Practical tips for increasing diversity in tech companies – Auckland – 26 November 2018

What

Increasing gender diversity in business is a key part of success. Studies have shown that a more motivated, diverse thinking team deliver increased sales, customer satisfaction, better margins AND more innovation.

But increasing diversity is an outcome, not an action itself. In this seminar, two tech leaders will discuss the practical actions and steps they’ve taken at their companies to be a more inclusive workplace and increase diversity.

This is NOT an event for women alone – its aimed at all business leaders who want some practical ideas on how to ensure their workforce better reflects the wider market, and see the value in a better balanced team. From recruitment, to onboarding, to retention, Amanda and Eva will talk through some ideas that you can apply in your own businesses.

Our main speaker Amanda Santos is a high-growth CEO, sales expert and sought-after business advisor, providing governance and strategic support to over 150 enterprises within New Zealand.

Formerly Chief Executive of Tekron, a global market-leader in high-precision atomic and GPS precision timing hardware for power, telecommunications and enterprise industries, Amanda is unafraid to break the traditional CEO stereotype and inspires others to do the same.

When and Where

NZTE
139 Quay Street
Auckland

5pm – 7pm
Monday, 26 November 2018

How Much

Free

More

Information and Registration

 

EVworld South – Christchurch – 23-24 November 2018

What

EVworld is New Zealand’s combined Electric vehicle Industry and Public Expo.

Ride, drive and experience EVs in all their forms

Trade Day Expo – 9am – 5pm, Friday 23, November

Calling business owners! This is your opportunity to get up close and personal with the EV fleet, learning from the experts on purchasing all forms of EVs and how you can drastically reduce your fleet costs. FOR: SME owners, Fleet Managers, Sustainability Managers.

EVworld South features a co-located conference: Net Carbon Neutral Towns conference that highlights the way forward to a zero emissions economy in New Zealand and the role EVs play in this transition.

Public Day Expo – 9am -5pm, Saturday 24 November

A chance for the public to experience, learn and embrace EVs in all their forms. Ride a bike, drive an EV car, hear about the costs and savings to help you become part of the EVolution!

When and Where

Trade Day Expo
9am – 5pm,
Friday 23 November 2018

Public Day Expo
9am – 5pm
Saturday 24 November 2018

Air Force Museum

How Much

Free on both days

More

Information and Registration for Evworld South

R-Ladies Auckland: Telling Stories With Data – Auckland – 29 November 2018

What

We are very excited to have Kate Newton from RNZ at this month’s meetup.

Description: R has rapidly become a coding language of choice for journalists around the world who create “data journalism”. In this workshop, we’ll explore what data journalism is, how R helps journalists to tell those data stories, and then collectively hack the code behind a recent story published by RNZ that used data analysis and visualisations as part of the reporting process.

Bio: Kate Newton has been a journalist for a decade and is currently a reporter for RNZ’s new In Depth team (https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/in-depth/368436/universities-face-a-crisis-of-the-humanities), which focuses on long-form and investigative journalism. Known among her colleagues for being “good at maths” (an extremely low bar in journalism), she has only recently discovered R and its power as a data journalism tool. She is gradually learning and incorporating R into her research and reporting, including publishing her extremely messy code so she can learn from the veterans!

What to bring: Laptops. We’ll use Kate’s Github repo (https://github.com/katenewtonnz/humanities) , and for anyone who’s interested in learning more about data journalism, The Data Journalism Handbook (https://datajournalismhandbook.org/) is a great online resource.

As with all our meetups all levels of R welcome, from beginners to regular users. Our meetups are about sharing knowledge and inspiring others. https://rladies.org/about-us/

Please read the code of conduct before attending this meetup.

When and Where

29 November 2018
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Xero
96 St. Georges Bay Road Parnell, Auckland.

How Much

Free. Please reserve your seat here.

More

Meetup event: Telling Stories With Data.

