She’s in ctrl: Wāhine Fuelled Tech

This amazing event is brought to you by Wāhine Fuelled Tech meetup group in partnership with Wellington NZ and our sponsors Creative HQ and Somar Digital.

Wāhine Fuelled Tech group provides a safe and supportive environment that empowers you to develop your technology skills, your career and your network. This will be our second year hosting a major TechWeek event.

This event will be a chance to network, hear and learn from 4 inspiring women from Aotearoa working within the tech industry. Stick around post event for drinks and nibbles to network with all the attendees.

Rebekah Campbell - Entrepreneur and author

Rebekah is a serial entrepreneur who has founded many Sydney based companies and also an author of her first book, '138 Dates. Her company ‘Hey You’ is used by more than 1 million Australians to order and pay at cafes. She is passionate about community building and entrepreneurship. She will be talking about her journey, good and bad, and advice for woman working in the tech industry.

Rebecca Roberts - Head of People & Practice - Abletech

Beck is the Head of People and Practice across two sister companies- Addressfinder and Abletech consulting, both based in Wellington. She loves making work an amazing place to learn, grow and achieve in. Outside of this she volunteers for DOC and in an emergency response team, making a habit of doing things that freak her the F*%k out.
She will be talking about her journey to finding purpose and joy through facing into Fear.

Samantha Gadd - Founder / CEO Excellent - Director Humankind

Prior to Excellent, for over a decade Samantha has been leading the way in EX thinking through growing the leading HR & EX consulting business in NZ with Humankind.

Over the last two years Samantha has built an extensive network of HR and EX professionals around the world - and is contributing to conversations on the future of work in leading global organisations. Samantha's talk will definitely provoke many questions and advice from the audience on her expertise.

Sandra Whitehead - Senior Manager - IT Governance

In an industry that is ever-changing and lives that are super busy, it’s often hard to figure out what learning to invest in and how. Sandra’s continuous learning spree offers some great insights into this topic. Although she had a non-traditional “late start”, she’s completed a degree, several courses, a variety of certifications, and is now busy with another degree. More importantly she engaged in unconventional approaches to learning in a more practical sense. She has a few tricks up her sleeve that made this happen and will share these insights with you