Author: Lin Nah

TMR Wananga: Data from a Maori Worldview – Hamilton – 9 July 2018

What

Te Mana Raraunga Wananga: Data from a Maori Worldview

Nga mihi o te wa ki a koutou katoa.

Te Mana Raraunga is holding a hui to wananga how we should be dealing with data from a Maori worldview. What concepts, values, tikanga and kawa should be informing the way we deal with data use, data ethics, data governance, and data protection. There are a number of data initiatives underway, some led by government, some led by iwi, some led by other organistions that are making use of Maori data and we need to develop ways to ensure culturally safe and appropriate approaches to data sharing and data linkage.

Te Mana Raraunga –  the Māori Data Sovereignty Network

When and Where


The Buttery, Bryant Hall,
University of Waikato, 110 Knighton Rd, Hamilton 3216

How Much

Not mentioned. Please contact organisers, Te Mana Raraunga.

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TMR Wananga: Data from a Maori Worldview

Te Mana Raraunga –  the Māori Data Sovereignty Network.

EdTechNZ Wellington Connect – Wellington – 25 July 2018

What

The future of education is now!
Future trends and how technology is shaping the way we train and educate.

At this event:

  • participate in the panel discussion, “The Future of Education is Now”, with business and educational leaders from the Wellington region. The panel will discuss future trends and how technology is shaping the way we train and educate
  • learn more about upcoming activities and have your say in shaping EdTechNZ
  • get the opportunity to tour Te Papa’s Hīnātore Learning Lab.
  • catch-up with industry peers.

When and Where

Wednesday, 25 July 2018
from 4:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington

How Much

Free

More

Registration and info.

Special thanks to Te Papa Tongarewa for hosting this event.

Organiser: Education Technology Association of New Zealand (EdTechNZ) (Facebook and twitter @EdTech_NZ).

ScaleConf NZ 2018 – Wellington – 7 August 2018

What

Technical Conference on Software Development

Performance. Scalability. Resilience. Security. Cloud. People.

ScaleConf New Zealand is an international technical conference for those who build or maintain web systems. Audience includes developers, engineers and managers from companies of all sizes, researchers, academics, influential business decision makers, CTOs and VPs engaged in the web development and performance ecosystem.

Bringing together international and local thought-leaders, knowledge of innovators, and practitioners in development and operations. ScaleConf promises to provide plenty of networking opportunities, as well as opportunities to connect with decision makers, influencers and industry minds.

When and Where

Main Conference : 7 August  2018
Workshops & Pre-Conference Day : 6 August 2018

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Level 2 – 55 Cable St, Wellington 6011.

How Much

Regular price: $395 + GST (ends 27 July 2018)
Late price: $490 +GST (ends 6 August 2018)
Workshops: $215 + GST
Students: $170 + GST

More

http://www.scaleconf.co.nz/2018/

Stats NZ: Open Data for Kiwi companies – Wellington – 28 June 2018

What

Nadia McGregor and Paul Stone from Stats NZ will be talking to the ITP Wellington branch.

The session will focus on the New Zealand Open Data Programme and how it is opening the door to a new mind-set in government and creating opportunities for companies and individuals to leverage publicly available data sets for innovation.

Nadia will be illustrating the current growth of publicly available data sets and provide examples of how NZ government Open Data is currently being used in innovative ways.

Paul, with years of experience in this area, will be there to support and help answer questions at the end of the session.

When and Where

Thursday 28 June 2018

4:15 pm – 6:30 pm
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Open data presentation

KPMG Executive Boardroom
10 Customhouse Quay
Wellington 6011

How Much

ITP Financial Members FREE
Staff of Corporate Partners (20% Discount) $17.39 + GST / $20.00 incl GST
Non-Members $21.74 + GST / $25.00 incl GST

More

Stats NZ: Open Data for Kiwi companies – Registration and information about the event.

