Keynotes and Speakers for 2021 ITx Innovation Days
Virtual CTO and Founder, Target State Consulting
Why work harder when you can work smarter: Simplifying your work: Making an enduring and positive impact on society requires funding and the capacity for change. Most companies struggle to set aside time because of the high overhead of manual and/or administrative tasks required and the perception that a full system needs to be developed first. Often, being time poor, having… More »
Why work harder when you can work smarter: Simplifying your work: Making an enduring and positive impact on society requires funding and the capacity for change. Most companies struggle to set aside time because of the high overhead of manual and/or administrative tasks required and the perception that a full system needs to be developed first. Often, being time poor, having… More »
Why work harder when you can work smarter: Simplifying your work: Making an enduring and positive impact on society requires funding and the capacity for change. Most companies struggle to set aside time because of the high overhead of manual and/or administrative tasks required and the perception that a full system needs to be developed first. Often, being time poor, having… More »
The Hip Op-erations Crew: Inspiring the world's oldest hip hop crew: How do you inspire a large team of people aged 65 to 95 years old to embrace an outrageous goal of becoming competitive hip hop dancers and, in just eight months’ time, perform at the World Hip Hop Championships in Las Vegas? What do you do when they don't like… More »
The Hip Op-erations Crew: Inspiring the world's oldest hip hop crew: How do you inspire a large team of people aged 65 to 95 years old to embrace an outrageous goal of becoming competitive hip hop dancers and, in just eight months’ time, perform at the World Hip Hop Championships in Las Vegas? What do you do when they don't like… More »
Chief Executive, Open Polytechnic
Is “online education” a thing?: Join in the conversation with this Keynote Q+A interactive style session with Open Polytechnic's Caroline Seelig and Mark Nichols. Followed by Keynote Discussion, Chaired by Professor Samuel… More »
CEO, Animation Research Ltd
Navigating tech and getting to the top: By all accounts, Cheryl Adams has had a very successful career so far. Starting out as a Mechanical Engineer at Manapouri Power Station, she pivoted a couple of times until she landed at Animation Research Ltd for a time as GM. According to Sir Ian Taylor, she left after 7… More »
CEO and Founder, Snap IT
AI and the future of picture processing: Founded in 2007, SnapIT are a team of highly-skilled and dedicated, specialist software developers, electronic and mechanical engineers developing and manufacturing live cameras, AI hardware and Satellite communication systems from the ground up. In this talk, SnapIT Co-founder and CEO will talk through the role of AI in image processing… More »
Accelerating the Tech Sector: Well known technologist David Downs shares his story helping kiwi tech thrive overseas, his successful battle with terminal cancer, and his current work helping the AgriTech sector… More »
Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland
Innovation in Robotics and Bionics: Making Humans and Robots More Dexterous: Robotics and bionics used to be the subject of TV and movies, but they’re a reality now. So what’s happening in this space and how are researchers in New Zealand helping change the world? Dr Minas Liarokapis is the Director of the New Dexterity research group at the University of… More »
Innovation in Robotics and Bionics: Making Humans and Robots More Dexterous: Robotics and bionics used to be the subject of TV and movies, but they’re a reality now. So what’s happening in this space and how are researchers in New Zealand helping change the world? Dr Minas Liarokapis is the Director of the New Dexterity research group at the University of… More »
Innovation in Robotics and Bionics: Making Humans and Robots More Dexterous: Robotics and bionics used to be the subject of TV and movies, but they’re a reality now. So what’s happening in this space and how are researchers in New Zealand helping change the world? Dr Minas Liarokapis is the Director of the New Dexterity research group at the University of… More »
Cyber Security Consultant, ZX Security
Cyber Security in a broken world: Cybersecurity consultant Dr Elf Eldridge will talk through the big security trends in New Zealand and internationally. From Ransomware-as-a-service to DDOS attacks larger than ever before, the cybersecurity landscape is changing. You need to know what's happening to be equipped to deal with it. Join Elf as he runs through… More »
Cyber Security in a broken world: Cybersecurity consultant Dr Elf Eldridge will talk through the big security trends in New Zealand and internationally. From Ransomware-as-a-service to DDOS attacks larger than ever before, the cybersecurity landscape is changing. You need to know what's happening to be equipped to deal with it. Join Elf as he runs through… More »
