by Tech Waka Podcast
Tech Waka Podcast: Journeys of New Zealand Tech and Product Leaders. Here we dive into the stories of New Zealand's top tech and product leaders. Your host, Jakub Jurkiewicz, brings you conversations with CTOs, CIOs, CPOs, CPTOs and tech innovators from across Aotearoa. Join us as we uncover the experiences, challenges, and successes that shape our tech community. This is where New Zealand's technology and product journeys unfold.
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June 1, 2026
<p>Looking for an executive role in New Zealand is nothing like looking for a senior one. The market is smaller, the rules are unwritten, and most of what decides outcomes happens in rooms you're not in.</p><p>In this solo episode, Jakub shares three big ideas that reframed how he thought about the exec search, the small things that quietly make or break processes, and what to remember when it doesn't go your way.</p><p><br></p><p>This episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.wiresuncrossed.co.nz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Wires Uncrossed</a>.</p>
May 17, 2026
<p>After three years, Joekub is back, and this time they brought a startup, an AI agent that writes project updates in five minutes, and some very uncomfortable questions about your career trajectory.</p><p>Jakub and Joe (collectively: Joekub) reunite on Tech Waka for a wide-ranging conversation about what's actually happening at the coalface of AI-powered delivery. Joe left agile coaching to join an AI startup and hasn't looked back. Jakub is steering product and technology through the same wave from the C-suite. Between them, they've got enough delivery scar tissue to know when something is new and different.</p><p>They cover why extreme programming turned out to be a prophecy rather than a methodology. Why the spec is more important than the code now. Why your AI agent might be sandbagging its own performance to protect team morale. And the question that no one in a sprint planning meeting wants to answer out loud: if the agent is outperforming the humans, who gets the bonus?</p><p>Funny, honest, and grounded in real experience, this is what it sounds like when two people who've been around long enough to have opinions stop being polite about AI and just say what they think.</p><p><br></p><p>This episode is sponsored by <a href="https://www.wiresuncrossed.co.nz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Wires Uncrossed</a>.</p>
April 13, 2026
<p>JD Trask has been building global tech companies from Wellington since 2007, first Mindscape, then Raygun, now Autohive. When ChatGPT arrived, he didn't wait to see what happened. He shut down his company for a week, made every employee pass an engineering hiring test using AI, and started rebuilding his entire organisation around agents.</p><p>In this episode, JD shares what he actually saw during that week, why he put TVs around the office showing each employee's token usage, and why he thinks the "AI makes mistakes" argument says more about the person making it than about AI. He also shares his AI economic maturity model, his take on headcount as an ego metric, and why the most important thing a CEO can do right now is get their hands dirty.</p><p><br></p><p>Autohive: <a href="https://www.autohive.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.autohive.com/</a></p><p>Raygun: <a href="https://raygun.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://raygun.com/</a></p><p><br></p><p>This episode is sponsored by Wires Uncrossed - helping teams across New Zealand, Australia and beyond untangle software delivery and build systems that truly perform. <a href="https://www.wiresuncrossed.co.nz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">wiresuncrossed.co.nz</a></p>
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Tech Waka Podcast: Journeys of New Zealand Tech and Product Leaders.
Here we dive into the stories of New Zealand's top tech and product leaders. Your host, Jakub Jurkiewicz, brings you conversations with CTOs, CIOs, CPOs, CPTOs and tech innovators from across Aotearoa. Join us as we uncover the experiences, challenges, and successes that shape our tech community.
This is where New Zealand's technology and product journeys unfold.
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