Eva is passionate about the ICT sector and has previously worked at New Zealand owned software development organisations, Fronde Systems Group and Provoke Solutions.

Eva is a member of the Institute of Directors, and has a BCA (Management) and BA (Psychology) from Victoria University of Wellington. Outside of work, she has been volunteering at the Wellington SPCA for 7 years and in 2012 received Queens Diamond Jubilee Medal for Meritorious Volunteer Service.

Edwina is a B.com with a Post Grad in Computer Science and Management. She has over 30 years of experience in the tech sector and has worked with corporates such as Wang and Apple both locally and overseas and 21 of these years in the Education sector. she has been on NZQA panels for ICT curriculum design for both school and tertiary. As Industry and Community Engagement Manager for Manukau Institute of Technology she received the Excellence award for designing and implementing the internship model.

This year Edwina has also launched her own company CreateOps which focuses on creating opportunities today for tomorrow and has developed programmes to help people take that next step in life. She continues to follow her passion of connecting school students and community to industry through initiatives she runs and in 2017 won the CIO100 for ICT Enabled Community Award.

Carina has a BSc in Computer Science and she thrives on working at the intersection of technology, business and design. She wants to continue to connect computer science with other fields to create beneficial products and concepts that positively change society.

Caroline specialises in IP and media law, and works closely with clients that are in, and that regularly do business with, the software, technology, telecommunications and media industries. Caroline has a background in technology, having studied information systems academically. She also presents on technology security issues to other lawyers, to upskill them on their own security practices, and to enable them to offer advice to their own clients on cyber-security issues.

Caroline believes in the value of a broad approach to technology skills in education with the aim of ensuring everyone, especially young women have the skills and opportunity to successfully navigate careers that are directly and indirectly linked to the technology industry.

Colin has great focus on the values of building a diverse team. He is inspired by work already done to bridge the gender diversity gaps in Tech and has never lost sight of the opportunity he was given from a leader and woman.

Since then, Colin has worked for Gen-I across Australia and New Zealand and as CIO at NZ Racing Board. Now, Colin lives regionally for his role at FMG and enjoys the lifestyle regional New Zealand has to offer.

She has spent the last three years at Parrot Analytics working with a world class and diverse team, who have grown in size and revenue since founding three years ago. All the TechWomen initiatives are going to push the needle in this space and she is very interested in being a part of ensuring the team works well to make things happen and communicate effectively while doing so.

Now mostly recently at NZ Trade and Enterprise, Teresa works with some of NZ’s leading Maori companies to accelerate their growth internationally. Teresa is from Ngapuhi, Ngati Kahu ki Whaingaroa and has a strong passion and focus on radically improving the prosperity of Maori through entrepreneurship and technology.

Teresa is also committed to mentoring and inspiring young people of nz into the technology sector as well as helping to take great ideas to commercialisation and to the global stage.