Canterbury Tech Events calendar

Welcome to the July 2025 Christchurch Game Developers' Meetup!   Speaker - Julian Gosiengfiao Julian is a new arrival to Christchurch, bringing 16 years of game design, product and leadership experience with him. He previously served as the product owner and design director for Subway Surfers City at SYBO, taking the game team from inception...

We are back for our June meetup - the plan for this session is: Networking Presentation - hear from Lois McClintock about NLP skills: People aren't just numbers, and when we overlook the whole person, we risk missing the chance to truly connect, engage, and support them at work. Join our session when we discuss common...

Watch this space - event details to still to come! As usual, we'll run this session in the Epic Building. Epic have kindly donated drinks to support this event. Run of events: 5:00pm - Meet and greet - talk digital marketing 6:00pm(ish) - Introduction 6:05 - 6:25 Talk 7:00pm - Close and go home or...

Keep your best ideas from getting buried in backlogs. Build a searchable, AI-enhanced knowledge base that supports onboarding, collaboration, and smart growth. Summarize and organize knowledge using AI Build a living library of insights and decisions Transform scattered documents into strategic assets This will be an interactive workshop, with demonstrations of NotebookLM, ChatGPT Projects, and...

Welcome to the June 2025 Christchurch Game Developers' Meetup! Location: EPIC Innovation, 106 Manchester St, Christchurch 8011 The meetup will also be streamed online: Don't forget to check us out at: Website: https://chch.gamedev.co.nz X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/CHCHGameDev Facebook: https://fb.me/CHCHGameDev Discord: https://discord.gg/68YqqFZ If you like our meetups, consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CHCHGameDev *** Speaker - Hannah Mackintosh Hannah has worked as...

In this interactive workshop, you’ll explore how AI can become your creative co-pilot, helping you remix old ideas into fresh insights, discover patterns you might have missed, and stretch your thinking beyond the obvious. Whether you're designing, writing, leading, or problem-solving, AI can help you unlock unexpected ideas and push through creative blocks faster than...

🚀 Boost Your AI Skills—Fast! Curious about AI but not sure where to start? This power-packed 30-minute sprint is designed to make AI accessible, hands-on, and immediately useful. Join us for a quick 30-minute workshop designed to boost your AI skills—fast. New AI tutorial or exercise every 10 minutes - learn by doing! Live discussion + Q&A with facilitator Caelan Huntress...

🚀 Boost Your AI Skills—Fast! Curious about AI but not sure where to start? This power-packed 30-minute sprint is designed to make AI accessible, hands-on, and immediately useful. Join us for a quick 30-minute workshop designed to boost your AI skills—fast. New AI tutorial or exercise every 10 minutes - learn by doing! Live discussion + Q&A with facilitator Caelan Huntress...

We are back for our April 2025 meetup - the plan for this session is: 5:30-6:00 Networking 6:00 - 7:00 Presentation - 'Psychological Safety in projects'. We will hear from the amazing Gareth Mitchell, GM Consulting, about the importance of psychological safety in project environments to ensure that we are getting the most out of teams...

🚀 Boost Your AI Skills—Fast! Curious about AI but not sure where to start? This power-packed 30-minute sprint is designed to make AI accessible, hands-on, and immediately useful. Join us for a quick 30-minute workshop designed to boost your AI skills—fast. New AI tutorial or exercise every 10 minutes - learn by doing! Live discussion + Q&A with facilitator Caelan Huntress...

Outsourcing Executive Functions: How Neurodiverse Workers Can Leverage Generative AI At our next meetup we’ll hear from Information Leadership’s Ash Lindquist on how generative AI tools like Microsoft Copilot can serve as a powerful aid for neurodiverse individuals in the workplace, particularly when it comes to executive functioning challenges. Many neurodiverse workers—including those with ADHD, autism, dyslexia,...

Hi all This month we will be talking email deliverability. Lukas (from SMTP2Go) has kindly offered to do a brief presentation on some practical things that people can do to improve inbox delivery. Trust, Engagement, Relationship, Consistency/Patience, Reputation, Authentication, Saying Goodbye, Seeking Help, Practical Inclusions and Exclusions. Lukas's Bio is below. Thanks very much Caelan...

🚀 Boost Your AI Skills—Fast! Curious about AI but not sure where to start? This power-packed 30-minute sprint is designed to make AI accessible, hands-on, and immediately useful. Join us for a quick 30-minute workshop designed to boost your AI skills—fast. New AI tutorial or exercise every 10 minutes - learn by doing! Live discussion + Q&A with facilitator Caelan Huntress...

We are back for our March 2025 meetup - the plan for this session is: 5:30-6:00 Networking 6:00 - 7:00 Presentation - 'The Art of Navigating Difficult Project'. We will hear from the amazing Liz Foxwell-Canning, Department For Difficult Projects, about what makes a project truly "difficult". Refreshments - thanks to the generosity of BeyondBA Thanks...

What we’re about This Meetup is for the amazing BA’s (and related professionals) of Christchurch to get together. A chance to share stories from the trenches, and look at how others are innovating in the Business Analysis craft. Details We are back for 2025 with our February meetup - the plan for this session is:...

Welcome to the first Christchurch Game Developers Meetup of 2025! Location: EPIC Innovation, 106 Manchester St, Christchurch 8011 Don't forget to check us out at: Website: (https://chch.gamedev.co.nz) Twitter: (https://twitter.com/CHCHGameDev) Facebook: (https://fb.me/CHCHGameDev) Discord: (https://discord.gg/68YqqFZ) If you like our meetups, consider supporting us on Patreon: (https://www.patreon.com/CHCHGameDev) *** 6:15 PM - KICK OFF Welcome to the Christchurch Game...

Inde is an employee-owned, values driven, Christchurch start-up who, unless you work for an IT team within an enterprise company, you have probably never heard of. Yet our customers are as big as they get, and our competitors refer to us as a tier one player. So how do we do it? Why do the customers...

Christchurch Test Professional Network (TPN), in association with Ruby Play Network, EPIC and Sourced are excited to host the internationally celebrated software test guru Michael Bolton. The presentation will be about the topic on everyone's lips...AI. Come along from 5:30pm and the presentation will start at 6pm. Entry is free but you need to reserve a seat by going to the  TPN meet...