Tag: Wellington

security.ac.nz Security training – Wellington – 24-25 August 2019

What

You are invited to join us at security.ac.nz this August for a mid-trimester break weekend to learn all about security and hacking.

You! Anyone who is learning about software, and wants to learn about how to make software secure… with a dose of “how to hack” thrown in.

To clarify: The two days will aim to suit students with a 100-level knowledge of software development. However, you’re still welcome if you’re not a University student… anyone interested in security should come!

Two days of training in the art of securing the web… covering topics like:

  • Learning to hack
  • Capture the Flag
  • Bug Bounty
  • Threats & Trust
  • Secure the Cloud
  • Secure Development
  • Web Security
  • Cyber Security Careers

When and Where

Saturday & Sunday
24 & 25 August
10am – 6pm

Victoria University of Wellington
Kelburn Campus
Wellington

How Much

Free

Spaces are limited, and people are notorious for registering and not attending free events. In the week before the event you’ll have to confirm your registration to keep your place.

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Website for security.ac.nz
Registration for security.ac.nz

The Matrix (Remastered in 4K) – Wellington – 23 August 2019

What

The 30th Anniversary 4k remastered re-release of The Matrix staring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving

A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers

Tickets should be bought online ahead of time, see comments on meetup.com if you want to sit near others.

When and Where

Friday, August 23, 2019
8:10pm – 11pm

Embassy Theatre
10 Kent Terrace
Wellington

Meet at Blondinis at 8:10pm. Movie starts 8:30pm in the Grand.

How Much

Standard movies ticket pricing ~$12.

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Movies tickets available from Event Cinemas
The Matrix meetup event.
Wellington Sci-Fi and Fantasy Meetup Group


WITcon 2019 – Wellington – 21 August 2019

What

VUWWIT (Victoria University of Wellington Women in Tech) exists to create a space for women and gender diverse voices in STEM. We connect students to industry by running networking events and sharing job and internship opportunities. We also organise social events to build our community.

WITcon is a one-day student-led tech conference that brings students and industry together to discuss social and technical topics relating to STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Maths).

This conference was designed to give something to everyone. Anyone working in or around tech will have something to gain from WITcon, whether they are a developer, human resources person, student, tech enthusiast, lecturer, biologist, manager, data scientist, engineer, chemist, gamer, or intern.

WITcon is a great opportunity to hear and learn from interesting speakers and panellists, meet other people in the community, and enjoy a yummy lunch.

Tip: the lunch break and end-of-event drinks are the best time for students to approach industry to discuss available internships and grad roles, and vice versa!

When and Where

9:30am – 3pm
Wednesday, 21 August 2019

Memorial Theatre (SU MT228),
Victoria University of Wellington,
Kelburn,
Wellington

How Much

Earlybird: 1 – 7 July
$5 for students, $40 for industry

Standard: 8 July onwards
$10 for students, $50 for industry

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WitCon 2019 website
Witcon 2019 Registration

NetHui 2019 – Wellington – 3 – 4 October 2019

What

NetHui brings everybody and anybody that wants to talk about the Internet together. It’s not a conference or a BarCamp, and speakers don’t talk at you all day. It is instead about discussing and exploring possibilities, ideas and challenges, together.

NetHui is made for the community, with the community. It’s designed by the people who want to go. InternetNZ wants to hear what it is that matters to you and what you want to talk about – and then we help to pull it all together.

NetHui is one of the most exciting and dynamic events for discussing our Internet in New Zealand. We would love to have you come and join us and join these conversations and explorations too.

The theme for NetHui 2019 is safety, inclusion and wellbeing on the open Internet.

When and Where

Thursday 3 October 2019
to Friday 4 October 2019
All Day

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa,
Cable Street,
Te Aro,
Wellington

How Much

Earlybird (till 31 July) $70
Standard (after 31 July) $100

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NetHui 2019 Website
Nethui 2019 Registration

ExpertTalks Wellington: Kubernetes 101 – Wellington – 19 June 2019

What

This is our first talk kicking off ExpertTalks Wellington

Introduction to Equal Experts and Expert Talks

Kubernetes 101

What is it and why do we need it? In this talk, I will cover a brief history of docker and container management. I will also go through some basic usage and pitfalls of using something like Kubernetes.

SPEAKER
Adrian Ng, Equal Experts

Food and drink will be provided – we look forward to seeing you there.

When and Where

Wednesday , June 19 2019
6pm – 8pm

Location TBD

How Much

Free

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ExpertTalks Wellington: Kubernetes 101
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Ansible June Meetup and what BNZ is up to – Wellington – 1 July 2019

What

Hi Ansible NZ Community,

Have a thing for automation?
Maybe you’re really into Ansible?
Perhaps you’re a little into both?

If you answered yes to any of these, or even if you didn’t but are open to new horizons, how about spending an hour with us to see/hear about what others are doing with Ansible and automation?

The Agenda is:

  • 11.30 am visitor registration.
  • 12.00 pm presentations begin.
  1. Introduction and presentation by Michael Calizo about the Ansible product roadmap.
  2. Presentation by Joseph Tejal about customer x automation journey.
  3. Presentation by BNZ about what they’re doing with Ansible.
  • 12.45 pm networking.
  • 1.00 pm close.

Capacity is limited, remember to RSVP early to confirm your seat. We look forward to seeing you there!

