Keynotes and Speakers for ITx Rutherford
Chief Energy Officer & Curious Wāhinepreneur - INNOV8HQ
The adventures of a curious wahinepreneur in technology and the fast changing business landscape: … More »
Better never stops: Dr Paul Wood is an expert in helping people and organisations strive towards their potential, navigate change and flourish through adversity. Paul works with everyone from World Champion athletes to Fortune 100 companies. He is a regular contributor in the media and his recently released book How to Escape from… More »
Ex CEO - Otago Polytechnic
We can do this! Making the most of the changes and meeting the challenges: Outlining what is positive about, and the challenges with, the high level objectives of Te Pūkenga - New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology:- Enable all learners to succeed and thrive, especially Māori, Pasifika, those with disabilities and those disengaged from training. Reach and connect all learners to the right… More »
Data Science Research Group, Wintec
What is Lean Six Sigma and how it may improve your business performance: In this workshop, we will explore DMAIC, the five phases of Lean Six Sigma, in a way that you will understand how to select a problem (or opportunity), identify the actual cause(s) of the problem, implement actions to eliminate the cause(s) and so, to improve your business… More »
Process Mining: a special type of Data Mining to discover, check and improve your business processes: In this workshop, we will discuss how Process Mining, a novel Data Science technique, could be used to discover, in a matter of seconds (if you have data), the actual processes your organisation is performing. Also, we will cover how to identify bottlenecks and deviations from the expected… More »
Ara Institute of Canterbury
Mobile App Development Course During Lockdown: A Reflection: This paper reviews the experiences of delivering a level seven mobile app development course during COVID-19 lockdown in the first semester of 2020 at Ara Institute of Canterbury. During the main assessment in the course the students were required to develop a series of prototypes for an app for a… More »
Ara
Automation in a Lab Network: TechLabs, the lab network environment at Ara Institute of Canterbury is used for technical courses in information technology. As it has made use of virtualisation since 2001, it is likely the first lab environment in New Zealand that was based on virtualisation, specifically VMware software. The network has 84 student… More »
Programme Manager, WelTec
Teaching Beginners Android Application Development: In recent years, Mobile Application Development (MAD) has been widely taught at most tertiary education providers, polytechnics and universities at different year levels and used in the final year degree capstone projects. Our institute offers MAD courses in the second year of the degree, as well as in the postgraduate… More »
Eastern Institute of Technology
A Case Sudy of Using SCRUM Framework to Teach OOP Concepts: Teaching OOP principles is considered challenging mostly because it requires new way of analyzing problem, designing the solution, and coding style which are all involved around classes, objects and the application of four pilar OOP concepts: encapsulation, abstract, inheritance and polymorphism. It can be easy for novice learners to learn… More »
The Implementation of a mini MVC-based Framework to Teach Web App Development: As for web app development, we can either develop from scratch or use existing frameworks such as ASP.NET (C#), Rails (Ruby), Laravel (PHP), CakePHP, CodeIgniter (PHP), Spring (Java), Express (Node.js). All those frameworks are so different regarding programming languages and syntax but most of them are built upon the Model-View-Controller… More »
Ara Institute of Canterbury
Getting to Know Your Neighbourhood During Lockdown: A Level 7 Multimedia Project Course: The level seven multimedia project course at Ara Institute of Canterbury usually requires students to interview a client, define a problem and develop a series of prototypes with the aim of eventually meeting the needs of the client. With much of the course taking place during level 4 lockdown, the… More »
Eastern Institute of Technology
Designing a peer mentoring model for international students: Panel and Presentation: Participants: Lopez, D., EIT; Erturk, E., EIT; Sarkar, A., ARA; Chick, H., ARA; Sayed Ahmed, M., ARA; Mann, S., Capable NZ; Rozado, D., Otago Polytechnic, Sayan, R., MIT; Baker, O., SIT; Nuntalid, N., UNITEC; Vail, H., Toi Ohomai IT The project, funded by the Ministry of Education, has the objective… More »
Ara
Automation in a Lab Network: TechLabs, the lab network environment at Ara Institute of Canterbury is used for technical courses in information technology. As it has made use of virtualisation since 2001, it is likely the first lab environment in New Zealand that was based on virtualisation, specifically VMware software. The network has 84 student… More »
Redevelopment of Programmes: Earlier this year NZQA listed the reviewed New Zealand IT Qualifications at Levels 2-6. This was after a period of review carried out in 2019. This session will outline the processes and changes that occurred and what our obligations are. It will also allow for an opportunity to discuss the… More »
Programme Chair, CITRENZ
A Traffic Management Prototype based on Computer Vision for Vehicle Detection and Tracking: Computer vision holds the capabilities of effectively performing tasks such as object classification and object recognition that the human visual system intuitively accomplishes. For this reason, computer vision is being increasingly employed as a tool to support and advance the management of traffic. Traffic management remains an issue in many… More »
