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NZSA News: October 2014

Award winners revealed

Congratulations to all the winners at the IITP Excellence in IT Awards! NZSA President Gavin Lennox was honoured to present the Excellence in Software prize on October 10th to OSPRI New Zealand for the Animal Disease Management System.

Market Measures report out now

The Market Measures 2014 report is now available, and indicates that while New Zealand continues to be a 'land of plenty' when it comes to technology products, we remain a desert when it comes to smart ways to sell those ideas to the world.

As a Member or friend of the NZSA, you can access the report (valued at $250) for free. Download the report and enter the promotional code MMSA to find out:

What are the most successful NZ tech companies doing differently?
How can NZ Tech companies discover faster and sustainable growth?
How does our sales & marketing compare to our American counterparts?

SIG Update: Agile development contracts

We launched our first Special Interest Group a few months ago, with a mix of practitioners, lawyers and business people meeting to discuss the challenges around authoring, agreeing, and delivering on Agile Development Contracts. Roger Ford of the Testing Consultancy has summarised the issues in a recent blog - check it out.

If you're interested in participating, please contact Arjan: arjan@bedare.co.nz.

Member directory live

The NZSA has launched a new directory of company members on our website, and many have commented that this is a great resource for business referrals. Small company members can include a URL, corporate members can also include their logo. If you're not on the list, please send materials to info@nzsa.org.nz.

Jacket found at September event

We found a brown leather jacket at Glengarry's Victoria Park after our September event. If it's yours, please get in touch: president@nzsa.org.nz.

NZSA Events

In October, Snowball Effect's Josh Daniell introduced the intrigued and inquisitive NZSA audience to equity crowdfunding. View the slides.
On November 11, we will welcome John-Daniel Trask of Hi-Tech Award Winner Mindscape who will talk about building a software products company and selling globally from New Zealand – register now!
Mark your calendar for Tuesday December 9th for our always-popular end-of-year celebration and stay tuned for more details.

Industry Events

Conferenz is hosting the The Internet of Things November 19. There is one free Member ticket available, plus the usual 10% discount for everyone else. To apply for free ticket offers, email info@nzsa.org.nz
Increase performance - Getting the most out of the cloud, a panel discussion at ecentre Massey. The third in ecentre's Cloud Series will focus on using metrics and marketing to increase the performance of your cloud based business. Wednesday, 19 November.

Sponsor news

IBM is pleased to announce Kiwi startup 9Spokes won the Global Entrepreneur Program ANZ Smartcamp in September with an innovative analytics solution.
New offerings from IBM also include SoftLayer, a self-service Infrastructure as a Service (with extensive APIs) and Bluemix, an open-standard, cloud-based platform for building, managing, and running all types of applications.
Hudson Gavin Martin congratulates Eyemobi, winner of the inaugural KiwiGameStarter Award, a new programme launched by the NZ Game Developers Association. Eyemobi created the procedurally-generated action horror game Phantasmal.

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