We Are All About
Tech Innovation & Collaboration In The Heart Of The City-Salt District
Welcome To
Epic Innovation Christchurch
EPIC is comprised of a unique blend of entrepreneurs, collaborators and innovators. Whether you’re seeking a quiet spot to delve into your workload or hungry for engagement with the local tech community, we’ve got the space to suit your needs.
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What We Do
Tenancy
EPIC’s collaborative ecosystem is comprised of organisations whom between themselves host a wide variety of industry experience and unique skill sets. From enterprise e-commerce technologies, training and video games, to next generation web development, innovative hardware solutions and virtual realities.
Meeting Rooms
EPIC has a selection of well kitted-out meeting rooms of different size and structures depending on how many participants are joining you. Rooms can include displays, whiteboards and video conferencing technology so please advise us as to your requirements!
Host An Event
EPIC is well suited to accommodate all manner of events from full scale presentations to focus groups, workshops and board meetings. Our events space is kitted out with a centrally connected media system, 4 large TV screens, HD Projector and two high end wireless microphone systems.
What People Say
Latest News
How Kawatiri Westport’s innovation hub is balancing the old world with the new
It’s a region known for its breathtaking natural beauty and vilified primary industries. So where does Buller’s acclaimed innovation hub fit into it all? Michael Andrew went to find out. In May 2018, a Japanese businessman named Hiroki Koga stepped off a plane at Westport airport and blinked in the West Coast gloom. He’d left Tokyo three days…
Introducing E Tipu 2021
Following the success of 2019’s Boma NZ Grow summit, Boma New Zealand presents E Tipu 2021, the food and fibre event of the year. Set to be Aotearoa’s ultimate agricultural forum, E Tipu brings together leaders who understand the primary sector from top to bottom, including guest speakers, exhibitors, and like-minded attendees with a focus…
Orion Energy Accelerator competition calls for big ideas
The Ministry of Awesome and Canterbury electricity lines company, Orion, today launched a national competition calling for new ideas to reduce New Zealand’s carbon emissions. The Orion Energy Accelerator offers two Start-up Grants worth a combined $25,000 for people and start-up companies with ground-breaking energy innovations to be guided through a programme to validate and…
What became of the transitional project movement in Christchurch’s rebuild?
The transitional movement – Gap Filler, Greening the Rubble and so forth – made Christchurch globally famous. Will Harvie looks back at how it emerged. It’s hard to believe now that for a time the most famous building in Christchurch was made from 3000 blue shipping pallets, open to the sky. It lasted just 16…
Office Space to Lease
A rare opportunity to join the EPIC community has become available. We are currently open to enquiries from tech focussed teams and entrepreneurs to become part of our thriving business hub. EPIC is about growing tech businesses. A testament to our mission, one of our foundation tenants has seen steady growth in their team size…
Canterbury Innovators Post-Quake
After the earthquakes, Christchurch businesses were forced to take risks and work together to overcome shared challenges. That collaboration helped drive and fuel innovation in the city — something epitomised by the story of EPIC and its tenants. Inside the high-ceilinged, wooden Enterprise Precinct and Innovation Campus (EPIC) building are hundreds of people working…
New World and Ministry of Awesome have started the search for New Zealand’s food and beverage product superstars!
FoodStarter competition supersizes providing boost to supplier community in 2021 New World and Ministry of Awesome have started the search for New Zealand’s food and beverage product superstars, this year with an additional category for small suppliers and a supersized prize package which includes the priceless opportunity for the winners to range their products in…
Collaboration Partners
Bank Of New Zealand
We’ve been helping our customers make their goals a reality for over 150 years, and now we’re working with them to redesign banking for the future.
Duncan Cotterill
If an enterprising law firm is one you favour, let’s talk about how Duncan Cotterill’s full service offering across Auckland, Wellington, Nelson and Christchurch can work for you.
Ministry of Awesome
Ministry of Awesome is the starting point for entrepreneurs, startups, and innovators in Christchurch. We deliver the support, guidance, capability training, and networks that entrepreneurs need to succeed.
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