Events, NZTech News

Journey from tech leader to prospective Mayor - Lunch with Vic Crone

Outgoing Xero MD and Auckland Mayoral candidate Vic Crone is the first to admit she is not big on career planning. “I’m certainly not a poster child for mapping out a career.  I learnt from my Dad who started as an office boy and made it to CEO.  Step by step, job to job, keeping an open mi

February 25, 2016

#Women in Technology

Industry News

Survey Findings: IT professionals more content and record lows want to leave NZ

2016 is already well on its way and as promised we have some of the results from the recent Job Seeker Survey that was done before Christmas. Our latest survey results show tech professionals in New Zealand are becoming more content with their current working conditions as 86% believing their cur

February 24, 2016

#Tech Careers

Industry News

Preparing Future Innovators for the IoT Era

How do we ready students for STEM jobs we don’t yet know? Engineers are innovators. They love to tinker, design, build and make things. They are inspired and they learn by doing. Our future innovators, today’s students, are no different. They will be solving some of the world’s biggest cha

February 23, 2016

#Edtech #Internet of Things #Skills and talent

Events, Media Release, NZTech News

Auckland mayoral candidate addressing NZTech Women’s Forum

As more New Zealand women are thriving in New Zealand’s fastest growing industry, technology, a NZTech event for women at Spark in Auckland tomorrow will be a perfect opportunity to listen to one of the country’s most successful hi tech experts. The NZTech event is for women and men who want

February 22, 2016

#Women in Technology

NZTech News

Key tech summit tomorrow for New Zealand’s fastest growing industry

A major government and tech industry summit to be held at Te Papa in Wellington tomorrow will look at how government and the tech sector can work together to deliver better outcomes. According to the government’s Sector Reports more than 100,000 people are employed across the technology sector,

February 21, 2016

#Government

Events, Industry News

STEM expo 27th Feb 2016 'Bringing our futures together through education and competition'

Auckland is hosting the 2016 New Zealand VEX Robotics National Championship on 27th  and 28th February 2016 at the Vodafone Events Centre. Teams from across NZ will be competing to represent New Zealand at the VEX World Robotics Championships in Kentucky in April, hoping to add to New Zealand’

February 17, 2016

NZTech News

Government and tech industry summit to look at key issues

A major tech industry and government summit in Wellington on February 23 will look at key issues to improve service and delivery to consumers. About 40 percent of all the money spent in New Zealand on ICT technology is spent by the government amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. NZTech

February 3, 2016

#Government

Industry News

NZ IT industry must look to domestic talent to ease skill shortage

New Zealand cannot expect overseas information technology (IT) workers to rescue it from staff shortages, the leader of a newly-enlarged technology group says. The New Zealand Technology Industry Association (NZTech) and Canterbury Software Cluster have agreed to work together on issues like major

January 27, 2016

Industry News, Media Release, NZTech News

NZTech and Canterbury Software Cluster to sign agreement

The voice of the New Zealand technology industry, NZTech, and the Canterbury Software Cluster will sign an historic agreement on February 2 to create the start of a national alliance of tech industry bodies. It will be the first ever agreement of its type and is a great example of the collaborati

January 26, 2016