NZ Hi-Tech Awards - Dunedin Networking Event April 4th

The Main event is oversubscribed - but the After Party still has capacity, so join us at 6.30pm at Vault21 Upstairs - only ticketed entry allowed.

This is the first official Hi-Tech awards event of any kind in Dunedin, Otago, as we thought it’s about time we celebrated the incredible diversity of hi-tech companies across the region - Gaming, Agritech, Enterprise ICT, SaaS, Deep Tech, HardwareTech, Healthtech, Fintech, Edtech… all the techs!

What better venue to celebrate than immersed in United Machinists’ hi-tech advanced manufacturing facility – surrounded by autonomous machines manufacturing everything from prosthetics to aerospace components for leading Kiwi hi-tech hardware exporters! 

Limit 2 tickets per organisation for the first round - then opened up if tickets remain available.

Format:

4.00pm: Entry

4.30pm Proceedings Kick Off

• Welcome - MC "Ryan the Lion" Ashton
• Introduction to Hi Tech Awards and the Trust by David Downs, Chair of the Hi-tech Trust
• Dunedin Tech - Sir Ian Taylor, Fly Kiwi and Hi Tech Board Member
• Host - Sarah Ramsay, CEO, United Machinist

5.00pm Networking & Technology Displays

• TASKA Prosthetics display with a robot hand
• Bpac Solutions Robot Nurse
• Animation Research Limited Gimbal
• United Machinist - Autonomous machines will be operating
• Van Brandenburg - 3d printed model of the Marisfrolg Campus, China

6.00pm Close

6.30 Unofficial After Party

• Note there is a ticketed After Party which you are welcome to get the ticket just for the Afterparty if you are on the event list
• Held at Vault21 bar in the Octagon sponsored by:
  •  Crew Technology Consulting thanks to Tom Sweeney
  • Optimus Systems thanks to Kyle Greig

Thank you:

United Machinist - for hosting us in the heart of tech in the centre of Dunedin

United Machinist’s ISO:9001 Accredited CNC machine shop provides precision machined and 3D printed components for aerospace, electronics, automotive, medical and marine applications.For mission critical components exceptional quality is simply permission to play. Business innovation sets United apart. Second-generation owner operators Alex & Sarah Ramsay are on a mission to create the ‘Machine shop of the Future’.
Their advanced manufacturing facility offers customers real-time live schedules of production progress, customised production automation, metal and plastic composite 3D printing and fully automated lights out manufacturing.

See our venue HERE!

AFQY - A Few Quiet Yarns - for organising this event

A Few Quiet Yarns is a technology focussed event business running our original networking event nationwide with a range of other tech focussed event from AFXY EXEC Roundtables to AFxY Speaker/Subject event such as the upcoming AFxY Digital Twins NZ REBUILD.
Ryan the Lion Ashton, our founder is born and breed Dunedin and whilst living in Auckland, now works a week-a-month from Dunedin. As noted in the original post, he asked the Hi Tech Trust team to get Dunedin on the 2023 schedule when it originally wasn't and has helped organise it on behalf of hi Tech.