Events Calendar
IT Events in Palmerston North and the wider Manawatū. We aggregate a number of calendars: meetups, local ITP events, NZTech, and other tech related events we hear about from time to time.
Upcoming Events
September 2021
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 AWS re:Cruit 2021 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 Testers Breakfast | 22 | 23 Smaller Faster | 24 | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
October 2021
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 Paula Richardson: Care and Feeding of Interns Paula Richardson: Care and Feeding of Interns | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 Testers Breakfast | 20 | 21 Girl Powered Workshop | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 AWS Machine Learning: Let's get personal | 29 | 30 |
| 31 |
November 2021
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 Robyn Young: Developing and Retaining staff Breakfast at Hope Cafe | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 | 16 Testers Breakfast | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 Monthly Software Meetup | 26 | 27 |
| 28 | 29 | 30 |
December 2021
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 Breakfast at Hope Cafe | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 Testers Breakfast | 22 | 23 Monthly Software Meetup | 24 | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
AWS re:Cruit 2021
14 Sep 2021, Tuesday 12:00 PM
Learn more about careers in the cloud with AWS: keynote speakers, conversations recruiters, see how companies are using AWS tools
Testers Breakfast
Palmerston North Software Testers
21 Sep 2021, Tuesday 7:30 AM. RSVP
Cafe Express, 41 The Square, Palmerston North
Last year went by so quick, and with all the disruption and a lot of us having new ways to work. Let see if we can start this year afresh with a good turnout and get a consistent ball rolling on talking all things testing. Come and meet your peers and other professionals working in this area within the city. Come, have breakfast, and some good conversations.
Smaller Faster
Palmerston North Software Developers
23 Sep 2021, Thursday 5:30 PM. RSVP
Objective Corporation - Palmerston North Office, 17 - 23 Victoria Avenue, Palmerston North
Aaron: getting big software to work on small microcontrollersSteve: avoiding web framework and infrastructure bloatJonathon: compiling Java to machine specific assembler Purnesh deferred to next month because of Auckland's lockdown
Paula Richardson: Care and Feeding of Interns
Manawatu Tech CEOs
14 Oct 2021, Thursday 7:30 AM. RSVP
Hope Kitchen Cafe, 156 The Square, Palmerston North
You came last month and heard Peter speak about finding and funding interns / graduates. This month, have a conversation with Paula from UCOL around how to look after interns / grads: what to expect from them, what they need to succeed, options for ongoing support for you (as manager / owner). Hope Cafe asked if you could pre-order your breakfast https://www.hopevineyard.nz/cafe/ so they can prepare ahead
Paula Richardson: Care and Feeding of Interns
Palmerston North Senior IT / ITP
14 Oct 2021, Thursday 7:30 AM. RSVP
156 The Square, Palmerston North
You came last month and heard Peter speak about finding and funding interns / graduates. This month, have a conversation with Paula from UCOL around how to look after interns / grads: what to expect from them, what they need to succeed, options for ongoing support for you (as manager / owner). Hope Cafe asked if you could pre-order your breakfast https://www.hopevineyard.nz/cafe/ so they can prepare ahead
Testers Breakfast
Palmerston North Software Testers
19 Oct 2021, Tuesday 7:30 AM. RSVP
Cafe Express, 41 The Square, Palmerston North
Last year went by so quick, and with all the disruption and a lot of us having new ways to work. Let see if we can start this year afresh with a good turnout and get a consistent ball rolling on talking all things testing. Come and meet your peers and other professionals working in this area within the city. Come, have breakfast, and some good conversations.
Girl Powered Workshop
21 Oct 2021, Thursday 12:00 AM
Open Wool Rooms, Massey University
An all day event to encourage high school girls into STEM jobs. It has run for the past 3 years
AWS Machine Learning: Let's get personal
Palmerston North Software Developers
28 Oct 2021, Thursday 5:30 PM. RSVP
Objective Corporation - Palmerston North Office, 17 - 23 Victoria Avenue, Palmerston North
In this session we'll talk about how can you implement powerful personalization for your customers without having to learn machine learning. In the second half of the session we'll look into customizing the technology to make it applicable for your specific use cases followed by a QnA session where we'll have an AMA for attendees. Purnesh Tripathi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/purneshtripathi) is a Data Scientist at AWS, coming to Palmy specially for us. If you'd like to meet with him before, please contact him via LinkedIn. He is also keen for beer after, so you can ask him all the questions there weren't time for during the meetup.
