Past Events

In this free webinar, you'll learn the fundamentals of Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO)—the next evolution of digital visibility.
Instead of trying to rank higher in search engines, you'll discover how to structure your expertise so AI systems recommend you in responses to LLM prompts.
To get recommended by LLMs, you need to structure your website so AI can understand it, trust it, and include it in their answers.

Join Wāhine Fuelled tech for an evening celebrating the women growing families, careers and businesses. This event is an opportunity to honour the amazing capabilities of mums in every kind of workplace. On the night you’ll be hearing from 3 incredible mums – they’ve not only grown their own families but have grown brand new businesses as well.

Joined by Emma Yee Yick, Head of Global Community at Notion, the connected workspace used by startups and teams to manage projects, documents, notes, and workflows, bringing knowledge, planning, and collaboration together in one platform.

This session is about building communities that create lasting momentum. We will discuss how strong communities drive retention and advocacy, how to identify and empower early believers, and turn trust into a long-term growth engine.

Kapiti innovators get together to share startup stories, exchange ideas, and build a local support network for entrepreneurs and business growth.

The Digital Trust Hui Taumata 2026 - Towards Universal Trust - is Aotearoa New Zealand’s flagship gathering for digital identity, trust technology, and the governance frameworks that underpin them. The Hui Taumata provides the digital identity and trust ecosystem with an opportunity to share their insights into building a thriving and resilient trust economy for the benefit of all New Zealanders. Created by Tech New Zealand and Digital Identity New Zealand (DINZ) this is a must-attend event for New Zealand’s digital identity and trust ecosystem.

Explore how AI is transforming Marketing & Comms in August's Second Monday Meetup. Simon Rush and Nic Hendrie from Trimble will be sharing how enterprise marketing teams are accelerating campaign strategy with AI, while Caelan Huntress will be showing how to build a Brand Voice Kit that teaches AI to write in your unique voice. Drinks, demos, and practical takeaways included.

Connect with IT & AI professionals, discover job and internship opportunities, gain career insights, and grow your network at the New Zealand IT & AI Job Forum — designed for students, graduates, new migrants, and aspiring tech professionals.

Join us for monthly coffee mornings on the first Friday of every month. These are relaxed, informal catchups: a chance to expand your network, swap news and ideas, and meet others in the space. We'll have a table booked and some Women in Health Tech signage so you can find us easily.
Come along for a barista coffee, a good yarn, and the chance to connect with other women working in health tech.

Building a better Aotearoa with AI
This isn't just a hackathon, it's a launchpad. Work on challenges and use the weekend as a springboard to build new ventures and startup, with Seen Ventures helping shape the boldest ideas, after the hackathon.

Not just another business conference. Revved is the beginning of an ongoing movement bringing together 800+ of New Zealand’s brightest business minds. From founders and CEO’s to industry leaders and rising talent, Revved promises a full day of perspective-shifting content, honest dialogue, and real momentum.
Use code: Start-upDigest_Table for an exclusive discount for our community

An informal monthly drop in/coffee chat for the Digital Identity NZ community. The session runs for 45 minutes to allow more time for discussion and ideas exchange.

For nearly two decades, the New Zealand CIO Summit & Awards has been the definitive platform for enterprise technology and transformation leadership in the country. Join a powerful dialogue between global thought leaders and local experts at the New Zealand CIO Innovation Summit.

Come and join to learn with Ramon, presented by Excel in BI. In these live sessions, we explore practical topics across Data, AI, and Automation, always focused on real business application. If you are a curious professional who wants to better understand how data can improve your work, your decisions, and your career, these sessions are for you. Discover how small and medium businesses can build a simple and scalable data structure that supports reporting and growth without enterprise budget...

Apply the skills and life experiences you already have as we help you learn to think, work, and build like a startup in 54 thrilling hours. Techstars Startup Weekend is an exciting and immersive foray into the world of startups. Over an action-packed three days, you’ll receive world-class innovation training and meet the very best mentors, co-founders and funders who will help you learn and innovate rapidly. This could be your start in building Taranaki's — or New Zealand's — next big success story!