Chief Growth Officer, OneNet
What does post-Covid IT architecture look like?: Last year many organisations had to accelerate their digital transformation in order to meet the challenges presented by COVID. This included intermittent lockdowns, retail outlet closures, and the need to work from home, social distancing requirements, lack of international travel and more. As an industry, we helped many organisations address… More »
What does post-Covid IT architecture look like?: Last year many organisations had to accelerate their digital transformation in order to meet the challenges presented by COVID. This included intermittent lockdowns, retail outlet closures, and the need to work from home, social distancing requirements, lack of international travel and more. As an industry, we helped many organisations address… More »
What does post-Covid IT architecture look like?: Last year many organisations had to accelerate their digital transformation in order to meet the challenges presented by COVID. This included intermittent lockdowns, retail outlet closures, and the need to work from home, social distancing requirements, lack of international travel and more. As an industry, we helped many organisations address… More »
What does post-Covid IT architecture look like?: Last year many organisations had to accelerate their digital transformation in order to meet the challenges presented by COVID. This included intermittent lockdowns, retail outlet closures, and the need to work from home, social distancing requirements, lack of international travel and more. As an industry, we helped many organisations address… More »
What does post-Covid IT architecture look like?: Last year many organisations had to accelerate their digital transformation in order to meet the challenges presented by COVID including intermittent lockdowns causing to retail outlet closures and the need to work from home, social distancing requirements, lack of international travel. We helped many organisations address those challenges. For many… More »
What does post-Covid IT architecture look like?: Last year many organisations had to accelerate their digital transformation in order to meet the challenges presented by COVID. This included intermittent lockdowns, retail outlet closures, and the need to work from home, social distancing requirements, lack of international travel and more. As an industry, we helped many organisations address… More »
What does post-Covid IT architecture look like?: Last year many organisations had to accelerate their digital transformation in order to meet the challenges presented by COVID including intermittent lockdowns causing to retail outlet closures and the need to work from home, social distancing requirements, lack of international travel. We helped many organisations address those challenges. For many… More »
Global HR Guru
Team culture: How to innovate with the best people: Change is happening faster and faster. Your people are key to keeping ahead and continuing to delight customers. How can you make sure you attract, motivate, and keep the staff you need? One way is to have the right culture. In this plenary sessioin, Global HR guru John Olsen will… More »
Operations Director, Digital Inclusion Alliance Aotearoa
Digital Inclusion in New Zealand: Who are we leaving behind?: Recent reports continue to reveal that many New Zealanders are being left behind as they strive to engage with an ever-changing and increasingly digital world. This was a challenge recognised 25 years ago when Wellington City Council started attaching fibre cables to trolley bus poles and running Sunday afternoon ‘surfing… More »
Bladerunner - 2x Paralympic Gold Medalist
On top of the world: turning disability into ability: Liam Malone is widely known as the world number one blade runner - hitting the headlines when after less than three short years in the sport he broke the previous Paralympic records held by Oscar Pistorius. His story of hitting rock bottom while at university to turning it all around… More »
Executive Director of Learning Design & Development, Open Polytechnic
Is “online education” a thing?: Join in the conversation with this Keynote Q+A interactive style session with Open Polytechnic's Caroline Seelig and Mark Nichols. Followed by Keynote Discussion, Chaired by Professor Samuel… More »
Director, Open Parallel Ltd & Multicore World
How safe is your data?: Production chains, government agencies, farmers and researchers are experiencing a “Big Data Deluge” from sensors, space, legacy systems, etc. But how safe and reliable is your Data coming from satellites or IoT devices? Are you actually making good sense of it? And how secure are the devices that collect that… More »
