Employers
Enabling the Great Kiwi Digital Revolution
New Zealand technology companies growth and success is essential. With locked down borders and a tight labour market for in demand skills, growing capability is the only option to meet demand and expand business opportunities both locally and globally.

Business growth through diversity
Having a diverse workforce can enable you to interact and build strong relationships with a broader range of customers. Turn over in teams is proven to reduce giving higher talent retention assurance. Richer, diverse views to problems offers stronger solutions.
Commitment
~$75k
12 months
Return on investment
Junior data consultant, ready to add immediate value to your team. Trained on latest business engagement techniques. Tool ready to deliver cloud based data and analytics outcomes to your customers
$189b
IDC forecasts revenues for Big Data and Business Analytics Solutions will reach $189.1 billion globally this year with double-digit growth through 2022
$50b
The size of the New Zealand Māori economy
51%
3%
Businesses reported having difficulty filling their positions because of the lack of skilled candidates in the market.
NZ Summer of Tech candidates identified as Māori or Pacifika. With a large under representation, the opportunity to grow talent to meet skill demands from within this group is huge.

Elevating Aotearoa’s Future has teamed up with some of New Zealand’s leading technology companies and agencies to create a programme to bootstrap people from currently underrepresented communities in our industry, such as Māori and Pacific Peoples, and especially wāhine, into careers in the high demand, fast-growth field of public cloud technology, within the specific domain of Data & Analytics.