This is a practical workshop that will completely change how you think about selling. We will look at the whole sales conversation from start to finish - the mindset, the structure and the skills. You will leave with a clear, simple framework you can use straight away.

Understanding your motivation for becoming an angel investor and having an appreciation for the risk profile and mechanics of angel investment is all covered in this succinct 'awareness raising' course.

The workshop will be run by Ken Erskine, who has extensive experience as an angel investor, both from managing his own broad portfolio and leading the Ice Angels team for six years. Ken has developed and run the AANZ's Angel 101 workshops across New Zealand, receiving rave reviews for the content and his unique and fun delivery style.

Kapiti innovators get together to share startup stories, exchange ideas, and build a local support network for entrepreneurs and business growth.

Invite the people you've connected with online and meet them all in one place in real life. For founders and people in tech.

Location will be revealed 24 hours before the event in our private LinkedIn group

Discover how AI is helping MYOB teams work smarter, solve problems faster, and deliver more value. This interactive session will showcase practical AI use cases, explore how AI is reshaping the Software Development Lifecycle, and highlight lessons learned across different business functions.

Connect in-person with the New Zealand EdTech community! Hosted by EdTechNZ Executive Director Dean Watson, this is an informal event that could formally change the trajectory of your life.

Explore Japan and South Korea’s fast-growing EdTech markets—and what NZ companies need to enter and succeed. Get practical insights from in-market experts on opportunities, challenges, and pathways to grow in North East Asia.

Join us at the Aurora Climate Tech Summit — New Zealand’s largest annual forum for climate tech connection and a celebration of the Aurora Climate Lab’s founding teams. This event brings together founders, investors, industry buyers and policymakers to accelerate solutions, investment and partnerships across Aotearoa’s climate tech ecosystem.

Ministry of Awesome’s Coffee and Jam meetup brings the Christchurch startup community together to connect, learn from founders, and collaborate on ideas.

Join for a lively and interactive 90-minute online session with Jeff Wallace​, founder of Silicon Valley in Your Pocket.
In this session, Jeff will walk through the Nine Vital Signs used to evaluate startups, sharing practical insights on what you can do in the early stages to strengthen your venture’s viability and improve market readiness.

Join NZ Tech Rally for another inspiring evening in Wellington Central. We're bringing together our community for a nuanced discussion on AI-assisted coding. Our July panel features three senior engineers who use LLMs in their day-to-day and will get real with us about their experiences.

This event is suitable for any women in business - whether you're a business owner, manager, corporate, business founder or aspiring entrepreneur!

We'll kick off the event with a light lunch and hear from our guest speaker (to be announced). This will be followed by networking and an opportunity to talk to support agencies about how they can support you and your business.

Empower Her Community and Stelar Business Event have joined forces to create The Business Roadshow. A nationwide series of intimate, high-value events for women in business, rolling out across Aotearoa ahead of the Stelar Business Event in October. Each event is two focused hours, packed with real value, real connection and the kind of conversations where you'll genuinely meet and get to know other brilliant women in business in your area

Join us for a hands-on introduction to testing with a screen reader, facilitated by accessibility specialist Steve Barnett.

Joined by Hannah Hardy-Jones and Lucy Pink, Co-founders of Contented, an AI platform that turns conversations into actionable business documents, insights, and workflows.

This session is about turning raw inputs into clear priorities, exploring how founders cut through the noise and make confident decisions without perfect information. You will learn how to take customer feedback and turn it into the product decisions that keep teams moving.

​We're exploring how human creativity (using AI) is showing up in real life. How it's helping people generate ideas, manage projects, tell stories, make art, build businesses, and reimagine what’s possible. This is a night about curiosity over fear. It’s an invitation to see AI through a human lens...practical, playful, creative, and deeply personal.

​Expect to be inspired by bold conversations, thought provoking ideas and plenty of space to connect with the thinkers, makers and doers.

All ideas welcome. All voices valued. We look forward to seeing you there!

This event features a panel of three women with hardware backgrounds followed by networking to support gender diversity.