 

Better Rules Hack – Tauranga – 28 + 29 July 2018

What

A weekend hackathon with the aim of exploring the ideas and practice of making legislation into machine consumable ‘digital rules’ that can be reused and integrated across domains for the benefit of businesses, individuals and communities. The aim is to understand the feasibility of providing government hosted machine consumable legislation as part of Government as a Platform. We want to understand how well aligned existing standards, languages, and toolsets are for across domain integration, and what the options are for how machine consumable legislation can be presented as authoritative open data. We also want to understand the value of machine consumable legislation to community and industry.

Hackathon participants will be required to build a working demonstrator that benefits their sector or community using digital rules from more than one source, for example, legislation from multiple agencies, or trade agreements, or any other form of rules from more than one source. Teams will need to show the value of digital rules, how they made the digital rules consumable by everyone, and share their lessons learnt.

As background, see the recent work from the Service Innovation Lab on Better Rules for Government.

When and Where

Saturday 28th June and Sunday 29th July, 2018

Basement @ Basestation, 148 Durham St, Tauranga 3112.

How Much

Free.  Register here. Don’t worry if you haven’t registered (although it helps them plan catering), you are welcome to turn up on Saturday. They do ask in the spirit of team effort that you commit to the weekend if you’re joining a team challenge.

More

Tauranga event is jointly run with Venture Centre.
More information in this legalhackers page or registration page.
Legal Hackers on twitter

 

 

Wāhine in Tech Wellington Happy Hour – 28 June 2018

What

First Wāhine in Tech Wellington networking event!

Please join us for drinks and nibbles (and maybe even a speech!) in a yet-to-be-confirmed inner city location and get your networking on! This is a great to meet some other great women and non-binary folk in Wellington, share some stories and laughs and do it in a low-stakes and casual environment.
Please consider bringing someone who is new to the industry, or who may not usually come along to meetup events – we’d love to see some new faces and help people feel really comfy within this group going forward.

When and Where

28 June 2018 from 5:30pm

Venue: Yet-to-be-confirmed inner city location

How Much

No mention of cost.

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https://www.meetup.com/Wahine-in-Tech-Wellington/events/251103033/

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Open Bank Project Workshop with Ismail Chaib – Auckland – 27 June 2018

What

An interactive workshop on day two of the Point 2018 conference with one of the international speakers, Ismail Chaib. Ismail is the COO of TESOBE, the Berlin-based company which leads the Open Bank Project. The workshop is designed for API practitioners and is open to anyone interested in how to design and implement a successful open API programme.

Ismail Chaib, COO of TESOBE, the Berlin-based company which leads the Open Bank Project, will use the experiences and technical framework of the Open Bank Project to explore open banking APIs.

He will discuss what makes a good open platform architecture, which APIs to open, how to design and build RESTful APIs that developers like to use, and how to attract the best and brightest to your platform. Using real world case studies, Ismail will share insights into defining, designing and implementing successful API programmes.

The workshop will end with an extended Q&A session where you will get the chance to directly interact with Ismail. Technical and business questions are welcome.

The Open Bank Project enables banks to offer an ecosystem of third-party apps and services to their customers through open source API technology and a community of over 8,000 fintech developers.

With over five years’ experience in open banking, Ismail brings a wealth of knowledge on what makes a successful banking API. He will also be speaking at the conference on day one in the future connections breakout stream, where he will share his vision of an open banking future and talk about what that could look like in a New Zealand context.

When and Where

27 June 2018 8:15 am – 10:15 am

Cordis, Auckland, Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand

How Much

A full conference pass gives you access to this workshop or tickets can be purchased separately for $75 +GST.
The Open Bank Project Workshop includes breakfast and will take place in the Crystal Ballroom at Cordis hotel. Breakfast and registration will start from 7.30am. Spaces are limited.

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Open Bank Project Workshop

Open Bank Project

Rotary Book Sale 2018 – Invercargill – 25 to 28 May 2018

What

The Rotary Club of Invercargill annual book sale raises funds that are distributed to selected charitable organisations throughout Southland

With over 30,000 books to choose from – this is a great opportunity to purchase good quality pre-owned books at affordable prices.

