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Twelve technology industry groups have joined forces for one megaconference, which will take place in Wellington next July.
"ITx 2016" will be a single three-day event with 12 smaller conferences within it.
"There will be some shared top-tier keynotes across the whole conference, and anyone attending one ITx conference can attend any stream of any other ITx conference. Same with social events – some will be across all conferences, some individual ones," says Institute of IT Professionals chief executive Paul Matthews, who is chairing the ITx 2016 steering group.
The ITx 2016 consortium is hoping for 1200 attendees.
The 12 organisations behind the event are:
- The Institute of IT Professionals NZ (IITP), the largest body of IT Professionals in NZ;
- NZ Technology Industry Association (NZTech), the body representing tech companies;
- NZRise, the representative body for NZ-owned digital technology companies;
- IT Service Management Forum NZ, the network for IT Service Management professionals;
- CITRENZ, the body of computing schools in the Institute of Technology and Polytech sector;
- Health Informatics NZ, the leading body for individuals practicing in health IT;
- TUANZ, the representative body for ICT and communications users.
- Test Professionals Network, the leading forum for promoting excellence in systems and software testing;
- Agile Day, where Agile professionals come together;
- InternetNZ, the voice of the internet community;
- Project Management Institute of NZ, representing PM professionals; and
- NZ Open Source Society (NZOSS), the body promoting Open Source Software in NZ
The event has been announced today but so far there is only a placeholder website (something you might want to raise at the next steering group, Project Management Institute).
Mr Matthews pledges the real thing will go live shortly at itx.nz
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