20 February 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 which has had a few years hiatus with the pandemic. … Continue reading "NZTech Q&A: Sonya Williams"
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14 December 2022
We need your support to bring ShadowTech Day back in 2023.
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07 November 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 house, playing with toys typecast as being "for boys", learning with/from brothers, experiencing new technologies in school programs, and being taken to inspiring tech events as youths.
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02 August 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.
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Sonya Williams is driven to solve big problems using technology and wants to help more people do the same! She has recently been appointed as NZTech board intern and shares her startup story. What set you on the path to becoming an entrepreneur? The desire to make investing more accessible. I've
December 10, 2017
Do you tire of having to explain to colleagues, yet again, the benefits of diversity? Sometimes, it seems that our mission to celebrate and promote diversity in the tech sector falls on deaf ears. Let's be honest, diversity and inclusion is a particularly sensitive issue and it is not well understoo
December 10, 2017
Recently, I have attended several events with inspirational speakers exploring diversity. Together, these talks have helped strengthen my understanding of diversity and how it really works in organisations. For example, just twenty years ago, the New Zealand Police entry requirements included
November 29, 2017
New Zealand’s tech sector is growing, and assisting and fostering this growth is a key focus for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE). Within MBIE, the Digital Economy team was established in 2015 to support and encourage continued growth, working closely with the wider digit
November 16, 2017
We asked the newly appointed Visa's Everywhere Initiative New Zealand judge about empowering women in tech and what motivates her. What drives you to make a difference? I think we live in incredible times and now, more than ever before, we are in a position to make a difference that means shared
October 29, 2017
The Ministry of Business and Employment (MBIE) and the Ministry for Women today launched a pilot to attract more women back into the technology sector. Based in Wellington, Return to IT assists women with a digital technology backgrounds to return to work in the sector after taking a career break o
September 13, 2017
I recently joined the NZTech Women High Impact Team, with the honour of being the group’s first male representative. This has significantly improved the teams gender diversity to a proportion not far off the percentage of women in tech in New Zealand businesses! A few months ago, I attended a N
August 31, 2017
New Zealand is not alone in attracting and retaining women in tech, a leading tech specialist says. Andrea Hancox, NZTech’s national director of government relations, says the whole world faces the issue of attracting and retaining women in tech and introducing tech to young women as a choice of
August 3, 2017
This morning on TVNZ’s Breakfast show, NZTech’s Andrea Hancox discussed busting tech stereotypes. Watch the interview here. Recently, the Ministry of Women released a guide Decoding Diversity targeted at attracting and retaining girls and women in tech education. It includes useful
August 3, 2017