NZi3 is the national ICT Innovation Institute based at the University of Canterbury. The Institute is a ‘hothouse’ of strategic ICT research and aims to be a globally-recognised innovation centre that transforms ideas from the lab, across the innovation gap, into industry.

As an entrepreneurially-focused, applied research institute, NZi3 offers a unique fusion of the best of New Zealand’s ICT academic expertise with industry-driven research.

Founding partners

Announcements

New Wireless Research Centre Director

We would like to welcome Fred Samandari who commenced his position as Director of the Wireless Research Centre in January 2010.

Fred was previously Director of Flows and Methodology at Freescale Corporation in Austin, Texas and prior to that was the Senior Design Centre Manager at Oki Semiconductor/ChipX Corporation.

Fred holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and has also completed several project management programmes including an executive MBA essentials.

NZi3 building - award nominations/winners

The NZi3 National ICT Innovation Institute building at the University of Canterbury has been officially recognised as a multiple award winner.

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2010 New Year wishes

We would like to thank all of our founding partners, industry partners, colleagues and students for their support in 2009 and look forward to sharing a prosperous, successful and fulfilling 2010!

NZi3 inaugural newsletter

If you would like to receive the inaugural NZi3 newsletter which will be distributed in mid February or have any news that you'd like to be considered for inclusion, please email LM (LM.brooks@nzi3.com) by the 22nd January.

NZi3 Website update

We are currently updating the NZi3 website design and content. Please let LM know if you notice any broken links during this time.

Thank you for your patience while we update this site to include a portal with information about our 5 star Green Building.

Events

Advance notice!!
AUPEC 2010 - 20th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference
The 20th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference: Power Quality for the 21st Century will be held in Christchurch NZ from 5-8th December 2010. The theme for the conference is Power Quality for the 21st Century and the scope of the conference will be broad, providing a forum for university and industry power engineering researchers to exchange knowledge and ideas.

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News

NZi3 building - award nominations/winners

The NZi3 National ICT Innovation Institute building at the University of Canterbury has been officially recognised as a multiple award winner.

- New Zealand Green Building Council: 5 star education design award
- Designers Institute of NZ Best Awards: Gold award for interior design
- New Zealand Institute of Architects: Canterbury Architecture award
- New Zealand Institute of Architects / Resene: colour award
- Illumination Engineering Society (IES) Australia and New Zealand: EECA low energy lighting award
- Illumination Engineering Society (IES) Australia and New Zealand: 'National Lighting Design award

The building is also currently being judged for other awards (results pending) and was also shortlisted for the World architecture awards which were judged at the end of 2009 in Barcelona.

NZi3's founding partners are Hewlett-Packard New Zealand, IBM, Jade Software Corporation, Tait Electronics and the University of Canterbury.

NZi3 Research Award
These scholarships were established in 2007 on behalf of sponsors of the ICT Innovation Institute (NZi3) at the University of Canterbury for the purpose of encouraging research in the field of ICT, either in conjunction with a company or with the intention of developing and commercialising a product. (For the purposes of this award ICT refers to technologies which embody hardware or software in a product, rather than their use in a service industry)

"Bright Ideas" innovation fund
Bright Ideas is a fund whose purpose is to help develop an innovative culture which encourages technology based ideas to escape from the University into the world at large. It is part of a collaborative project involving Canterbury, Otago and Lincoln Universities funded by the Tertiary Education Commission under the Encouraging and Supporting Innovation (E&SI) scheme.

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