NZ Tech Rally 2026
We received 110 talk proposals for NZ Tech Rally 2026. Our talk selection committee meticulously selected final 23 talks.
405 people from across 100 organisations attended NZ Tech Rally 2026 this year in Wellington. We also hosted 10 exhibitors.
Check out our highlights reel to catch a glimpse of the day.
Our photo album and talk recordings are also now available.
TĀKINA, 50 Cable Street, Wellington Central, New Zealand
Friday, 15 May 2026
3 keynotes and 20 talks across 5 dedicated tracks
Engineering & Platforms
Product, Design & UX
Testing & Quality
AI, Data & Ethics
Community, Culture & Wellbeing
Keynotes
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Norie Ape
Program Manager @ EROAD
Cognitive diversity in the age of AI: Building teams that out-innovate with a Pasifika lens
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Lauren Peate
Founder & CEO @ Multitudes
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Maia Miller
Managing Director @ Aleph Accessibility
The accessibility features of today are the breakthroughs of tomorrow
Engineering & Platforms
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Barbara Gruber
Principal Engineer @ Wires Uncrossed
Manager, leader or engineer? It’s a pendulum and a continuum
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Chris Jia
Senior Full-Stack Engineer & Automation Expert
Taming chaos: Building a DevOps platform for a multi‑stack enterprise
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Feilong Wang
Principal Engineer @ Kiwibank
Building the golden path: Unified platforms management across Cloud, On-Premise, and SaaS
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Darshit Pandya
Senior Principal Engineer - Platform @ Serko
The API product playbook: Managing the full lifecycle for a world-class DevEx and Agent experience
Product, Design & UX
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Ramya Ravishankar
Lead UX/UI Designer @ Ministry of Education
Highchairs, toilet training and human-centered design: A parenting parallel to UX design
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Steve Barnett
Digital Accessibility Consultant @ Intopia
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Sneha Pulapaka
Senior Insights Analyst & Product owner
Invisible design: Making data governance work for regulated industries
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Oli Treadwell
Senior Software Engineer
AI, Data & Ethics
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Lora Vardarova
Lead Engineering Enablement Specialist @ Culture Amp
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Dipin Thomas
Lead Engineer @ Xero
AI agents in your Kubernetes cluster: Troubleshooting at scale, 24/7
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Ben Chapman
Lead Full Stack Developer @ UNICEF Aotearoa
Small voices, big stakes: How children's rights shape AI governance at UNICEF Aotearoa
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Tom Pieterse
Principal Trust Analyst @ Atlassian
Testing & Quality
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Surya Baskaran
Senior QA Consultant @ TTC Global
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Deep Pandey
Senior Consultant in AI @ Planit
Cracking the AI black box: Challenges and solutions in testing generative AI
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Peter Jakowetz
Managing Director @ PrivSec Consulting
Give an app to 5 different security testers, you'll get 5 different reports
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Allan Munar
Principal Consultant @ TTC Global
Supercharge your test automation with Playwright, MCP, and GitHub Copilot
Community, Culture & Wellbeing
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Greg Ng
Co-founder @ BA Career
You don’t need permission to lead: A grassroots community blueprint
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Tamara Buckland
Founder @ Leadership Treehouse
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Rachael Fitzjohn
People Director @ Emerging Engines
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Kelsey Hallahan
Educational Programme Manager & Digital Equity Champion @ Digital Future Aotearoa
Meet our 2026 crew
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Camy Bhandari
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Aaron Hodder
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Rachel Collingridge
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Altiéris Peixoto
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Aleisha Amohia
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Siena Brody-Heine
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Prae Songprasit
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Stuart Whitehead
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Kunal Srivastav
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Karen Geerts
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Sana Vishkanta