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Upcoming NZCS Events

ICT Professional Knowledge: Seminar 5 - Professional Behaviour

Auckland: 7 September 2010 (5:45 pm - 7:45 pm)
The ICT Professional Knowledge Series is a new weekly series of seminars run in partnership with the Auckland Campus of Whitireia Polytech, designed to improve the understanding of professional issues…
 

ICT Professional Knowledge: Seminar 6 - Risk Mitigation

Auckland: 14 September 2010 (5:45 pm - 7:45 pm)
The ICT Professional Knowledge Series is a new weekly series of seminars run in partnership with the Auckland Campus of Whitireia Polytech, designed to improve the understanding of professional issues…
 

NZCS 50th Anniversary Conference

Rotorua: 15 September 2010 (5:30 pm) - 18 September 2010 (5:00 pm)
Check out the speaker list at www. innovation. org. nz/speakers. A one-off event like no other. Looking at coming along? We would strongly recommend registering now rather than leaving it any later.  .…
 

NZCS Conference BarCamp

Rotorua: 18 September 2010 (9:00 am - 5:00 pm)
A BarCamp is a participant-driven conference, often known as an "unconference". This Barcamp will focus on what New Zealand can do to foster innovation and success on the international stage. As New Zealand…
 

ICT Professional Knowledge: Seminar 7 - Compliance Frameworks

Auckland: 21 September 2010 (5:45 pm - 7:45 pm)
The ICT Professional Knowledge Series is a new weekly series of seminars run in partnership with the Auckland Campus of Whitireia Polytech, designed to improve the understanding of professional issues…
 

ICT Professional Knowledge: Seminar 8 - Role of Business and IS Strategy

Auckland: 28 September 2010 (5:45 pm - 7:45 pm)
The ICT Professional Knowledge Series is a new weekly series of seminars run in partnership with the Auckland Campus of Whitireia Polytech, designed to improve the understanding of professional issues…
 

Biometrics and Surveillance: The End of Civilisation?

Wellington: 30 September 2010 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
In 1943 Ayn Rand wrote “Civilisation is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe.   Civilisation is the process of setting…
 

ICT Professional Knowledge: Seminar 9 - Quality of Advice

Auckland: 5 October 2010 (5:45 pm - 7:45 pm)
The ICT Professional Knowledge Series is a new weekly series of seminars run in partnership with the Auckland Campus of Whitireia Polytech, designed to improve the understanding of professional issues…
 

Previous NZCS Events

   

SaaS Tools for 21st Century Service Providers: A Case Study

Christchurch: 26 August 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Building the First Open Source High School in New Zealand

Wellington: 26 August 2010 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
     

Hacked: Teaching the Good Guys Bad Tricks

Auckland: 19 August 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Hacked: Teaching the Good Guys Bad Tricks

Hamilton: 19 August 2010 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
   

ICT Professional Knowledge: Seminar 3 - ICT-related Laws

Auckland: 17 August 2010 (5:45 pm - 7:45 pm)
 

Hacked: Teaching the Good Guys Bad Tricks

Wellington: 17 August 2010 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Hacked: Teaching the Good Guys Bad Tricks

Christchurch: 12 August 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

ICT Professional Knowledge: Seminar 2 - Information Risk Assessment

Auckland: 10 August 2010 (5:45 pm - 7:45 pm)
 

TPN Presents: How to Ask Better Questions As Testers

Wellington: 10 August 2010 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

ICT Professional Knowledge: Seminar 1 - Ethical Work Practice

Auckland: 3 August 2010 (5:45 pm - 7:45 pm)
 

Seminar: Introduction to Project Management

Christchurch: 29 July 2010 (1:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
 

IPv6 Is Coming - Is Your Organisation Ready?

Wellington: 29 July 2010 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

Seminar: Introduction to Project Management

Auckland: 27 July 2010 (1:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
 

Mid-Winter Dinner - With our CEO

Christchurch: 23 July 2010 (6:30 pm - 9:00 pm)
 

The Latest in Digital Forensics and e-Crime

Auckland: 22 July 2010 (5:45 pm - 7:15 pm)
 

The Latest in Digital Forensics and e-Crime

Hamilton: 22 July 2010 (12:30 pm - 2:00 pm)
 

ICTTop100 Lunch: Clever

Auckland: 21 July 2010 (12:15 pm - 1:45 pm)
 

The Latest in Digital Forensics and e-Crime

Wellington: 15 July 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

The Latest in Digital Forensics and e-Crime

Christchurch: 13 July 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

TPN: IAG's Agile Testing Strategy

Auckland: 13 July 2010 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

The Latest in Digital Forensics and e-Crime

Dunedin: 13 July 2010 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
   

ISSIG Quarterly Meeting: IPv6 - Coming Ready or Not!

