With less than a week to go, time is running out to nominate organisations and individuals making a difference through technology in the NZ Charitable Sector.
From outstanding innovators, to Government agencies, to private sector orgs making a different by supporting the sector, the NZ Charities Technology Awards are an exceptional opportunity to achieve recognition for people and organisations who rarely receive it.
Nominations are invited from organisations who are service providers across New Zealand in categories including Technology Volunteer of the Year, Not-for-Profit Technology Lifetime Service, Technology Innovator of the Year, and Using Technology to Connecting to the Community – Best Government Agency Award.
The awards will take place at a gala dinner at the Waipuna Hotel, Auckland, on Thursday 15 August, which is day one of the annual TechSoup New Zealand Conference.
Focused on innovation and excellence
Themed #Transform2019nz, this year’s event will focus on innovation and excellence in technology service, and will bring a number of top class speakers and presenters to Auckland.
Keynote speakers will include artificial intelligence expert Gus Quiroga from IBM, New Zealand’s Assistant Privacy Commissioner Jon Duffy, inspirational social media strategist Alecia Hancock, and Amazon Web Services’ Public Sector specialist Hannah Goodwin.
Gala dinner celebration
The awards, in their fourth year, are a gala dinner occasion designed to encourage non-profits to celebrate innovation, change and solutions that impact core business outcomes.
Nominations are invited from organisations across New Zealand in the following categories:
- Technology Volunteer of the Year
- Not-for-Profit Technology Lifetime Service Award
- Best Social Media Campaign of the Year
- Technology Innovator of the Year
- Using Technology to connect to the Community - Best Small to Medium Enterprise (Private Sector)
- Best Accidental IT person
- Using Technology to Connect to the Community - Best Government Agency
Make a nomination for this year’s NZ Charities Technology Awards.
A thank you to our sponsors
The TechSoup New Zealand Conference would not be possible without the support of our sponsors.
A huge thank you to this year’s Main Conference Gold Sponsor Liberate IT, our Silver Sponsor, The IT Team, Gold Scholarships Sponsor, Amazon Web Services and Bronze Sponsors Reboot IT, Joyful and Strategic Grants.
Sponsor Transform2019nz
Sponsorship opportunities, including the NZ Charities Technology Awards Gold Sponsorship and individual awards sponsorships, are still available. If you’d like to find out more, simply email the conference team at conference@techsoup.net.nz
About Connecting Up:
Connecting Up is a not-for-profit organisation. Our purpose is to help fellow not-for-profits leverage the digital world to positively impact their communities. The digital world is expanding beyond IT software-hardware and digital marketing to new innovative service delivery and measuring social impact.
Connecting Up believe that not-for-profits with the right tools and skills can and do achieve great things for their communities. We have a long history of affordable software, hardware, educational events and group consulting. We partner with over 40 organisations to deliver high quality products and services specifically meeting the unique needs of the not for profit sector.