Keynotes and Speakers for ITx Rutherford
CEO and Co-Founder, RedShield Security
10 years of security breaches... what have we learnt?: Security gurus Andy Prow and Kirk Jackson look back at the past decade of security misfortune. During their talk they will recreate the hacks that shocked us live on stage and ask the question: What have we learnt? Over the past 10 years, Andy and Kirk have enjoyed recreating security… More »
Agile and Theory of Constraints guru
How to be effective: Agile and the Bottleneck: Ever find that no matter how hard you work or how long you work, things still don’t get done? With a particular focus on Agile, international best-selling author Clarke Ching will show you how to overcome the top blockers hobbling most teams. They cause delays, force rework, and trap enormous… More »
Director of AI, CapGemini (Melbourne)
Artificial Intelligence: Trends and Ethics: AI guru Dheeren Velu will be talking about some of the latest developments in AI, and the ethical challenges they present. Full synopsis… More »
Head of Analytics and Insights Strategy, Woolworths NZ
Data science and Analytics in the real world: Data science and analytics are crucial to the success of organisations today, but how do you harness the tools and technologies to make a strategic difference? Dr Figen Ulgen will draw from her extensive experience as Senior Director of Business Intelligence & Advanced Analytics at Microsoft Corp, General Manager at… More »
CEO and Founder, Umbrella Wellbeing Ltd
Psychological safety in the workplace: Gaynor Parkin is a Clinical Psychologist who founded Umbrella Wellbeing Ltd, New Zealand's leading workplace wellbeing practice. She's a workplace wellbeing expert and as an author, has contributed greatly to the field. Gaynor will outline real, practical steps to improve psychological safety in the workplace, and how improving psychological safety… More »
Director, Tempest Group
An Educational Journey in Tech: Ian Apperley has been working in the technology industry for the past twenty-five years as well as freelance writing for a number of publications including the National Business Review. Technology education has formed an important part of the journey he’s made to reach where he is today. Join Ian to… More »
Deconstructing Wonderland: Over the past two years, we have entered a period of high technology change. With that change has come the Digital Snake Oil Salesman; promising the earth through Digital Transformation while whitewashing old services to appear new, and new services to be better than they are. This session will look… More »
Security Researcher, RedShield Security
10 years of security breaches... what have we learnt?: Security gurus Andy Prow and Kirk Jackson look back at the past decade of security misfortune. During their talk they will recreate the hacks that shocked us live on stage and ask the question: What have we learnt? Over the past 10 years, Andy and Kirk have enjoyed recreating security… More »
Mayor of Nelson
Opening Address: Nelson Mayor Rachel Reese will welcome delegates and talk about the tech sector in Nelson before formally opening the joint… More »
Founder, Orcon and Voyager
Seeby Woodhouse: How to find fame, fortune and inner peace: Seeby Woodhouse initially rose to fame as he built Orcon, one of New Zealand's largest and most innovative ISPs, sold to Kordia for $24 Million in 2007. The entrepreneur who famously lived on Weetbix and baked beans while he built Orcon suddenly had millions in the bank and a heap… More »
Centre Director for IT and Business Enterprise, Wintec
CITRENZ Panel: Introduction and discussion of RoVE: Introduction to the Review of Vocational Education and a discussion of current related… More »
Update on the Qualifications Review: This year the suite of qualifications that in 2015 replaced all Computing/ICT quals at levels 1-6 on the NZ Qualifications Framework are undergoing a scheduled review. As well as a good refresh across the suite, a number of substantial structural changes are being considered. Paul Matthews (ITP CEO), Aaron Steele… More »
RoVE Workshop and discussion for Educators: The Review of Vocational Education promises to significantly change the nature of Institute of Technology and Polytech delivery in New Zealand. This session, primarily for educators but with all welcome, explores this in depth and looks at collaboration and collective strategy in the post-RoVE… More »
Auckland Institute of Studies
An Overview of Multi-Controller Architecture in Software-Defined Networking: Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a rapidly growing and widely accepted networking paradigm that provides greater flexibility in network management. This is mainly achieved due to the separation of the control plane and data plane. In an SDN-enabled network, a centralised controller receives the high-level network application requirements, translates them into… More »
Technology Lawyer, Hudson Gavin Martin
Law and Data in a Connected World: The Internet of Things, digital platforms and data-driven transactions are creating some real challenges for lawyers. Who actually “owns” data? And who is liable when things go wrong in a complex digital… More »
CTO, ThankYou Payroll
