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Think like a fraudster when building an anti-fraud system

Organised by: Christchurch FinTech

Venue: The Loft

Address: 146A Lichfield Street, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

After the success of our 1st event we are excited to announce our 2nd event. We are lucky to have Brett O'Donnell, the CEO of Webtools (https://www.webtools.co.nz/) talking us through how they created an anti-fraud system for one of their clients. This interactive session will involve putting ourselves into fraudster's shoes to try and "game...

Free
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Aerospace Christchurch Meet Up #14: Christchurch Taking Flight!

Organised by: Aerospace Christchurch

Venue: Ara Institute of Canterbury

Address: 130 Madras Street, Christchurch

This event will provide a general update on the current and future position of aerospace in Canterbury. About this Event Our next meet up "Christchurch Taking Flight" is brought to you by our Gold Sponsor OPES Partners.   Note that if we're still in Level 2 on September 29th, then we'll only have 90 seats available...

Free

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AI to protect New Zealand’s Native Birds

Organised by: Tom Blomfield

Venue: The Loft

Address: 146A Lichfield Street, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Christchurch AI is back! To kick us off we have a talk from Shaun Ryan from The Cacophony Project. The Cacophony Project has been bringing digital technology to the fight for New Zealand native birds. They are developing a set of technologies that will be deployed throughout New Zealand. Their technology will: - Lure invasive...

Free

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Christchurch Fintech – Xe Money Transfer – Evolving to meet the shifting demands of customers

Organised by: Christchurch FinTech

Venue: Xe Office

Address: Level 2, 329 Durham Street North, Christchurch, New Zealand

For our November event we are excited to be visiting Xe. Xe, as one the early dotcoms has evolved from its traditional model of being the go to digital source for exchange rate information and data to offering a comprehensive suite of money transfer solutions. ...and then more recently evolving again to embrace FinTech by...

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WOMEN IN TECH, Orbica – a Tech company with women in technical and leadership roles

Organised by: Women In Tech Christchurch

Venue: Orbica

Address: Level 2, 128 Lichfield Street, Christchurch, New Zealand

Orbica are one of the few tech organisations who have been successful in recruiting women into technical as well as leadership roles. What is their secret sauce? Why are a good portion of their staff and leaders women and what impact does that have on the company culture and success? Delphine Ducaruge, GM of Orbica...

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Women In Tech meet up – ‘My Digital Journey’ with Stella Ward

Organised by: Women In Tech Christchurch

Venue: Computer Concepts Limited

Address: 21 Durham Street South, Christchurch

Our first meet-up in 2021 is hosted by Computer Concepts Limited and we are very fortunate to be invited onto their premises at 21 Durham Street South in Sydenham, just across the road from the Colombo Shopping Mall car park. We have sought permission for you to park on the Colombo Mall car park but...

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Aerospace Christchurch Meet Up #16: Safe Skies

Organised by: Aerospace Christchurch

Venue: Ara Institute of Canterbury

Address: 130 Madras Street, Christchurch

Don't miss our first meet up for the year 'Safe Skies' brought to you by our Gold sponsor QuickCircuit! Please note the below event information: 5.30pm - Networking in the Student Lounge (Building C) 6pm - Presentations commence in DLEC (Building DL) Parking - Available at Ara (Coins only, no direct debit)or on Madras Street...

Free
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Building fintech that doesn’t piss off digital natives

Organised by: Christchurch FinTech

Venue: Intranel Consulting

Address: 109 Montreal Street, Christchurch, New Zealand

The majority of new financial services customers have grown up as digital natives who expect to be able to do everything online. Not just an online version of a tired bureaucratic process but well designed user experiences that minimise complexity and effort. Furthermore transactions need to happen instantly and globally with human checks and balances...

Free

Smash, Squish, Squeeze, Splat: Stories from the Jade PM Team

Organised by: Christchurch Product Management & Marketing Group

Venue: Jade Software

Address: 5 Sir Gil Simpson Drive, Burnside, Christchurch

Jade has been creating and selling great products in the international market for more than 40 years, so our experience with managing products is long and varied, yet it is still evolving at pace. . In 2020 we invested in building a talented team, experimented with new ways of working, and implemented a variety of...

