As Chief Executive of the Gibson Group, Victoria leads a group of diverse and talented producers, creatives and technicians. The Gibson Group’s innovative visitor attractions and museum works, and its hugely popular television programmes and films have been exported around the world. Recent projects include an immersive museum outreach project in Copenhagen which has won three prestigious international awards, including one from the United Nations.

Despite it being in the middle of the Louis Vuitton challenger series, Emirates Team New Zealand's AC72 was one of four boats out on San Francisco Bay today. It's just another vital day on the water testing and trying to get more speed out of the AC72 for the business end of the regatta.

Nick Frost, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg talk to Newstalk ZB movie reviewer Darren Bevan about their latest film, The World's End.

Sean is a physicist, decathlete, political advisor and TED fellow. He is originally from New Zealand where he ran for national elected office and helped start New Zealand’s first nanotech company. Sean studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar where he received a PhD for his research on the mathematical patterns that underlie modern war. This research has taken him all over the world from the Pentagon, to the United Nations and Iraq. Previously, Sean worked at NASA on self-repairing nano-circuits and is a two-time New Zealand track and field champion. Sean is now based in San Francisco where he splits his time between mathematical research and his venture capital backed startup Quid.

Emma Rogan is a partner at Auckland design company Apropos and founder of New Zealand’s 100 Days Project. Her work has been awarded and recognised by the NZ Best Awards, Communication Arts, The Webby Awards and Adobe.

Though he likes to call his poems “songs for the tone-deaf”, Sam has happily worked with musicians – country band The Warratahs, modern classical man Gareth Farr, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and alternative rocker David Kilgour, among others. Sam was special guest at two acclaimed Leonard Cohen concerts in 2009. In 1986, Sam was awarded a QSM – a “quiet sober man” he claimed. In 2010, he was further festooned with honour when he was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) for services to poetry. Sam has enjoyed a burst of activity in recent years, publishing a new collection of poems Doubtless and the semi-autobiographical Backroads: Charting a Poet’s Life, as well as a selection of James K. Baxter poems. His most recent book is Knucklebnes: Poems 1962 – 2012.

Pip Hall has worked as a full time writer in theatre, film and television for 17 years. An accomplished playwright, Pip has multiple awards to her name including New Zealand’s most significant and prestigious theatre honour, the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. Pip also works extensively in television and film as a writer, story liner, story/script editor, developer, creative producer and actor.

Alistair Knott is a linguist and cognitive scientist working at Otago University‘s Department of Computer Science. He grew up in Brussels, attending the European School, a multilingual institution whose Babel-like environment sparked a lifelong interest in language. Ali studied psychology and philosophy at Oxford University, and then did postgraduate and postdoctoral work in artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. He took up a lectureship at Otago in 1999, where he is now an associate professor. Ali’s research is in computational modelling of human language, with a focus on models of language generation. He worked on some of the earliest text generation systems deployed on the World Wide Web, and on an influential web-based human-computer dialogue system. His current interest is in psychological models of text generation: What are the neural mechanisms which allow people to talk about what they see and do?

Assil Russell is a young dental surgeon from Hamilton who has a passion for helping others. Born in Iraq and raised in New Zealand, at the age of 21 Assil set up New Zealand’s first and only registered medical and dental charity for Iraqi orphans and disadvantaged children – I CARE (Iraqi Children’s Aid & Repair Endeavour). Assil believes that “You don’t have to be a doctor to save lives” and ICARE is now an international movement that is empowering ordinary people from all walks of life to make a real difference, one smile at a time.

David was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He earned a BSc in physics from Carnegie Mellon University, followed by an MSc and PhD in Physics from Ohio State University. While working on university campuses in Michigan and California, David held postdoctoral positions at both Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. David’s current work is based at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. He loves to play with ideas and is most happy when he can uncover similar strands of thought on disparate subjects, particularly in science, philosophy and religion. David believes that New Zealand should nurture its intellectual resources as it has done for its environmental riches.

Andrew is arguably New Zealand’s most internationally recognised and published Architect. Last year the worlds most searched architectural Journal, London based ‘World Architecture News’ named his firm, Patterson Associates as one of five Architects world wide “who’s work is set to shape Global Architecture in the 21 century.” He is the designer of New Zealand’s only new build 6 Green Star rated project – Geyser, in Auckland. Rated as international innovator Andrew believes if that if New Zealand is to sustainably succeed its built environment must equal or better its natural environment.

Michelle has a PhD in biomedical materials engineering, runs New Zealand’s only nanomechanical testing laboratory and is a self-confessed adrenaline junkie. Her passion for both sports and science has enabled her to travel the world on the search for her next adventure or research project. With specialist knowledge in nanotechnology, Michelle has contributed to the development of cutting edge technologies. Secretly, however, Michelle has been working on advancing these developments to help her to achieve her childhood dream of becoming a real life superhero.