A Practical Guide to DevOps - Helping your Team Survive the Transformation: Your organisation has finally gotten used to Agile project delivery, but now things are transforming again. The ICT industry is undergoing a fundamental shift in the way organisations deliver change and this crash course will present an overview of DevOps and the things your team needs to know to survive… More »
Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec)
Programming a Microcontroller to Drive a Fisher & Paykel SmartDrive™ Washing Machine Motor to Power : Microcontrollers are one of the basic building blocks of the “Internet of Things”. In this paper, I describe the tools and processes needed to program a STM32F302R8 microcontroller to drive a Fisher & Paykel SmartDrive™ brushless direct current motor. The motor is used to power a go-kart. The STM32F302R8 is… More »
Head of Technology, Education Payroll Limited
From Novopay to world-class payroll: Successful Digital Transformation Within the Public Sector: Education Payroll Limited (EPL) is a crown entity delivering the education payroll, the largest in New Zealand. EPL was formed to take over from private company Talent2, who introduced a new system in 2012, commonly known as Novopay. The system rollout went badly, prompting a raft of negative media attention,… More »
The IT Psychiatrist
It's All About Mindset: Agile vs DevOps? Continuous Delivery vs Agile? React vs Node? As the pace of change around technology increases, so too does the choice of frameworks, standards, methods, and tools available for delivering a successful outcome. But the reality is that methods and tools are only partly responsible for success. It… More »
Robots Will Take our Jobs... But We'll Be Ok: Thee fourth industrial revolution is bringing about a robotic revolution. RPA, Chatbots, AI, and Intelligent Automation are all coming, and the media would have us believe that they're going to disrupt our way of working. Except they won't. To understand why we only need to look at the impact on… More »
Technology and the Future of Work: Panel talk and Q&A about the changing face of work in the next 10-15 years as a result of advances in adoption of… More »
Pearl Innovations Limited
Integrate AI in your Analytical Strategy: Most organisations use analytics to gain competitive advantage and efficiency in their businesses. By implementing Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence organisations can further enhance their analytics strategy to achieve business goals. In this session you will get to learn about: • AI Platform and Tools • How to leverage AI… More »
Data Science Research Group, Wintec
Towards a Method and a Guiding tool for Conducting Process Mining Projects: Due to the increased use of information systems by organizations, information on the execution of processes are recorded.This enables using process mining as a tool for improving performance. Process mining allows gaining insights regarding actual processes by extracting data from existing systems. Many projects have been conducted for process discovery,… More »
Founder & Principal, OpenWork Ltd
DGGS - The New Digitally Friendly Format for Spatial Data: For 50 years we have been storing spatial data in digital formats that are based on old analogue systems for navigation and position that have never quite fit neatly in modern information systems. How big is a point provided as a Lat/Long value? Discreet Global Grid Systems (DGGS) provides an… More »
Manager, Software Applications, Tait Communications
The Role of Ethics in Software Development: As software becomes more prevalent in our everyday lives, it’s important to bear in mind the ultimate goal for all technology which is to make human life easier. As technology becomes more powerful, so does the possibility for it to cause harm to others. Software engineers are at the coal… More »
Open Polytechnic of NZ
It Takes a Village: A Collaborative Approach to Online Course Design and Development: In contrast to a traditional face-to-face course, course design and development at the Open Polytechnic uses a collaborative approach to designing and developing Online Distance Flexible Learning (ODFL) courseware. At this New Zealand tertiary education institution, course design and development follows a six-phase process with three levels of project roles… More »
Principal, Hamish Fletcher Lawyers
The New Privacy Act – Go Short the NZ Public: There is an updated Privacy Act on the way, due to become law in March 2020. But New Zealand’s great history of innovative law-making –the vote for women in 1893; workers’ compensation in 1900; universal accident compensation in 1974 – is about to take a face-plant, if you happen to… More »
Head of School, Computing and IT, Unitec
Panel: Recent educational developments in Cybersecurity: Being connected, and the resulting access to communication and information online has greatly contributed to New Zealand’s prosperity. We are more closely connected to global culture and the international economy than ever before. Internet connectivity brings New Zealand to the world, underpins our prosperity, and helps negate the downsides of… More »
EIT