Wellington: 6 July 2010 (3:15 pm - 5:15 pm)
 

Seminar: Introduction to Project Management

Wellington: 24 June 2010 (1:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
 

The IT side of Business Continuity

Wellington: 24 June 2010 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

TPN: Test Automation with Legacy Systems

Auckland: 23 June 2010 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

How Weather Forecasting Works

Christchurch: 22 June 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
   

Site Visit: Air New Zealand Corporate

Auckland: 16 June 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:30 pm)
 

Ethical Dilemmas - do they matter to IT professionals?

Wellington: 16 June 2010 (5:15 pm - 7:30 pm)
 

TPN: Cloud Computing: A Tool and a Task

Wellington: 15 June 2010 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

National Series: ICT in a Disaster Zone [Dunedin]

Dunedin: 15 June 2010 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

National Series: ICT in a Disaster Zone [Auckland]

Auckland: 10 June 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

National Series: ICT in a Disaster Zone [Wellington]

Wellington: 9 June 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

National Series: ICT in a Disaster Zone [Hamilton]

Hamilton: 9 June 2010 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

National Series: ICT in a Disaster Zone [Christchurch]

Christchurch: 8 June 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Panel: The more things change, the more they stay the same!

Wellington: 3 June 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:30 pm)
       

NZCS AI: What Is Knowledge Engineering?

Auckland: 20 May 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:30 pm)
 

TPN: James Bach - Does It Match The Spec? Why Do We Care?

Wellington: 20 May 2010 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

National Series: Transformational ICT through Open Data

Wellington: 18 May 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

National Series: Transformational ICT through Open Data

Hamilton: 18 May 2010 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

National Series: Transformational ICT through Open Data

Auckland: 13 May 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Successful Implementation of a Document Management System

Wellington: 13 May 2010 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

NZCS Nelson Presents: SQL Services - A Nelson success story

Nelson: 13 May 2010 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

National Series: Transformational ICT through Open Data

Christchurch: 11 May 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

National Series: Transformational ICT through Open Data

Dunedin: 11 May 2010 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

Major KiwiSkills Launch Event

Auckland: 6 May 2010 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

YITPG Presents: Engaging online with Social Media #yitpg

Auckland: 29 April 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:30 pm)
 

NZCS AI: How intelligent is Business Intelligence today?

Auckland: 28 April 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:30 pm)
 

The Cloud in 2010: After the hype!

Christchurch: 22 April 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Successful Implementation of a Document Management System

Napier: 22 April 2010 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

ICTTop100 Lunch: Technology in 2060

Auckland: 21 April 2010 (12:15 pm - 1:45 pm)
     

National Series: Developing for the iPhone: Innovation and Usability

Wellington: 14 April 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
   

TPN Presents: Testing is Asking Questions

Wellington: 13 April 2010 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

National Series: Developing for the iPhone: Innovation and Usability

Christchurch: 12 April 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

TPN: Microsoft's New Test Technologies

Auckland: 7 April 2010 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

WFIA: Cloud on the Ground - Cloud Computing in the NFP Sector

Auckland: 7 April 2010 (7:00 am - 8:30 am)
 

National Series: A Harmonious IT Environment through Realitsm

Wellington: 30 March 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Update briefing on ACTA from MED to NZCS members

Wellington: 26 March 2010 (4:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
 

National Series: A Harmonious IT Environment through Realitsm

Christchurch: 25 March 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
   

The Apple iPad: Groundbreaking or Hype?

Wellington: 25 March 2010 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

Update briefing on ACTA from MED to NZCS members

Auckland: 23 March 2010 (4:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
 

National Series: A Harmonious IT Environment through Realitsm

Auckland: 18 March 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:15 pm)
   

Students meet Industry BBQ

Christchurch: 16 March 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Wellington Branch AGM 2010

Wellington: 4 March 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:30 pm)
   

Notice of AGM: Auckland Branch of NZCS (Following WFIA)

Auckland: 3 March 2010 (8:30 am - 9:00 am)
 

WFIA: Opportunities & Challenges in e-Democracy

Auckland: 3 March 2010 (7:00 am - 8:30 am)
 

Transpower's Market Systems Project (plus Branch AGM)

Christchurch: 25 February 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:30 pm)
 

