Queenstown Technology Group

17/10/2022

Catalyst Trust's next event focuses on shining light in the darkness - talking celestial, not political!

In the first of our 'Spacetober' events, we have astrophysicist and founder of the Nobel award-winning Supernova Cosmology Project Prof Brian Boyle speaking with us about light and dark (figurative and literal) in the cosmos. That's on Tuesday, October 25.

Then at lunchtime on November 1 (still October in NASA-land), we have a surprise visitor landing for lunchtime downtown, literally from out of this world. Details to be announced ASAP.

In addition, we're coordinating a project with Wakatipu High School to have them join NZ's meteorite detection and tracking programme. And bringing an interactive space exhibit to Queenstown later in the school holidays.

Registration open now on the link below for Brian's talk. You may have heard his dulcet tones already during Matariki events up Coronet Peak and in Arrowtown. He has many more tales to tell...

Professor Brian Boyle discusses science's the ongoing discoveries of the universe

18/09/2021

Worldwide, remote hackathon run by NASA.
Get into it!

Since its inception in 2012, NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge has engaged 150,000+ people from 150+ countries in using NASA’s open data to build innovative solutions to challenges we face on Earth and in space.

29/01/2021

Freddy is the devil!

The New Zealand Intelligence Community (NZIC) is a community of government agencies working together to build a safer and more prosperous New Zealand. We are people who are committed to doing beyond ordinary work everyday to keep New Zealanders safe. We protect and enhance our country's interests he...

25/01/2021

Anyone interested in hearing more about this?

Researchers from Princeton, Stanford, Cornell, and the Open Networking Foundation are working to shape the next-generation of computer networks under the DARPA-funded Pronto Project. Emerging mobile networking technologies promise to radically change notions of connectivity, information availability, and interoperability, as well as place new demands on the wired “core” where data centers and web servers reside. To date, little has been done to address the security and robustness of internet infrastructure, as it is notoriously difficult to make the internet verifiably robust and secure against failures, attacks, and configuration mistakes.

One problem is that many networks still use proprietary software and fixed-function hardware whose correctness is hard to prove. The advent of programmable networking technologies and open source addresses two of these concerns, leaving the most critical capability for securing the internet infrastructure to be verifiability. The Pronto Project seeks to address this challenge by developing an open source 5G connected edge cloud as a programmable network. If successful, this will be the first network under verifiable closed loop control.
https://cacm.acm.org/careers/249976-30m-grant-will-support-flexible-networks-project/fulltext

31/12/2020

Innovation Challenge is an organization that solves problems that people throughout the country have by providing innovative solutions. Also we promote challenges to solve those problems.

27/12/2020

Is it the season for Reindeer Games?

Kiwi Game Starter 2020 – call for entries! 16th October 2020 Entry forms for the New Zealand Game Developers Association startup programme for interactive games businesses, the Kiwi Game Starter, are now open!Apologies for the delay, this has been down to a number of factors including setting up a...

18/12/2020

So, that's been a year, eh?

We're looking forward to a reinvigorated 2021, and starting to plan some meetups and events.

But, unless you help us out, we're just going to do that based on whatever weird things we happen to think are interesting: So, what's your wishlist version of our features roadmap for QTG in '21?

Anything you particularly want to know about or get up to? Anything you'd be keen to volunteer for?

Comment here, and we'll see what we can do.

Merry Thread.Sleep(n) and Happy i++

16/11/2020

Last minute!

We've got NZ Privacy Commissioner John Edwards giving a talk on the changes to NZ Privacy Act that are coming into effect on 1st December at the Queenstown Sofitel at 12:00.