A Good Case Study to Teach all OOP Principles in a Single Solution and Expansion to solve Problems: Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a paradigm of software programming that focuses on the creation of classes/objects and the interaction between them. Teaching OOP is considered challenging mostly because it requires a new way of thinking about problem analysis, solution design and coding style. It can be easy for novice students… More »
Teaching Mobile App Development: Choosing the best development tools in practical labs: As mobile app development becomes more mainstream, many educational institutions in New Zealand recognize a need to integrate this subject into the programming-related curriculum. However, one challenge is to select the best framework and development tool to use in the practical labs amongst many available frameworks. Choosing the right tool… More »
Managing Director, Partner Consulting
Skills and Capability in Digital Transformation: Digital Transformation is more than just a change to the organisation structure; it’s about changing how we will get things done and often includes a change to what we do and who we work with. This kind of transformation will therefore have a significant impact on many aspects of people,… More »
CITPNZ and CTech: Application walkthrough: Chartered IT Professional NZ (CITPNZ) and Certified Technologist (CTech) are the professional certifications for New Zealand IT Professionals. Have you been thinking about applying but haven't quite got around to it, or just interested to know more? Come along for a detailed walk-through and guide to the application process for… More »
Principal Advisor, Productivity Commission
Should We Fear The Robots... or be Worried They Won’t Arrive?: How will technological change influence work in New Zealand over the next 10 to 15 years? The Government has asked the Productivity Commission to investigate. There is wide concern that automation technologies using artificial intelligence will make workers, or even work itself, redundant. But early evidence suggests that these worries… More »
Technology and the Future of Work: Panel talk and Q&A about the changing face of work in the next 10-15 years as a result of advances in adoption of… More »
Assistant Head of School - Business & Computing, EIT
CITRENZ Panel: Introduction and discussion of RoVE: Introduction to the Review of Vocational Education and a discussion of current related… More »
Teaching Mobile App Development: Choosing the best development tools in practical labs: As mobile app development becomes more mainstream, many educational institutions in New Zealand recognize a need to integrate this subject into the programming-related curriculum. However, one challenge is to select the best framework and development tool to use in the practical labs amongst many available frameworks. Choosing the right tool… More »
Senior Lecturer, Weltec
Panel: Recent educational developments in Cybersecurity: Being connected, and the resulting access to communication and information online has greatly contributed to New Zealand’s prosperity. We are more closely connected to global culture and the international economy than ever before. Internet connectivity brings New Zealand to the world, underpins our prosperity, and helps negate the downsides of… More »
Academic Programme Manager, Unitec
Panel: Recent educational developments in Cybersecurity: Being connected, and the resulting access to communication and information online has greatly contributed to New Zealand’s prosperity. We are more closely connected to global culture and the international economy than ever before. Internet connectivity brings New Zealand to the world, underpins our prosperity, and helps negate the downsides of… More »
Curtin University
A perception of pastoral care staff of peer-mentoring programme impact on pastoral care support: The article describes the implementation of a peer-mentoring programme in a Postgraduate Diploma Programmes in New Zealand Polytechnic. The peer-mentoring programme helps pastoral care staff to better support our international students and its support their adoption into New Zealand society and study. The long -term objectives of the programme are… More »
MIITP; Whitireia New Zealand; LG CNS Co., Ltd
AI, Big Data and the Cloud: Managing Multilingual in Digital Marketing: Current digital marketing requires to follow advanced technology such as Artificial Intelligence, Cloud service, and Big data as well as to deliver localized content on time to customers consistently. Image recognition and voice recognition can provide a convenient user interface for end-user to quickly find what they want. Cloud service… More »
Digital Technologies Teacher, Wellington East Girls' College
Times Have Changed - a Chief Information Office in Schools is now Essential: The role of a Chief Information Officer is typically associated with larger organisations. Given many schools typically have over 100 staff and 1,000 students with at least two devices each and the increasing reliance on ICT services to deliver learning I believe the role of a CIO is essential. WEGC… More »
Programme Chair, CITRENZ
A perception of pastoral care staff of peer-mentoring programme impact on pastoral care support: The article describes the implementation of a peer-mentoring programme in a Postgraduate Diploma Programmes in New Zealand Polytechnic. The peer-mentoring programme helps pastoral care staff to better support our international students and its support their adoption into New Zealand society and study. The long -term objectives of the programme are… More »