TPN: Exploratory Testing and Session-based Test Management

Wellington: 23 February 2010 (5:30 pm - 7:30 pm)
 

NZCS ISSIG: Weather Report from the Internet Storm Centre

Wellington: 18 February 2010 (3:15 pm - 5:30 pm)
 

ICTTop100 Lunch: Top Ten Predictions for 2010

Auckland: 17 February 2010 (12:15 pm - 2:00 pm)
 

TPN: Get Ready for Web Application Security Testing

Auckland: 16 February 2010 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

NZCS 50th Anniversary Quiz

Wellington: 11 February 2010 (5:00 pm - 8:30 pm)
   

Nelson NZCS Christmas Gathering

Nelson: 21 December 2009 (5:30 pm - 8:00 pm)
 

Birds of a Feather: The Challenges of Contract Tendering

Wellington: 16 December 2009 (5:30 pm - 7:30 pm)
 

Meeting to discuss new Artificial Intelligence Specialist Group

Auckland: 8 December 2009 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

WFIA Breakfast: Value of IT in the Organisation: Current Scenario

Auckland: 2 December 2009 (7:00 am - 8:30 am)
 

Canterbury Christmas Party [Members only]

Christchurch: 1 December 2009 (5:15 pm - 7:30 pm)
 

Panel on ICT Skills Gap [NOTE: New Venue]

Christchurch: 26 November 2009 (5:45 pm - 7:15 pm)
 

Evolution of Development Methodologies - John Fisher

Wellington: 26 November 2009 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

Birds of a Feather: ICT Continuity in Constrained Economic Times

Wellington: 18 November 2009 (5:30 pm - 7:30 pm)
 

New Microsoft platforms overview

Nelson: 18 November 2009 (7:30 am - 9:00 am)
 

TPN Presents: Exploratory Testing with Session-based Test Management

Auckland: 17 November 2009 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Using social media to build personal/professional learning networks

Napier: 12 November 2009 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Personalising Learning Environments with Quick Response (QR) Codes

Hamilton: 10 November 2009 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

TPN Presents: Test Estimation - Getting the Picture

Wellington: 10 November 2009 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Insights, Predictions and Suggestions about Information Systems

Auckland: 4 November 2009 (7:00 am - 8:30 am)
 

Data Warehousing to Maximise Business Intelligence

Wellington: 29 October 2009 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

NZCS "Brown Bag" Lunch

Christchurch: 28 October 2009 (12:30 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

YITPG Presents: Geek bling with @nzben #yitpg

Auckland: 22 October 2009 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Social Media for Business 101

Christchurch: 22 October 2009 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Member's Networking Evening

Wellington: 21 October 2009 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

ICTTop100 Lunch: Cloud Computing and SaaS

Auckland: 21 October 2009 (12:15 pm - 1:45 pm)
 

Birds of a Feather: Open Source Software in the Real World

Christchurch: 13 October 2009 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Enterprise Architecture

Napier: 8 October 2009 (5:00 pm - 6:30 pm)
 

Benefits Management using Strategic Journey Mapping

Auckland: 7 October 2009 (7:00 am - 8:30 am)
 

TPN Presents: Rescuing the Testing Project

Auckland: 30 September 2009 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Richard Stallman on Software Patents

Hamilton: 30 September 2009 (12:00 pm - 2:00 pm)
 

Aligning ICT Tertiary Education with Industry Needs

Christchurch: 24 September 2009 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Project Management Unbundled

Nelson: 24 September 2009 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

Web Services in the Real World

Wellington: 24 September 2009 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

Birds of a Feather: Virtualisation

Christchurch: 8 September 2009 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

WFIA Breakfast: Creating Market Demand

Auckland: 2 September 2009 (7:00 am - 8:30 am)
 

The Sahana Project - Free Open Source Software for Disaster Management

Christchurch: 27 August 2009 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Legal Aspects of Cloud Computing

Wellington: 27 August 2009 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

Evening with Industry (Auckland Students)

Auckland: 25 August 2009 (6:00 pm - 8:00 pm)
 

ICTTop100 Lunch: A review of the Code of Professional Conduct

Auckland: 19 August 2009 (12:15 pm - 2:00 pm)
   

Introduction to Videoconferencing and Site Visit

Christchurch: 13 August 2009 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

TPN presents: James Bach - The Myths of Rigor

Wellington: 13 August 2009 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Evening with Industry (Wellington Students)

Wellington: 5 August 2009 (6:00 pm - 8:00 pm)
 

WFIA Breakfast: Outsourced Bespoke Development

Auckland: 5 August 2009 (7:00 am - 8:30 am)
 

Who moved the future?

