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CITRENZ 2021

14-16 July 2021, Wellington

CITRENZ 2021: Wellington

14-16 July 2021. Register Now

CITRENZ 2021 is the premiere computing education conference in New Zealand and spans all disciplines of computing and IT education. While focusing on tertiary education, it also provides links from secondary education and further into industry.

CITRENZ Programme

(As always, the programme is subject to Change. All in-person)

All Wellington CITRENZ

Wednesday, 14th July 2021

	CITRENZ
	CITRENZ 1 CITRENZ venue 1
8:30am	Arrival
9:15am	Welcome
9:30am	Digital Inclusion in New Zealand: Who are we leaving behind? Laurence Zwimpfer, Operations Director, Digital Inclusion Alliance Aotearoa
11:00am	Morning tea
11:15am	Studio in the Bachelor of IT Elise Allen
11:35am	Using Pair Teaching to enhance Student Engagement and Teacher Development Bernard Otinpong
11:55am	Work Integrated Learning in Information Technology: Reflections from a Public Institution David Weir
12:15pm	Lunch
1:00pm	The Cloud, the Curriculum and the Classroom: A Case Study at one Public Tertiary Institution
1:20pm	The Landscape of Computing: Benchmarking ITP Computing Degrees Alison Clear, Associate Professor, EIT
2:00pm	Changeover
2:05pm	Workshop: Kaupapa Māori Approach to Teaching Computing Dr Blaine Rakena is Undergraduate Team Manager for the Centre for IT at The Waikato Institute of Technology. The title of his doctoral thesis with Waikato University was: "As Proud as We are: A Case Study of Educational Achievement and Learning for Mature Māori Computing students." Blaine also holds a Bachelor of Education from the University of Waikato.
3:00pm	Afternoon tea
3:30pm	Mental Health Disorders among dementia people: How can Technology Support in their Well-being Geri Harris
3:50pm	Test Driven Development will make your database deployments hassle free Amitrajit Sarkar, Senior Lecturer, Ara Institute of Canterbury Alister Macgregor Robert Oliver
4:10pm	A Comparative Study of Cross-platform Mobile Application Development Dongliang You
4:00pm	Changeover
4:35pm	Panel: What computing programmes and research should looks like to support Te Pūkenga Computing programmes: The current state of our computing programmes; The changes needed to align these programmes to the Te Pukenga objectives and to industry needs; and the support needed for these changes Computing research: The current state of research programmes; New areas that should be researched; Aligning research to industry needs; The support needed for these changes
5:30pm	Free evening Catch up with colleagues or go dancing. Or maybe both!

Thursday, 15th July 2021

	CITRENZ
	CITRENZ 1 CITRENZ venue 1
8:30am	Is “online education” a thing? Caroline Seelig, Chief Executive, Open Polytechnic Mark Nichols, Executive Director of Learning Design & Development, Open Polytechnic
10:00am	Morning tea
10:15am	Virtual and Blended Learning in a post-Covid World Steve McKinlay
10:35am	Reviewing use of collaboration and video conferencing software on the Timaru campus of Ara Frina Albertyn
10:55am	Application Testing in the Agile (CI/CD) world Adesh Pednekar
11:15am	Changeover
11:20am	Decolonising Computing Education Samuel Mann Mawera Karetai
11:40am	IT educators beyond COVID - one year on Hamish Smith Samuel Mann
12:00pm	Why don’t Girls Study IT? Redressing the Gender Imbalance in the Information Technology Sector Arifah Addison
12:20pm	Lunch
1:00pm	Update on Special Interest Groups Special Interest Groups: Learning environments Software Development Infrastructure Postgraduate Pre-Degree Programmes
1:55pm	Changeover
2:00pm	Comparative Study on the Effectiveness of Automation Testing Frameworks for Web-Application Testing Bin Van Nguyen
2:20pm	Investigating Social VR-based Student Presentations Emre Erturk Brad Taylor
2:40pm	Towards Mitigating Privacy Concerns on Fall Detection Techniques for Elderly / Physically challenged
3:00pm	Afternoon Tea
3:30pm	Workshop: Global Benchmarking and Visualising of ITP degree programs Join this discussion and demonstration on global benchmarking and visualisation of ITP degree programmes. Alison Clear, Associate Professor, EIT Tony Clear, Associate Professor, AUT
4:25pm	Changeover
4:30pm	Heads of Schools meeting
6:30pm	CITRENZ Informal Dinner Details TBC but it'll be a great night!