R-Ladies Auckland Meetup, twitter @RLadiesAKL | auckland [at] rladies.org (email) | https://github.com/R-LadiesAKL

Smart locks, DIY IoT, Relays, Zoneminder, Node-RED and more! – Wellington – 20 November 2018

What

This month we have three speakers covering a range of topics.

Mike Stewart is going to present on various smart home devices he’s been using, including installing smart locks from scratch, automatic plant watering pump, various relays (Sonoff & Shelly) and more.

Thomas Howard is going to present on Zoneminder & Motion and how to use this open source software to setup and configure your own home brew security cameras.

And finally we’ll have Andrew Lockhart covering building your own IoT appliances using MQTT and Node-RED.

Schedule
17:30 – 18:00: Casual chat
18:00 – 19:30: Presentations
19:30 – 20:00: Casual chat

Wellington Home Automation Hackers

A 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!

When and Where

Tuesday, 20 November 2018
5:30pm – 7:30pm

Sailthru
Level 1
14 Blair St
Wellington

How Much

Free

More

WebPage to the meeting
Wellington Home Automation Hackers meetup group

Code Camp Christchurch 2018 – Christchurch – 24 November 2018

What

Code Camp Christchurch is back for 2018!

What: Software Development, SharePoint, PowerApps, Business Intelligence, SQL, Azure and more

We are putting together a fantastic line up of presenters for a full day of shared learning.

The Office 365 stream will include our first PowerApp Hackathon and the launch of a new PowerApps User Group.

We will be making more agenda announcements over the next few days.

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Join us for a full day of learning, sharing and networking.

Code Camp Christchurch Team

Steve, Dave and Hamish

When and Where

Saturday 24 November 2018
8:30 AM – 5:00 PM

Ara (DLECT / K Block)
130 Madras Street, Christchurch.

How Much

Free. Please register here.

More

Code Camp Christchurch 2018.

“Cowboys” and Agile – A Project Managers worst nightmare, or is it? – Palmerston North – 29 November 2018

What

Sharon, a seasoned project manager from Massey will be the presenter at the next meetup.

Can Cowboy developers, an Agile methodology and Project Managers all exist in the same sphere? Some would say NO, I say yes.

Does the free-thinking lone developer, who is huddled away in a dark corner never to see the light of day still exist in this new world of Agile projects?

Can Agile bring a “Cowboy” into the 21st Century?

This is the rescheduled talk from September

As usual our hosts Objective will be sponsoring pizza

When and Where

Thursday, November 29 2018
5:30pm – 7:30pm

Objective
114 The Square
Palmerston Noth

How Much

Free

More

Meetup page for “Cowboys” and Agile event
Palmerston North Software Development Meetup

Lightning talks at WordPress meetup – Wellington – 6 November 2018

What

Dear all, in November we have a few lightning talks. We need two more speakers with 5-10 min presentations. Please, let us know if you are keen to do that!

Talk 1 is about speed optimisation and image compression from our WordCamp speaker Peter Warwick-Mahoney.

Website speed is so important, but with the plethora of tools available, what should you use? Peter takes us through the gamut of configurations he regularly uses to half a WordPress site’s loading time.

Peter is SEO expert, web developer & designer, all-round nice guy, and ravenous information devourer. Peter’s focus over the past decade has been on SEO (although it’s been a feature he’s offered since the late 90s), while making sure he keeps his typing fingers in the site creation pie too.

Talk 2 is about what is wrong with lists of must-have plugins from Maria Skatova.

Maria works with lots of bloggers and small business projects, doing lots of ‘fixing a problem’ work for websites, built by their owners. Her experience shows that plugins cause trouble quite often, and ‘must-have’ lists of plugins are the worst. Maria will also share her own ‘must-have’ list 🙂

Maria is married to WordPress for more than 10 years, and they have a gazillion of little websites together. She also is a co-organiser of WordPress Wellington meetup.

Talk 3 opens our Page Builders series with Thrive builder review from Peter Williamson.

Peter will share how he uses Thrive and why he prefers it to other page builders.

