Empowering Wāhine: 2024 in Review

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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TechWomen 2024 Highlights

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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ShadowTech Day 2025 dates announced!

05 December 2024

We’re delighted to announce the return of ShadowTech Day in August 2025. 

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Vicky Nyamsuren, ShadowTech24, and Ada Lovelace Day | October Newsletter

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 Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, Vicky shared insights about her upbringing, and her journey to becoming a leading female influencer in tech. She spoke passionately about her … Continue reading "Women in Tech Breakfasts – Porirua, Wellington & Petone"

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Breaking records in Paris and Aotearoa

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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Westpac, Supporting Women in Tech

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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Call for Speakers - AWS Community Day 2024

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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ShadowTech 2024 | May Newsletter

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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Dressing for Work - Women Across Generations

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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Diversity

International Women’s Day 2019 #BalanceforBetter

Campaign theme is #BalanceforBetter Better the balance, better the world. How will you celebrate women’s achievements on Friday March 8, while calling for a more gender-balanced world? Planning is underway by groups worldwide. Partnerships and Collaborations are invited for 2019 (& 2020), so don’t delay in making contact with the International Women’s Day organisers.
26 February 2019
TechWomen News

EMPOWERING TECHWOMEN – Join TechWomen and be part of the diversity conversation

Looking back since the last TechWomen newsletter, I’m wondering where has the year gone?  We are now in July, and the last two months have been all go for us here at TechWomen. On June 13, we were proud winners of the CIO award for ShadowTech where the judges were impressed with TechWomen’s model for … Continue reading "EMPOWERING TECHWOMEN – Join TechWomen and be part of the diversity conversation"
17 July 2018
Events

#PressforProgress for more diversity in tech

This year’s International Women’s Day theme is #PressForProgress and with good reason. Unfortunately, data shows that the gender gap is widening across the globe, instead of taking 170 years to close the gap at the current rate of progress, it is estimated that gender parity across the world will take over two centuries.
18 March 2018
Industry News

AI provides window to get women into tech

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is the next wave of technology and New Zealand must present a fresh window to help encourage women into tech roles.
07 March 2018
Research and trends

Gender-balanced tech firms make much bigger profits

Gender-balanced tech firms are up to 40 percent more profitable and it is important that Kiwi companies and leaders acknowledge and accept that when hiring staff, the new executive director of Tech Women NZ says.
30 January 2018
TechWomen News

Let’s encourage improvement!

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 understood.
10 December 2017
TechWomen News

Inspired by stories of diversity

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 minimum height, excellent vision, fitness, intelligence and no history of depression.  Now however, the … Continue reading "Inspired by stories of diversity"
29 November 2017