Inclusive spaces for Aotearoa's tech practitioners to connect, grow, and celebrate together.

NZ Tech Rally is a grassroots community run by tech practitioners, for tech practitioners: engineers, developers, QAs, product folks, and tech leaders from across Aotearoa New Zealand.

We run in-person monthly meetups, workshops and an annual tech conference, right here in Wellington, that your whole engineering team can attend together.

In May 2026, more than 400 people from over 100 organisations joined us in Wellington, to hear from our 23 local speakers. Watch our 2026 highlights reel to see what the day looked like.

We are now getting ready for NZ Tech Rally 2027. Call for sponsors and ticket sales are open. We received 162 talk proposals for our 2027 conference and our speaker lineup will be finalised by late October 2026.

3 Keynotes & 20 Speakers across 5 tracks:

AI, Data & Ethics
Testing & Quality
Product, Design & UX
Engineering & Platforms
Community, Culture & Wellbeing

Friday, 7th May 2027 @ Tākina, Wellington Central, NZ

Call for Speakers is now closed. We’ve received 162 talk proposals – Ngā mihi nui/thank you so much!

Our talk selection committee is currently selecting our final 23 speakers for NZ Tech Rally 2027.

Meet our 2027 speakers

Keynote

Elise Wei

Software engineer, educator & team leader
Software has a human interface
Ramya Ravishankar

Lead UX/UI Designer @ Ministry of Education NZ
A journey to the core of human-centred design
Khushi Chauhan

Technical Product Owner @ NZ Police
Leading beyond the product: Creating pathways, leading communities, shaping technology culture at NZ Police.

Engineering & Platforms

Zanda Zvidrina

I debugged software better than my life
Francis Ho

Scope down to scale up- Lessons from agentic AI adoption
Alix Klingenberg

Refactoring everything everywhere all at once: Safety A/B testing in single-tenant SaaS
Jakub Jurkiewicz

What I got wrong about executives

Product, Design & UX

Jamie Dawson

Product Lead @ Basis
10,000 data points a second, and nobody cared
Sailendhran Paramanandhan

Three startups, no code
Emma Buckland

Mobile UX Lead Designer
The hidden risk in mobile UX
TBC

Testing & Quality

Gabriel Lantin

DIY QA : How to craft your own QA Toolkit
Siobhan Cotter

Testing is not a phase: Building quality into a transformation programme
TBC
TBC

AI, Data & Ethics

David Curlewis

Lines of code got a better publicist
Maria McMillan

Why AI won’t fix your broken IA
Chris Cormack

He ao anō tēnei / A different world
Indira Bandari

The ethics review nobody wanted to attend

Community, Culture & Wellbeing

Vivian Chandra

Beyond the algorithm: Designing technology for trust, safety, and connection
Thalia Kehoe Rowden

Do human rights exist online?
Bianca Grizhar

Detangling ourselves from big tech
Luca Zampese

Health tech needs a reset