When and Where

Monday 1 July 2019
11:30am – 1pm

Ground Floor
96 The Terrace
Wellington

How Much

Free

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Ansible Meetup and What the BNZ is up to
Ansible New Zealand Meetup Group

The World of Agile – Wellington – 6 June 2019

What

Female Fuel’d: Tech Talks June meetup all about the world of agile and how you can apply it in your current role!

In this interactive session, you’ll have the opportunity to talk with Charlotte Hinton, Agile coach extraordinaire, on any questions you have about agile/scrum and all things in-between. Whether you are a newbie to this way of working, perhaps exploring wanting to work in this space or whether you want to explore a few different challenges you are having in this space, bring your questions along for us to work through them on the night.

We’ll finish the session with an opportunity for networking.

All welcome, you don’t need to be currently working in tech or to identify as female to participate.

Hello, meet Charlotte

Charlotte is an Agile Coach. Her passion is to encourage teams wanting to explore different ways of working, workload transparency, identifying bottlenecks before they arise and have the team really focused on continuously improving how they work together to deliver amazing things.

The experiments Charlotte brings to a team could be a mashup of a few different approaches from agile, scrum, lean, kanban, design thinking to design sprints, depending on where the team are in their transformation and what they are wanting to achieve. Charlotte is also one of the organisers for Agile Welly, a Wellington based meetup for people to learn more about agile and the various disciplines, skills and challenges involved.

When and Where

Thursday, June 6, 2019
5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

Flux Federation
86 Customhouse Quay, Wellington

How Much

Free. Please RSVP here.

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Female Fuel’d: Tech Talks – Wellington Meetup – June 2019 event: World of Agile.
Agile Welly Meetup.
Credit for Image: Leveraging Agile Principles in Non-Software Product Development – Part Two.

Demos of Drupal Distributions – Wellington – 4 June 2019

What

“Out of the box” is used a lot in CMS solution world. But what does that really when looking at Drupal? How many boxes are there, and what comes out of them?!?

A strongly recommended meetup for anyone who is evaluating the strengths of Drupal and what the different flavours of it look like.

In this meetup we’ll be exploring what can Drupal distributions can do. How many of them are there? What are some good use cases that these solutions can be matched to?

For example, did you know Drupal has a distribution for each one of the following?

  • Social media community
  • Government website framework
  • Online publishing for large publisher needs
  • DAM (Digital Asset Management)
  • API aggregation / containerisation
  • Events management
  • Knowledge base
  • Profile management
  • AND TONNES MORE!

We’ll be answering these questions and more at the next Drupal meetup – with live demos wherever possible.

Gold and Cathy will lead us on content and discussion around this powerful solutions landscape as we explore what the various flavors of Drupal ‘can really do out of the box’.

SPONSORS:

REFRESHMENTS and ORGANISATION provided by Xequals (in the form of beer, pizza, and cat herding!). Thanks Xequals!

VENUE is provided by Catalyst IT. Thanks Catalyst!

When and Where

Tuesday, 4 June 2019.
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

Catalyst IT
Level 3, Catalyst House,
150 Willis Street, Wellington

Turn up before 6 which is when the doors lock or txt/phone the number on the door to be let in by a Catalyst person,

How Much

Free. Please RSVP here and email organisers if you have dietary requriements.

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Wellington Drupal Meetup and event.

Ctl Alt Delete: Vintage Computers from the National Library Collection – Wellington – 20-25 May 2019

What

Do you remember the supreme usability of the square mouse, the clean beige lines of the Apple Classic II, the Apple Lisa and the Macintosh? Remember the slick sophistication of the clear covetable big bootied iMac and the portable lightweight Powerbook 150, and what about the extreme versatility of the SuperDrive Floppy?

Get your nerd on and revisit some old friends this Techweek19 (20 – 26 May) at the National Library.  Cast your eagle eyes over a rare selection of our vintage computers which are still used to store, transfer and read early ‘born digital’ material.  

We will also be holding two presentations;

Thursday 23 May, 12pm – 12.30pm – For all the Macs I’ve loved before

 Thursday 23 May, 12.30pm – 1pm – Navigating the Complex World of ‘Born Digital’ collecting and preservation

When and Where

Monday 20 May – Saturday 25 May 2019
9am – 5pm ( 9am – 1pm on Saturday)

Te Ahumairangi Foyer
National Library
70 Molesworth St
Thorndon
Wellington

How Much

Free

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Event on the Techweek 2019 Website

Converging Realities – Wellington – 20 May 2019

What

Converging Realities is a one-day jam-packed event that is focused around celebrating Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) technology.

With Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon investing millions, it is no doubt that VR, AR and mixed realities are the future. Yet what does that look like today, and in Wellington? How is the technology be used, and what is it being used for?

Join some of Wellington’s leading innovators and pioneers for a series of lightning talks, as they speak about how mixed reality, VR and AR technology is pushing and enabling them in their own practices. From architecture to education, to game-design and the arts, come explore what the future will look like in the next 20 years.

Also on show at the event will be our public exhibition demo area. Running throughout the day, come try some of the most amazing VR, AR and MR content out there!  Attendees will have a chance to try out the demos either before or after the event. 

When and Where

10am – 9pm (talks 6pm – 9pm)
Monday 20 May 2019

Victoria University School of Architecture and Design
139 Vivian St
Te Aro
Wellingto

How Much

Professional $50
Student $15

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Converging Realities – Info and booking