Wednesday, 12 May 2021 New innovations to fuel the future of NZ’s food, fibre and agritech sector More at ChristchurchNZ
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Future Skills And Careers Event
These are the types of questions Power Up – a free careers advice and study expo, is seeking to answer for professionals, people returning to work, adult learners and those thinking about future career options. Power Up, on 3 June from 12.30pm to 5.30pm at the Christchurch Town Hall, will feature a series of seminars…
Three-Year Partnership Between ChristchurchNZ and Crusaders
Understanding audiences and increasing visitation for rugby matches in Ōtautahi Christchurch are the driving forces behind a new partnership between ChristchurchNZ and the Crusaders. The three-year partnership was signed in December 2020 and represents an exciting pairing of the city’s sustainable economic development agency and one of New Zealand’s strongest sporting brands. Both organisations share…
The Billion-Dollar Confidence Boost for Ōtautahi Christchurch’s Tech Sector
“I can think of no greater compliment than our determination to leave intact Seequent, as a Bentley Company, entrusting its management with greater responsibilities to continue their dynamic momentum,” Bentley said. The agreement is subject to customary regulatory approval. Shaun Maloney, Seequent CEO, said “by ‘leapfrogging ahead’ with Bentley to align geosciences with infrastructure engineering…
Every Business Should Have a Mentor
The business mentors are diverse as the business people they support, with both generalist and specialist business skills. Canterbury’s team of volunteer mentors offer their tremendous skills, experience, and generosity to support a wide range of businesses including start-ups, small to medium businesses with less than 20 staff, not for profits and social enterprises. We…
WHITE FERNS Stars Talk About Christchurch’s Sporting Excellence
“We now have Hagley Oval, one of the best grounds in the world. It’s an amazing place to host the best games that come into the country, so that’s pretty great,” she said. “It’s brought heaps of life into the city and seeing that oval packed for international fixtures is really exciting every time.” Credit:…
New Zealand Entrepreneurs Shine on the FoodStarter Stage
The search for New Zealand’s most innovative food and beverage products culminated with ten finalists pitching their exciting products to a judging panel of industry experts. The judges got the chance to taste, hear and ask questions of each of the finalists about why their products should be chosen for the once in a lifetime…
Q & A With Anna Fawcett
I could speak for hours on this! I was initially attracted to this role and to Ōtautahi Christchurch after reading the extraordinary vision that has been laid out along with the ‘bold ambition’ to imagine and strive for creating new and better economic opportunities for the city and its people. My dream for Ōtautahi Christchurch…
Specialised Start-Up Support Continues for 25 Covid-Impacted Jobseekers
The accelerator programme is the second phase of Start Me Up, an initiative aimed at supporting jobseekers to explore what it takes to start their own business. Badass Brownies, one of the Accelerator participants aims to employ women seeking work experience to help them secure a job, these low allergen brownies give back to your…
TRENZ Hui 2021 – ChristchurchNZ.com
The city of Ōtautahi Christchurch is thrilled to be hosting one of the largest tourism industry gatherings in the world on 5-6 May, here in our basecamp for exploration at the heart of Te Waipounamu, the beautiful South Island. TRENZ Hui 2021 will bring together hundreds of industry delegates at Christchurch Town Hall to discuss…
Ten Big Ideas To Accelerate Change In The Food And Fibre Sector
“The quality of innovation right across the Challenge has been outstanding. We’ve been thoroughly impressed with the commitment to the programme and enthusiasm to transforming the food and fibre sector. We’re excited to see the final presentations and we’ll be supporting the ventures to take the next step with their ventures,” says Polglase. The finalists…
Tourism Communities: Support, Recovery and Re-set Plan
“This is an extremely strong package that recognises some of the systematic challenges facing the tourism sector. We’re pleased to see it reaches across issues including mental health, capability building within the sector, Māori development, and the need for transformation and economic diversification. “ChristchurchNZ is strongly supportive of the Minister’s commitment to rebuilding the industry…
Tourism Communities: Support, Recovery and Re-set Plan
“This is an extremely strong package that recognises some of the systematic challenges facing the tourism sector. We’re pleased to see it reaches across issues including mental health, capability building within the sector, Māori development, and the need for transformation and economic diversification. “ChristchurchNZ is strongly supportive of the Minister’s commitment to rebuilding the industry…
Ten Big Ideas To Accelerate Change In The Food And Fibre Sector
“The quality of innovation right across the Challenge has been outstanding. We’ve been thoroughly impressed with the commitment to the programme and enthusiasm to transforming the food and fibre sector. We’re excited to see the final presentations and we’ll be supporting the ventures to take the next step with their ventures,” says Polglase. The finalists…
TRENZ Hui 2021 – ChristchurchNZ.com
The city of Ōtautahi Christchurch is thrilled to be hosting one of the largest tourism industry gatherings in the world on 5-6 May, here in our basecamp for exploration at the heart of Te Waipounamu, the beautiful South Island. TRENZ Hui 2021 will bring together hundreds of industry delegates at Christchurch Town Hall to discuss…
Q & A With Anna Fawcett
