16 September 2025
Spring has arrived with longer days and some glorious sunshine. It’s our most changeable season - beautiful one day, wild the next - and in a way that feels like life right now too.
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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 "Closing out 2020"
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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 "Closing out 2020"
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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 "Closing out 2020"
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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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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
Women Back Yourselves – The Tech Industry Needs You! Ada Lovelace Day is an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) on the 13th October 20. It aims to increase the profile of women in STEM and, in doing so, create new
October 16, 2020
By Amanda Watson, Business Account Manager at Enterprise IT, Single Working Mum of a daughter and needy cat. The days are getting longer as 2020 marches on and we learn to adjust to the continuing disruption a global pandemic has on our day to day lives. Although job losses, businesses closing a
October 2, 2020
TechWomen are partnering with ITP to engage more women in their mentoring programmes in New Zealand schools. We need more mentors across the country for the Tahi Rua Toru Tech Challenge, based on a large uptake in schools. One of ITP and TechWomen's shared values is growing and engaging t
September 11, 2020
Techwomen presents at Techweek Monday 27th July 12pm TechWomen bring you a variety of perspectives on the challenges of finding great female talent in the New Zealand tech industry. Are you an organisation that is struggling to get female candidates to apply for roles? Do you feel frustrated tha
August 2, 2020
TechWomen’s Techweek2020 events are online, and they’re free. With the spotlight on digital transformation, our events this year focus on women as technology industry candidates, and building capability. Kicking off on Monday 27th, hear from companies and candidates about finding and reta
July 22, 2020
By Amanda Watson, Business Account Manager at Enterprise IT, Single Working Mum of a daughter and needy cat. Well, I’m not going to lie to you, the first week of lockdown was very weird! Listening to our PM’s speech was an emotional experience shared by my other friends who had been working
April 9, 2020