Hi-Tech Awards Reaches New Highs

The night belonged to hi-tech produce sorter Compac Sorting Equipment at the 2012 NZ Hi-Tech Awards. Compac Sorting Equipment took both the evening's top award, the PwC NZ Hi-Tech Company of the Year and the NZMEA Hi-Tech Exporter of the Year - Over $5 million category. Full details on the winners are here.

This year's eleven-strong international judging panel included original Facebook investor and Paypal founder Peter Thiel; the director of engineering for Google in New York, Craig Nevill-Manning; and Cisco's senior vice president, Howard Charney.