Business of Tech: Datacom at 60: Leading NZ’s tech giant into the AI era

Business of Tech: Datacom at 60: Leading NZ’s tech giant into the AI era
Greg Davidson. (Image: BusinessDesk)
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This week's episode of The Business of Tech marks a historic moment: the 60th anniversary of Datacom, New Zealand’s largest homegrown IT company. I was joined by Datacom’s group chief executive, Greg Davidson, who has overseen nearly two decades of remarkable change, steering the Christchurch-founded company through tidal waves of technological innovation. “It is older than me, I'm going to hang on to that for as long as I can,” Davidson quipped at the start of a wide-ranging conversation about the comp...

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