Schedule

8:00 am - 9:00 am: Registration

9:00 am - 9:15 am: Opening notes

Aaron Hodder - Co-founder @ NZ Tech Rally

9:15 am - 10:00 am: Keynote 1

Beyond short-term gains: future-proofing Aotearoa's talent pipeline
Ruth McDavitt - CEO @ Summer of Tech

10:00 am - 10:45 am: Keynote 2

From intention to inclusion: more than words on your website
Sachi Taulelei - Founder @ Humble

10:45 am - 11:30 am: Morning tea break & activities

• CV Clinic by Write
• Mentor-mentee speed matching by Summer of Tech
• $50 professional headshot by Profile Photos

11:30 am - 11:55 am: Multi-track talks

Room A: And then the robots came
Bron Thomson - Founder & Executive Director @ Springload Te Pipītanga

Room B: Building career resilience
Julia Bower - Co-Founder @ The Fractional Directory & Engineer @ Serko

Room C: Hold, fold or walk away: navigating burnout like The Gambler
Nav Rao - Product Engineer

12:00 pm - 12:25 pm: Multi-track talks

Room A: Transformation at scale: tactics and implementation for levelling up our deployment process
Mark Hrynczak - Head of Quality @ Canva

Room B: From developer to architect: the ultimate guide to mastering the transition
Ben Yu - Enterprise Architect @ Lotto New Zealand

Room C: Leveraging your team's identity
Patricia Tan & Rod Acevedo - Senior product desinger & Principal Product Designer @ RUSH Digital

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm: Lunch break & activities

• CV Clinic by Write
• Mentor-mentee speed matching by Summer of Tech
• $50 professional headshot by Profile Photos

1:30 pm - 1:55 pm: Multi-track talks

Room A: Radical Trust & Transparency: A Startup Case Study
Rowan Savage - Co-founder & CTO @ Runn.io

Room B: The silent struggle: overcoming imposter syndrome and finding my place in tech
Claire Sole - Engineering Lead @ Bank of New Zealand

Room C: From developing software to voiding warranties: a journey into hacking
Jim Rush - Senior Security Consultant @ PrivSec Consulting

2:00 pm - 2:25 pm: Multi-track talks

Room A: Accessibility through AI?
Maia Miller - Managing Director @ Aleph Accessibility

Room B: Email sucks! A story of solving an email deliverability problem
James Espie - Engineering Manager @ Fergus

Room C: How internal platform teams can help create resilient organisations
Edward Taylor - Product Person @ Kiwibank

2:30 pm - 3:15 pm: Afternoon tea break & activities

• CV Clinic by Write
• Mentor-mentee speed matching by Summer of Tech
• $50 professional headshot by Profile Photos

3:15 pm - 4:00 pm: Keynote 3

Nothing new under the sun; stability through change
Rachel Collingridge - Head of Engineering @ Totara

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm: Quiz and giveaways

4:30 pm - 4:45 pm: Closing notes

Camy Bhandari - Co-founder @ NZ Tech Rally

5:00 pm onwards: After socials