Self-driving EVs, AI Shoppers, Data Centres, and the Future of Finance
About this episode
Paul Spain and Ben Rose discuss the future of finance and technology, including AI's impact on financial services and recent tech news.
Host Paul Spain is joined by Ben Rose, Head of Financial Services at AA New Zealand. Together they discuss lessons from Money20/20 Bangkok, the rise of agentic commerce, stablecoins, digital finance and how AI is transforming financial services. They also delve into the latest tech news including: Google Maps' new Māori pronunciation update Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD) v14 arrives in New Zealand UK High Court backs police use of live facial recognition. AI helps uncover a major vulnerability in ticketing platform NZ company CarbonScape secures investment and partnership with CATL Invest NZ's ambitions for large-scale data centre investment Thanks to our partners: Fortinet, One NZ, Workday, 2degrees, Spark, PwC New Zealand, and Gorilla Technology.
People in this episode
Host: Paul Spain
Guest: Ben Rose
Topics covered
- self-driving EVs
- AI in finance
- digital finance
- stablecoins
- agentic commerce
- data centres
- tech news
Keywords
- self-driving cars
- AI shoppers
- financial services
- Money20/20
- stablecoins
- data centres
- Google Maps
- facial recognition
- CarbonScape
Sponsors
Fortinet, One NZ, Workday, 2degrees, Spark, PwC New Zealand, Gorilla Technology
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: AA New Zealand, Google Maps, Tesla, UK High Court, CarbonScape, CATL, Invest NZ
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