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Did discussions with Meta, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA or Apple during the Minister’s trip to San Francisco between June 3 and 6 canvass New Zealand Government procurement of cloud, AI, or digital infrastructure services from those companies?

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Scott Willis

List MP · Green Party

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  • Did discussions with Meta, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA or Apple during the Minister’s trip to San Francisco between June 3 and 6 canvass New Zealand Government procurement of cloud, AI, or digital infrastructure services from those companies?

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Hon Paul Goldsmith

List MP · National Party · Minister for the Public Service and Digitising Government

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The meetings did not cover specific procurement or investment in Cloud, AI or Digital Infrastructure services from these companies. However, where relevant, I did relay key messaging from my attendance of the New Zealand: Destination for Data roadshow event in San Francisco, supported by Invest NZ.