MIT
Benchmarking a Machine Vision Image Classifier Implementation on FPGA Using Binarized Neural Network: The current proliferation of AI into many application domains has been driving a shift away from traditionally implementing AI algorithms in software (using general-purpose processors and GPUs) towards implementation directly into hardware. This recently led to the advent of the “AI-on-Chip / AI Architectures” era. In this paper, we demonstrate… More »
First Vice President, United Overseas Bank
Open Banking from Bank's Perspective: The topic will try to provide the perspective on Open Banking from the bank's standpoint. Take away from this presentation will be to provide banks to understand the common misinforms, general error in approaches and how they should see open banking opportunities. Below are the high-level topics to be covered.… More »
Director, Healthtek Professional Services
Look What's Coming to a GP Near You: The bulk of healthcare in NZ is delivered via primary care services - ie General Practitioners and Nurses working out of General Practices. Research has shown that the current General Practice model is no longer sustainable due to factors such as an increasing population, an aging population with complex health… More »
AcuteIP
Valuing the Invaluable: Often the most difficult part of selecting among potential strategies or a portfolio of potential projects is putting a value on their outcomes. Enough hard information is rarely available, so judgments must be made under uncertainty. There are well-proven principles that can be combined to make this process rational, transparent… More »
Otago Polytechnic
Developing a Model of Educational Innovation: In order for education to support the future of work, we need an innovation system that provides for flexibility and responsiveness in the development of new approaches to education. But there is no agreed formula for innovation processes applied to education. The literature describes models of innovation developed for business… More »
Cybersec Limited
Over a Billion Dollars Stolen: The Carbanak Gang's Story: It is estimated that the Carbanak gang got away with at least 1 billion dollars. This is their story and the lessons we can learn from their attacks. They were a sophisticated gang of cybercriminals from several countries. The victims were financial institutions from around 30 countries. The gang used… More »
Content Development Manager, Via Afrika
The Fourth Industrial Revolution - or just 3IR v2?: The borders between the Third and the Fourth Industrial Revolution are often blurry and never more so than in the field of education. During this presentation: - you'll get a "cheat sheet" on what the 4IR technologies and trends are, - how the 4IR technologies and trends differ from technologies… More »
Technology and the Future of Work: Panel talk and Q&A about the changing face of work in the next 10-15 years as a result of advances in adoption of… More »
Founder, Active Recreation ORG
This Won’t be “easy”, “exciting” or “a fun way to meet new people.”: There is a common failure of Social media, websites, and apps. The use of imagery and inspirational dialogue intended to inspire action can unintentionally feel like nails on a blackboard. Common and traditional design trends are no longer effective in creating customer engagement. As humans, we are quick (now more… More »
Eastern Institute of New Zealand
Intelligent Systems in an applied computing qualification: Minor alterations to the programme of study enabled an undergraduate applied computing degree in the ITP sector to deliver endorsed majors as an appealing addition to a currently successful programme, as well as the inclusion of a completely new endorsement to meet the requirements of local industry. The new Intelligent… More »
General Manager - Client Solutions, Randstad
Employer Brands: what sets your company apart?: The 2019 Randstad Employer Brand Research, a global survey of more than 200,000 working-age adults in 32 countries, tells us that money isn’t the only factor that makes an employer attractive. The research dives into what drivers people find attractive in an employer. In this presentation, Randstad will share the… More »
Chief Growth Officer, Catalyst
The Impact of Cloud Technologies on the Pace of Innovation: There is much misconception in the market about what is cloud computing. Many people still believe that cloud is "a computer in somebody else's data-center" In this presentation, Igor will discuss the difference between true cloud computing and traditional data centre hosting and virtualisation. Igor will also articulate the way… More »
manukau institute of technology
Designing and Improving the H-Shaped Microstrip Antenna for Better Data Transmission for Emergency S: The drones and other wireless equipment have been the primary communication equipment providing data using digital communication. The integrity of the communication relies upon the quality of the antenna to boost signals and transmission. Similarly, the terrain also poses challenges to reduce data transmission rate concerning the New Zealand remote… More »
Gallaway Cook Allan