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International Women’s Day

Organised by: Tech Women

IWD celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. #choosetochallange is the theme and a speaker panel will be using this as a basis for talks in Christchurch today. You can join online or in-person. #genderequality REGISTER HERE  

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Aerospace Christchurch Meet Up #17: Projects To Inspire

Organised by: Aerospace Christchurch

Venue: Ara Institute of Canterbury

Address: 130 Madras Street, Christchurch

As this event name suggests, we will be hearing from our speakers about some of the inspiring new projects taking place in New Zealand. About this Event We have an absolutely superb line-up of speakers for our next Meet Up "Projects To Inspire" brought to you by our Gold Sponsor, Merlin Labs NZ.   Please note...

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Courageous Leadership with Kaila Colbin

Organised by: Women In Tech Christchurch

Venue: Auaha Hihi, Spark Place,

Address: Ground floor, Turanga Library, 60 Cathedral Square, Christchurch

Brought to you by Women in Tech - Christchurch This event is sponsored by Brighter Days, a fast growing Christchurch-based company that uses cloud technologies to enable greater workplace productivity for employees so they can be more effective for their customers. Have you ever wondered if courageous leadership really works? There's an easy way to...

Hedgebook – Learn from other people’s mistakes – then make your own

Organised by: Christchurch FinTech

Venue: Te Ohaka

Address: Ara Institute of Canterbury

Time for some homegrown FinTech! The founders of Hedgebook identified a niche in the Treasury Management System space 10 years ago to provide a cloud-based solution to small and mid size businesses that wrestle with interest rate, foreign exchange and commodity hedging every day. As pioneers of cloud technology, Hedgebook has evolved into the most...

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Aerospace Christchurch Meet Up #18: Mars Plus

Organised by: Aerospace Christchurch

Venue: C Block, Ara Institute of Canterbury

Address: Madras Street, Christchurch

We explore the ever popular topic of Mars and will take a look at a few research projects. Plus, we’ll cover a few other aerospace topics. We have a stellar line-up of speakers for our next Meet Up "Mars Plus" brought to you by our Gold Sponsor, MBIE - New Zealand Space Agency.   Please note...

$10
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Christchurch Laravel Meetup – How to be a test driven developer

Organised by: Custom D

Venue: The Loft

Address: 146A Lichfield Street, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

This month's talk will be by Tom Headifen, senior developer with Devart here in Christchurch. Come and join us for a chat, some beersies and pizza from 5.30pm with the presso kicking off at 6pm. We'll be discussing a topic many developers avoid or even deem unnecessary in development. And if you're one of those...

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Ngāi Tahu Women in Tech – There is no such thing as a straight path

Organised by: Women In Tech Christchurch

Venue: Ngāi Tahu

Address: 15 Show Place, Christchurch

We are very excited about being invited to the Ngāi Tahu office. At this event, we will be introduced to the various roles of the women in the Ngāi Tahu BIS team and the different journey each of them took to get to their current position. We will also hear about the challenges, learnings and...

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Women in Manufacturing

Organised by: Christchurch Women in Manufacturing

Venue: The AGA Kitchen

Address: The Tannery, 3 Garlands Road, Christchurch

Come and join us as we engage the team at COMPETENZ as they share with us the latest updates and industry information relating to free Training and Professional Development options available to the manufacturing Sector via the Governments TTAF (targeted training and apprentice fund) and how your business can access this fabulous opportunity. Competenz is...

Laravel Meetup – Webhooks: Use cases and implementation

Organised by: Custom D

Venue: Webtools

Address: 146a Lichfield Street, Christchurch, New Zealand

This month, Sam Sehnert Technical Director at Custom D will be back on the podium talking about webhooks. What are good use cases for webhooks, and how would we implement them in a Laravel project? Find out how you can allow your users — and yourself — to register webhooks to fire off third party...

Laravel Meetup – LSS (Keep Laravel Stupidly Simple)

Organised by: Custom D

Venue: Webtools

Address: 146a Lichfield Street, Christchurch, New Zealand

This month's talk is presented by Ryan Brown, Senior Web Developer at WebTools. "I've been working with Laravel for 4 years. During this period, I have expended huge amounts of energy and time over-engineering and over-complicating numerous software applications. Time for a public retrospective of some of the more weird and wonderful examples of my...

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Aerospace Christchurch Meet Up: The Roaring Twenties

Organised by: Aerospace Christchurch

Venue: Ara Institute of Canterbury

Address: 130 Madras Street, Christchurch

27 September 2021, 5pm - 8pm, Ara Institute of Canterbury and Online With incredible aerospace potential to be found right here in New Zealand, hear from local innovators about the new technologies that are launching aerospace further than it's ever been before.  

