EVENTS

This is a short, energizing and effective workshop to activate your creative right side of the brain to unleash problem solving skills, overcome obstacles and align yourself with your business vision.

This is an advanced workshop for business owners who want tips on how to save costs and more effectively market their business.

Join us as the Mayoral Candidates present their arguments to the Wellington business community as part of the overall election campaign.

This year the keynote speaker will be Professor Colin Mason from the Hunter Centre of Entrepreneurship at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK.

This is a FREE learning event for people from community groups who use the web/IT to engage people and stay connected.

Whilst on the face of it the GST rate rise seems fairly straightforward, many businesses are just beginning to assess the impact of this rate change on their systems. During this Twilight session, we will explore the financial implications and IRD advisory information presented by PWC.

What's happening in Wellington and how you can make New Zealand's biggest ever sporting event work for you?

What could your organisation achieve through partnering with New Zealand’s top researchers? Come and find out.

This workshop, based on years of research, is specially designed to stimulate and reinforce the creative side of the mind, thus enhancing our overall productivity.

It’s a business referral marketing club for women that are serious about their friendships and their business.

In this seminar you will learn more about what a brand is, why it is more than a visual identity or logo, and why your brand is important to your customers, and whether you know it or not you already have one you just may not have thought about it.

Make sure you get to the three-day expo for business owners and check out the latest products and services for businesses.

The Government has committed an extra $234 million over four years to support businesses to do R&D. This means there is a total of $75 million for 2010/11 through the Foundation TechNZ business programme.

We have a major competitive advantage. We live in a time zone opposite to that of many of our major export markets in Europe and the USA.

Find out what culture is and how it impacts on business behaviour.

Everything you ever wanted to know about websites but had no-one to ask.

Whether you are new or have previously attended the National Bloom Forum, you can appreciate the wealth of knowledge and networking than can be achieved in just two days. And how valuable this can be to building your business.

If you have a business idea that needs polishing come along to our Brighten Your Ideas workshop.

f you are thinking of trading, offering services or expanding your operation within the Pacific region this presentation should not be missed. It is also anticipated that a report on the preliminary findings of the recent NZPBC Trade Mission to Fiji and Guam will be made.

Guerrilla Marketing" (also known as Ambush Marketing) was first coined by Jay Conrad Levinson and is an unconventional system of promoting yourself on a very low budget, by relying on time, energy and imagination instead of big marketing budgets.

Pricing your product or service is one of the most important business decisions you will make, and is a key part of your marketing.

KEA - New Zealand's Global Network - has arrived to Japan and will hold its first event on May 19 (Wednesday) in Tokyo, Japan. KEA is privileged to have renowned businessman Brian Martin as a keynote speaker.

Wellington Culinary Fare is hosting the trainee chefs who are practicing for New Zealand at the Gourmet Pacific Challenge in June 2010.

What business owners actually need is to understand what successful leadership looks like for their own business not some theoretical ideal. This workshop focuses on the key issues a business owner needs to understand in order to succeed as a leader.

Join us and Hon Dr Nick Smith, Minister for Climate Change, to discuss the effects of Climate Change on your business and share views with you on how the policy is rolling out.

Come along to the second Hackers and Founders Wellington Meetup. It will be a informal meetup where we get to know each other over drinks.

There are many ways of meeting the daily challenges faced by business owners and one of those is for business owners to know what’s out there that they can use to improve their ‘lot’ and one way of letting people know that information is by way of the Hutt Valley Chamber of Commerce Business Expo being held in the Lower Hutt Town Hall from 9.00am to 4.00pm on Wednesday 14th April, 2010.

Do you want to control costs, motivate your workforce and provide a competitive edge to your business? This series of workshops includes real examples and case studies, plus a number of interactive exercises and videos to enable the participants to understand and apply in practice the foundations of Lean.

At this the fifth in our Export NZ Wellington series of Export Breakfasts on the theme of ‘Winning in Emerging Markets’, the focus is one of the four BRIC emerging economies earmarked for significant economic growth in the coming decades. Russia presents significant opportunities for innovative Kiwi exporters. Along with the opportunities, there are bear traps hidden in the thickets to catch the unwary.

This workshop will demystify the acting process by providing a glimpse inside the actor’s head. By understanding their process you will be better able to adapt your direction to their needs.

This workshop is designed as an accelerated learning programme to ensure attendees come away with key understandings of pay-per-click advertising principles and a range of best practise optimisation techniques that can be easily implemented, and with quick effect.

Director, Producer and Cinematographer Waka Attewell will facilitate a discussion which looks at the film-making culture and social backdrop of the 70s and 80s when many of NZ's most iconic and best loved films were produced, and discuss the ethos and motivations behind such films as Utu, Good-bye Pork Pie and Ruby and Rata.

As a passionate campaigner for the importance of a creative arts education, the creative industries, and of government investment in the arts she hoped that Sir Christopher's discussions with university and government officials would help find new ways to harness creativity to create new industries or opportunities for New Zealand businesses.

This practical workshop will take you through Rob’s process from development to post-production and examine how process can be adapted from project to project. Along the way there will be exercises that challenge you to develop processes appropriate to your own projects. A workshop full of tips, pitfalls to watch out for, and practical advice from someone who has been there.

It's less than a week to go until New Zealand Teaching and Learning Expo opens its virtual doors.