Mapping Changing Professional Identity during Graduate IT Education: Education design through constructive alignment places importance on the links between a professional framework of practice, graduate profiles, learning outcomes, and assessments. But in post-graduate professional practice computing education involving practicing IT professionals, the professional framework of practice is often complex, dynamic, and unique to each learner. The literature describes… More »
Director - Solutions & Delivery, Moustache Republic
How New Retail is Rapidly Evolving from eCommerce to Stealth Commerce: Stealth Commerce is a scenario in which the customer no longer recognises a transaction as a transaction. It's a scenario in which a transaction is so seamless, so tightly woven into the fabric of a customer's daily life to the point they not only couldn't (or wouldn't want to) live… More »
Growth & Innovation Specialist, Northland Inc
kiteAO, to The World; See The World.: Connecting Digitising ‘word of mouth’ while supporting the value of business relationships, kiteAO supports economic development and business support services in Te Tai Tokerau region. The online service is free to access and supports a searchable map of skills and services by industry sector or location. The service enables business… More »
Eastern Institute of New Zealand
Intelligent Systems in an applied computing qualification: Minor alterations to the programme of study enabled an undergraduate applied computing degree in the ITP sector to deliver endorsed majors as an appealing addition to a currently successful programme, as well as the inclusion of a completely new endorsement to meet the requirements of local industry. The new Intelligent… More »
InternetNZ
Christchurch Call: Jordan will update the audience on work being done to follow up on the Christchurch Call. The Christchurch Call was a meeting co-hosted by New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern and French President, Emmanuel Macron, held in Paris on 15 May 2019. It’s a global call which aims to “bring… More »
Deputy CE, IT Professionals NZ
Engaging schools with the tech sector and taking out a CIO Award while we are at it.: IT Professionals NZ operates a number of initiatives on behalf of the IT Industry in the education space, focused on engaging and inspiring students about IT related careers. These programmes also support NZ schools and kura with the implementation of the new Digital Technologies and Hungarau Matahiko curriculum content. Amongst… More »
Eastern Institute of Technology
Room for Improvement: Revisiting the learning space: Student engagement and participation are vital components to the successful achievement of students. Currently, there has been significant interest in how learning spaces can help facilitate and improve learning. Research and educators around the world and within all sectors of education have started to explore how Modern Learning Environments (MLE)… More »
Deloitte
From Novopay to world-class payroll: Successful Digital Transformation Within the Public Sector: Education Payroll Limited (EPL) is a crown entity delivering the education payroll, the largest in New Zealand. EPL was formed to take over from private company Talent2, who introduced a new system in 2012, commonly known as Novopay. The system rollout went badly, prompting a raft of negative media attention,… More »
Director/Principal Consultant, Peritia Ltd
Building a Digital Foundation for Digital Innovation: New Zealand is perceived to be an innovative nation. Our innovation is said to have a distinctive character which is: “..robust and resourceful, often multi-disciplinary, breaks boundaries, challenges preconceptions and tackles traditional problems in innovative ways.” Research and development across science, business and industry is of high quality and often… More »
K2
Using Process Intelligence to implement Robotic and Digital Process Automation: Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a hot topic within the business and IT space. Many organisations that have deployed RPA solutions and have not achieved the value they had anticipated. Similarly, many organisations have an RPA platform but struggle to identify and motivate project candidates for automation and delivery. This… More »
Associate Director - Risk Advisory, Deloitte
Digital Crisis Management: a new approach: Being ready for man-made or natural crisis situations means something very different in the digital age. Crisis management teams of today have to be ready to deal with more complex crisis, and risk dynamics than ever before. They also have to be ready to respond anytime and anywhere to an… More »
Consulting Manager, Deloitte NZ
Managing the Digital Disruption at Inland Revenue: What has digital disruption, ITIL 4, and a CMDB got in common? In this session, we will show how IT Service Management practices can provide the discipline to enable digital transformation for the whole Enterprise. Taking a fusion of ITIL 4, DevOps ways of working, and SIAM (Service Integration &… More »
ITIL4 in an hour: A condensed overview of the world leading framework for Service Management: ITIL 4. As disruption continues and Digital Transformation is at the front of mind, businesses will increasingly look to frameworks like ITIL to understand, standardise and automate the work they do. Whether you are new to ITIL or v3… More »