Supercomputing in Agritech: Today data is gathered at different scales and at different frequencies by different organisations using different types of devices than any other time. Most of it is gathered using already outdated technologies and systems. This creates an integration challenge: digesting data at the local scale, using it to update regional… More »
Founder, GGateway
GGateway: Transforming lives through Tech: As Time Magazine Next Generation Leader in 2018 and the Co-founder of GGateway social enterprise, Rasha Abu-Safieh has seen a lot. In her talk, she will speak about the challenges of setting up an IT-Outsourcing social enterprise model in one of the most complex contexts in the world. She will… More »
GM/VP of IoT Air Cargo, Descartes
Internet of Things: The future of cargo tracking: When global logistics tech company Descartes acquired Nelson-based CORE Transport Technologies in 2019, they acquired one of our region's quiet success stories: a hugely successful global player based out of Nelson. They also got access to CORE's leading bluetooth-based cargo tracking tools and the strategic alliance of Core and Descartes… More »
Responsible Digital: Humanity in Technology: "Silicon Valley is run by people who want to be in the tech business, but they are in the people business. They are way, way in over their heads" - Zeynep Tufekci IT as an industry is getting dangerously reckless. In this talk, Aaron will present case studies demonstrating ways… More »
Application Testing in the Agile (CI/CD) world: Ways and means of application testing have changed over the decades. I have seen how dedicated QA born for quality checks, how need of automation came to existence. The manual testing was taken over by automation testing to reduce the turnaround of the testing time for repetitive tests thus reducing… More »
Data Analytics and Web Technologies Paper Presentations: 11.20 - Selection and Adoption of Tools for Analytics and Business Intelligence: An Exploratory Study 11.40 - A proof-of-concept study of a system for querying homomorphically encrypted educational data. 12.00 - Is Web Application Security Really Important to You? Selection and Adoption of Tools for Analytics and Business Intelligence: An… More »
Associate Professor, EIT
The Landscape of Computing: Benchmarking ITP Computing Degrees: In March 2021 the ACM/IEEE-CS Computing Curricula 2020 (CC2020) report was published [1]. This report covers all the areas of computing and is global in its attention. The report looks at and analyses the six discipline areas of computing that currently have ACM and IEEE-CS approved curricula: Computer Engineering, Computer… More »
Workshop: Global Benchmarking and Visualising of ITP degree programs: Join this discussion and demonstration on global benchmarking and visualisation of ITP degree… More »
Tech Degrees: International Developments: A huge amount of work has recently been completed, looking at what should make up a tech-related degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems and more. In this presentation Alison Clear, co-chair of the global CC2020 Task Force, will outline this work, how learning can be mapped… More »
Tech Degrees: International Developments: A huge amount of work has recently been completed, looking at what should make up a tech-related degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems and more. In this presentation Alison Holt, co-chair of the global CC2020 Task Force, will outline this work, how learning can be mapped… More »
Test Driven Development will make your database deployments hassle free: Test-Driven Development (TDD) has a proven track record in application development, but is less ingrained in database development work, despite data quality is increasingly critical in a data-driven economy. This mindset has changed with the arrival of test frameworks that use the SQL language, and that are available as plug-ins… More »
Senior Lecturer, Ara Institute of Canterbury
Test Driven Development will make your database deployments hassle free: Test-Driven Development (TDD) has a proven track record in application development, but is less ingrained in database development work, despite data quality is increasingly critical in a data-driven economy. This mindset has changed with the arrival of test frameworks that use the SQL language, and that are available as plug-ins… More »
Ethical principles in multi-modal application development: a BARJ case study: Bosch, Ara Institute of Canterbury, Regensburg University of Applied Sciences, and Jade Software (BARJ) are collaborating on investigating enhancing the user interfaces of products manufactured by Bosch. The plan is to answer four questions: 1. “Can we speed up the setting-up process by telling the appliance what we need and… More »
Ethical principles in multi-modal application development: a BARJ case study: Bosch, Ara Institute of Canterbury, Regensburg University of Applied Sciences, and Jade Software (BARJ) are collaborating on investigating enhancing the user interfaces of products manufactured by Bosch. The plan is to answer four questions: 1. “Can we speed up the setting-up process by telling the appliance what we need and… More »
