Hello Everyone:

WellyForge7 on March 18th, 7pm has just 5 tickets left → Tickets & Full Speaker List, this will be a top night, and even better, you can double up with the KiwiSaaS drinks at Mean Doses from 4pm. As usual, if you can’t now make WellyForge7 you should be able to release your ticket via Humantix.

Life Sciences NZ is on at Takina, what a great venue for these events, here’s the packed meeting room with John Robson (CEO of BioOra) running a panel including the Chief Science Adviser to the Prime Minister, John Roche who gave us the thought-provoking quote about a disabled person saying “my biggest fear is that AI will be regulated by abled body people”:

Okay, this is my penultimate newsletter. March 18th will see the last weekly newsletter, please do fill out the WellyForge survey form to help Hercules, Kevin, Ipshita and Maddie work out what comes next.

And other recent media coverage of local interest:

Highlighted entries are new from last week.

NEXT 10 DAYS:

Wed Mar 11th, 4.30-7.30pm, Wahine shaping tech communities at CHQ with NZ Tech Rally

Wed-Thu, Mar 11-12th, FinTechNZ Hui Tamata at Takina

Fri Mar 13th, 4-5.30pm, “Protecting people in the age of deepfakes", Laura McClure MP, talking at Victoria’s AI seminar series in Rutherford House.

Tue-Wed, Mar 17-18th, National Cyber Security Summit at Takina

Tue Mar 17th, 5-7pm, The Waiting Room - Cyber Risk in Healthcare, hosted at Talent Army with the digital health community.

Tue Mar 17th, 5-7pm, Governing for Growth, with Marcel van den Assum, Serge van Dam, Suse Reynolds hosted at KPMG.

Wed Mar 18th, Digitising Government Conference at Takina

Wed Mar 18th, 4pm, KiwiSaaS “Summer Sunset Drinks” at Mean Doses

Wed Mar 18th, 7pm, WellyForge7 at Undercurrent, ticket & full details

Thu Mar 19th, 8-9am, Cafe Complexite at the Atom

Thu Mar 19th, 5-8pm, Tech for Good with the French Embassy - Liquium, Kelvius, Farm Medix and along with Pierre Malou, CEO of Vic Univentures.

Thu Mar 19th-22nd, Wellington Animation & Film Festival at the Roxy in Miramar

Thu Mar 19th, 7-8pm, “Active plate tectonics on early Earth” a GSNZ meeting being held in Old Government Buildings at Vic.

Fri-Sun Mar 20-22, Industry Dayz at Miramar Creative Centre, From Dream to Reality, how do ideas become viable projects? how do you collaborate??

Fri Mar 20th, 3pm, Rare Beer Challenge at The Malthouse, this is a fun event, and about raising awareness and funds for people living with rare disorders.

Sat Mar 21st, Code Camp Wellington hosted at Xero and Trade Me.

KNOWN EVENTS NEXT 4 WEEKS

Mon Mar 23rd, 6.30pm, Antarctic Film Festival with Alexander Hillary at Victoria (repeated on the Tuesday in Paekakariki)

Tue Mar 24th, 7.50-9.30am, British High Commission - Frontier Technology Event at Te Papa. Dr Gabriel Bioletti from OpenStar and other guests celebrating UK/NZ collaborations and the UK’s frontier tech priorities. [email protected] (this is essential).

Thu Mar 26th, 3.30-5pm, MedTech iQ meets Taiawa, MedTech IQ aims to foster med tech innovation across NZ, this is the Wellington branch hearing from Taiawa’s various biotechs (Evithe, UunaFit, Inhibit). [Link to come!]

Wed Apr 1st, 5.30-7pm, “Drug discovery inspired by peptide natural products”, Ferrier Public Lecture by Prof Richard Payne.

Wed Apr 1st, 6-7pm, “AI past, present and possible futures: It’s not rocket science!”, talk at the Royal Society by Bruce Aylward.

RECURRING EVENTS

The Atom at Victoria is open for any unfunded Founders (Students, Early Stage, Idea Stage) and is run by Entrepreneur in Residence, Adiraj Gupta - Email [email protected] , or join the Facebook community.