I could speak for hours on this! I was initially attracted to this role and to Ōtautahi Christchurch after reading the extraordinary vision that has been laid out along with the ‘bold ambition’ to imagine and strive for creating new and better economic opportunities for the city and its people. My dream for Ōtautahi Christchurch…
Specialised Start-Up Support Continues for 25 Covid-Impacted Jobseekers
The accelerator programme is the second phase of Start Me Up, an initiative aimed at supporting jobseekers to explore what it takes to start their own business. Badass Brownies, one of the Accelerator participants aims to employ women seeking work experience to help them secure a job, these low allergen brownies give back to your…
New Zealand entrepreneurs shine on the FoodStarter stage
The search for New Zealand’s most innovative food and beverage products culminated with ten finalists pitching their exciting products to a judging panel of industry experts. The judges got the chance to taste, hear and ask questions of each of the finalists about why their products should be chosen for the once in a lifetime…
WHITE FERNS Stars Talk About Christchurch’s Sporting Excellence
“We now have Hagley Oval, one of the best grounds in the world. It’s an amazing place to host the best games that come into the country, so that’s pretty great,” she said. “It’s brought heaps of life into the city and seeing that oval packed for international fixtures is really exciting every time.” Credit:…
Every Business Should Have a Mentor
The business mentors are diverse as the business people they support, with both generalist and specialist business skills. Canterbury’s team of volunteer mentors offer their tremendous skills, experience, and generosity to support a wide range of businesses including start-ups, small to medium businesses with less than 20 staff, not for profits and social enterprises. We…
The Billion-Dollar Confidence Boost for Ōtautahi Christchurch’s Tech Sector
“I can think of no greater compliment than our determination to leave intact Seequent, as a Bentley Company, entrusting its management with greater responsibilities to continue their dynamic momentum,” Bentley said. The agreement is subject to customary regulatory approval. Shaun Maloney, Seequent CEO, said “by ‘leapfrogging ahead’ with Bentley to align geosciences with infrastructure engineering…
Food, Fibre and Agritech Challenge Top 25 Announced
“Challenges have the potential to grow businesses, enhance the environment and support prosperous livelihoods. We’re thrilled with the level of sophistication across the entrants and the opportunity to support these innovators, share knowledge and potentially grow great global businesses – all from here in Ōtautahi Christchurch.” During the next phase of the Challenge, the top…
Three-Year Partnership Between ChristchurchNZ and Crusaders
Understanding audiences and increasing visitation for rugby matches in Ōtautahi Christchurch are the driving forces behind a new partnership between ChristchurchNZ and the Crusaders. The three-year partnership was signed in December 2020 and represents an exciting pairing of the city’s sustainable economic development agency and one of New Zealand’s strongest sporting brands. Both organisations share…
Ōtautahi Christchurch Embraces PRIDE Week 2021
A huge central city art installation will kick off PRIDE Week in Ōtautahi Christchurch. ChristchurchNZ are pleased to be supporting PRIDE Week 2021, and the activations and events happening across the city from 5-14 March showcasing and embracing our diverse community. A range of city activations and events are happening throughout the week, kicking off…
Leveraging Christchurch’s Antarctic Connection – ChristchurchNZ.com
Christchurch cemented its Antarctic Gateway status when American polar aviator and explorer Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd based several Antarctic expeditions here from the 1920s to 1950s, including the first Operation Deep Freeze that established McMurdo Station in 1957. Christchurch remains the gateway for the US Antarctic Program. Italy, South Korea, France, Germany, China, and…
Friday, 19 February 2021 Inspiring Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs
Friday, 19 February 2021 Inspiring Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs More at ChristchurchNZ
The Billion-Dollar Screen Opportunity – ChristchurchNZ.com
The Billion-Dollar Screen Opportunity Film and television production is one of New Zealand’s largest export industries. How big? It’s worth $3.5 billion to the New Zealand economy every year. Huge right? And it’s only getting bigger as people consume more and more content on streaming platforms, with growth fuelled by the global pandemic and more…
Students’ Association helps to feed future generation of Christchurch students
The Association has won a contract with the Government’s Ka Ora, Ka Ako | Healthy School Lunches programme, which provides nutritious lunches every school day to primary and secondary school pupils from participating schools. The programme is being rolled out nationally to address food insecurity among kiwi youth – something intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic….
Why Enter the Food, Fibre and Agritech Challenge
‘’Because of the [Health Tech Challenge], we were then invited to be part of a much bigger med-tech accelerator in the Asia Pacific region. ‘’We also had a much stronger application for having done the local one.’’ The Health Tech Challenge had distilled their thinking much more quickly, and provided them with assets and marketing…
Start-up Support for COVID-19 Impacted Jobseekers
Start Me Up is a business skills kick-starter programme aimed at people whose work has been impacted by the pandemic and are currently, or soon to be, registered as unemployed. It is also open to those who were unemployed prior to the pandemic. It has been specifically designed to guide people who are thinking about…