Partner at Buddle Findlay
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… More »
Managing Legal Risk in Agile Projects: Back in 2016 Amy Ryburn spoke at the ITX conference on "Contracting for Agile Projects". She touched on the benefits of using agile methodologies, why lawyers unfamiliar with the methodologies may approach them with some scepticism, and how contracts might be better drafted to address to reap the benefits of… More »
Managing Legal Risk in Agile Projects: Back in 2016 Amy Ryburn spoke at the ITX conference on "Contracting for Agile Projects". She touched on the benefits of using agile methodologies, why lawyers unfamiliar with the methodologies may approach them with some scepticism, and how contracts might be better drafted to address to reap the benefits of… More »
Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington
The Future of IT Governance and Business/IT Alignment in Scaling Agile Organisations: This presentation outlines future pathways for the evolution of IT governance and the effective alignment of business and IT in (Scaled) Agile organisations. The findings are based on an international multi-year research project involving more than 15 early-adopter companies. With digitalization leading to turmoil in many of today’s markets, many… More »
Cloud Business Consultant, Equinox IT
Delivering customer value in a de-centralised working world: The last year has showed us that the world doesn't and can't stop (at least not for long) for anything. You still need to deliver customer outcomes like you always have - better, faster and cheaper, but now within an environment of greater uncertainty, workplace flexibility and decentralised teams. As… More »
Why don’t Girls Study IT? Redressing the Gender Imbalance in the Information Technology Sector: In Ara’s Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology (BICT) there is a strong gender imbalance in 2021 new student enrolments (15% female) that reflects the imbalance shown in the IT industry and in other tertiary learning institutions. Studies have shown both that this imbalance is stronger in IT than it… More »
Principal Academic Staff Member + Researcher, Wintec
Using data science tools and techniques for creating and maintaining a passive investment portfolio: In this workshop, we will explore how data science tools and techniques can be used to build and maintain an ETF-based investment portfolio. You will also understand what are exchange traded funds (ETFs) and what is a passive investment portfolio. Data science techniques such as confidence intervals play an important… More »
Using Pair Teaching to enhance Student Engagement and Teacher Development: This paper describes the process of designing and delivering a first-year computational methods course using pair teaching. Pair teaching involves two lecturers working together purposefully and collaboratively to teach students in a classroom setting. This involved varied methods of delivery - practical exercises, demonstrations and sharing experiences and was found… More »
Comparative Study on the Effectiveness of Automation Testing Frameworks for Web-Application Testing: In today's software development context, customers have high demands for software products. They also require complex business logic being included in the new product. Consequently, the complexity of the business requirements puts much pressure on the software testing team. Meanwhile, customers required to deliver the product at a tight time… More »
Investigating Social VR-based Student Presentations: Researchers have explored the application and benefits of Virtual Reality (VR) for education for several years (Radianti et al., 2020). VR technologies are being utilized for teaching and training both in and out of the classroom. Through networked VR, Social VR platforms can provide shared virtual environments for social interaction… More »
Computing Pioneer
Refreshments and Early Computing Demonstration: Join us for refreshments and networking, complete with a demonstration and tour of the NZ early digital displays with tech historian Bruce… More »
Web Technologies Paper Presentations: 1.10 - Forming Team for Cybersecurity and Cyber-Forensics operations 1.40 - Power Supply Dynamics for Outdoor IoT Sensors Forming Teams for Cybersecurity and Cyber-Forensics operations using individual profiling Prashant Khanna with Chris Baker Cybersecurity is, by nature, an interdisciplinary topic at an individual level and multidisciplinary one at a team… More »
Director, Mulberry Street
Putting people back into people-centred experience: Synopsis coming… More »
