Convince your manager email template
A handy email template highlighting how attending NZ Tech Rally 2027 can benefit your career and your employer.
Subject: Request for approval and budget to attend NZ Tech Rally 2027
Dear [Manager/Approver],
I would like to request for your approval and financial assistance to attend NZ Tech Rally 2027 in-person.
Date: Friday, 7th May 2027
Time: 8.00am to 7.00pm
Venue: TÄ€KINA, 50 Cable Street, Wellington, NZ
NZ Tech Rally is one of the few truly inclusive, multi-disciplinary, multi-track tech conferences in Aotearoa. It places a strong emphasis on diverse local voices, with more than 90% speakers coming from New Zealand-based companies. It’s a rare chance for our whole software team — across Product, Engineering, and Management to attend and learn together.
The event is focused on uplifting and showcasing the talent within the Aotearoa software community. All talks are grounded in real-world experiences from New Zealand teams, making the lessons directly relevant to how we work.
Why this year’s content will be great for our company
NZ Tech Rally 2027 conference features 3 keynote talks and 20 talks across five dedicated tracks:
Engineering & Platforms
Product, Design & UX
Software Testing & Quality
AI, Data & Ethics
Community, Culture & Wellbeing
The programme focuses on real-world challenges and practical work. As all speakers are from Aotearoa, it makes the event highly relevant for me, as we face many of the same problems in our own work.
Attending will be a good chance to:
Keep up with current trends, tools and practices in our local software industry.
Learn from a wide range of roles outside my own area.
Bring back ideas and insights we can apply within our organisation.
Connect with peers from across Aotearoa and understand how they are solving similar challenges.
NZ Tech Rally conferences also support direct at-event professional growth via free CV clinics, mentor–mentee speed matching sessions and professional LinkedIn headshots, etc.
How this will develop my career
I would love an opportunity to grow in our company. I believe this conference will:
Allow me to mentor and be mentored by others via career building activities during breaks.
Expose me to diverse software and career approaches by experts working in different parts of software lifecycle, at different seniority.
Let me interact with and learn from other software professionals, who care about growing sustainably together, through career coaching activities.
Give me an opportunity to validate my progress and lessons learnt while working at our company.
Conference cost
The fee covers registration, access to the full-day conference, all meals, and the post-event networking mixer. $200 early bird tickets are on sale now. Tickets pricing and link.
Travel & accommodation cost (optional)
In order to attend the conference, I will need to travel to Wellington. To ensure that I’ll be able to absorb as much knowledge and experience as I could, I’d also need accommodation before and after.
$200 return flights
$300 accommodation close to venue
I see this as a valuable investment in both my professional growth and our team’s capability. I’m excited about the opportunity to attend and would be happy to share key takeaways, practical insights, and logistics with you and the wider team. I can run a 30‑minute lunch‑and‑learn or prepare a short slide deck to highlight what I’ve learned. Thanks for considering this and happy to discuss further in-person.
I really appreciate your time considering my request.
Yours sincerely,