Robyn Young: Developing and Retaining staff
Manawatu Tech CEOs
11 Nov 2021, Thursday 7:30 AM. RSVP
Hope Kitchen Cafe, 156 The Square, Palmerston North
Robyn Young (of Robyn Young HR) will join us for breakfast to answer your questions on developing and retaining staff. This is in context of the previous two meetups: finding and funding interns; care and feeding of interns; then hopefully keeping and developing your interns into the kind of people that are really hard to at the moment. Hope Cafe asked if you could pre-order your breakfast https://www.hopevineyard.nz/cafe/ so they can prepare ahead
Breakfast at Hope Cafe
Palmerston North Senior IT / ITP
11 Nov 2021, Thursday 7:30 AM. RSVP
156 The Square, Palmerston North
Regular meetup breakfast.Hope Cafe asked if you could pre-order your breakfast https://www.hopevineyard.nz/cafe/ so they can prepare ahead
Testers Breakfast
Palmerston North Software Testers
16 Nov 2021, Tuesday 7:30 AM. RSVP
Cafe Express, 41 The Square, Palmerston North
Last year went by so quick, and with all the disruption and a lot of us having new ways to work. Let see if we can start this year afresh with a good turnout and get a consistent ball rolling on talking all things testing. Come and meet your peers and other professionals working in this area within the city. Come, have breakfast, and some good conversations.
Monthly Software Meetup
Palmerston North Software Developers
25 Nov 2021, Thursday 5:30 PM. RSVP
Objective Corporation - Palmerston North Office, 17 - 23 Victoria Avenue, Palmerston North
More information coming soon
Breakfast at Hope Cafe
Palmerston North Senior IT / ITP
9 Dec 2021, Thursday 7:30 AM. RSVP
156 The Square, Palmerston North
Regular meetup breakfast.Hope Cafe asked if you could pre-order your breakfast https://www.hopevineyard.nz/cafe/ so they can prepare ahead
Testers Breakfast
Palmerston North Software Testers
21 Dec 2021, Tuesday 7:30 AM. RSVP
Cafe Express, 41 The Square, Palmerston North
Last year went by so quick, and with all the disruption and a lot of us having new ways to work. Let see if we can start this year afresh with a good turnout and get a consistent ball rolling on talking all things testing. Come and meet your peers and other professionals working in this area within the city. Come, have breakfast, and some good conversations.
Monthly Software Meetup
Palmerston North Software Developers
23 Dec 2021, Thursday 5:30 PM. RSVP
Objective Corporation - Palmerston North Office, 17 - 23 Victoria Avenue, Palmerston North
More information coming soon
Breakfast at Hope Cafe
Palmerston North Senior IT / ITP
13 Jan 2022, Thursday 7:30 AM. RSVP
156 The Square, Palmerston North
Regular meetup breakfast.Hope Cafe asked if you could pre-order your breakfast https://www.hopevineyard.nz/cafe/ so they can prepare ahead
Testers Breakfast
Palmerston North Software Testers
18 Jan 2022, Tuesday 7:30 AM. RSVP
Cafe Express, 41 The Square, Palmerston North
Last year went by so quick, and with all the disruption and a lot of us having new ways to work. Let see if we can start this year afresh with a good turnout and get a consistent ball rolling on talking all things testing. Come and meet your peers and other professionals working in this area within the city. Come, have breakfast, and some good conversations.
Monthly Software Meetup
Palmerston North Software Developers
27 Jan 2022, Thursday 5:30 PM. RSVP
Objective Corporation - Palmerston North Office, 17 - 23 Victoria Avenue, Palmerston North
More information coming soon
Breakfast at Hope Cafe
Palmerston North Senior IT / ITP
10 Feb 2022, Thursday 7:30 AM. RSVP
156 The Square, Palmerston North
Regular meetup breakfast.Hope Cafe asked if you could pre-order your breakfast https://www.hopevineyard.nz/cafe/ so they can prepare ahead
Testers Breakfast
Palmerston North Software Testers
15 Feb 2022, Tuesday 7:30 AM. RSVP
Cafe Express, 41 The Square, Palmerston North
Last year went by so quick, and with all the disruption and a lot of us having new ways to work. Let see if we can start this year afresh with a good turnout and get a consistent ball rolling on talking all things testing. Come and meet your peers and other professionals working in this area within the city. Come, have breakfast, and some good conversations.
Monthly Software Meetup
Palmerston North Software Developers
24 Feb 2022, Thursday 5:30 PM. RSVP
Objective Corporation - Palmerston North Office, 17 - 23 Victoria Avenue, Palmerston North
More information coming soon
Breakfast at Hope Cafe
Palmerston North Senior IT / ITP
10 Mar 2022, Thursday 7:30 AM. RSVP
156 The Square, Palmerston North
Regular meetup breakfast.Hope Cafe asked if you could pre-order your breakfast https://www.hopevineyard.nz/cafe/ so they can prepare ahead
Testers Breakfast
Palmerston North Software Testers
15 Mar 2022, Tuesday 7:30 AM. RSVP
Cafe Express, 41 The Square, Palmerston North
Last year went by so quick, and with all the disruption and a lot of us having new ways to work. Let see if we can start this year afresh with a good turnout and get a consistent ball rolling on talking all things testing. Come and meet your peers and other professionals working in this area within the city. Come, have breakfast, and some good conversations.
Monthly Software Meetup
Palmerston North Software Developers
24 Mar 2022, Thursday 5:30 PM. RSVP
Objective Corporation - Palmerston North Office, 17 - 23 Victoria Avenue, Palmerston North
More information coming soon