Work Integrated Learning in Information Technology: Reflections from a Public Institution: Work Integrated Learning (WIL) capstone projects can have a significant impact on stakeholders including students, the department, institution, industry, and discipline. Capstone projects provide an avenue for students to enhance their learning experience, build confidence in their skills and abilities, and potential work opportunities. For the institution and department, it… More »
A Comparative Study of Cross-platform Mobile Application Development: Mobile applications development is increasingly crucial along with the growth of mobile phone user. However, it becomes more difficult for developers to build applications than ever before because of a ton of functions that need to be implemented and the requirement of supporting in both Android and iOS platforms at… More »
Studio in the Bachelor of IT: The Bachelor of IT at Otago Polytechnic has included a 45-credit capstone project in the third year and a preparatory Software Engineering course covering Agile techniques for approximately a decade. This Project course was intended to consolidate and practice the skills that learners had developed throughout the technical and soft… More »
Investigating Social VR-based Student Presentations: Researchers have explored the application and benefits of Virtual Reality (VR) for education for several years (Radianti et al., 2020). VR technologies are being utilized for teaching and training both in and out of the classroom. Through networked VR, Social VR platforms can provide shared virtual environments for social interaction… More »
Reviewing use of collaboration and video conferencing software on the Timaru campus of Ara: Mergers, amalgamations – Te Pukenga, Covid19, and changing nature of the workplace have led to a high number of options of different types of software for collaboration, video conferencing, enterprise communication and document sharing being provided and used in educational organisations. Software is required to connect classes online across campuses,… More »
Mental Health Disorders among dementia people: How can Technology Support in their Well-being: Dementia is an important community issue in New Zealand with some 70,000 people living with the disorder, costing $4.6 billion in care annually (Meng-Lee 2021a). However, the true cost of informal support is not understood as sufferers are heavily reliant on support from their Whānau, friends, neighbours and voluntary community… More »
Co-Founder, Strategist, Researcher at OceanBrowser Ltd
Workshop: Gaining entry to real settings with Bridging Design Prototypes: The Bridging Design Prototype (BDP) approach aims to strengthen the activity of design in new product development undertaken by individual designers, software developers or small organisations with incomplete teams. A BDP is a rapid functional prototype built with features familiar to a user community and with novel features that a… More »
Complexity and Benefits: Benefits are often the hardest aspect of a business case to pin down. They include speculation, but how can you move from wishful thinking to evidence based without spending a lot on research? When an organisation has been operating for a while, its business systems become more complex. You know… More »
IT educators beyond COVID - one year on: At CITRENZ 2020 we described the experiences of teaching computing education during the Global Covid-19 pandemic. Tertiary IT educators shared their experiences and approaches through prepared narratives of their teaching experiences and responded to a set of prompts designed to elicit reflection on themes including drivers, opportunities and challenges. Three… More »
Tech as a health enabler: Technology has been helping people become healthier in many different ways. However, New Zealand has a major and growing health problem. We are the third most obese country in the world and our statistics for other health issues such as diabetes and cardio-vascular disease are worrying. New Zealand also has… More »
ICT Manager, Gallaway Cook Allan
IT War Stories: As IT professionals, we know our chosen area of expertise is an anomaly. In only a handful of decades, technology has become ingrained in all levels of organisational operations and strategy, with a rate of progression so rapid and unprecedented that we as practitioners often struggle to keep pace, let… More »
Founder & Lead Consultant, Greenwood Consulting
Does your retail B2C/B2B business still need an eCommerce website?: This talk is designed to challenge the current thinking about retail/digital transactional channels. While many retail businesses still don't even have a transactional website (or it's poorly executed), the rise of eCommerce marketplaces and social/contextual commerce are decreasing the emphasis on owned eCommerce properties and emphasising the need to become… More »
Senior Lecturer School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington
From fun-lovers to institutionalists: Uncovering the subcultures of kiwi IT workers: IT workers are often seen as sharing a set of values that unite the IT profession and set us apart from other kinds of workers. But how similar are we in reality? Based on a survey of 500 IT professionals we identify four very different groups amongst New Zealand IT… More »
