Satya Nadella’s New Zealand Visit 2026

Microsoft Chairman and CEO, Satya Nadella, visited New Zealand on April 21, 2026. Watch his keynote from the Microsoft AI Tour and catch the latest news, photos and videos from his visit here.

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Pairing geotechnical data with AI helps New Zealand to build better

After the tragic Christchurch earthquake, New Zealand built a geotechnical database to help engineers get complex information on the ground beneath its buildings. Now that data can be retrieved and queried in natural language via Beca’s digital twin platform BEYON and its AI assistant, powered by Microsoft Azure and Azure OpenAI in Microsoft Foundry. By combining AI with underground data, engineers can now make faster, better decisions on how New Zealand builds, and rebuilds, above ground.

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Microsoft doubles its commitment to AI and digital upskilling in New Zealand

Microsoft has announced it will double its existing AI and digital skilling commitment in New Zealand, opening access for a further 200,000 people to skilling by the end of 2028. This will help build an AI-ready workforce and supports the goals of New Zealand’s national AI Strategy to accelerate AI adoption and build capability.

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Charting Aotearoa’s digital horizon: a new chapter in innovation, partnership, and growth

Jane Livesey shares the findings of a new Economic and Social Impact report for New Zealand, capturing how in FY25, Microsoft contributed a total of NZ$9.4 billion to New Zealand’s economy. From datacentre investments to supporting customer productivity and partner growth, the findings demonstrate Microsoft’s significant contribution to New Zealand’s prosperity.

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Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft, at the AI Tour in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft, at the AI Tour in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft, at the AI Tour in Auckland, New Zealand. Microsoft announced it will double its existing AI and digital skilling commitment in the country.

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Troy Baker, Senior ICT Specialist and Ronald Karaitiana, Principal Portfolio Lead from Health NZ with Microsoft Chairman and CEO, Satya Nadella at the AI Tour in Auckland, New Zealand

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Representatives from Beca, Health NZ, Westpac NZ, Auckland Transport and Whakarongorau Aotearoa pictured with Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella.

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Stephen Witherden, Product Strategy Manager and Matthew Collins, Senior Geotechnical Engineer from Beca with Microsoft Chairman and CEO, Satya Nadella at the Microsoft AI Tour in Auckland, New Zealand

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Danielle George, Head of Technology Operations and Business Applications Engineering and Ravind Ramanth, Technology Area Lead at Westpac with Microsoft Chairman and CEO, Satya Nadella at the Microsoft AI Tour in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Glynis Sandland, Chief Executive Officer and Anna Campbell, Chief Support Services Officer from Whakarongorau Aotearoa with Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella at the Microsoft AI Tour in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Roy Cohen, Chief Technology Officer – Auckland Transport and Robert Suess, Senior Vice President, Intelligent Infrastructure – Parsons,, with Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella at the Microsoft AI Tour in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Engineering geologist Olivia Ellis-Garland, shown here at a building site in Hobsonville, Auckland, describes the Microsoft Azure-powered New Zealand Geotechnical Database (NZGD) as “our gateway to the ground”. Photo by Radical for Microsoft.

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Hosting NZGD on Beca’s digital twin platform BEYON, is part of the engineering consultancy’s legacy, says CEO Amelia Linzey. Photo by Radical for Microsoft.

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Stephen Witherden, Beca’s product strategy manager at the company’s headquarters. In 2025, Beca added an agentic AI layer in BEYON, enabling NZGD users to filter, query and extract geotechnical data using natural language. Photo by Radical for Microsoft.

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Engineering geologist Olivia Ellis-Garland uses BEYON’s AI assistant, developed by Beca in Microsoft Foundry, to query and extract data from NZGD. Photo by Radical for Microsoft.

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BEYON’s AI assistant helps engineers filter complex information from NZGD, eliminating data they don’t need.

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