The world is evolving at a rapid pace, and with it comes both uncertainty and opportunity. What better time for our Canterbury Tech community to come together – to collaborate, share insights, and explore how we can accelerate the growth of Aotearoa New Zealand’s tech sector. We warmly invite everyone involved in tech and anyone curious about where it’s heading, to join us for the 2026 Tech Summit. This full-day conference promises to be thought-provoking and inspiring, with plenty of opportunities to connect, exchange ideas, and spark new collaborations with industry peers.

Start Canterbury’s Tech Summit ‘26 with coffee, kai and good company.

Spring is a good excuse to get the Christchurch SaaS community back in the same room.

All signals are pointing to a wholesale shift in how we build software. Agentic development is moving fast — and for larger tech teams, the real question is how we adopt it safely, pragmatically, and at scale.

Every SaaS GTM team is experimenting with AI right now — but the gap between teams getting real lift and teams burning rep time is widening fast.

GTM Engineering is reshaping how the world's fastest-growing companies go to market. Canva, Stripe, Ramp and OpenAI are already doing it. Silicon Valley can't stop talking about it and here in Aotearoa? It's barely on the radar, yet.

AI is driving major change — not just in SaaS products and markets, but in the organisations behind them. For SaaS leaders, the challenge now is understanding what this shift means for roles, operating models, decision-making, and how teams actually get work done.

Many SaaS companies at $5–20m ARR hit the same wall: paid search is working, but CAC keeps climbing. Outbound feels cold, and the marketing channels you’re running don’t seem to talk to each other. More spend starts to produce diminishing returns because you’re fishing harder in the same pond. The problem often isn’t execution. It’s architecture.

AI is moving fast out of engineering and into finance, marketing, people ops and customer-facing teams. Across the KiwiSaaS community, the operators getting traction aren’t the ones with the flashiest tools — they’re the ones who’ve worked out how to bring their whole business along.

The SaaSpocalypse is here — but what is it really, and what does it mean for NZ SaaS companies? There are plenty of opinions out there, but the risks and opportunities are starting to take shape, along with the potential strategic responses for world-class businesses.

The best marketing conversations happen over lunch — especially when the room’s full of people who’ve actually shipped campaigns (and learned the hard way).

Discover your leadership superpowers and how to use them to get the best out of your people. Before the workshop, you’ll complete a short AI-powered feedback and personality profile to see how others experience you as a leader.

AI is driving major change — not just in SaaS products and markets, but in the SaaS businesses behind them. With technology evolving so quickly, leaders have their work cut out keeping pace with the organisational implications: roles, operating models, decision-making, and how teams actually get work done.

You’ve probably seen the term SaaSpocalypse popping up more lately. It’s shorthand for a potential SaaS shakeout — where the old growth playbook keeps getting tougher (capital is tighter, customers are more cautious, competition is intense, and AI is accelerating change), and only the businesses with real moats and efficient growth thrive.

Join us for an afternoon of drinks and networking with fellow SaaS operators in Christchurch.

AI is everywhere and most SaaS companies have started in product and engineering. But the bigger, messier challenge is what happens across the rest of the business.

The traditional SaaS sales funnel was built for a world where demand flowed from Google to your website, then into a neat, trackable pipeline. That model’s breaking.

Most tech businesses know their key homepage conversion points, but almost all fail to optimise the entire buyer journey.

The Kiss My SaaS peer-to-peer learning workshop addresses the key business capabilities needed to grow your SaaS business, with discussions facilitated by an industry veteran.

This is your chance to go deeper, get specific, and ask the questions that matter to your business. No slides, no presentations — just straight answers from two of New Zealand's most experienced SaaS finance and investment minds.

Summer is basically a fleeting memory. Before we retreat into hoodies, hot desks and 14-hour sprint cycles, the Auckland SaaS community is getting together for one final outdoor hurrah.

GTM Engineering is reshaping how the world's fastest-growing companies go to market. Canva, Stripe, Ramp and OpenAI are already doing it. Silicon Valley can't stop talking about it and here in Aotearoa? It's barely on the radar, yet.

The cybersecurity threat landscape is changing fast and SaaS providers are increasingly being targeted. If you’re leading a SaaS business, this workshop is about getting clear on the biggest risks right now, and what ‘good’ looks like so you’re better prepared if an incident occurs.