We're diving into data with Snowflake's New Zealand country manager Tony Shaw.

Shaw shares how any size of organisation can benefit from data analytics and AI, emphasising the importance of having high-quality, consolidated information to drive business outcomes.

He also talks generative AI and the role that good data practice has in realising its potential and mitigating risks.

Plus, tech under Trump: the influence of tech billionaires in the recent election, what it might mean for tech policies, and how it may impact NZ's tech industry.

The Business of Tech is sponsored by 2degrees for Business.

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Kiwi start-up Recorp, backed up by some of New Zealand's biggest names in business, has opened up its new aluminium facility.

The company is promising to be the most innovative can producer in New Zealand - and a direct threat to Australian competitors.

Chair Rob Fyfe says it's a huge relief to get the company up and running.

"I've been going for three years, a lot of money - and it's just, in the last couple of months, finally taken shape."

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Donald Trump is set to return to the White House - leaving economists everywhere to wonder what comes next.

Trump won't take office until next January, but his proposed policies regarding business, trade and tariffs have people guessing.

NZ Herald business editor at large Liam Dann explains it could be an interesting four years.

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