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Between September and the end of 2022, NeSI and Genomics Aotearoa are co-hosting a range of hands-on skill-building events for Aotearoa New Zealand's bioinformatics and genomics communities. Follow the links in the 'Upcoming events' list below for more information or to register.

Celebrating its 14th year, the eResearch NZ conference series co-hosted by NeSI, Genomics Aotearoa, and REANNZ is coming to Hamilton, NZ on 15-17 February 2023.eResearch NZ 2023 (eRNZ23) will be delivered as a hybrid online and in-person event with a theme of Capability, Connectivity and Equity. Also, similar to past years, eRNZ will kick off with a pre-conference Carpentry Connect meeting on 14 February 2023. 

The Carpentries is a global program to teach foundational computational and data management skills to researchers. New Zealand trains several potential Carpentries Instructor trainees every year and it is time to train a new cohort of future instructors.Our next Carpentries Instructor training course will be held virtually in late October 2022, organised by NeSI, the University of Otago, the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR), and Genomics Aotearoa.

 CarpentryCon 2022: Expanding Data Frontiers will bring together the international computational and data science skills community from 1-12 August, and two sessions in particular will bring together and focus on the Australasia Carpentries communities.

We’re very close to launching Mahuika’s new capabilities to the research community – from additional compute capacity to specialised tools for supporting data-intensive research. There’s just a few last steps in our final preparations for launch, particularly related to user experience. On that note…

We're less than two months away from NeSI's annual New Zealand Research Software Engineering (NZ RSE) Conference and have some exciting updates to share!  Keynote announcement: Daniel Katz

Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland have a newly created role for a Deputy - Chief Information Security Officer for Research. You will ideally be based in Auckland, but we are open to offering remote working options from within New Zealand. The purpose of this position is to work across three large entities, the University of Auckland (UoA), NeSI, and Auckland UniServices Limited (AUL).

Join our online Office Hours sessions, running weekly on Wednesdays in July.All sessions will be hosted on Zoom. Click on the links below to save the date & Zoom link to your Google calendar. All details indicated below are on New Zealand Standard Time.

We are seeking a Senior HPC Cloud Platform DevOps Engineer to join our passionate team on a full-time, permanent basis. In this role, you will provide technical expertise and services to support the build and operations of NeSI platforms nationally.  Applications must be submitted online by the closing date of Sunday 10 July 2022 to be considered. 

The Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has published a first tranche of the 903 submissions it received through its Te Ara Paerangi - Future Pathways Green Paper.Te Ara Paerangi - Future Pathways consultation pageRead the submissions we received on the Green Paper in our document library