There is a vast range of subjects from fiction to technical and sciences, arts and crafts, travel and children and teens books and much more.

There are also DVDs, games, CDs and jigsaws.

When and Where

Civic Theatre – Invercargill,
88 Tay Street, Invercargill,
New Zealand 9810

Dates and hours
8am to 6pm on Friday, 25 May 2018.
9am to 5pm on Saturday, 26 May.
9am to 2pm on Sunday, 27 May.

How Much

Free. Pay for the books you wish to buy.

More

Facebook event or Invercargill City Council
Plenty to choose from at rotary club’s annual book sale. The Southland Times on May 21 2018.

Gibbons Lectures: Can we be friends with robots? – Auckland – 24 May 2018

What

Social robots are now being made to assist us in our daily lives in our homes and workplaces. These robots typically look humanoid, and are designed to display signs of attention, cognition and emotion. This lecture will discuss research on how people feel about living with such robots, and the benefits and harm robots may bring.

The talk will draw on a series of New Zealand studies examining how people respond to robots in their own homes and in healthcare settings for long periods. People’s attribution of mind to robots and their feelings of companionship with robots will be a particular focus.

Elizabeth Broadbent is an Associate Professor of Health Psychology in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She initially gained an honours degree in electrical and electronic engineering in order to pursue her desire to make personal robots.

After becoming interested in the psychological aspects of illness and in psychoneuroimmunology, she obtained her MSc and PhD in health psychology. She now combines her health psychology and robotics interests to study healthcare robotics.

Elizabeth is a vice-chair of the multi-disciplinary CARES robotics group at the University of Auckland. In 2010, Elizabeth was a visiting academic at the School of Psychology at Harvard University and in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA.

In 2017, she obtained a Fulbright award to return to Boston to conduct further research on companion robots. She is an associate editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, and Director of the Masters of Health Psychology programme at the University of Auckland.

When and Where

6:30pm  on 24 May 2018

University of Auckland,
Owen G Glenn Building,
Room OGGB 3/260-092,
Level 0,
12 Grafton Road,
Auckland

Drinks and nibbles will be served from 6pm at 260.088 Level 0 Foyer, Owen G Glenn Building. Lecture commences at 6.30pm.

How Much

Free – all welcome

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Gibbons Lectures: Can we be friends with robots?

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Gibbons Memorial Lecture Series

 

Emerging Tech for Good: In Action – Wellington – 22 May 2018

What

Harnessing artificial intelligence, augmented reality, virtual reality, and smart speakers – these emerging technologies are said to be redefining industries and have the potential to change the world on a scale that has never been seen before. So how do we even begin to venture on these technologies and use them for good? We invite you to find out how, at Datacom’s Emerging Tech for Good Breakfast Event.

We are delighted to invite you to attend Datacom’s ‘Emerging Tech for Good’. An event that will see internationally and nationally renowned speakers discuss topics ranging from artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and smart speakers to sustainability.

Who are the speakers?

Speakers from both the international and national stage will cover a variety of topics, ranging from artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and smart speakers to sustainability with each speaker informing us on how emerging technologies are redefining industries and changing the world on a scale that has never seen before. Line-up as follows:

Savannah Peterson, a 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Consumer Technology and the Founder of Savvy Millennial, will talk all things blockchain, humanoid robots and the digital asset revolution

Te Aroha Morehu, Innovation Officer and Tribal Digital Transformer, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei will take us on a visual journey of how AR/VR has been embedded in to Maori education

Roxanne Salton, Head of digital strategy & delivery for Mercury, will discuss the sustainability of emerging technologies

James Wells, CIO, Vulcan steel, is here to talk playing it safe with the use of vision intelligence to ensure workplace safety. This is a project that was started at Datacomp in 2017.

When and Where

James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor,
147 The Terrace, Wellington

Tuesday 22nd May 2018
7:30 AM – 10:00 Am.
Registration opens at 7:00 AM.

How Much

Free but spaces are limited.

More

More info at Eventbrite or TechWeek pages