracPlus Global, who are based in Dunedin.

There are also a number of other similarities between the two countries. Both countries share similar population sizes, a love of rugby and a lot of sheep. On that note, this posting ends.