​This edition of The Jam is for early-stage founders who are on that journey or getting ready to start it.

​We're bringing together founders who've been through it, the pre-seed grind, the first real conversations with VCs, the pivots, the nos, and eventually the yes, to share what actually made the difference. What patterns did investors respond to? What does traction really mean at seed stage? And what does Movac specifically look for through the Emerge fund lens, for both deep tech and enterprise?

​Real stories. No fundraising theatre.

Led by Lee Bagshaw, Partner at Kindrik Partners, this practical founder workshop breaks down how to design and implement effective employee incentive schemes in early-stage startups. Whether you’re building your first team or scaling fast, this session will give you the clarity to make confident, informed decisions around equity and incentives.

Join one of Cryptocurrency NZ's 12 crypto Meetups across Aotearoa New Zealand; where you can find other Kiwis active in the currency wars of the 21st century: Wellington, Palmerston North, Invercargill, Hamilton, Rotorua, Dunedin, Hawke's Bay, Nelson, Auckland, Christchurch, Tauranga, Queenstown.

BizFest 2026 is Porirua’s annual business festival bringing together 300+ business owners, sole traders, entrepreneurs, and emerging founders for a day of practical learning, genuine connection, and collective growth. The festival features keynote speakers, interactive workshops led by local experts, structured networking sessions, and an exhibitor marketplace showcasing services and support for small businesses.

What if we're underestimating what could go right?

As intelligence becomes cheaper, faster, and more accessible, we're entering an era unlike anything in human history. Just as electricity transformed industry, and the internet transformed communication, AI is transforming intelligence itself.

Come and join to learn with Ramon, presented by Excel in BI. In these live sessions, we explore practical topics across Data, AI, and Automation, always focused on real business application. If you are a curious professional who wants to better understand how data can improve your work, your decisions, and your career, these sessions are for you. Learn how to use AI responsibly in reporting and automation while protecting sensitive information and maintaining governance. Each session is pract...

Kapiti innovators get together to share startup stories, exchange ideas, and build a local support network for entrepreneurs and business growth.

Come along for three unique innovation stories about the times things didn’t quite go the way they thought they would - and the lessons those experiences taught them.

This session, you’ll hear from some really interesting founders, but we are keeping their identities a secret right now. But here's a hint: this session lands during Nano Week 2026 as part of the New Zealand International Science Festival, so expect some fascinating minds in the room.

An informal monthly drop in/coffee chat for the Digital Identity NZ community. The session runs for 45 minutes to allow more time for discussion and ideas exchange.

This free three-hour workshop provides Kiwi business owners with practical tools, frameworks, and templates to build a tailored business continuity plan.

Join for an evening with the Halter team to learn about what it takes to thrive inside a high-growth company building technology that's transforming an entire industry.

Join us for monthly coffee mornings on the first Friday of every month. These are relaxed, informal catchups: a chance to expand your network, swap news and ideas, and meet others in the space. We'll have a table booked and some Women in Health Tech signage so you can find us easily.
Come along for a barista coffee, a good yarn, and the chance to connect with other women working in health tech.

Come and join to learn with Ramon, presented by Excel in BI. In these live sessions, we explore practical topics across Data, AI, and Automation, always focused on real business application. If you are a curious professional who wants to better understand how data can improve your work, your decisions, and your career, these sessions are for you.Understand structured modelling, relationships, and why star schema matters for performance and clarity in reporting.Each session is practical, focus...

Kapiti innovators get together to share startup stories, exchange ideas, and build a local support network for entrepreneurs and business growth.

Real people. Real projects. Five minutes at a time.
Welcome to our Show & Tell event in Queenstown!
Join us for a fast, friendly (and FREE!) evening where five locals share what they’re building, exploring, or experimenting with.
Come curious, leave connected.
 
FLINT is a laid-back show-and-tell night for anyone keen to see what’s bubbling away in Queenstown. Side hustles, creative experiments, community ideas, tech tools, you name it.
 
We’ll hear from speakers, five minutes each about some...

The Tupu Showcase is the culmination of an intensive eight-week accelerator supporting Māori founders building scalable ventures for global markets.

