Industry News

Silicon Valley AgTech – How Digital Technology is Transforming AgTech

Silicon Valley Forum is thrilled to welcome you to the 2016 AgTech Immersion Program. Be prepared for an informative program where you’ll learn about some of the hottest topics in the agriculture industry today, including Big Data, Connected Farm, Precision Agriculture and much more. The activi

March 17, 2016

Industry News, Media Releases, NZTech News

NZTech appoints new director and introduces a board internship seat

The New Zealand Technology Industry Association (NZTech) announces the appointment of Kim Connolly-Stone and Dil Khosa to its Board. NZTech has an ongoing initiative to ensure diversity of thought and representation on the NZTech Board.  In recent years NZTech has consciously evolved its Board c

March 17, 2016

Industry News

Get and keep great staff – free workshops

Do you struggle to find the best and brightest to work for you? To grow, businesses need to draw from a skilled workforce to attract and retain talented staff.  If you would like some practical tools and advice, join us at a free workshop and networking event where you can find out how to attrac

March 14, 2016

NZTech News

Celebrate Women in Tech Today

“We have plenty to celebrate in New Zealand on International Women’s Day as our gender diversity stats begin to stack up favourably, but we still need to achieve gender parity,” says NZTech Industry Association, CEO, Graeme Muller. Mounting research shows that firms with women in senior man

March 8, 2016

#Women in Technology

Events, NZTech News

Join the New Zealand delegation to #ISTE2016

Join us in Denver, Colorado this June!  On behalf of NZTech and our EdTechNZ Advisory Board, you are invited to join the New Zealand delegation to attend the largest Edtech Conference in the world, #ISTE2016. Working closely with Education New Zealand and NZTE we aim to ensure our delegates ga

February 29, 2016

#Edtech

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

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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

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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

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