CIO, Jade Software Corporation
Ethical principles in multi-modal application development: a BARJ case study: Bosch, Ara Institute of Canterbury, Regensburg University of Applied Sciences, and Jade Software (BARJ) are collaborating on investigating enhancing the user interfaces of products manufactured by Bosch. The plan is to answer four questions: 1. “Can we speed up the setting-up process by telling the appliance what we need and… More »
Ethical principles in multi-modal application development: a BARJ case study: Bosch, Ara Institute of Canterbury, Regensburg University of Applied Sciences, and Jade Software (BARJ) are collaborating on investigating enhancing the user interfaces of products manufactured by Bosch. The plan is to answer four questions: 1. “Can we speed up the setting-up process by telling the appliance what we need and… More »
MD, Ōtepoti Games
Panel: Dunedin as NZ’s gaming hub: Dunedin has a huge and unique opportunity to grow its reputation as a great gaming hub, with a strong community and excellent initiatives like the CODE – NZ’s Centre of Digital Excellence – based here. But how do we take this one step… More »
Community Director, Runaway Play
Panel: Dunedin as NZ’s gaming hub: Dunedin has a huge and unique opportunity to grow its reputation as a great gaming hub, with a strong community and excellent initiatives like the CODE – NZ’s Centre of Digital Excellence – based here. But how do we take this one step… More »
Founder and Principal Consultant, Double-O Consultants
High Performance from the ground up: What are the building blocks of high performance? Whether you’re building a high performance team or want to improve your own performance, there are some practical tools and approaches that will make a huge difference. In this talk, Principal Consultant Luke Johnstone will cover the building blocks of high performance… More »
High Performance from the ground up: What are the building blocks of high performance? Whether you’re building a high performance team or want to improve your own performance, there are some practical tools and approaches that will make a huge difference. In this talk, Principal Consultant Luke Johnstone will cover the building blocks of high performance… More »
High Performance from the ground up: What are the building blocks of high performance? Whether you’re building a high performance team or want to improve your own performance, there are some practical tools and approaches that will make a huge difference. In this talk, Principal Consultant Luke Johnstone will cover the building blocks of high performance… More »
Associate Director, Deloitte
Service Management: a panacea for uncertain times?: Business leaders are concerned by our increasingly volatile and uncertain world. Interestingly, IT departments have dealt with complex systems and estates for years with effective IT Service Management. However, do IT professionals really understand ‘why’ ITSM works? Is it just some collection of good practice built up over time, or… More »
From fun-lovers to institutionalists: Uncovering the subcultures of kiwi IT workers: IT workers are often seen as sharing a set of values that unite the IT profession and set us apart from other kinds of workers. But how similar are we in reality? Based on a survey of 500 IT professionals we identify four very different groups amongst New Zealand IT… More »
Decolonising Computing Education: If computing education is going to positively contribute to the future of New Zealand, it needs to come to terms with its responsibility in decolonisation. But there are poorly understood tensions between computing as a coloniser and computing as an enabler of change - and the same could be said… More »
Founder & Data Scientist, Lingo Search & AI
Handling Outliers Properly in Machine Learning via Probabilistic Programming: Outliers are, by definition, extreme events. They occur infrequently and can be anything from a mild nuisance right through to a catastrophic disruption. One thing nearly everyone agrees on, is that they are a problem in advanced analytics and machine learning. Outliers skew our data, can negatively affect the calculation… More »
CEO, IT Professionals NZ
Panel: Dunedin as NZ’s gaming hub: Dunedin has a huge and unique opportunity to grow its reputation as a great gaming hub, with a strong community and excellent initiatives like the CODE – NZ’s Centre of Digital Excellence – based here. But how do we take this one step… More »
Web Technologies Paper Presentations: 1.10 - Forming Team for Cybersecurity and Cyber-Forensics operations 1.40 - Power Supply Dynamics for Outdoor IoT Sensors Forming Teams for Cybersecurity and Cyber-Forensics operations using individual profiling Prashant Khanna with Chris Baker Cybersecurity is, by nature, an interdisciplinary topic at an individual level and multidisciplinary one at a team… More »