Friday, 16th July 2021

	Wellington		CITRENZ
8:30am	Arrival		Qualifications Workshop
9:30am	Welcome
9:40am	Cyber Security in a broken world Elf Eldridge, Cyber Security Consultant, ZX Security
10:20am	Morning tea
	Wellington 1 Wellington venue 1	Wellington 2 Wellington venue 2	CITRENZ 2 CITRENZ venue 3
10:45am	Terry Chapman: Why your next job might be remote and what new skills you need to succeed at it	Ray Delany: Is the traditional consulting model broken?	Arthur Valle: Using data science tools and techniques for creating and maintaining a passive investment portfolio
11:15am	Changeover
11:20am	Jocelyn Cranefield, Mary Ellen Gordon: From fun-lovers to institutionalists: Uncovering the subcultures of kiwi IT workers	Russell Ewart: Transformation at scale: Harvesting the value of Customer centricity during change	Data Analytics and Web Technologies Paper Presentations Adesh Pednekar, Trevor Nesbit, Sandeep Vankadari
11:50am	Changeover
11:55am	Andreas Drechsler: The Future of IT Governance and Business/IT Alignment in Scaling Agile Organisations	Igor Portugal: What does post-Covid IT architecture look like?
12:25pm	Lunch
	Wellington		CITRENZ
	Wellington 1 Wellington venue 1	Wellington 2 Wellington venue 2	CITRENZ 2 CITRENZ venue 3
1:10pm	Panel: Surviving and Thriving in Today's Changed World How can we survive and thrive in a world marked by volatility, uncertainty and ambiguity? Our panel explores the world today and what we need as staff, students, leaders and most of all, people, to thrive in the new world we live in. Ray Delany, Founder, CIO Studio Terry Chapman, Managing Director, Axenic Rob England, Managing Director, Two Hills Ltd Amy Ryburn, Partner at Buddle Findlay Sharifa Isaako, IT Student, Whitecliffe		Web Technologies Paper Presentations Steve Cosgrove, Prashant Khanna, Chris Baker
2:10pm	Changeover
2:15pm	John Ascroft, Amitrajit Sarkar: Ethical principles in multi-modal application development: a BARJ case study	Amy Ryburn: Managing Legal Risk in Agile Projects	Gloria Gomez: Workshop: Gaining entry to real settings with Bridging Design Prototypes
2:45pm	Changeover
2:50pm	Aaron Hodder: Responsible Digital: Humanity in Technology	Alison Clear: Tech Degrees: International Developments
3:20pm	Afternoon Tea
3:45pm	Rob England: Crossing the Streams: the nexus of ITIL, DevOps, and Agility	Talita Ekandjo: “MyAnalytics is here to help”: opportunities and challenges of intelligent personal assistants	CITRENZ Recap and Awards
4:15pm	Changeover
4:20pm	On top of the world: turning disability into ability Liam Malone, Bladerunner - 2x Paralympic Gold Medalist
5:00pm	Closing
5:10pm	Refreshments Join us for end-of-day refreshments

3 Days of Papers

CITRENZ 2021 runs from 14-16 July 2021 in Wellington

14-15 July: CITRENZ-specific papers

16 July: CITRENZ + ITx Wellington Innovation Day

Education + Industry

As well as 2 days of academic papers, CITRENZ attendees also get full admission to ITx Wellington Innovation Day; full industry engagement.

Industry speakers include:

Elf Eldridge

Cybersecurity Consultant, ZX Security

Rob England

Managing Director, Two Hills Ltd

Bex Woodhouse

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst, Xero

Liam Malone

Bladerunner - 2x Paralympic Gold Medalist

Check out all Wellington ITx speakers here

Multi-venue Conference

CITRENZ 2021 is spread across 2 venues in Wellington:

Weds/Thurs 14-15 July: ITP Events Centre

The first 2 days of CITRENZ 2021 will be held at:

ITP Events Centre
Level 24, Plimmer Tower
2 Gilmer Terrace
Wellington

Getting there

Friday 16 July: Te Papa

The last day of CITRENZ 2021 will be at Te Papa, alongside ITx Wellington:

Te Papa Museum of NZ
55 Cable Street
Te Aro
Wellington

Friday's conference includes CITRENZ sessions alongside the ITx Wellington Innovation Day. CITRENZ attendees can attend both.

CITRENZ Registration

CITRENZ Registration includes:

All CITRENZ sessions on 14-16 July

ITx Wellington Innovation Day sessions on 16 July

Morning/Afternoon Tea and Lunch every day

CITRENZ informal dinner 15 July (Dress up theme "IT across 6 decades")

Discount to full Excellence in IT Awards Dinner 16 July

We strongly recommend CITRENZ members attend the awards dinner, but this is optional

Registration Costs	ex GST	incl GST
Staff of CITRENZ member institution (no Awards Dinner)	$257	$295
Staff of CITRENZ member institution (incl Awards Dinner)	$386	$444
Everyone else (no Awards Dinner)	$344	$395
Everyone else (incl Awards Dinner)	$473	$544