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Bringing HR tech people together.

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3 December 2025 · Auckland CBD

HR Tech Networking Meetup, Auckland

A festive catch-up for people in HR, tech, payroll and people analytics. No pitches. The first drink is on us. This one is for HR, people and technology professionals. Product sales teams are asked to sit this one out.

  • Easy conversation across HR, tech, payroll and analytics
  • What worked in 2025, and what you are planning for 2026
  • A room of people you will want to know later

6 June 2023 · Wellington waterfront

HR Tech Sessions, Wellington

HR analytics with Adam McKinnon, People Data and Analytics Lead at Reece Group, and Tina Lundkvist, Head of People Analytics at Fonterra. Adam’s session asked three questions of the work: says what, so what, and now what. Tina spoke to diversity and analytics, natural language processing, and the craft of visualisation.

  • Successful HR organisations have to manage data well
  • Data earns its place in the problem, the business case, and the measure of impact
  • The monetary impact of HR initiatives can be quantified

23 February 2023 · Online

HR Tech Sessions, Online

Drew Williams, HR Director at the University of Sydney, and his team walked through four bots handling high-volume HR work: ServiceNow triage, payroll, casual academic onboarding, and moving employee documents from Workday into a document system. The point for Australia and New Zealand is practical. Bots can stitch systems together at the interface, without a long integration programme, and the payback is often weeks.