Using Blockchain and Tokens for Education + Q&A with the Editor: A blockchain is a shared digital ledger, which permanently records and encrypts transactions and distributes them to all members in the network, thereby maintaining full history along with security. Blockchain technology has recently been developed and used by a variety of industries, including but not limited to: cryptocurrency, insurance, government,… More »
A Traffic Management Prototype based on Computer Vision for Vehicle Detection and Tracking: Computer vision holds the capabilities of effectively performing tasks such as object classification and object recognition that the human visual system intuitively accomplishes. For this reason, computer vision is being increasingly employed as a tool to support and advance the management of traffic. Traffic management remains an issue in many… More »
Senior Lecturer, Manukau Institute of Technology
A Medical Emergency Response System for Elderly: Elderly people living alone may either have existing medical issues or can be in vulnerable situations because of their age and loneliness and may need immediate attention and care in case of any medical emergency. These emergencies may require assistance from another person or guided system to get proper level… More »
Wintec
International Students: International students are a significant part of undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in New Zealand. Some institutes also teach offshore and have partnerships. With COVID and NZIST, the future is unclear. The purpose of the session is to bring together academics from various institutes around how we may be affected in… More »
Otago Polytechnic
WDC: In May this year the government announced that all six Workforce Development Councils (WDCs) will be fast-tracked for establishment by a target date of the end of 2020. This panel includes representatives of the "Creative, Cultural, Recreation and Technology" WDC, ITPNZ and CITRENZ. The goal of this session is to… More »
IT educators beyond COVID : In response to the Global Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 New Zealand was placed into a lockdown which meant that all but essential workers were restricted to their homes for a period of four weeks. During this period all teaching moved online. After the initial four weeks a gradual relaxation… More »
Redevelopment of Programmes: Earlier this year NZQA listed the reviewed New Zealand IT Qualifications at Levels 2-6. This was after a period of review carried out in 2019. This session will outline the processes and changes that occurred and what our obligations are. It will also allow for an opportunity to discuss the… More »
Eastern Institute of Technology
A Traffic Management Prototype based on Computer Vision for Vehicle Detection and Tracking: Computer vision holds the capabilities of effectively performing tasks such as object classification and object recognition that the human visual system intuitively accomplishes. For this reason, computer vision is being increasingly employed as a tool to support and advance the management of traffic. Traffic management remains an issue in many… More »
Eastern Institute of Technology
Evaluating Scrum for managing Indra’s automated vote-counting system implementation: In a changing world, project management becomes more and more important for developing critical IT tools and applications. IT Practitioners and students need ways to effectively learn and evaluate different approaches to managing projects, in order to select the most effective approach in a particular situation. This paper provides a… More »
Applying the International Project Management Association Individual Competence Baseline: An IT case: This paper analysed the case study of the U.K. National Health Service system upgrade. During the literature review, various reasons for the failure of the project were identified including cultural aspects, the lack of stakeholder engagement, and time aspects. The International Project Management Association’s Individual Competence Baseline (ICB) was assessed… More »
Ten years on: an analysis of the conference proceedings of CITRENZ 2010-2019: Taking the conference theme “Leading IT Education in a Changing World” as its starting point, this paper synthesises and analyses the past ten years of CITRENZ conference papers to draw a picture of the Computing and Information Technology Research and Education community in New Zealand. There is a strong relationship… More »
Social sustainability through equitable access to higher education: An action research study: Social sustainability through equitable access to higher education: An action research study using donated supercomputer equipment and enterprise IT infrastructure. The skills and knowledge for future generations to handle social and environmental changes. The New Zealand education system is ranked highly globally in providing quality education to its citizens, however,… More »
Head of IT and Business, Weltec and Whitireia
WDC: In May this year the government announced that all six Workforce Development Councils (WDCs) will be fast-tracked for establishment by a target date of the end of 2020. This panel includes representatives of the "Creative, Cultural, Recreation and Technology" WDC, ITPNZ and CITRENZ. The goal of this session is to… More »
Redevelopment of Programmes: Earlier this year NZQA listed the reviewed New Zealand IT Qualifications at Levels 2-6. This was after a period of review carried out in 2019. This session will outline the processes and changes that occurred and what our obligations are. It will also allow for an opportunity to discuss the… More »
Weltec
How to Teach Test Automation in Software Testing: In recent years, software testing has been reflected from a software engineering practice into specific courses in Information Technology (IT) degrees, due to the demands for qualified professionals. In 2019, we introduced a set of software testing into the software development major of the degree. However, it also brought in… More »