Founder, CIO Studio
Is the traditional consulting model broken?: The traditional fee-for-service consulting model has been in places for ever, but how well is this model working for the 21st century? Despite consulting being an essential resourcing model for many important digital projects, the model is rarely questioned. In this presentation, we challenge the existing assumptions about consulting, point… More »
Is the traditional consulting model broken?: The traditional fee-for-service consulting model has been in places for ever, but how well is this model working for the 21st century? Despite consulting being an essential resourcing model for many important digital projects, the model is rarely questioned. In this presentation, we challenge the existing assumptions about consulting, point… More »
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… More »
Is the traditional consulting model broken?: The traditional fee-for-service consulting model has been in places for ever, but how well is this model working for the 21st century? Despite consulting being an essential resourcing model for many important digital projects, the model is rarely questioned. In this presentation, we challenge the existing assumptions about consulting, point… More »
Is the traditional consulting model broken?: The traditional fee-for-service consulting model has been in places for ever, but how well is this model working for the 21st century? Despite consulting being an essential resourcing model for many important digital projects, the model is rarely questioned. In this presentation, we challenge the existing assumptions about consulting, point… More »
Is the traditional consulting model broken?: The traditional fee-for-service consulting model has been in places for ever, but how well is this model working for the 21st century? Despite consulting being an essential resourcing model for many important digital projects, the model is rarely questioned. In this presentation, we challenge the existing assumptions about consulting, point… More »
Managing Director, Two Hills Ltd
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… More »
Crossing the Streams: the nexus of ITIL, DevOps, and Agility: One of the great sticking points for DevOps in large organisations is finding a reconciliation between IT Service Management (usually ITIL �) and the DevOps community. The hot zone for conflicting world-views is usually between Continuous Delivery on the one hand, and Change and/or Release Management on the other. If… More »
Test Driven Development will make your database deployments hassle free: Test-Driven Development (TDD) has a proven track record in application development, but is less ingrained in database development work, despite data quality is increasingly critical in a data-driven economy. This mindset has changed with the arrival of test frameworks that use the SQL language, and that are available as plug-ins… More »
Head of Digital Delivery, Assurity Consulting
Transformation at scale: Harvesting the value of Customer centricity during change: With organisations around New Zealand increasingly recognising the imperative of digital transformation, principles underpinning success are becoming clearer. Through its work with multiple at-scale transformations, Assurity Consulting’s Russell Ewart shares what the company believes to be the biggest principle of all: Customer centricity. But putting the customer first is easier… More »
Transformation at scale: Harvesting the value of Customer centricity during change: With organisations around New Zealand increasingly recognising the imperative of digital transformation, principles underpinning success are becoming clearer. Through its work with multiple at-scale transformations, Assurity Consulting’s Russell Ewart shares what the company believes to be the biggest principle of all: Customer centricity. But putting the customer first is easier… More »
Transformation at scale: Harvesting the value of Customer centricity during change: With organisations around New Zealand increasingly recognising the imperative of digital transformation, principles underpinning success are becoming clearer. Through its work with multiple at-scale transformations, Assurity Consulting’s Russell Ewart shares what the company believes to be the biggest principle of all: Customer centricity. But putting the customer first is easier… More »
Founder, Balancing Monkey Games
Panel: Dunedin as NZ’s gaming hub: Dunedin has a huge and unique opportunity to grow its reputation as a great gaming hub, with a strong community and excellent initiatives like the CODE – NZ’s Centre of Digital Excellence – based here. But how do we take this one step… More »