The opening film made for the Rialto Channel 48Hours Grand National Final for 2013, featuring host Josh Thomson and made with the help of the Canon C300.

New Zealand 14 England 9 The Black Ferns produced a moment of magic in the 81st minute to snatch victory from England at Waikato Stadium, clinching the three-match series with a game to play.

A pod of show-off dolphins has thrilled onlookers in Perth, performing tricks for the tourists as they zoomed alongside their boat. 16 dolphins appeared during the cruise along the Madurah estuary. courtesy YouTube/WeLuvExperiencePerth.

Ginny Blackmore talks to Newstalk ZB's Susan Wood about how she started her career, singing for L.A. Reid, making it big in the US, and her upcoming album.

Watch the winning film in the 2013 Rialto Channel 48Hours filmmaking competition, from Wellington team Traces Of Nut.

Heavy rain in south west China's Sichuan province has caused severe flooding in some areas, with bridges and buildings washed away and a landslide reported. This video was taken in Sichuan and shows onlookers recorded a man stuck on the top floor of a house that is submerged in floodwater, with strong waves surrounding the property. The house eventually caves in and the man is swept away with the debris.

The Microsoft Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition. Eligible students are invited to use their imagination and passion to create a technology solution in one of our competitions and challenges. Over the past ten years, more than 1.65 million students from more than 190 countries have participated in the Imagine Cup. When you join the Imagine Cup community, you’ll connect with other whip-smart creatives from all over the world to share ideas, have fun, and be there when the next big thing is unveiled.

A video taken during the aftermath of the 'Battle of Baghak' has been leaked which shows an enemy insurgent captured by New Zealand forces being led blindfolded and at gunpoint onto a US Blackhawk helicopter.

Four young Kiwi entrepreneurs have been in Russia this week representing New Zealand at the Microsoft Imagine Cup. NZHerald.co.nz business reporter Ben Chapman-Smith caught up with InfinityTek team to find out what innovation is behind their idea & design.

Prime Minister John Key says that the new GCSB bill will actually narrow the scope of the GCSB in it's current form and doesn't extend it. He believes the bill is being misunderstood. He also made comments about the proposed Sky City Convention Center

Unedited footage of the "Battle of Baghak", which reveals the confusion and danger facing New Zealand troops during a fierce firefight that killed two Kiwi soldiers, has emerged. The expletive-laden clip, which lasts 10 minutes and 49 seconds, is taken from a handheld camera by a member of the Crib 20 deployment, and was posted to YouTube this week.

The international jury have upheld the protest by Team New Zealand and Luna Rossa over moves to alter the America's Cup class rule just a week out from the start of competition. The two teams complained regatta director Iain Murray had exceeded his authority by attempting to invoke new rudder regulations as part of the sweeping new safety measures introduced in the wake of the death of Artemis crewman Andrew Simpson.

Courtesy Dunedin TV/Ch39. 5000 people attended the party at Forsyth Barr Stadium.Most revellers made their way from the venue to their homes without any problems, Snr Sgt Lloyd said. "We were pretty happy with the follow-on from the event. We know there were varying degrees of intoxication, but it certainly didn't cause us a great deal of angst after it had finished."

The Desert Rd remains closed due to snow this morning, while the rain continues to fall over already-soggy parts of the North Island. A cold snap brought snow to 800m and white-out conditions to the Central Plateau yesterday, making driving too dangerous on the Desert Rd.

Tom Thum: Armed with just a microphone, Thum pushes the limits of the human voice to create incredible soundtracks of impossible beats and phenomenal sounds, with scratched vinyl, the Michael Jackson back-catalogue, the didgeridoo and an entire fifties jazz band amongst his vocal repertoire. courtesy TEDxTalks.

This woman gets into a car with a man she believes to be a hit man and starts bartering over how to kill him, the cost of it, and how to set him up. She seems quite jovial and easygoing when discussing how to kill her husband with the "hit man". It turned out to be a Michigan state police detective, and not a real one. Courtesy pozatoto.

Incredible dog tricks by Jumpy the border collie A proud dog owner has shared a video of his border collie Jumpy doing some of the most impressive dog tricks we've ever seen! courtesy Omar von Muller.

The Wednesday free-for-all in which MPs can make five minute speeches on anything they like, or anything they can convince their party whips should get an airing. Robertson was followed by National minister Steven Joyce, not quite as funny but not bad response to a cleverly crafted speech by Robertson. Joyce concluded by saying Robertson's ''audition" had got more laughs in five minutes than his leader has had in 18 months.