Startup Breakfast Club: Jumpstart Your Startup in 2019
The Breakfast Club is your monthly morning caffeine hit where you’ll find valuable social networks, gain business insight, and find the critical support to power your venture forward. As…
Tech Activator Sessions #37
Ministry of Awesome’s Tech Activator Sessions are made up of 20-minute mentoring sessions where tech entrepreneurs of all sizes and stages talk through their tech startup, venture or idea and get…
Brother-sister duo build crypto investment platform
Source bizEDGE Sara Barker A brother and sister team is behind one of New Zealand’s newest cryptocurrency exchange platforms designed for everyday investors. Alan and Janine Grainger, who are seasoned…
Get ready for the biggest tax changes in a generation
Source bizEDGE Sara Barker The biggest tax changes in a generation are coming, and they will affect almost every business household and business across the country. Inland Revenue is about…
The social enterprise sector comes of age
From businesses doing good to charities running businesses and everything in between, social enterprise as an industry is growing up and holding its first national conference. In 1942 the…
Innovation Ecosystem Breakfast – 2 November 7-9 am
The 2nd annual Christchurch and Canterbury Innovation Ecosystem Breakfast is now scheduled for 2 November, 7-9AM, at MoA’s new location in the Kahukura Building off Moorhouse Ave. Please make sure…
Connect with Unreal Engine on Sunday 21st October in New Zealand
Following up on recent stops in Melbourne and Adelaide, Epic Games is excited to announce that developers in both New Zealand and Australia can connect with us next week during…
SLI-Systems celebrates with a “carnival”
Yesterday the staff held a carnival. A gazebo was erected and festooned with lights, stuffed animals and confectionery galore. If you had a sweet tooth it was your dream come…
Remote working: The ticket to happier and healthier employees?
Businesses that allow employees to work remotely also reap the benefits of increased employee productivity, happiness and health, according to a new survey commissioned by LogMeIn. It found that many…
Cyber criminals using lookalike online shopping domains to phish buyers
Machine identity protection provider Venafi has released research on the explosion of lookalike domains, which are routinely used to steal sensitive data from online shoppers. Venafi’s research analysed suspicious domains targeting…
NZTech’s Graeme Muller on the R&D tax incentive
NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller has stated that the new research and development tax incentive introduced today by the government will ‘go a long way to helping inject even…
Launch Club: Startup Activation Programme
Commencing 25 October Dates/Time and Where Thu, 25/10/2018, 5:30 PM – Thu, 29/11/2018, 7:30 PM – Where? Kahukara Building, Ara Institute of Canterbury, Moorhouse Avenue, Christchurch Launch Club is Ministry of Awesome’s Startup Activation programme…
Christchurch Antarctic Ignite talk – by ‘Changemakers’
If you love everything Antarctica you’ll love our launch event for Antarctic Season Opening: THE CHRISTCHURCH ANTARCTIC IGNITE TALK by ‘Changemakers’ DATE AND TIME Thu. 27 September 2018 at 7:00…
Start-up key issues (includes structures for social enterprises, governance, key documents and other common questions…) in Podcasts
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/podcast/seeds/id1281908185?mt=2&i=1000419480861 Seeds is a Christchurch podcast telling good stories with dozens of interviews featuring entrepreneurs, start-ups, tech leaders, academics, social enterprises and charities on their journeys, what they…
Ministry of Awesome – This week’s Startup Breakfast Club-
Friday 21 September- 7.00am Ministry of Awesome’s STARTUP BREAKFAST CLUB powered by MYOB is your monthly morning caffeine hit where you will find valuable social networks, gain business insight, and find the…
Makeover of 2 Meeting Rooms at EPIC
We have had a makeover on two of our meeting rooms known as Room C and Room D, and now known as Room C (Lazoplod) and Room D (Colonel Jack)…
Tickets for TEDxYouth@AvonRiver 2018 go on sale tonight at 7pm!
Like TEDxChristchurch, TEDxYouth@AvonRiver is independently organised and produced by volunteers; however, these volunteers are youth, producing an event specifically for youth. If you missed out on TEDxChristchurch…
The search for New Zealand’s most innovative and promising food and beverage start-up is underway.
Does your new food or beverage product have what it takes to fly off supermarket shelves? If the answer is “YES!” – then this is the competition that will change…
Kiwi kids and parents work together to create a safer internet
hough parents may sometimes feel the internet is a dangerous and unknown place for their children, the reality is that the Internet is an integral part of New Zealand kids’…
Artificial intelligence: Marketing’s new best friend?
SARA BARKERSEPTEMBER 07, 2018 Could artificial intelligence (AI) be marketing’s new best friend? According to sentiment at this week’s AIMCON event in Auckland, AI could bring enormous value to…
Technology workshops at 3 Christchurch Schools!
I LOVE Christchurch! Just ran Technology workshops at 3 Christchurch Schools! Received this incredible email from the Principal of Diamond Harbour: “The session was very different to what some…
Immigration changes bring welcome booster to NZ’s regional businesses
SARA BARKERAUGUST 29, 2018 (bizEdge NZ) Recent changes to immigration settings for international students mean there are now many more opportunities for New Zealand businesses to reach for the…
One & Done – Community101
Come and network with the community101 members. Finish the week on a fun and positive note with your colleagues. This event is held every Friday fortnightly, (next event 31 August)…
Christchurch: The city & its graduates undergoing tech transformation
SARA BARKERAUGUST 20, 2018 Source bizEDGE NZ If there’s one city in New Zealand that has been in a constant state of transformation, Christchurch stands out – and it’s…
How open source is driving innovation in A/NZ
JACQUES-PIERRE DUMASAUGUST 21, 2018 Source bizEDGE NZ Recently IT Brief had the opportunity to talk to GitHub executive Paul St John about their acquisition by Microsoft, A/NZ expansion plans and…
Legal Mashup is back!
Hosted By Parry Field Lawyers Sep 04, 2018 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Exchange Christchurch – XCHC, 376 Wilsons Road North, Christchurch, New Zealand, 8011 RSVP TO stevenmoe@parryfield.com The…
Christchurch’s Ara Institute is about to get ‘awesome’
The Ministry of Awesome and Ara Institute of Canterbury are combining their powers to launch a joint innovation hub in Christchurch. The hub will launch on October 15 and it…
Govt forms Small Business Council to drive SME growth
SARA BARKERAUGUST 14, 2018, bizEDGE NZ The government has announced the appointment of a Small Business Council that will make it easier for small businesses to connect with government,…
NZ and Aussie tech girls become superheroes in Silicon Valley
SARA BARKERAUGUST 14, 2018..Source bizEDGE NZ The next generation of New Zealand and Australian female entrepreneurs had the chance to pitch their apps to Silicon Valley’s top executives and engineers….
NZ/AU research to uncover how SMEs can harness the digital economy
SARA BARKERAUGUST 14, 2018 Source bizEDGE NZ The New Zealand Productivity Commission will work with its Australian counterpart on a new research project that will look at how both…