Pete Williamson has worked with WordPress for over 4 years now, having previously been involved in theatre and Audio-Visual industry.

Yours truly,

WordPress Wellington meetup organisers

When and Where

6 November 2018
5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

Biz Dojo (new location)
3 Market Lane, Wellington

How Much

Free. Please RSVP here.

More

November WordPress meetup – lightning talks.
WordPress Wellington Meetup, Facebook WellingtonWordPress and Twitter @WPWgtn.

AUT Creative Tech Student Showcase – Auckland – 9 November 2018

What

It has been a while! Although the Creative Tech meetup group hasn’t met for a year, we’ve kept the meetup group so we can start meetups again once we have the human resources to curate presentations.

Coming up on November 9th, we’re teaming up with the AKLgamedev Meetup, UI/UX Meetup and the Anim + VFX Meetup for a Design + Creative Tech Mega Meetup.

The presentations will still be separate for all meetups so you’ll need to decide which to go to.
– AKLgamedev Meetup – no presentation – demos on level 9 + 11
– UI/UX Meetup – WG Room TBA
– Anim + VFX Meetup – WG906
– Creative Tech Meetup – No presentation – demos on level 9 + 11

Because there’s going to be so much to see, we wont be having a presentation in the usual format this month just come along and see what the AUT Creative Students have to show, network and enjoy some drink and nibbles.

The doors will open up at 6 and we’ll launch straight in to the networking and demonstrations.

Let’s also start the discussion of how to revive the Creative Tech Meetup presentations.

If you have content to show at a future Creative Tech Meetup or know people who would want to run a Creative Tech Meetup please contact ben.kenobi@aut.ac.nz and we’ll sort something out.

I’m looking forward to seeing you there. Come find me, I’ll be wearing the lanyard that reads Ben Kenobi.

When and Where

9 November 2018
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

AUT City Campus, Colab Open Studio, Level 11, WG Building,
2 Governor Fitzroy Pl, Auckland

How Much

Free.

More

Event announced at AUT Events and Meetup.

Microservices in the age of Digital Transformation – Auckland – 13 November 2018

What

Two Talks

API Gateway

What makes a good API Gateway?

The age of digital transformation.. are you ready?

As your business embraces digital transformation, you’re presented with new industry trends, from microservices and containerization to multi-cloud connectivity. Understanding how these emerging technologies could apply to your existing ecosystem and the integration best practices required, is central to success.

When and Where

IBM’s new venue
Level 4, 30 Gaunt St
Wynard Quarter, CBD, Auckland

Tuesday, November 13, 2018
5:30pm – 8:45pm

How Much

Free

More

Meetup page for this event
Auckland API and Microservices Meetup

Star Gazing and Aurora Chasing – Oamaru – 26 October 2018

What

Star Gazing and Aurora Chasing
Adventures in Astronomy Around and Above New Zealand.

We are fortunate to engage Dr Ian Griffin, Director of Otago Museum, for a free talk on Astronomy at the bookshop. He’s an inspiring, knowledgeable speaker and we look forward to hearing more about the Museum and Planetarium in Dunedin, stargazing and Aurora hunting in our area.

There will be announcements on an upcoming evening, Friday 26 October, about Oamaru’s Observatory by our local astronomer Damien McNamara. We’re lucky to have Dark Sky Reserves here in Otago and South Island, Mount John Observatory near Tekapo, another Planetarium at Mount Cook Hermitage and plenty to see in the Southern night skies. Aurora postcards with photos of those magical displays taken from Oamaru will be available, and space exploration news will be talking points at the evening event.

It is always fun to learn from others, and all of our Slide Night talks end up expanding our conversations along with our sense of wonder.

When and Where

26 October 2018
7pm drinks and nibbles
8pm lecture

Adventure Books,
7 Harbour Street, Oamaru.

How Much

Free.
50 seats only. Reservations essential.

More

Facebook post.

Adventure books on Facebook