Head of IT and Business, Weltec and Whitireia
CITRENZ Panel: Introduction and discussion of RoVE: Introduction to the Review of Vocational Education and a discussion of current related… More »
Update on the Qualifications Review: This year the suite of qualifications that in 2015 replaced all Computing/ICT quals at levels 1-6 on the NZ Qualifications Framework are undergoing a scheduled review. As well as a good refresh across the suite, a number of substantial structural changes are being considered. Paul Matthews (ITP CEO), Aaron Steele… More »
Co-Founder/Partner, Mahuta Digital
kiteAO, to The World; See The World.: Connecting Digitising ‘word of mouth’ while supporting the value of business relationships, kiteAO supports economic development and business support services in Te Tai Tokerau region. The online service is free to access and supports a searchable map of skills and services by industry sector or location. The service enables business… More »
General Manager, COMSMART
It's More Than Just Cyber - Why Your Focus Should be on Converged Security: Cyber security is more than just zeroes and ones. Looking at it form purely a technology perspective is dangerous and will leave your organisation open to attack. Many of the biggest data breaches in recent history were only possible due to factors outside of what most people class as cyber… More »
Waikato Institute of Technology
Evaluation of IT Service Desk – A Case Study: Organisations heavily rely on Information Technology Services Management (ITSM) to provide efficient and quality services to all stakeholders. This research is an exploratory study conducted of the service desk operations model. This research explores simple metrics and weighted requirement matrix for evaluating and selecting such systems. Several data gathering tools… More »
Aspire2 International
The internet of Things as a permanent part of the curriculum in PTEs.: Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of everyday physical devices connected through the internet, allowing the sharing of data, but also the remote management of various devices. IoT systems have earned huge popularity and growth lately due to their immense number of applications in different fields, the large-scale adoption… More »
SIT
A Novel approach to Secure Microservice Architecture from OWASP vulnerabilities: Microservice Architecture (MSA) is a new emerging computing and software engineering paradigm. The services of the application can be developed using different programming languages. MSA not only helps to increase the scalability and availability of the application, but it also provides the developer with flexibility in selecting programming languages and… More »
Chief Executive, IT Professionals NZ
CITRENZ Panel: Introduction and discussion of RoVE: Introduction to the Review of Vocational Education and a discussion of current related… More »
Update on the Qualifications Review: This year the suite of qualifications that in 2015 replaced all Computing/ICT quals at levels 1-6 on the NZ Qualifications Framework are undergoing a scheduled review. As well as a good refresh across the suite, a number of substantial structural changes are being considered. Paul Matthews (ITP CEO), Aaron Steele… More »
Chartered IT Professional NZ and CTech: What is it and why?: You may have heard of Chartered IT Professional NZ (CITPNZ) and Certified Technologist (CTech), the two professional certifications offered by ITP. But what are they and why do they matter? This talk looks at the origins of professional certification, where tech is on the pathway to becoming a recognised profession… More »
TX Labs
Risks of using naïve approaches to Artificial Intelligence: A case study: In recent years, there has been a push in the Artificial intelligence (AI) field to simplify the application of machine learning so that its use can be more widely adopted. While this reduces barriers to entry for AI and machine learning, they also introduce the risk that persons or organisations… More »
Capable NZ, Otago Polytechnic
Mapping Changing Professional Identity during Graduate IT Education: Education design through constructive alignment places importance on the links between a professional framework of practice, graduate profiles, learning outcomes, and assessments. But in post-graduate professional practice computing education involving practicing IT professionals, the professional framework of practice is often complex, dynamic, and unique to each learner. The literature describes… More »
Developing a Model of Educational Innovation: In order for education to support the future of work, we need an innovation system that provides for flexibility and responsiveness in the development of new approaches to education. But there is no agreed formula for innovation processes applied to education. The literature describes models of innovation developed for business… More »
Technology and the Future of Work: Panel talk and Q&A about the changing face of work in the next 10-15 years as a result of advances in adoption of… More »
Eastern Institute of Technology
