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…
West Coast tech firms and iwi get Provincial Growth Fund cash boost
The Government has pledged almost $2.2 million for pounamu and technology industries on the West Coast. Under Secretary for Regional Economic Development Fletcher Tabuteau made the funding announcement at Waitangi Day commemorations in Hokitika…
Brush Technology Develop Surflocker- a fully automated surfboard and wet suit hire
Brush Technology have been working with Aaron Lock (@SurfcoachNZ) to develop Surflocker – a fully automated surfboard and wetsuit hire kiosk. Comprising a web app booking and payment service with solar-powered embedded…
Startup Weekend Christchurch is back!
Startup Weekend Christchurch is back! Friday 22nd – Sunday 24th of May, 2020 at EPIC Calling all budding entrepreneurs! Come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, launch…
Robot start-up Radius Robotics seeks to solve world’s soil depletion
Farming by robot is no longer a fantasy, and it also could be a breakthrough for preserving our soil quality, a group of Kiwi entrepreneurs say. Christchurch’s Radius Robotics is…
Episode 8 with Lauren Peate (Multitudes)
Episode 8 with Lauren Peate (Multitudes) OUT NOW! This episode we wrap up our interviews from the Canterbury Tech Summit with Kris Herbert and Andy Poulsen chatting with Lauren Peate,…
Salt District Artwork for sale
Look who’s hanging out with Markus at Espresso245. This beauty (the one that isn’t Markus) is for sale. Want it? Course you do, you pirate. Three more stonking big…
Lunch Time Concerts at Little High
There will be a series of Friday Lunch Time Music in the Little High Courtyard 🎶 The Ara Music Arts students, SALT district neighbours, will be performing between 12-2pm 🎷 It’s the perfect…
What is SALT District?
We think the area around St Asaph, Lichfield and Tuam Streets is the best urban neighbourhood in Christchurch. We are a friendly, creative and well connected community in a gritty,…
SALT District brings home the silverware
From Left to Right: David Snyder (Town Team Movement), Ethan Kent (Project for Public Spaces, PlacemakingX), Mike Percasky (SALT Collective Charitable Trust), Charles Landry (Creative Cities Index). The team…
Lift off in Christchurch: city’s plan to be New Zealand’s aerospace testbed by 2025
Christchurch aims to be at the centre of New Zealand’s burgeoning aerospace sector by 2025, according to the city’s aerospace strategic plan. Read the sector plan here. Read the…