Decolonising Computing Education: If computing education is going to positively contribute to the future of New Zealand, it needs to come to terms with its responsibility in decolonisation. But there are poorly understood tensions between computing as a coloniser and computing as an enabler of change - and the same could be said… More »
IT educators beyond COVID - one year on: At CITRENZ 2020 we described the experiences of teaching computing education during the Global Covid-19 pandemic. Tertiary IT educators shared their experiences and approaches through prepared narratives of their teaching experiences and responded to a set of prompts designed to elicit reflection on themes including drivers, opportunities and challenges. Three… More »
Data Analytics and Web Technologies Paper Presentations: 11.20 - Selection and Adoption of Tools for Analytics and Business Intelligence: An Exploratory Study 11.40 - A proof-of-concept study of a system for querying homomorphically encrypted educational data. 12.00 - Is Web Application Security Really Important to You? Selection and Adoption of Tools for Analytics and Business Intelligence: An… More »
IT Student, Whitecliffe
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… More »
Web Technologies Paper Presentations: 1.10 - Forming Team for Cybersecurity and Cyber-Forensics operations 1.40 - Power Supply Dynamics for Outdoor IoT Sensors Forming Teams for Cybersecurity and Cyber-Forensics operations using individual profiling Prashant Khanna with Chris Baker Cybersecurity is, by nature, an interdisciplinary topic at an individual level and multidisciplinary one at a team… More »
Virtual and Blended Learning in a post-Covid World: The emergence of Coronavirus and the subsequent national lockdown abruptly forced us out of the classroom and, for many, into the unchartered territory of the virtual classroom. Many students and educators were forced to very rapidly adapt to this strange new digital classroom. An examination of some of the literature… More »
Delivery Coach, Vodafone New Zealand
Unlocking Agility: Businesses today not only face increasing threat of competition and market disruption fuelled by advances of the digital age but also face the reality of large unexpected situations like pandemic. The ability to sense the need to change, innovate rapidly and adapt quickly has become pervasive more than ever. Business… More »
Unlocking Agility: Businesses today not only face increasing threat of competition and market disruption fuelled by advances of the digital age but also face the reality of large unexpected situations like pandemic. The ability to sense the need to change, innovate rapidly and adapt quickly has become pervasive more than ever. Business… More »
PhD student, Victoria University of Wellintgon
“MyAnalytics is here to help”: opportunities and challenges of intelligent personal assistants: Developments in artificial intelligence (AI) provide organisations and employees with opportunities to address challenges employees face in their daily working lives, such as managing email and meeting overload, juggling multiple roles, and dealing with disruptions and interruptions. AI technologies offer significant benefits to employees and organisations, including automating routine and… More »
Managing Director, Axenic
Why your next job might be remote and what new skills you need to succeed at it: The events of 2020 turned the corporate world upside down. For the first time in our generation, large parts of the developed world needed to adapt to the concept of fully remote working. This has turned the concept of the modern workplace on its head; even for seriously old-school organisations… More »
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… More »
Establishment Director, Centre for Digital Excellence
Panel: Dunedin as NZ’s gaming hub: Dunedin has a huge and unique opportunity to grow its reputation as a great gaming hub, with a strong community and excellent initiatives like the CODE – NZ’s Centre of Digital Excellence – based here. But how do we take this one step… More »
Founder, Smart Access
Smart Access and AI: Making the world more inclusive: How do we use AI to make the world a better place for disabled people? Smart Access collects data on 40 accessibility features identified through extensive consultation with the disabled community, including street furniture, traditional accessibility features for w/c users, tactile paving, overhead obstacles for those with low-vision, door type,… More »
Associate Professor, AUT
Workshop: Global Benchmarking and Visualising of ITP degree programs: Join this discussion and demonstration on global benchmarking and visualisation of ITP degree… More »
Data Analytics and Web Technologies Paper Presentations: 11.20 - Selection and Adoption of Tools for Analytics and Business Intelligence: An Exploratory Study 11.40 - A proof-of-concept study of a system for querying homomorphically encrypted educational data. 12.00 - Is Web Application Security Really Important to You? Selection and Adoption of Tools for Analytics and Business Intelligence: An… More »