Pathway to 5G – Challenges at a Cellular Level: The paper aims to underline the technological term 5G with the embedded core technologies and standards, rather than being a commercial placard, focusing on the cellular level, excluding overall factors like backhauling and handover techniques. Navigating through the evolution of Mobile Technology and the driving force behind it enables us… More »
Open Polytechnic of NZ
It Takes a Village: A Collaborative Approach to Online Course Design and Development: In contrast to a traditional face-to-face course, course design and development at the Open Polytechnic uses a collaborative approach to designing and developing Online Distance Flexible Learning (ODFL) courseware. At this New Zealand tertiary education institution, course design and development follows a six-phase process with three levels of project roles… More »
Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology
The IT Department – Heroines & Heroes, Villains & Vampires or just History? : As the technology cycles at an ever-increasing pace, services fly off to the cloud and the outsourcer, and shadow IT casts an ever-longer reach, what of the future of the central IT department? What about the people who provide those centralised IT services – can they evolve and adapt in… More »
New Zealand Red Cross
IT for Disaster Response and Disaster Risk Reduction: A team of volunteers with backgrounds in IT and Telecommunications, including IT Professionals, gives back to the Profession, NZ Society and the World through support of Red Cross initiatives for Disaster Response and Disaster Risk Reduction in NZ, the Pacific and around the world. The presentation will give a look… More »
Director, SIGNAL ICT Graduate School
Industry-based Education: What it is and why it's important: The age-old dilemma for tertiary education and industry especially in the tech space is balancing teaching concepts and theory, technical skills and industry-current technologies. This often leads to questions about the work-readiness of graduates. To address these issues, SIGNAL ICT Graduate School has developed an alternative approach to delivering tertiary… More »
Eastern Institute of Technology
Pathway to 5G – Challenges at a Cellular Level: The paper aims to underline the technological term 5G with the embedded core technologies and standards, rather than being a commercial placard, focusing on the cellular level, excluding overall factors like backhauling and handover techniques. Navigating through the evolution of Mobile Technology and the driving force behind it enables us… More »
Wintec
Cultivating Student Leadership in the Flipped Classroom: This paper outlines the design and implementation of an educational approach to cultivate student leadership in a flipped classroom by facilitating a positive learning relationship between the learner and the facilitator through shared leadership and flexible assessments. The aim is to enable learners abandon the notion of the teacher being… More »
Risks of using naïve approaches to Artificial Intelligence: A case study: In recent years, there has been a push in the Artificial intelligence (AI) field to simplify the application of machine learning so that its use can be more widely adopted. While this reduces barriers to entry for AI and machine learning, they also introduce the risk that persons or organisations… More »
SQL and PL-SQL: Analysing teaching methods: Knowledge on Database systems is essential in qualifications related to Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, and Software Engineering. It is an expectation from the industry that graduates with these qualifications are competent with working on database systems. For learners to be proficient in the concepts of database systems, a… More »
Wintec
Analysis of Morepork Vocalizations Recorded Using a Permanently Located Mobile Phone: The purpose of this work included the annotation of audio recordings of bird vocalizations to be used to train a machine-learning algorithm to automatically detect bird calls. In addition, this work was intended to demonstrate the ability of The Cacophony Project’s mobile phone-based ‘Bird Monitor’ for on-going monitoring of bird… More »
Information Security Manager, Datacom Systems
Demystifying Cybersecurity in the Cloud: Cybersecurity professionals can, for the most part, recite and have informed discussions around the fundamentals of cybersecurity and controls - think CertNZ Top 10, NIST Top 20 Critical Controls, etc. These conversations become more complex as we shift from our controlled environment to adopted cloud environments where new and unforeseen… More »
Ara Institute of Canterbury
Adoption of Cloud Computing by SMEs: Revisiting the Risks and Benefits: The concept of cloud computing signals a major change in the way users store, access, and use information (Atkins, 2015, para 6) in that data can be hosted in the “cloud” which has been described as being a “nebulous assemblage of computers and servers accessed via the internet” (Miller, 2009,… More »
Zooming Around the Country: The ROVE Ahead?: The Review of Vocational Education (ROVE) and several mergers between institutes of technologies and polytechnics (ITPs) has the potential for the streaming of classes from location to another to become common place within the tertiary education sector in New Zealand. Some of this is in response to the economies of… More »