30 July 2025
Over 1,200 secondary school girls across Aotearoa are experiencing what it’s like to work in one of New Zealand’s most dynamic and fastest-growing industries – tech.
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11 July 2025
Kia ora, We’re already over halfway through 2025. I would love to say we are gliding effortlessly and gently into mid-winter hibernation mode, ready to resurface in October for Spring. … Continue reading "Introducing our new Executive Director"
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03 June 2025
The "Women in Data & AI" event, a collaboration between TechWomen, Deloitte and Databricks during Techweek25, brought together three accomplished professionals to share their journeys into data and AI careers.
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15 May 2025
We’re offering girls in years 9-11 an opportunity to discover the world of tech and explore tech career pathways. We’re showcasing real roles, because we know there’s a tech job to suit everyone. Matched with local tech companies, students will gain hands-on experiences to imagine their future career.
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15 May 2025
TechWomen Co-Chair, Samar Alrayyes, was honoured to be invited and participate in APEC 2025 SOM2 at Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, last week. This is a very important activity as TechWomen aims to help form a better future with women having a seat at the table and empowered to have an equitable career and participation.
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17 March 2025
New Zealand’s economy took a major hit in 2024, experiencing the largest GDP contraction among developed countries, according to HSBC. This downturn was largely driven by interest rate hikes aimed … Continue reading "Introducing our new Executive Director"
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11 December 2024
As we close out 2024, I am filled with immense pride and gratitude for the incredible strides we have made together. This year has been a testament to our collective dedication to empowering wāhine in the New Zealand technology sector.
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10 December 2024
The TechWomen community now has nearly 800 members, up 25% and still growing, with a wider network of over 3,000 subscribers to our newsletter and LinkedIn group.
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05 December 2024
We’re delighted to announce the return of ShadowTech Day in August 2025.
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02 October 2024
Kia ora, On September 12, TechWomen, supported by the AI Forum and the Asia New Zealand Foundation, hosted a special event featuring Vicky Nyamsuren. Born into a nomadic life in … Continue reading "Introducing our new Executive Director"
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07 August 2024
Here at TechWomen we are seeing a similar trend with record-breaking participation in two of our key programmes this year, Mentoring Circles and ShadowTech.
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10 June 2024
As a foundation partner of TechWomen, Westpac's support not only helps us create programs that bridge the gender gap but also inspires young girls to explore tech careers through ShadowTech and helps develop policies that boost diversity in the tech workforce.
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31 May 2024
AWS Community Day Aotearoa is an annual one-day, user-run single-day AWS technical conference that is planned, organised, and delivered by the AWS user group community leaders.
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29 May 2024
We hope you had the chance to participate in the broad range of events during last week’s TechWeek, designed to showcase the value and impact of technology on the lives of New Zealanders. It was a roaring success and you can check out some of the highlights here.
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23 May 2024
As part of our TechWeek24 Women Across Generations series, Meg Ryan shares a look at the evolving office dress code in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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I thought I’d take the opportunity to introduce myself as the new Executive Director of TechWomen. For the past year and a half I have been working at NZTech as Strategic Programmes Director, overseeing all our events and conferences and key strategic programmes aimed at encouraging more peopl
June 7, 2023
We are pleased to introduce our new Executive Director, Yvonne Gill and two new Executive Council Members, Jemma Simmonds and Tash Bettridge. They are all extremely passionate about supporting women in tech and are excited to join the TechWomen team. Learn more about them below. Yvonne Gill,
June 6, 2023
Tēnā koe, This years International Women’s Day (IWD) theme was #EmbraceEquity. In essence, the theme was about why equal opportunities for women aren't enough. People start from different places, so true inclusion and belonging require equitable action. Equity recognises that each
April 5, 2023
This year, TWNZ celebrated IWD both in person and via a webinar link. This Hybrid method proved successful and something we will continue with, in spite of some of the technical difficulties Pip faced during the initial set up! Ultimately, it went rather well, but we have acknowledged
April 4, 2023
Welcome to 2023. The TechWomen team is excited to announce our focus for the year is inspiring the next generation of females into technology centred careers. You would have seen our request for sponsorship and registration of interest for ShadowTech Day 2023, our headline programme whi
February 20, 2023
Sponsor ShadowTech Day 2023 TechWomen have been proudly delivering ShadowTech for several years across New Zealand. Our headline programme has always been ShadowTech Day. This programme provides girls in years 9 - 11 with an opportunity to experience what working in the tech sector is like, enco
December 14, 2022
At our recent Ada Lovelace Day event, five women shared their technology career stories. While all unique in both journey, challenges and successes, early exposure to the evolving nature of tech was a recurring theme. These exposures were wide ranging and included recalling a first computer in the
November 7, 2022
As June and July have brought the usual cold wintery weather, this year there has been a stronger awareness of a potential shift in mindset thanks to our new public holiday for Matariki; marking a time for reflection and planning ahead. Embracing this moment can drive progress, or prompt planning f
August 2, 2022
We’ve got a jam packed newsletter this month as we welcome two new Council Members, Vickie King and Vivian Fu, look back on the International Women's Day event from March, and look ahead to Techweek, 16 - 22 May. Techweek is one of my favourite times of year, not only because of the vast
May 6, 2022