Across the evening, ten startups will take the stage to present their ventures spanning technology, wellness, sustainability, AI, consumer products, and innovation-led solutions.

This is an opportunity to hear directly from the next generation of Māori entrepreneurs as they share the whakaaro, innovation, and ambition shaping the future of Māori enterprise.

Resiliency is part of being a woman in life and in the STEM pace. This Winter Webinar, the Tech Women Council will be sharing how they have dug deep into resiliency within their career and personal lives. This session is interactive, and we encourage our community members (and guests/ non-members) to engage via the chat functions.

We always look forward to this time of year, when we can get to know a bit more more about you all, and how you are facing the challenges of being a woman in tech (and life!).

Learn the risks and benefits of participating in wholesale investments, eligibility criteria, the certification process, and what it enables you to invest in, so you can take part confidently in assessing whether early-stage investments should have a place in your investment portfolio.

Couldn’t make it to Electrify Aotearoa and keen to unpack the insights with other women founders? Join Wellington’s women in tech community as they unpack the most valuable lessons from Electrify Aotearoa!

The Great NZ AI Roadshow is for Kiwis striving to work smarter, move faster and grow.

A meet-up for migrants based Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland interested in joining the region’s growing tech sector. It's a safe space where you can connect with fellow newcomers and the local tech community.

Join NZ Tech Rally for an inspiring evening as they bring together the tech community to discuss their learnings and reflections from NZ Tech Rally 2026 conference. The stage is open to all NZ Tech Rally 2026 attendees, speakers, sponsors, volunteers and crew members.

Join a facilitated discussion with leaders, managers and business owners exploring the real challenges of AI adoption, from managing change and building team capability to making confident decisions in a rapidly evolving landscape.

Join one of Cryptocurrency NZ's 12 crypto Meetups across Aotearoa New Zealand; where you can find other Kiwis active in the currency wars of the 21st century: Wellington, Palmerston North, Invercargill, Hamilton, Rotorua, Dunedin, Hawke's Bay, Nelson, Auckland, Christchurch, Tauranga, Queenstown.

Join us this June for a crucial After5 event, "An update on cyber security and safety online in 2026." The digital threat landscape facing New Zealanders has fundamentally shifted; we have moved beyond isolated technical vulnerabilities into an era of automated, AI-driven security attacks at scale. With threat actors now utilising tools that deliver simple attacks at volume, cyber crime has evolved from a mere IT problem into a pressing social and economic crisis. Scammers are siphoning vast ...

WiT Queenstown, in partnership with Technology Queenstown, will bring together some of the world’s most influential minds in travel and hospitality tech – senior executives, innovators, and investors – right here in the heart of the Southern Alps.

The Next 20 Years will belong to the bold – to those who can see what’s coming, build what’s needed, and lead with imagination, not just innovation.
It’s not just about what’s next. It’s about who’s shaping it.

Come and join to learn with Ramon, presented by Excel in BI. In these live sessions, we explore practical topics across Data, AI, and Automation, always focused on real business application. If you are a curious professional who wants to better understand how data can improve your work, your decisions, and your career, these sessions are for you. Learn how to move from manual reporting to structured and automated data flows using practical tools and smart processes. Each session is practical,...

The Great NZ AI Roadshow is for Kiwis striving to work smarter, move faster and grow.

Wonder Workshop is a fast paced, practical session designed to help you see new possibilities in your work and what might come next. Using a small set of tools drawn from innovation and experience design, the workshop explores how to restore your sightlines, recognise patterns others miss, generate stronger ideas, and think differently about the audiences around your work.

Tech can feel like one of those industries everyone talks about, but no one explains properly. You’ve probably heard things like “you need to be technical,” “everyone in tech works 80-hour weeks,” or “it’s too late to get started.” But how much of it is actually true?
Tech Myth Busting is an open and honest conversation designed to challenge the assumptions people have about careers in technology.

The Great NZ AI Roadshow is for Kiwis striving to work smarter, move faster and grow.