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Aerospace Christchurch Meet Up #22: Aerospace Livestream Party

Organised by: Aerospace Christchurch

Venue: Aerospace Christchurch

Address:

Planned Presentations:   A Refugee Perspective Mekdim Tesfaye, Founder, Oasis Orbital Systems There is something magical about getting to see the planet from a higher perspective. Boarding a plane and coming to New Zealand as a refugee in 2000, I fell in love with aerospace. Being able to leave my troubles behind in search of a...

Event Series Canterbury Tech – 2022 Mentor Programme Applications

Canterbury Tech – 2022 Mentor Programme Applications

Organised by: Canterbury Tech

Venue: Online event

2022 CANTERBURY TECH MENTOR PROGRAMME Canterbury Tech wants to grow world-class talent for our local Tech Sector. This mentoring programme is for professionals working in Canterbury’s technology industry (or those who aspire to). Many successful people credit one or more mentors who made a big impact in helping them achieve early success. Mentoring isn’t just...

Event Series Canterbury Tech – 2022 Mentor Programme Applications

Canterbury Tech – 2022 Mentor Programme Applications

Organised by: Canterbury Tech

Venue: Online event

2022 CANTERBURY TECH MENTOR PROGRAMME Canterbury Tech wants to grow world-class talent for our local Tech Sector. This mentoring programme is for professionals working in Canterbury’s technology industry (or those who aspire to). Many successful people credit one or more mentors who made a big impact in helping them achieve early success. Mentoring isn’t just...

Event Series Canterbury Tech – 2022 Mentor Programme Applications

Canterbury Tech – 2022 Mentor Programme Applications

Organised by: Canterbury Tech

Venue: Online event

2022 CANTERBURY TECH MENTOR PROGRAMME Canterbury Tech wants to grow world-class talent for our local Tech Sector. This mentoring programme is for professionals working in Canterbury’s technology industry (or those who aspire to). Many successful people credit one or more mentors who made a big impact in helping them achieve early success. Mentoring isn’t just...

Christchurch Cardano Meetup

Organised by: Custom D

Venue: Custom D

Address: 32/2 Welles Street, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Come along for a drink and chew the fat with other like minded ADA and Cardano blockchain enthusiasts. Since our last meetup we, MOA Crypto Ventures/MOA Stake Pool have merged with web development agency Custom D (our day job!) and we’ll be hosting drinks at our new offices - beers are on us!! We’re working on a new Cardano...

Agile Product Owner or Product Manager? What’s happening with these roles in CHC

Venue: Seequent

Address: 20 Moorhouse Ave, Addington, Christchurch

Come along to join Agile Christchurch (APN) with Seequent and Christhurch Product Management group to hear and ask about: What is the state of Product Management in NZ
How about in Christchurch?
What types of roles are people hiring for?
How do I break in if I don't have exactly the right experience?
Hear from hiring managers, build your...

PowerUp a Career in Tech (2): Meet our local tech businesses

Organised by: ChristchurchNZ

Venue: Webtools

Address: 146a Lichfield Street, Christchurch, New Zealand

Is tech your next step? If you have a passion for health, the environment, equity, education or pretty much anything else – tech could be the career for you. You don’t have to be passionate about tech to pursue a career in tech – some of the most successful tech businesses in Canterbury were started to solve a...

Kiss My SaaS – Christchurch

Organised by: kiwiSaas

Kiss My SaaS - Christchurch Monday 7 November | 3:00pm - 6:00pm Byte and Kiss My SaaS is a series of peer-to-peer learning workshops addressing key business capabilities needed to grow your SaaS business. Whether you are just starting out or looking to rapidly expand your SaaS business, then this event is for you. These...

Chch.JS – Blockchain, router firmware, and end of year social

Organised by: Chch.JS

Venue: Webtools

Address: 146a Lichfield Street, Christchurch, New Zealand

This month we have 2 different talks, not strictly JavaScript related. We've got Jim from Nomad Nodes, to talk about: Nomad Nodes is bringing Web3 to WiFi and making free-to-use WiFi hotspots more accessible, secure, reliable & rewarding. We're going to allow people to earn crypto rewards for sharing their available & unused bandwidth. We...

Create Your Future in IT: Leveraging Transferrable Skills

Organised by: GSD Alliance

Venue: Spark Square

Address: 2 Cathedral Square, Christchurch

Are you looking to expand your career opportunities in the IT industry? Perhaps you want to start working in IT but you’re not sure how you can get into the industry. We invite you to join our presentation and workshop to learn how to identify and leverage what skills and talents you already have to...

Free

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