Regular meetup breakfast with Manawatū IT Professionals.

Ready to Land Your First Job in New Zealand?

Join presenters Kate He and Vidhi Tiwari, who will be talking about how they prepared themselves to secure their very first roles in the NZ job market.

Git is software for tracking changes in any set of files. It’s a very useful and essential tool for developers to keep track of the work they have done, and collaborate on code without having to work on the same machine.

Dive a bit deeper in agile, and find out what it is and isn’t! This interactive session will involve your agile questions being answered and possibly a game or two to introduce concepts and practices.

Come and join the Dunedin Branch of IT Professionals NZ for our monthly social get together for the local tech community.

Don't miss this essential event for any junior eager to excel in AI and development!

Join us for a candid Fireside Chat with Paul Ash, Executive Director of the Christchurch Call, as we unpack the global initiative launched in response to the 2019 Christchurch terrorist attack.

Regular meetup breakfast with Manawatū IT Professionals.

Join us for a candid kōrero with Andrew Cushen, the Executive Director of The Code, the voluntary agreement signed by major platforms like Meta, Google, TikTok and X.

Come and join the Dunedin Branch of IT Professionals NZ for our monthly social get together for the local tech community.

Join us for a special Lunch and Learn with startup founder Jack from Volley — a bold new platform built for the era of Open Banking.

Regular meetup breakfast with Manawatū IT Professionals.

At our next IT Professionals NZ event, we're diving deep into the impact of our successful mentoring program.

We keep hearing about the tech skills shortage - but at the same time, graduates can’t get jobs, internships are vanishing, and enrolments in STEM subjects are falling off a cliff. What gives?

Come and join the Dunedin Branch of IT Professionals NZ for our monthly social get together for the local tech community.

In this Fireside Chat, Vic is joined by Professor Lizzie Valentine - a transformation strategist who is passionate about professional development and thinks everyone needs great business analysis skills, no matter what they do.

In this Fireside Chat, I sit down with Dr Karaitiana Taiuru—one of Aotearoa’s leading voices in digital technology ethics and Māori data sovereignty—to explore the fast-evolving world of AI.

Regular meetup breakfast with Manawatū IT Professionals.

Join Nelson AI Sandbox for a unique and thought-provoking cartoon art exhibition by Brendan Boughen (aka Cartoons By Jim)

Come and join the Dunedin Branch of IT Professionals NZ for our monthly social get together for the local tech community.

Welcome to the Lunch and Learn series, lunchtime webinars by tech experts. Learn new skills, get insights, boost your career.

Regular meetup breakfast with Manawatū IT Professionals.

Paula from UCOL will pop in to talk about their new Masters / Diploma / Certificate in IT. Some interesting looking papers to help round out your skills.

This Member-only event is held on the second Tuesday of every month. Meet colleagues old and new for a robust discussion on the most important / interesting / random things happening in technology right now.

Join me for a candid conversation with Stephen Judd, President of InternetNZ, as we dive into the ongoing constitution reform and the recent surge in new members from across the political spectrum—including groups like the Freedom of Speech Union.

Join in for a day of learning and exploring the possibilities of AI. It is also a great chance to meet up with people from our local tech community.

This event is one of many Global AI Bootcamp events being run globally in March 2025

Students Welcome! Studying IT, Information systems, or related subjects?
Come and meet fellow students and local tech professionals, and make some connections in the city.

Cybersecurity is evolving faster than ever, with threats becoming more sophisticated and geopolitics increasingly influencing the digital battlefield. From AI-driven cyberattacks to the rising importance of protecting critical infrastructure, 2025 is already shaping up to be a defining year for security professionals. Join us for a lively panel discussion with three of the most influential wāhine in cybersecurity, as we unpack what’s hot in cyber right now, the emerging threats we need to watch out for, and how prepared New Zealand really is. Are we taking cybersecurity seriously enough as a country? Is our government stepping up to meet the challenge?

Come and join the Dunedin Branch of IT Professionals NZ for our monthly social get together for the local tech community.

For this, our first Fireside Chat of 2025 Vic will be joined by Paul Brislen, CEO of the Telecommunications Forum, to have a free and frank discussion about the pending shutdown of the 3G network in Aotearoa.

Final Fireside Chat of 2024 – for our final Fireside if the year is one Vic is very excited about, she will be joined by Engie Matene, a fabulous wāhine Māori digital technology leader, future thinker and innovator.
Vic and Engie will discuss Digital Identity and the broader context of identity, how to create safe solutions for Māori communities. They will also talk about public digital infrastructure, decentralised asset organisations and a range of challenges Aotearoa is facing today.