SORRY, EVENT FULL! With Social Media becoming ever more pervasive in everyday activities, UP brings you two thought-provoking presentations and discussions that will examine this phenomenon and its various pros and cons. This event will be accompanied by FREE pizza & beer and is, of course, FREE to attend.

Wellington’s premier road show event for the IT industry, Gadgets, Games and Geeks, is back, bigger and better! GGG09 will be at the St James Theatre on Courtenay Place on 25th August. We are also pulling together an exciting lineup of speakers, so be ready to be blown away!

It’s about time the tables were turned and the “dragons” pitched to the entrepreneurs. Come along and find out who they are, what they’ve done, what networks they can access, what other investments they’ve made and of course what they look for in a great opportunity to invest in.

Calling all fast-growing Wellington businesses! Entries to the Deloitte Fast 50 have opened, and it'd be great to see a continuation of UP member representation in this Fast-moving lineup.

At last week's WJUG (Wellington Java User Group) meeting Errol Thompson presented about his recent PhD at Victoria University.

To assist pragmatic employers, a brand new HR report has been released that provides a ‘How-to Guide’ for finding, hiring and managing professional contractors in New Zealand to maintain productivity.

Education is always important to ones' life.

The book is authored by Jill Caldwell of Windshift - Christchurch based company? - but I'm sure i've seen her about Wellington, and Christopher Brown of Sputnik who are a design company in Wellington.