Learn, network, and make a difference. Keynotes from Dr Amanda Williamson (Deloitte) and Mr Glen Willoughby, and practical sessions from the likes of Zespri, Lawvu, AI Assembly and more! All proceeds used to fund scholarships for young people at Mount Maunganui College.

The Great NZ AI Roadshow is for Kiwis striving to work smarter, move faster and grow.

Welcome to Sec for Devs, safe space for developers to discuss and learn, rant and vent, share and care about secure coding.
Talks and lectures, discussions and workshops, games and fun every month together with cool people.
Come and see yourself!

New Zealand’s #1 event for women founders, investors, and supporters

This high-impact, two-day event is designed to supercharge the growth of women-led ventures and spark connections that last long after the event concludes.

NZCryptoCon is New Zealand’s premier crypto and blockchain conference, designed to unite builders, traders, investors, developers, founders and the wider crypto-curious community. Held at the New Zealand International Convention Centre in Auckland, NZCryptoCon delivers world-class education while celebrating the unique culture of Aotearoa.

Come and join to learn with Ramon, presented by Excel in BI. In these live sessions, we explore practical topics across Data, AI, and Automation, always focused on real business application. If you are a curious professional who wants to better understand how data can improve your work, your decisions, and your career, these sessions are for you. In this session, you will learn how to design meaningful KPIs that connect to revenue, margin, and operational efficiency to influence real business...

The Great NZ AI Roadshow is for Kiwis striving to work smarter, move faster and grow.

An informal monthly drop in/coffee chat for the Digital Identity NZ community. The session runs for 45 minutes to allow more time for discussion and ideas exchange.

The Great NZ AI Roadshow is for Kiwis striving to work smarter, move faster and grow.

Getting the Foundations Right: Legal Essentials for Early-Stage Companies

Join Edwin Lim and Sarah Weersing of Hudson Gavin Martin for an engaging webinar designed to help start-ups and early-stage businesses get their legal foundations right from day one.​

This online 90 minute session will cover key corporate and commercial issues every founder should understand

The Great NZ AI Roadshow is for Kiwis striving to work smarter, move faster and grow.

Join one of Cryptocurrency NZ's 12 crypto Meetups across Aotearoa New Zealand; where you can find other Kiwis active in the currency wars of the 21st century: Wellington, Palmerston North, Invercargill, Hamilton, Rotorua, Dunedin, Hawke's Bay, Nelson, Auckland, Christchurch, Tauranga, Queenstown.

The AI Roadmap Workshop is a hands-on strategy session designed to help professionals identify the highest-value opportunities for using AI in their work — and leave with a clear plan for implementation.

Come and join to learn with Ramon, presented by Excel in BI. In these live sessions, we explore practical topics across Data, AI, and Automation, always focused on real business application. If you are a curious professional who wants to better understand how data can improve your work, your decisions, and your career, these sessions are for you. Excel remains one of the most powerful tools in business. In this session, you will learn advanced but practical functions that reduce manual work a...

Marketers Day is a one-day, festival-style experience designed fun and educational for marketers at every stage of their career—from students to fresh grads to fractional CMOs. We have four panel discussions on the day with speakers who'll share practical tips, what works for them and what doesn't, and ideas that you can take into your own work. We explore what it's really like to work in marketing in New Zealand today.

New Zealand’s premier tech awards night. Join the NZ Hi-Tech Awards Gala Dinner at Spark Arena on 22 May 2026, the grand finale of Techweek26 celebrating the best in innovation.

Join us as we celebrate the people and organisations shaping Aotearoa’s tech future. The Gala Dinner brings the sector together for an unforgettable night honouring the 2026 finalists, winners, and Flying Kiwis.

A half day of online panel discussions on a variety of topics, featuring many former Seeds podcast guests and friends.

The aim of the conference is to focus on impact and initiatives which show meaningful change across a variety of areas, such as Housing, Education, Entrepreneurship, and more.

Come join us for our monthly AI Meetup at EPIC Innovation for a couple drinks, a couple talks, and some practical takeaways on how to use AI.

