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

Events, Media Releases, NZTech News

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

#Women in Technology

NZTech News

Key tech summit tomorrow for New Zealand’s fastest growing industry

A major government and tech industry summit to be held at Te Papa in Wellington tomorrow will look at how government and the tech sector can work together to deliver better outcomes. According to the government’s Sector Reports more than 100,000 people are employed across the technology sector,

February 21, 2016

#Government

Events, Industry News

STEM expo 27th Feb 2016 'Bringing our futures together through education and competition'

Auckland is hosting the 2016 New Zealand VEX Robotics National Championship on 27th  and 28th February 2016 at the Vodafone Events Centre. Teams from across NZ will be competing to represent New Zealand at the VEX World Robotics Championships in Kentucky in April, hoping to add to New Zealand’

February 17, 2016

NZTech News

Government and tech industry summit to look at key issues

A major tech industry and government summit in Wellington on February 23 will look at key issues to improve service and delivery to consumers. About 40 percent of all the money spent in New Zealand on ICT technology is spent by the government amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. NZTech

February 3, 2016

#Government

Industry News

NZ IT industry must look to domestic talent to ease skill shortage

New Zealand cannot expect overseas information technology (IT) workers to rescue it from staff shortages, the leader of a newly-enlarged technology group says. The New Zealand Technology Industry Association (NZTech) and Canterbury Software Cluster have agreed to work together on issues like major

January 27, 2016

Industry News

?Demand for Kiwi tech talent reaches six-year high

New Zealand employers’ intent to hire has reached a six-year high, with 92.5 percent planning to increase or maintain headcount in the first half of the year. Boosted by growing demand within the ICT sector, latest Hudson Report: Forward Focus 2016 findings also claim that 63 percent of Kiwis w

January 20, 2016

#Tech Careers

Industry News

?IBM systems integrator acquires Wellington software firm

Certus Solutions, an IBM systems integrator on both sides of the Tasman, has acquired Core Technology, a New Zealand enterprise software and application development consultancy firm. While the financial details of the deal were not revealed, the acquisition is designed to compliment Certus’ Dig

January 20, 2016

Industry News, Media Releases

A software-defined approach helps businesses thrive in the new landscape

ViFX, New Zealand’s leading IT infrastructure and cloud specialist, is partnering with VMware, the global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure, to arm Kiwi companies with the power to operate at rapid speed, cut costs, and compete effectively. To keep up with the constant shifts, i

January 18, 2016