Global Game Jam® – Christchurch 2019 January 25 @ 8:00 AM – January 27 @ 5:00 PM
The Global Game Jam® (GGJ) is the world’s largest game jam event (game creation) taking place around the world at physical locations. Think of it as a hackathon focused on game…
Startup Breakfast Club: Financial Health
Ministry of Awesome’s Startup 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…
What lies inside Rocket Lab’s secret US military contracts?
Author Ollie Neas | Guest writer- The Spinoff Rocket Lab is a celebrated New Zealand success story, with a stated mission to open access to space and improve life on Earth. Yet…
Winners of Future City Activators Hackathon Secure Funding from Christchurch City Council
Wai Watch were the winners of our recent Future City Activator hackathon with their solution to curb Christchurch’s extraordinarily high residential water usage. After many months of working closely with Christchurch City…
AWS Startup Day coming soon!
DATE AND TIME Wed 12 December 2018 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM LOCATION Ministry of Awesome, Kahukura Building, Ara Institute Campus, Madras Street, Christchurch 8011 View Map Come and learn…
Astrolab launches $20million runway for tech startups
Astrolab is making a special appearance at Coffee and Jam on Tuesday, 4 December to announce their new startup high-tech fund to Christchurch and Canterbury innovators. If this sounds like…
The new Christchurch style: Old boys out, entrepreneurs in
The earthquakes have changed the culture in genteel Christchurch. Now it’s more about how you can contribute than who you went to school with, writes Steven Moe. I grew up…
Working together to apply AI for social good
Google.org is issuing an open call to organizations around the world to submit their ideas for how they could use AI to help address societal challenges. Selected organizations will receive…
Practical Tools for Active Startups – Intensive Online Marketing Workshop
DATE AND TIME Fri 23 November 2018, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM LOCATION GreenHouse, 146a Lichfield Street, Christchurch, Canterbury 8011 As a follow-up to our recent Practical Tools for Active Startups – Online…
Launch Club: Success metrics, legal foundations and next steps Workshop
Launch Club is Ministry of Awesome‘s Startup Activation programme tailored for early-stage entrepreneurs who want to spend focused time developing their venture and defining their pathway to success. The programme…
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…