About Us

TechWomen is a group of passionate New Zealand tech, digital and ICT focused individuals from leading organisations that work together, with the support of NZTech, to help address one of the major challenges for the successful growth of technology in New Zealand – a shortage of women in tech roles.

We work together to help inspire girls into technology, support the growth of women in tech roles and to help develop policy and actions for improving diversity in the tech workplace.

ShadowTech is a TechWomen initiative that has been running since 2014 where the first ShadowTech Day gave girls in years 9-11 the chance to shadow a tech professional for a day.

In 2021 the ShadowTech program evolved to focus on secondary school teachers to widen the impact of the programme.

After a two year hiatus due to the Covid pandemic, we were pleased to bring ShadowTech Day back in 2023.