This week-long course explores and analyses the impact and speed of crowdsourcing and the sharing economy, new buisness models built on social networks and collaboration. Understand the fundamentals and analyse case studies in social business, platform business models, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding and lean entrepreneurship. Each day will include: Tech news and conversations Course instruction and discussions Industry-led sessions … Continue reading "Crowdsourcing and the Sharing Economy"

This is a rapidly advancing field, influencing and benefitting a broad range of sectors from health to education, tourism to construction. Smart businesses are finding new solutions to de-risk highly repetitive functions or processes, or that require high levels of sustained concentration. In New Zealand, we have seen an explosion of automation in meat processing, … Continue reading "Robotics & Automation"

Explore the key facets of cybersecurity with a practical focus on incident resopnse and risk management - what do you do when it all goes wrong? Our experts will also cover data protection, cryptography, ID and access management and governance. Through a combination of foundational knowledge and practical role-paying, get to grips with the fundamentals … Continue reading "Cybersecurity"

Our monthly Canterbury Tech Cluster events provide a great opportunity to network and listen to speakers present on a wide range of topics. For our March event of 2017 we are kindly being hosted by Vodafone in their head office on Tuam St and will be splitting into a technical and business stream.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning is an area of computer science that emphasizes the creation of intelligent machines that work and react like humans. Artificial Intelligence will continue to have a considerable impact on our lives, as the application of the technology broadens to take over tasks once performed by humans.   This module provides … Continue reading "Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence"