Refactor – Auckland – 22 August 2018

What

Refactor has an amazing international line-up for August. We’re so excited to welcome Lara Hogan and Deepa Subramaniam all the way from New York, and they will be joined by HYPR’s Gillian Clark. We’re back at the amazing Warren & Mahoney studio in Wynyard Quarter.

Speaker Profiles

Lara Hogan

Lara Callender Hogan (@lara_hogan) is an engineering leader, coach, and consultant at Wherewithall. She is also the author of Designing for Performance (O’Reilly, 2014), Building a Device Lab (Five Simple Steps, 2015), and Demystifying Public Speaking (A Book Apart, 2016). Lara champions engineering management as a practice, having built and led engineering organizations as an Engineering Director at Etsy and VP of Engineering at Kickstarter. In her world tour to advocate performance to designers and developers alike, Lara has keynoted the Velocity Conference, presented at Google I/O, and given talks at companies like The New York Times to help shift them toward a culture of performance. While at Etsy, Lara co-created the initial physical device labs, and co-authored a tutorial and book for companies interested in building their own lab. Lara also believes it’s important to celebrate career achievements with donuts.

Deepa Subramaniam

Deepa Subramaniam (@iamdeepa) has spent 15+ years leading large product teams to collaboratively build innovative digital products with mass reach. She is the co-founder of Wherewithall, an advising company dedicated to helping tech startups and non-profits strategize, grow and execute with ease. Deepa is on the Board of Directors for DonorDrive which has helped worthy causes raise over $1 billion. Prior to Wherewithall, Deepa was Vice President of Product and Design at Kickstarter. Before Kickstarter, she was the Director of Product at Hillary for America where she helped lead product for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign focusing on online fundraising, hillaryclinton.com and bespoke policy and rapid response digital products. Before Hillary for America, Deepa led product at charity: water, a non-profit dedicated to bringing clean water to the developing world. She started her career at Adobe, first as a Computer Scientist and later as a principle product manager on Creative Cloud. She champions data-driven design iteration, achieving high-velocity team output in fast-paced environments, and building collaboration and joy into company culture.

Gillian Clark

Gillian Clark (@gillian_clark) is the CEO of HYPR Innovation. She has spent her entire career in IT after giving up on the idea of being a Flying Doctor in Australia after realising she couldn’t stand the sight of blood or vomit! She needed something that involved less bodily fluids, and IT sounded pretty safe. Little did she know the horrors of some projects felt like she really was metaphorically cleaning up messes! After completing a Computing Science degree (having the dubious honour of using a Hollerith Punch machine to write her Cobol code), her career path went through a traditional route of programmer to analyst to IT Manager then to CIO and then out to Consulting. Gillian has always been searching for a better way to do things. Those messes kept on turning up, and she wanted to find a way to make them smaller, more manageable, or even not happen. She began a journey of discovery of a Lean/Agile mindset, taking her to SAFe® (one of 50 SAFe® trainers in the world). This way of working was so inspiring that she formed HYPR so she could share her experience with others, and has now helped over 90 companies develop better software.

Please respect Refactor’s Code of Conduct.

All thanks to our awesome sponsors AUT, vend, & Pushpay.

When and Where

Wednesday, August 22, 2018
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Warren & Mahoney, 139 Pakenham Street West, Auckland. (Map)

How Much

$25

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Is React Magic? And how do I build an iOS app? JuniorDev – Auckland – 31 July 2018

What

Is React Magic? And how do I build an iOS app?

Join us at Movio, where we’ll hear Kirk from Xero, and Rohit from Trail Software!

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By day, Kirk is a frontend engineer at Xero building tiny bits of content that go into bigger bits of content for your local internet box. Also by day, he is a graduate team lead building up the next lot of code magicians. By night, he does other stuff probably.

All the hip cool companies seem to be using React now. But what even is it? Is it magic?? Why is there HTML in my JavaScript? Come learn how React and the tools around it work under the hood (it’s not magic).

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Rohit is a senior Software developer for Trail Software. At Trail, they deliver next generation software to Mortgage and Insurance advisers to help them accelerate sales and grow their advice business. Rohit specialises in building web applications with mostly backend technologies like C# but has recently started the journey on building Mobile IOS Applications with Swift and Objective C.

Rohit will be sharing his story of building his first IOS app, along with some tips and techniques about using XCODE and the Swift Programming language. He will also be talking about how to make your app compatible with different iphone models(including Iphone X) and Native Deployment Techniques without using any third party apps.

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Remember to respect our Code of Conduct during all JuniorDev interactions. This is a safe and inclusive space for everyone!

A massive thanks to our sponsors for this event:
Movio as a venue sponsor!
Propellerhead for catering!

When and Where

Tuesday, July 31, 2018
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Movio
Unit 4, Level 2, Site 3,
30 St Benedicts St, Eden Terrace,  Auckland.

How Much

Free. RSVP here.

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RailsBridge Workshop – Wellington – 11-12 August 2018

What

RailsBridge is a free weekend workshop for underrepresented peoples looking to get a taste of tech. We provide a warm and encouraging environment as we run you through tutorials and activities about coding in Ruby, Rails, and whatever else might catch your eye.

This is primarily for women and non-binary peoples who are beginners to coding and want to try it out and see what it’s all about. We welcome Māori and Pasifika, those in LGBTQIA+ communities, and any who are underrepresented in tech. We’re here to support YOU!

The venue is wheelchair accessible. If you require a sign language interpreter, child care or the like, we’d be happy to accommodate you 🙂

RailsBridge is open to people of all ages, but if you are 13 or under you must attend with a guardian.

When and Where

8:30am – 5pm Saturday 11 August
9am – 2pm Sunday 12 August

Flex Federation
Customhouse Quay
Wellington CBD

How Much

Free

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Introduction to openHAB and Android Things – Wellington – 26 July 2018

What

Wellington Home Automation Hackers are a meetup group of like minded people who are interested in home automation, whether it’s plugging in off-the-shelf IoT lightbulbs, or soldering your own PCB designs doing BLE – and everything in between!

For our second meetup, we have two exciting presentations lined up.

David Cole is going to do an introduction to openHAB, including comparing some of it’s key differences with Home Assistant (as featured last time).

And Dave McKelvie is going to do an introduction to Android Things, Google’s platform for building smart/IoT devices.

When and Where

5:30pm to 7:30pm
Thursday, 26 July 2018

Schedule
17:30 – 18:00: Casual chat
18:00 – 19:00: Presentations
19:00 – 19:30: Casual chat

Sailthru,
Level 1 14 Blair Street,
Wellington

How Much

Free

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Meeting Page
Wellington Home Automation Hackers Meetup Group Webpage

Agile Hamilton: Data Driven Product Development – Hamilton – 26 July 2018

What

Interested in Product Development?
Data driven decision making?
Splunk?

Come along to our July event

Introducing our featured talk for our meet up:

Listen to a case study from LICA about the pursuit of embedding a data driven mindset to product development.

Nick Winter and his team at LICA will take us through the theory behind the strategy: Observe, Orientation, Decide and Act.

We will hear an open discussion about the common behaviours and pitfalls that happen when product companies execute on the strategy.
As well as showcasing the tools LICA currently use to make data driven decisions and offer real time and proactive support to both their domestic and international product base.

When and Where

7pm – 9pm
Thursday July 26 2018

The Alumni Room, by Peta Pit
WINTEC Hamilton
Hamilton CBD

How Much

Free

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Women in Tech Meetup – Auckland – 31 July 2018

What

Lightning Talks

Women in Tech Auckland hosts regular events for our community, and our purpose is to create networks and amplify the voices of people from marginalised groups. We’re looking for speakers for our next event, on 31 July, which will be a series of short Lightning Talks.

This is a format where you get 5 minutes to speak, you provide 20 slides, which are set to advance automagically every 15 seconds. For people who want to practice their speaking skills, Lightning Talks give you the opportunity to present for the first time without having to create a formal presentation proposals, and its short so its a great intro to speaking in public. A good lightning talk is insightful, inspiring, thought-provoking, useful, humorous, controversial, or enlightening.

You do not have to be an experienced speaker! Your work and time are valuable even if you have never spoken before. We are happy to meet with you for coffee and brainstorm ideas, as well as attend a dry run of your talk and provide constructive feedback.

Let us know if you’d like to do a Lightning Talk using this form.

We value the participation of each member of our community and want all attendees to have an enjoyable and fulfilling experience. Please familiarise yourself with our Code of Conduct ahead of attending a Women in Tech meetup.

When and Where

ASB Cube North Wharf, 12 Jellicoe St, Auckland

How Much

Free. Please RSVP.

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Many thanks to ASB (https://www.asb.co.nz/) for sponsoring and hosting this event.

IoT at Newmarket Innovation Precinct with Auckland University – Auckland – 17 July 2018

What

The IoT Auckland Meetup is invited to the Newmarket Innovation Precinct. Hear an introduction to the NIP and the IoT projects underway.

Jarmo Crivelli, Business Development Manager at Uniservices is presenting on using the Internet of Things in the Mining and Resource sector. These are examples of IoT innovation to achieve more automation and address challenges that are faced. Hear about the pros and cons of this approach.

We’re pleased to have the invitation from NIP and we are discussing future collaboration for the benefit of the IoT Auckland Meetup membership. How do you think we can accelerate IoT in NZ together?

John McDermott will have a update from the LoRa Alliance Annual Conference.

As always in the agenda, networking with group members to make new friends and discover what others are working on; local IoT news; update on recent IoT Auckland Meetup activities; and your chance to quick pitch a project or request for help.

A snack meal is included. That’s what your ticket pays for, thank you.

Parking will be available on site.

Please come along to learn, discover and network.

When and Where

Tuesday, July 17, 2018
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

University of Auckland, Newmarket
314-390 Khyber Pass Road, Auckland 1023

How Much

$12.50. Buy tickets here.

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WeTest Conference – Auckland/ Wellington – 23/25 October 2018

What

WeTest is the heart of the New Zealand software testing community. We bring together people who are passionate about testing, providing a platform for sharing ideas and learning through experience-based sessions and workshops.

The 2018 is a single day conference being held (with the same speakers) in Wellington and Auckland

When and Where

8:45am – 5pm
Wellington – Tuesday 23 October 2018
Auckland – Thursday 25 October 2018

Te Papa Tongarewa,
Te Aro,
Wellington

Cordis Auckland (ex Langham),
83 Symonds Street,
Grafton,
Auckland

How Much
$250

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New Zealand Game Developers Conference – Auckland – 1-3 August 2018

What

The New Zealand Game Developers Conference (NZGDC) is an annual professional game development conference hosted in Auckland, New Zealand. NZGDC18 will be an action-packed three-day conference for professional and indie game developers.

This year’s conference will span three days with one day dedicated to hands-on workshops (1st August), and two days full of a mix of presentations and panels (2nd-3rd August). Sessions will cover a variety of topics, from Art & Game Design to Production & Marketing and everything in between.

When and Where

Level 4,
SKYCITY Convention Centre,
Federal Street,
Auckland

Wednesday 1 August 2018 – Workshops
Thurs 2/Friday 3 August – Main conference
Plus Evening events

How Much

NZGA Member – Full Pass  $280
NZGA Member – Thurs Pass (+ Free Wed Workshop pass) $180
NZGA Member – Thurs Pass (+ Free Wed Workshop pass) $180
Student single day tickets $50

If you’re a New Zealand based game developer, make sure you’ve registered as an NZGDA member for a 15% discount on your NZGDC ticket! Register at http://nzgda.com/about-us/join-now/

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impactNPO Wellington Charity Hackathon July 2018 – Wellington – 13-15 July 2018

What

We are pleased to announce our second Wellington impactNPO Charity Hackathon. To be part of this amazing weekend, all you need to do is get a ticket.

The weekend starting on Friday 13th July from 6 pm to 8 pm with networking, charity introductions, and team forming. You will be volunteering your weekend (Saturday 14th July and Sunday 15th July from 9 am to 5 pm) where we all will be giving back to the community by providing IT solutions to charities. We will be providing the food and drinks this weekend to keep you well fed and energised!

What do you need to bring?

An open mind, a smile and your own computer/laptop. Don’t forget your phone, chargers or any other gadgets that you rely on.

What’s in it for me?

First and foremost we aim to help local non-profits. NPOs often have quite a lot of IT challenges. Through this, you may find that you meet new people from different companies or industries, find contacts if you’re looking for work, or get to step outside of your comfort zone and learn something new through a weekend project. Or just have a fun weekend working in a team to deliver something that is really useful to the community!

The charities you will be helping at this event will be announced shortly.

A big thank you to our lovely sponsors, emhTrade who are sponsoring the food for the weekend and BizDojo, via the Collider Programme, who are sponsoring the venue.

What can we expect as results for the NPOs?

This depends on you, your team and the needs of your chosen NPO! Over the many successful weekends we have run, we have helped numerous NPOs with websites, IT infrastructure, design, branding, content as well as general advice.

When and Where

Friday, 13/07/2018, 6:00 PM – Sunday, 15/07/2018, 5:30 PM

BizDojo Wellington,
115 Tory Street, Wellington 6011

How Much

Free.  Please register for a ticket.

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About impactNPO

“Harnessing ingenuity for good.”

We are making the world a better place by facilitating connections between charities and individuals intent on enhancing their impact on the world. We coordinate and support hackathons for charities, but our larger mission is to help individuals and organisations to run their own events in their own communities.

http://www.impactnpo.org/ and Facebook.