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JAMES EXPLAINS:
WHY VENTURE CAPITALISTS ARE RECALIBRATING
VC funding in the region is undergoing a notable deceleration. With the reported year-on-year decline of 28.9% in disclosed VC deals during H1 2023, the industry is experiencing a strategic shift which requires our attention.
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September 7, 2023
ED#4: Enterprise Tech Investment: FOLLOW THE MONEY with James Cunial
Join NEXTGEN Group CTO and strategist James Cunial as he dives into the febrile world of Enterprise Tech investment to find out what the smartest investors on the planet are getting excited about.
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September 7, 2023
ED#3: Enterprise Tech Investment: FOLLOW THE MONEY with James Cunial
Join NEXTGEN Group CTO and strategist James Cunial as he dives into the febrile world of Enterprise Tech investment to find out what the smartest investors on the planet are getting excited about.
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August 10, 2023
NEXTGEN achieves AWS Advanced Tier
We are thrilled to announce that the NEXTGEN team has soared to new heights in our partnership with AWS, attaining Advanced Tier in the AWS Partner Program. This achievement reflects our unwavering commitment to excellence and our dedication to delivering unparalleled services to our valued channel partners.
July 13, 2023
Connect with WIICTA WINNER Veronica Kruze
Veronica manages a complex and competitive set of business partners, consistently delivering results that have a significant positive impact on NEXTGEN’s key metrics including revenue, margin, brand awareness, and partner experience.
July 13, 2023
Connect with WIICTA WINNER Sally McIntosh
Sally joined NEXTGEN in 2012, when NEXTGEN was 8 people, in sales operations. She has been instrumental in NEXTGEN’s growth and success, being promoted to Sales Operations Manager in 2016. Sally has become the hub and a key custodian of the NEXTGEN Culture & Core Values and Behaviours.
13 July, 2023
ED#2: Enterprise Tech Investment: FOLLOW THE MONEY with James Cunial
Join NEXTGEN Group CTO and strategist James Cunial as he dives into the febrile world of Enterprise Tech investment to find out what the smartest investors on the planet are getting excited about.
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July 5, 2023
NightDragon, NEXTGEN Group Form Strategic Partnership to Bring Innovative Cyber Technology to Australia, New Zealand Region
NightDragon, a dedicated cybersecurity, safety, security and privacy investment and advisory firm, today announced a new partnership with NEXTGEN Group, a channel services and technology distribution company, to help NightDragon portfolio companies expand their go-to-market capabilities to the rapidly growing Australian and New Zealand markets through the company’s unique channel services model and capabilities in the region.
April 20, 2023
ED#1: Enterprise Tech Investment: FOLLOW THE MONEY with James Cunial
Join NEXTGEN Group CTO and strategist James Cunial as he dives into the febrile world of Enterprise Tech investment to find out what the smartest investors on the planet are getting excited about.
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June 6, 2023
Record WIICTA Finalists for NEXTGEN in ANZ
In 2023, WIICTA is hosting the largest celebration of female excellence within the technology channel across Australia and New Zealand -- surpassing a record-breaking finalists haul in 2022 by more than 20 per cent. Given this upsurge of participation and competition NEXTGEN is enormously proud to have achieved a whopping 9 finalists this year - 4 in New Zealand and 5 in Australia.
March 22, 2023
Regulatory Obligations
So…what’s a SOCI?
By Mick Lehmann,
NEXTGEN General Manager, Government
Like other countries, Australia’s economic, social, and political futures will be significantly digital. To help secure these futures, Government has strengthened the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act (SOCI) through two large amendments.
These two amendments are broad and far-reaching in their impact on business in Australia’s 11 new critical infrastructure sectors.
March 24, 2023
Regulatory Obligations
There's now an 18-month deadline to implement a critical infrastructure Risk Management Program
By Mick Lehmann,
NEXTGEN General Manager, Government
The implementation of Australia’s #criticalinfrastructure reforms (SOCI 2018) is continuing and gaining practical momentum. On 17 Feb, Minister Claire O’Neil activated the legislation’s Risk Management Program (RMP) obligations for 13 specific critical infrastructure asset classes, including data processing and storage, and payment systems.
March 22, 2023
NEXTGEN Group appoints Sanny Hadinata, new country leadership for Indonesia
NEXTGEN has appointed Sanny Hadinata as Managing Director, Indonesia. Heading up business operations and market expansion, she reports into Wendy O’Keeffe, EVP & MD for Asia, NEXTGEN Group. The appointment affirms NEXTGEN Group in their growth expansion plans into Asia.
March 8, 2023
Leadership Forum 2023: "BUILDING RESILIENCE"
Thanks to all our contributors - speakers, sponsors and attendees - for helping make NEXTGEN’s 2023 Leadership Forum such a huge success last week! First and foremost to our amazing speakers, Shane Fitzsimmons, Sudhakar Ramakrishna, Paul Symon and Lucy Hone - WOW! Such varied perspectives on our RESILIENCE theme - always insightful, delivered with sincerity, humour and pathos. Also many thanks to sponsors Oracle, AWS, SolarWinds, oSpace and Elastic Digital for your generous support of our speaker line-up.
March 2, 2023
Shaping Australia's new Cyber Strategy through the EAB
Following on from his analysis of the Government’s review of Australia’s Cyber Security Strategy 2020 (CSS20) in September last year, Mick Lehman, NEXTGEN's General Manager of Government in Canberra, takes us through the Expert Advisory Board’s latest discussion paper for Australia’s new Cyber Security Strategy..
February 28, 2023
Stellar Cyber signs NEXTGEN as Philippines Distributor
The Philippines is home to a growing number of businesses that are increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks. In response to this growing threat, NEXTGEN Group has partnered with Stellar Cyber to offer a suite of cybersecurity solutions that will sit alongside NEXTGEN’s diverse and complementary best-of-breed vendor portfolio.
February 23, 2023
Gigamon and NEXTGEN sign ANZ distribution agreement
Gigamon, the leading deep observability company announced a new value-added distribution agreement with NEXTGEN across A/NZ. The decision comes hot on the heels of the recently announced capability expansions for the Gigamon Hawk Deep Observability Pipeline, an innovation which continues to drive 68% market share for the vendor.
January 22, 2023
Azul appoints NEXTGEN as ANZ and ASEAN Distributor
Stepping up its channel investments to meet strong growth in demand for high performance and more cost-efficient Java alternatives, Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, has announced its first and sole distribution deal in Australia/New Zealand (ANZ) and the ASEAN region with the appointment of NEXTGEN.
November, 2022
Increased investment in Public Sector with new ACT leadership hire
NEXTGEN Group (NEXTGEN) has appointed Mick Lehmann, CSC as its General Manager of Government, based in Canberra. NEXTGEN’s public sector business contributed approximately 40% of total revenues in FY22, providing a substantial platform to increase investment and focus with an experienced and respected Canberra-based leader.
September 22, 2022
Gary Cox joins the NEXTGEN Group Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director
September 22, 2022
Cyber Security: Reviews, risks, and opportunity for industry in FedGov
In Canberra IT circles, there may be no more feverishly anticipated phrase than “strategy review” (apart from “MOG change” – but that’s another story). As I wrote recently, there’s a conjunction like this happening right now in the FedGov cyber space. Specifically, the Labor Government has announced a review of Australia’s Cyber Security Strategy 2020 (CSS20).
November 14, 2022