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Free Webinar: Hidden Disabilities Through a Digital Lens

Organised by: Access Advisors

Venue: Online event

December 3rd marks the International Day of People with Disabilities. This year’s theme, Not all Disabilities are Visible, focuses on spreading awareness and understanding of disabilities that are not immediately apparent, such as: mental illness chronic pain or fatigue sight or hearing impairments diabetes, brain injuries neurological disorders learning differences; and cognitive dysfunctions Access Advisors, Access Alliance,...

Free

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Canterbury Tech Monthly Event – February 2021

Organised by: Canterbury Tech

Venue: Tait Communications

Address: 245 Wooldridge Rd, Harewood

Canterbury Tech Monthly Event - February 2021 Hi-Tech Award Winners Special   JOIN US for our first monthly event of 2021. This is a joint meeting between Canterbury Tech and...

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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...

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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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Canterbury Tech March 2021 Monthly Event

Canterbury Tech Monthly Event - March 2021 NZ COVID ALERT LEVEL 2 UPDATE FOR THIS EVENT Please note the start time for this event has changed to 5.45pm.  Presentations will...

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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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Digital Skills Aotearoa – Christchurch

Organised by: Canterbury Tech

Venue: Orbica

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

As part of the Digital Technology Industry Transformation Plan, the tech sector and the Government have collaborated on a detailed analysis of the current and forecast digital skills landscape in New Zealand. For the first time, data has been aggregated across the entire digital skills pipeline, from school to tertiary education, from education to employment, from...

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ITP Students meet Industry BBQ

Organised by: IT Professionals New Zealand

Venue: University of Canterbury

Address: John Britten 102 Conference Foyer, University of Canterbury, Christchurch

The popular annual ITP "Students meet Industry" BBQ is an excellent event where future IT Professionals can mix and mingle with industry folk informally over a BBQ (includes vegan and gluten-free options). This year the BBQ is being held at the University of Canterbury Club (87 Ilam road - opposite Canterbury University). The club has...

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Canterbury Tech April 2021 Monthly Event

Organised by: Canterbury Tech

Venue: EPIC Innovation Centre

Address: 100 Manchester St, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

CANTERBURY TECH MONTHLY EVENT - APRIL 2021 A huge thank you to this month's event sponsor AWS.  We appreciate your support!       Join us at our upcoming monthly...

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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...

Symposium on Blockchain in Agri-food Supply Chain

Organised by: UC Business School

Venue: University of Canterbury

Address: John Britten 102 Conference Foyer, University of Canterbury, Christchurch

Presented by University of Canterbury Business School in Collaboration with AgResearch Ltd. Traceability across the food supply chain enables safer food, prevention of fraud, reduction in waste, and can lead to more sustainable chains. Distributed Ledger Technologies (e.g. blockchain) have emerged in recent years and are designed to provide a trustable, efficient, and secure digital...

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Leading During Times of Uncertainty with Glenn Renwick

Organised by: UC Business School

Venue: University of Canterbury

Address: John Britten 102 Conference Foyer, University of Canterbury, Christchurch

UC MBA Thought Leadership Series 2021 Leading business minds from New Zealand and abroad feature in our Thought Leadership Series. Industry, students, and alumni are invited to be inspired by innovative and insightful expertise from executives and entrepreneurs. Join us to hear UC Alumnus Glenn Renwick share his experiences from leading during times of uncertainty...

Free
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Ōtautahi Economic Recovery & Labour Market Event

Organised by: ChristchurchNZ

Venue: Christchurch Town Hall

Address: 86 Kilmore Street, Christchurch, Canterbury

An interactive economic and labour market update About this Event You are invited to attend an interactive event bringing together iwi, employers, education and government to understand how Christchurch’s economy is performing, the latest labour market initiatives and how we can work together to better meet future employment demands. You will have the opportunity to...

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Canterbury Tech May 2021 Monthly Event

Organised by: Canterbury Tech

Venue: EPIC Innovation Centre

Address: 100 Manchester St, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Canterbury Tech Monthly Event - May 2021 Join us at our upcoming monthly Canterbury Tech event where we will hear from three guest speakers in one stream. The theme for this...

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Privacy Week – Do you know your obligations under the 2020 Privacy act?

Organised by: IT Professionals New Zealand

Venue: The Loft

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

Privacy Commissioner John Edwards is in town for NZ Privacy Week, and in conjunction with our friends at Canterbury Tech, all are welcome to hear him speak at this ITP ChCh event. Hear John talk about the importance of reporting privacy breaches, now required by law, the requirements and implications for disclosing information to organisations...

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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...

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POWER UP – Waitaha Canterbury Careers Advice and Study Expo

Venue: Christchurch Town Hall

Address: 86 Kilmore Street, Christchurch, Canterbury

Discover what jobs will be in demand over the next few years and what skills you will need to set you up for the future at Power Up: Waitaha Canterbury...

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FLINT – CxO and Chats

Organised by: FLINT and TUANZ

Venue: Enable Fibre Broadband

Address: Level 3, 93 Cambridge Terrace, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Our first in person event in 2021 for FLINT and TUANZ! About this event Come along to our first Christchurch in person event for 2021. Where we will gather to check out Enable’s new office and put our networking skills to play. There will be food and drink provided and the opportunity to mingle with...

Free
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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...

T-Tech Conference 2021

Venue: Te Papa Tongarewa, The National Museum of New Zealand 

Address: Wellington

T-Tech is New Zealand's leading forum to discuss Intelligent Transport Systems and Future Transport challenges, innovations and solutions that help make transport safer, greener and more efficient.  T-Tech is essential learning and networking opportunity for transport professionals, researchers, local and central government policy and agency teams, freight and mobility companies.  T-Tech is a rare opportunity...

Event Series The Hub Series 2021

The Hub Series 2021

Organised by: Payments NZ

Venue: Online event

The Hub Series 2021 is a must-attend event for any tech companies and organizations working in the payments space in New Zealand. This year, Payments NZ are bringing you a...

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The Canterbury Health Innovation Network event

Organised by: Canterbury Health Innovation Network

Venue: ARANZ Medical

Address: 47 Hereford Street, Christchurch

Commercialisation to Growth About this event Come and join us at our next event to catch up with others in health innovation in Canterbury and hear some of our leading local health technology businesses share their commercialisation and growth stories. Learn about the company’s early days through to today, challenges, opportunities, key insights and advice...

TMG2021 – Just One Conference

Organised by: NZ Tech Marketers

Venue: AUT

Address: Auckland

Tech Marketers Conference 2021 Join us and other leading marketers from around the country for a fantastic full-day conference focused on the challenges and opportunities faced by marketers in the tech sector. It’s time for us to all get back together in real life for a day of learning, networking and experience sharing! In 2019 we...

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