Teaching Beginners Android Application Development: In recent years, Mobile Application Development (MAD) has been widely taught at most tertiary education providers, polytechnics and universities at different year levels and used in the final year degree capstone projects. Our institute offers MAD courses in the second year of the degree, as well as in the postgraduate… More »
Manukau Institute of Technology
International Students: International students are a significant part of undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in New Zealand. Some institutes also teach offshore and have partnerships. With COVID and NZIST, the future is unclear. The purpose of the session is to bring together academics from various institutes around how we may be affected in… More »
Head of Department Enterprise and Digital Innovation, Ara Institute of Canterbury
IT Apprenticeships: Earlier this year the government announced the Targeted Training and Apprenticeship Fund (TTAF) which supports learners to undertake vocational education and training without fees. Even though "technology" was listed as a targeted area, the actual structure of an IT apprenticeship seems to continue to be problematic. This session allows for… More »
Eastern Institute of Technology
Improved Feature Selection and Ensemble Learning For Cervical Cancer Assessment: Choosing the right influencing feature is a challenging field in data science due to the presence and complexity of multi-dimensional data. Cervical cancer is an excellent example for such study, as well as impacting individuals and families, presents almost no-symptoms at the early stages of development of this condition. Because… More »
Chief Executive, IT Professionals NZ
WDC: In May this year the government announced that all six Workforce Development Councils (WDCs) will be fast-tracked for establishment by a target date of the end of 2020. This panel includes representatives of the "Creative, Cultural, Recreation and Technology" WDC, ITPNZ and CITRENZ. The goal of this session is to… More »
Ara Institute of Canterbury
Applying Constructive Alignment to the Delivery of Information Systems Courses: This paper examines and analyses of the application of constructive alignment to the delivery and assessment of information systems courses. This is examined from the perspective of constructivism, the concept of what the student does is what the student learns, and the concept of authentic learning activities. Some attention is… More »
School of Computing, AUT
Improved Feature Selection and Ensemble Learning For Cervical Cancer Assessment: Choosing the right influencing feature is a challenging field in data science due to the presence and complexity of multi-dimensional data. Cervical cancer is an excellent example for such study, as well as impacting individuals and families, presents almost no-symptoms at the early stages of development of this condition. Because… More »
Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Management, Eastern Institute of Technology
Sentiments analysis of the feedback from a business simulation game: Quantifying the unquantifiable: This paper relates to an online business simulation game in agraduate level course of Strategic Management, which has mainly two types of assessments: one is individual-based while the other is group-based assessment. Every group has a mix of domestic as well as international students, and the group also consists of… More »
Otago Polytechnic
IT educators beyond COVID : In response to the Global Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020 New Zealand was placed into a lockdown which meant that all but essential workers were restricted to their homes for a period of four weeks. During this period all teaching moved online. After the initial four weeks a gradual relaxation… More »
Social sustainability through equitable access to higher education: An action research study: Social sustainability through equitable access to higher education: An action research study using donated supercomputer equipment and enterprise IT infrastructure. The skills and knowledge for future generations to handle social and environmental changes. The New Zealand education system is ranked highly globally in providing quality education to its citizens, however,… More »
Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec)
Cross-disciplinary Interactions in Work-integrated Learning: Work-integrated learning (WIL) is the intentional integration of theory and practice knowledge to prepare graduates towards securing a placement in the workplace or a work community arena. The purpose of incorporating WIL into courses is to assist students with the complicated process of transferring skills gained in a formal educational… More »
Programme Manager, Whitireia
How to Teach Test Automation in Software Testing: In recent years, software testing has been reflected from a software engineering practice into specific courses in Information Technology (IT) degrees, due to the demands for qualified professionals. In 2019, we introduced a set of software testing into the software development major of the degree. However, it also brought in… More »
Teaching Beginners Android Application Development: In recent years, Mobile Application Development (MAD) has been widely taught at most tertiary education providers, polytechnics and universities at different year levels and used in the final year degree capstone projects. Our institute offers MAD courses in the second year of the degree, as well as in the postgraduate… More »
Ara Institute of Canterbury
Contextualising an eBusiness Course During COVID-19 Lockdown: This paper reviews the experiences of delivering a level six eBusiness course during semester one of 2020 at Ara Institute of Canterbury. Four weeks into the teaching of the course the topic being covered was the importance of global supply chains. Discussion during the class centred around the possibility of… More »