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

Ready to meet your future interns? Connect with NZ's top student and grad talent.

Ready to meet your future interns? Connect with NZ's top student and grad talent.

Explore the human and practical sides of AI adoption at September’s Second Monday Meetup. Pamela Simpson examines how organisations can preserve judgement and expertise, while Caelan Huntress shares how to onboard AI agents, transfer workflows, and build an internal AI Working Group. Drinks, demos, and practical takeaways included.

Ready to meet your future interns? Connect with NZ's top student and grad talent.

The world is evolving at a rapid pace, and with it comes both uncertainty and opportunity. What better time for our Canterbury Tech community to come together – to collaborate, share insights, and explore how we can accelerate the growth of Aotearoa New Zealand’s tech sector.

The definitive annual gathering for NZ's tech ecosystem on September 17-18. Day 1: executive roundtables and founder conversations. Day 2: expo floor, demos, and full ecosystem access. Shed 10, Auckland.

Ready to meet your future interns? Connect with NZ's top student and grad talent.

AI won’t replace you. But someone who learns how to use it—without losing their humanity—might.

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

Day conference for SaaS 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.

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.

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

Here on the edge of the Pacific, the world’s next revolutionary idea is being born. Come together with founders, innovators, investors and corporate partners for a week-long festival of events designed to inspire, challenge and connect.

AI is making it possible for small teams to build software, automate workflows, and create new capabilities at a pace difficult to imagine just a few years ago. However, greater speed creates a new set of questions: What should remain human? What structures sit underneath AI-enabled work? And how do organisations turn successful experiments into reliable business systems?

Day event for SaaS professionals, topic TBA

Stelar is a thriving business community empowered by women-led leadership, where integrity, inclusivity, and intelligence shape how we grow.
You'll be in a room of purpose-driven women in business who share your drive and values. Founders, business owners, leaders and the key people driving things forward.

You'll hear directly from influential business leaders, connect with mission-driven peers, and be supported before, during and after the event.

The 2026 Velocity Student Leadership Committee and the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) present the Velocity $100k Challenge Grand Final prizegiving at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland.

This annual celebration recognises the creativity and ambition of student and staff innovators. On the night, the five winning teams will be announced, sharing a $100,000 prize pool and taking their ventures to the next level.

Join University leaders, industry partners, and members of Aotearoa’s start-up community for an evening of inspiration and celebration.

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

Sunrise is Blackbird’s love letter to founders and the beautiful things they create. It’s a festival of creativity, technology and ambition, where Kiwis and Australians come together to dream up the future. At Sunrise, you will meet new people, be inspired, and learn new things.

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.

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

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.

Agritech Unleashed is a series of regionally distributed experiences that will celebrate and explore the unique characteristics of each region’s agritech ecosystem. Every region has distinct agricultural priorities, challenges, stakeholders, and infrastructure, which influence the adoption, interoperability, and scaling of agritech innovations.

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

Angel 103 workshop we will take attendees through the lifecycle of a company and the key considerations that need to be made at each investment round. We will look at what terms become important and when; that different methodologies that can be used for determining valuation and what things to look for in future rounds.

Where founders meet investors, ideas meet capital, and innovation meets opportunity.

This one-day summit brings together Aotearoa’s most exciting Māori and Māori-aligned technology founders, alongside investors, venture capital firms, iwi, PSGEs, and innovation partners.

Expect energy, authenticity and insight from leaders reimagining what innovation looks like in tomorrow’s economy.

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.

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

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.

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