Wellington: 30 July 2009 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

Get your head out of the clouds and into the "Cloud"

Christchurch: 23 July 2009 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
   

Annual NZCS Dinner

Christchurch: 4 July 2009 (6:30 pm - 9:00 pm)
   

IntelliConnect - An innovative research platform

Christchurch: 25 June 2009 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Owning ITIL

Wellington: 25 June 2009 (12:15 pm - 1:45 pm)
 

NZCS Annual General Meeting

Wellington: 19 June 2009 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Project Management Unbundled, Martin Aitken

Nelson: 11 June 2009 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

JADE Case Management & Intelligence System

Christchurch: 28 May 2009 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Cloud Computing - 'Now where did I put that cloud again?'

Wellington: 28 May 2009 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

TPN Wellington: What are the Risks of Risk Based Testing?

Wellington: 27 May 2009 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

ICTTop100 Lunch: What does Certification mean for you?

Auckland: 20 May 2009 (12:15 pm - 1:45 pm)
   

Simple steps to improving IT Governance

Wellington: 30 April 2009 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

Imagine Cup 2009: Finals Evening (All Welcome)

Auckland: 29 April 2009 (6:30 pm - 9:00 pm)
   

Customer Focused Design

Christchurch: 23 April 2009 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

TPN: The Challenges of Testing on Agile Projects

Auckland: 21 April 2009 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

ISSIG: Key Presentations from SourceBoston2009

Wellington: 20 April 2009 (3:15 pm - 5:15 pm)
 

ICTTop100 Lunch: ICT Management Competencies

Auckland: 15 April 2009 (12:15 pm - 2:00 pm)
 

TPN Presents: Developer testing: The times they are a'changing

Wellington: 24 March 2009 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

NZCS Consultation Workshop on Professional Certification

Nelson: 20 March 2009 (3:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
 

Student Event: Welcome to Wellington!

Wellington: 19 March 2009 (5:30 pm - 8:00 pm)
 

NZCS Consultation Workshop on Professional Certification

Christchurch: 19 March 2009 (5:00 pm - 7:30 pm)
 

NZCS Consultation Workshop on Professional Certification

Dunedin: 18 March 2009 (5:00 pm - 7:30 pm)
 

ICTTop100 Lunch: NZCS Professional Certification

Auckland: 18 March 2009 (12:15 pm - 2:00 pm)
 

NZCS Consultation Workshop on Professional Certification

Wellington: 17 March 2009 (5:00 pm - 7:30 pm)
 

NZCS Consultation Workshop on Professional Certification

Hamilton: 11 March 2009 (5:00 pm - 7:30 pm)
 

Students meet Industry BBQ

Christchurch: 10 March 2009 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

NZCS Consultation Workshop on Professional Certification

Auckland: 10 March 2009 (5:15 pm - 7:30 pm)
   

Notice of Annual General Meeting (Auckland Branch)

Auckland: 4 March 2009 (8:30 am - 9:00 am)
   

Notice of Annual General Meeting (Waikato Branch)

Hamilton: 3 March 2009 (5:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

TPN: The Challenges of Testing on Agile Projects

Auckland: 3 March 2009 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

Notice of Annual General Meeting (Otago Branch)

Dunedin: 27 February 2009 (12:00 pm - 1:00 pm)
 

50th Anniversary Planning and Branch AGM 2009

Wellington: 26 February 2009 (5:30 pm - 7:30 pm)
 

2009 NZCS National Update - General Progress and Certification

Christchurch: 12 February 2009 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

2009 NZCS National Update - General Progress and Certification

Dunedin: 12 February 2009 (12:00 pm - 1:45 pm)
 

2009 NZCS National Update - General Progress and Certification

Wellington: 10 February 2009 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

The Role of the Enterprise Analyst

Wellington: 5 February 2009 (12:00 pm - 1:30 pm)
 

Adapting to the Evolving Threat to Internet Security

Wellington: 4 February 2009 (1:00 pm - 2:30 pm)
 

2009 NZCS National Update - General Progress and Certification

Auckland: 3 February 2009 (5:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
 

2009 NZCS National Update - General Progress and Certification

Hamilton: 3 February 2009 (12:30 pm - 2:00 pm)
 

Andy Hopper: Computing for the Future of the Planet

Wellington: 23 January 2009 (10:30 am - 12:30 pm)
 

ICT Christmas Gathering

Nelson: 18 December 2008 (4:30 pm - 7:00 pm)
 
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