The EPIC AI conference is a day of workshops, community conversation, presentations, and leadership dialogue at EPIC Innovation. This event is part of TechWeekNZ, Aotearoa New Zealand’s national festival of tech and innovation.

Kapiti innovators get together to share startup stories, exchange ideas, and build a local support network for entrepreneurs and business growth.

Wonder Workshop is a fast paced, practical session designed to help you see new possibilities in your work and what might come next. Using a small set of tools drawn from innovation and experience design, the workshop explores how to restore your sightlines, recognise patterns others miss, generate stronger ideas, and think differently about the audiences around your work.

Join Wāhine in Tech Wellington for a warm, inclusive kickoff to TechWeek 2026 in the heart of Pōneke!
This event is all about connection, kōrero, and community. Together, we’ll explore the key themes of this year’s TechWeek and open the floor for relaxed, meaningful conversations around what they mean for us as wāhine and gender-minority folks in the tech industry.

Whether you've joined us for one of our meet-ups in the past or you're new to the Wāhine in Tech community, come join us to find...

A TechWeek Queenstown panel discussion hosted by the University of Otago

What does AI actually mean for New Zealand — for our businesses, our families, and our place on the world stage?

Join the University of Otago for a public panel discussion bringing together three global perspectives on AI’s real impact, moderated by Professor James Maclaurin, Deputy Vice-Chancellor.

Queenstown Women in Tech x Techweek 2026

This free intermediate-level presentation is for proficient AI operators, team leaders, and decision-makers who want to understand the next layer of AI capability.

Techweek Whanganui 2026 brings together local innovators, businesses, educators, creatives and community leaders to explore technology’s role in our region’s future, including keynotes on regional energy opportunities and Whanganui’s Tech Sector Proposal.

Techweek is Aotearoa New Zealand’s national festival of innovation — a week‑long celebration of the people and ideas using technology to create a better tomorrow.

The Great NZ AI Roadshow is for Kiwis striving to work smarter, move faster and grow.

This session focuses on practical legal, ethical, and contractual guardrails for using AI in AEC, helping organisations manage risk as AI becomes embedded in everyday project delivery.

NZ Tech Rally unites the whole software delivery team: engineers, testers, product folks, data minds, tech leaders, and founders. We share real stories and practical local solutions for people, organisations, and communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. With 20 speakers over 5 tracks including Engineering, Product, AI, Data & Community.

Join us on May 14 in Auckland for the Test Automation Summit—a day of learning, testing, and networking. Featuring 10+ talks, keynotes, tutorials, and panel discussions, this event brings together the testing community to explore trends, share best practices, and connect with peers.

Venture Taranaki’s PowerUp Accelerator Showcase Night takes place on Wednesday 13 May at The Devon Hotel in New Plymouth and via livestream, featuring five diverse startups spanning wellness, logistics, and digital payments pitching live to investors and business leaders following a 10-week intensive programme.

 
The Mock Interview Workshop is a structured career development initiative designed to support people from under-represented communities to successfully enter or progress within digital and technology careers in New Zealand.
Industry professionals will be invited as table hosts to facilitate small-group mock interviews, including:
• Experienced digital and technology practitioners
• Hiring Managers
• HR and recruitment professionals
Participants will take part in realistic interview simulati...

Join Taiawa & NZTE for a full-day SaaS intensive. Move beyond AI experiments to disrupt your product, GTM, & delivery. Led by Serge van Dam.

NetTalks: Short Talks, Big Impact comes to Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington on Tuesday 12 May — a fast-paced evening exploring the present and future of the internet in Aotearoa. Six speakers share six-minute talks across tech, policy, education, and community. Enjoy drinks, meet speakers, and connect with others. No tech expertise needed — just curiosity.

Welcome to Sec for Devs, safe space for developers to discuss and learn, rant and vent, share and care about secure coding.
Talks and lectures, discussions and workshops, games and fun every month together with cool people.
Come and see yourself!

Join us for an evening of learning and connection as we explore real-world accessibility wins. We'll hear from two speakers who've made accessibility happen within their organizations, followed by a panel discussion where you can ask questions and dig into what worked, what didn't, and how to drive change in your own context.