Claire Lanyon

Venn diagram of 'best' Auckland restaurants 2025 using three data sources: Cuisine's best of Auckland, Metro magazine's Top 50, and a snapshot of the top 60 restaurants in Auckland grabbed on August, 25, 2025.

The 2025 Best Auckland Restaurant Venn diagram. Can you let me know if you spot any mistakes or typos? Uses Cuisine mag's pick for Auckland, Metro mag's Top 50 (in current issue) & a top 60 TripAdvisor snapshot. Repost
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Women in Technology — Tertiary ICT Conference, 9th September 2025 The Women in Technology afternoon, at the Tertiary ICT Conference hosted by Auckland University of Technology, brought together leaders…

I’ve reflected on the Women in Technology afternoon at the Tertiary ICT conference (hosted at Auckland University of Technology, Tāmaki Makaurau) #TICT clanyon.medium.com/women-in-tec...

Amazon leadership principles. Decision making is driven by these principles. Mahek says she also has adopted these principles within her personal life.

After heading towards a medical path, an outreach event at UoA Engineering school opened Mahek’s eyes to a different career path.

Mahek Nangia is a Solutions Architect at AWS, joining us at #TICT

Contact details for Rikita 😁

I always remember this quote from Maya Angelou.

Having connections is great but consider who is sitting in your inner circle.
Recommendation for this programme: www.mentorwalks.org
Keep connected with your circles - send individuals things that you feel they will be interested in.

CARB: consistency, authenticity, relevance, bold. Don’t join a community then be absent. Be you, tell your story. Be in the right room with the right people who align with your values. Use your voice, ask the challenging questions and stand for what you believe in.

Finding a community is important. Which community is going to help you thrive? Do you have connections that will help you grow and develop? Be intentional about the connections you are building and be aspirational about the connections you are making.

We live in a VUCA world where our connections are increasingly AI enabled, the real conversations had with strong ties give us the power to survive and thrive. When we connect as a group, the energy is buzzing.

we can maintain strong and close relationships with only 150 people. The quality of relationships is the strongest predictor of happiness (news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...). Connected employees are up to 7x more engaged.

Humans actively seek out connections. Strong social bonds are just as important to our health and wellbeing as diet and exercise are. We meet 10-25k people across our lifetimes. You only truly get to know a small portion of these people (1-5k). At any time…

The lessons that Ritika learned while attending her first ‘networking’ event at 21yo.

Ritika Singh is Founder and Lead Consultant at Ri-Think: www.ri-think.nz

Rikita Singh is joining us at #TICT and throws the audience straight in to a ‘connection’ icebreaker

Tania: ensure the people within your organisation feel included, respected and valued and not just tolerated.

(Apologies for spelling Tania incorrectly!)

Celia: listen to the people who see the things in you that you don’t see in yourself. The stories we tell are key, consider which stories you are telling about women in tech.
Liz: highlights examples of times when women (and men) at work have supported and sponsored her through her career.

YouTube video by The Lavin Agency How Saying 'I’m Excited' Tricks Your Brain Into Confidence - Alison Wood Brooks

Hemi: the human element is really powerful in technology
Steph: has a passion for using tech for efficiency
Tania: do things that make you scared and be curious
Andrew: Alison Whitbrooks trick yourself to thinking you’re excited - www.youtube.com/shorts/ZEH2I...

Andrew: fair representation is important. Create opportunity and time. Ask questions and make space, provide support.
Steph: Provide examples of people who have pushed out of their comfort zone to highlight how easy it can be provide space for diverse staff members to participate / lead projects

Tūrama Pathways This is "Tūrama Pathways" by Spark on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Liz: partnerships between Universities and industry (and schools) are important in supporting more women to come through.
Tanya: shared Sparks Tūrama Pathways programme - vimeo.com/1038760946/1...

Hemi: 6/10 on their leadership team are women and 61% of the overall team are women (Datacom).

Celia: remember the power of sponsorship, making sure the right people are at the right tables. Make workplace equity everyone’s business.
Steph: identify the team members who can extend outside their comfort zone and use their strengths in different areas that can grow their skills and value

Tanya: Choose your courage and deliberately ally, support, mentor. Make space to amplify voices. If you have privilege to advocate. Do it.
Liz: Reminds us of the power of flexibility and education for working parents.
Celia: fostering inclusion as part of your culture is important

Celia: Formal education has a part ti play in busting myths but how can we support students connect emotionally. Plan to upskill everyone to support them in managing threat states - make ally ship part of leadership development, not a project. Leaders should talk about ally ship-where they fail too

Hemi: reminds us that we need to be seen to show upcoming talent they can do this too (focus on women, Māori and Pacific).
Andrew: educators need to create a safe environment & bring experts into the classroom to support students meet high expectations. Leaders have role in hiring appropriately.

Next up: Panel to explore the power of education, transformation, and connection :)

Mahsa contact details (sorry for lack of alt text)

Mahsa invites the audience to join www.shesharp.org.nz

Ted talk recommendation: www.ted.com/talks/joy_bu...