Tech Week Hub at EPIC Centre hosted by Canterbury Tech
Canterbury Tech hosts a week of awesome speakers and workshops on all things technology at the Tech Week Hub at EPIC centre on Manchester Street, Central Christchurch. Each day we…
Digital Confectioners receives Tencent investment
Games studio Digital Confectioners has received an investment from conglomerate Tencent. Founded in 2007 and based out of New Zealand, the company has developed titles such as Dread Hunger, Last…
Concentrate selected to join HubSpot’s prestigious elite partner program
Kiwi business selected to join HubSpot’s prestigious elite partner program, a leading CRM platform for scaling companies Christchurch-based Digital Sales and Marketing Agency, Concentrate, has been appointed a HubSpot Elite…
Canterbury’s first Regional Workforce Plan at EPIC
First Canterbury workforce plan aims for collective change The Canterbury Regional Skills Leadership Group (RSLG) launched Canterbury’s first Regional Workforce Plan in Christchurch at Enterprise Precinct and Innovation Campus…
AmCham awards
Entries are now open for the 2022 AmCham awards! They are looking for entries in the following categories: Best Emerging Exporter of the Year to the USA High Growth Exporter…
Electrify Aotearoa
Calling all aspiring and early-stage startup founders to register! The Ministry of Awesome together with Blackbird Ventures is hosting an in-person women founders conference on 26 May 2022. NZ’s fastest-growing…
Onside named as a finalist in the 2022 NZ Hi-Tech Awards
EPIC Innovation are thrilled to advise that one of our tenants Onside has been named as a finalist in the 2022 NZ Hi-Tech Awards for the Punakaiki Fund Hi-Tech Startup…
E Tipu 2022: The Boma Agri Summit
E Tipu 2022: The Boma Agri Summit is set to catalyse the future of Aotearoa’s primary industries. Set for 21-22 June in Ōtautahi Christchurch, E Tipu 2022 features two days…
UPCOMING EVENT – EPIC Director Wil McLellan coaches the Energy Academy through what it means to be a rebel where it counts
When: Thursday 27th January 2022, 4-4.30pm NZT Where: Zoom Hosted by Energy Academy Tune in to hear from EPIC Director Wil McLellan on his experience taking risks to bring big…
EPIC sponsors the 2021 Special Childrens Christmas Party
Epic is proud to sponsor the 2021 Special Children Christmas Party. The Christmas parties are for special children who live with life threatening illness, physical or intellectual impairment, domestic violence,…
Electrify Aotearoa
Spearheaded by Ministry of Awesome and Blackbird Ventures, this all-day conference is the rallying call for Aotearoa’s founders, aspiring entrepreneurs and early-stage startups to take part and celebrate our homegrown…
Kea Connect – How to guide
Welcome to Kea Connect. This guide will help you understand how the Kea Connect process works, and what this free service can do for your business. Is Kea Connect…
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….
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…
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…
Seeds Podcast Reaches 200th Episode
Almost 3 years ago in September of 2017, Michelle Sharp, CEO of Kilmarnock Enterprises, was the first interviewee on a locally produced podcast that has since gained over 75,000 listeners….
HealthTech Supernode Challenge
We’re less than 2 weeks away from the application closing date for the HealthTech Supernode Challenge! The Challenge is looking for New Zealand’s most innovative healthtech solutions, whether you’re…
Survivor City: How space flights could reinvigorate the Christchurch economy
Future strategist and business consultant Roger Dennis welcomes the supernodes. “There’s little point in trying to spin up something entirely new in a crisis, it’s much more logical to look…
Additional funding available for business advice and support
Information from ChristchurchNZ More Canterbury businesses will be able to access specialist support following the government’s announcement of an additional $40 million in advisory funding. Read the full article and…
Challenge aims to position Christchurch as NZ’s centre of health innovation
PRESS RELEASE EMBARGOED UNTIL MONDAY, 29 JUNE 2020 Ōtautahi Christchurch aims to become the home of health tech innovation in New Zealand with the HealthTech Supernode Challenge, opening Monday 29…
The Garden City battled back after a series of massive localised disasters. Now NZ faces a national one.
Extract from article published by Stuff on 13/06/2020. “One that comes to mind is a somewhat infamous meeting that the then minister Stephen Joyce gate-crashed back in 2012. Christchurch’s Central…
Grow Ō Tautahi Christchurch Garden Festival – Garden Festival dates set for 2021
Grow Ō Tautahi, Christchurch’s very own Garden Festival, will return in 2021 – with dates locked-in for the free, three-day festival celebrating gardening, homegrown food, sustainability and education. Organisers confirmed…
Starlifter.Dev Show featuring Jamie from Meta Digital
“EPIC Innovation features in the latest episode of the Starlifter.Dev Show! Benet Hitchcock chats with Jamie Hamilton, Creative Director at Meta Digital about making CD-ROMs, what’s changed in the Christchurch…
Grow Ō Tautahi with Christchurch!
There’s something for everyone at Christchurch’s FREE, three day garden festival – Grow Ō Tautahi. Celebrity chefs, how-to workshops, garden exhibits, science and sustainability talks, a kids’ zone, plants, flowers,…
Trade Me New Zealand Innovator of the Year Award
The Award recognises inspiring Kiwis whose game-changing discoveries, research or inventions are driving our country forward. The three finalists for the first Trade Me New Zealand Innovator of the Year…
Seven simple tips to keep hackers at bay
source NZ Herald 13/2/20 Seven easy ways to keep safer online: 1. Use a different password for every service. 2. If you have trouble remembering dozens of different logons,…
Rocket Lab chosen by NASA to launch Pathfinder Mission to the Moon
source NZ Herald 15/2/20 Rocket Lab has been selected by NASA as the provider for a small satellite mission to the same lunar orbit targeted for Gateway. Gateway is an…
Salt District presents The SALTY Buskers Club
READY YOUR LAUGH-HOLE cos stuff just got way more buskery, frens! Mark 20-23 Feb in your everythings for Salty Buskers Club – an exciting day & night SALT District…
Grow Ō Tautahi Christchurch Garden Festival
Quirky science will help broach tough issues at Grow Ō Tautahi- March 20-22-FREE ENTRY-Christchurch Botanic Gardens “Ever wanted to know if a cow is smiling? Or how you can make…