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 "TechWomen – Return to work programmes"
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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 "TechWomen – Return to work programmes"
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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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There is no doubt that the New Zealand technology sector is a significant contributor to the New Zealand economy, as a strong performing employer of over 114,450 people (source: NZ Statistics, 2019). However, in 2018 when MYOB released the MYOB Women in Tech report, only 23% of the tech sector’s
June 24, 2021
The UK’s Department for International Trade (DIT) is seeking tech companies from Australia and New Zealand who are considering the UK for international expansion. The selected group will join the official hybrid mission to London Tech Week in September 2021. LTW is Europe’s la
June 23, 2021
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June 3, 2021
Microsoft/TechWomen and Sponsors got together to host this event in Christchurch for the community impacted by the Christchurch shooting incident to support, enable and upskill the community. This was primarily widows and young sons and daughters of the victims. Part of the event consisted
May 25, 2021
International Women's Day IWD celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Based on the IWD 2021 campaign theme, #ChooseToChallenge, TechWomenNZ will be hosting a virtual panel with
March 19, 2021
Yoobee Colleges support women to succeed in an historically male dominated field by offering a 90% Scholarship on their Yoobee Bachelor of Software Engineering Degree tuition fees each year. If you identify as female and have consistently demonstrated exceptional potential, and a passion for techno
January 12, 2021
Thank you all for your continued support of TechWomen throughout what has been a challenging year for many of us. Congratulations, you made it! Bring on 2021. This year we were proud to be able to provide one of our flagship programmes Mentoring Circles throughout the country. Based on our sur
December 15, 2020
TechWomen ran another successful series of Mentoring Circles this year from May – October around the country. The program was sponsored by InternetNZ with many of our members volunteering their time as mentors. While running the sessions virtually was challenging and participants w
December 11, 2020
In November, Servian held their first New Zealand Datathon, partnering with Dataiku and hosting TechWomen NZ members and Women in Data Science. As it was the first Datathon, they wanted to understand some of the challenges and successes so they can host a wider audience and skill set ne
December 9, 2020