Next week at Coffee & Jam we’ll hear from Berwyn Hoyt, director of HiveMind with twenty years of hi-tech industry experience. After the break, Brett Oliver will discuss Astrolab, which aims to propel public and private sector innovation in a number of ways.
And remember, we are back at EPIC!

Berwyn Hoyt // HiveMind Ltd

Berwyn is the senior hardware engineer at Brush Technologies and director of HiveMind, a remote beehive monitoring system for beekeepers. The system measures the weight of the hive and transmits this data via satellite back to servers where HiveMind collate the information to provide a graph that shows honey being produced.

Brett Oliver // CEO at Astrolab

Brett is the CEO at Astrolab and has 10+ years’ experience in commercialisation & innovation activities. Roles include composite materials engineering, venture capital due-diligence, commercial and property finance, technology auditor and advisor at KPMG, commercialisation manager at NZ’s largest research organisation, and North Island Manager of Commercialisation, NZ national health innovation initiative.