Sponsors

The Agile NZ Conference is the premier Agile forum for our industry to look at national and international challenges for Agile teams.

The following sponsors have been instrumental in the continuing success of the AgileNZ Conference

Platinum Sponsor

		Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Sponsors

		Scrum.org is the home of Scrum, and is leading the evolution and maturity of Scrum to improve the profession of software development. Scrum.org provides all of the tools and resources needed by Scrum practitioners to deliver value using Scrum. We host the Scrum Guide in 30 languages, provide assessments to allow people to evaluate themselves and improve, host community forums and webcasts to foster discussion and knowledge transfer, and define industry-leading Scrum training for practitioners at all levels.

		Assurity is NZ’s leading software quality organisation. Together with our recent acquisition of Clarus, we focus on software testing, agile, lean, agile technical practices and test engineering. Together we have lead the adoption of agile & lean practices througout New Zealand. We are skilled in Lean, Agile & software quality practices and deliver using a combination of training, consulting, mentoring and coaching. We have over 140 staff across all three main centres - Auckland, Wellignton and Christchurch.

		Equinox IT helps customers solve their complex business and IT problems to deliver outstanding results for their organisation. As New Zealand’s only Microsoft Gold Competency Partner for Application Lifecycle Management, we are experts in Microsoft Visual Studio, TFS and Agile and Lean development approaches. Our people are experienced and expert IT practitioners who deliver specialist services covering business application development, software product development, technical consulting, business change consulting, project delivery and capability development. Established in 1995 we are a pragmatic New Zealand-owned IT company with approximately 60 permanent staff based in our Wellington and Auckland offices.

		Enhance ALM is an Australian based company that specialises in optimising Application Lifecycle Management practises and processes. We work to improve the productivity of your team through the use of workshops, tools and training for software development teams. Enhance ALM has developed the most comprehensive TFS 2012 training curriculum in the world which is delivered in New Zealand through our partner, Equinox.

		We are the only company in the southern hemisphere able to offer accredited Scrum and Kanban training. We understand how agile teams work across a variety of programs. We also offer the technical training of the highest level on the Microsoft platform.

		ALM Training is your one stop site for finding high quality professional training on Microsoft’s Visual Studio ALM product suite. Through a network of partners, our courses are delivered around the world using only qualified trainers with real-world experience.

		Established in 2005, Emantra is an Australian private company founded, owned and managed by Ross Dewar (right) and Cameron McFie. Emantra is a prominent Australian Microsoft Private Cloud Service provider. We host enterprise-grade Microsoft Software-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service solutions to the Australian Corporate and Government community.


		Inov8 is a software development company providing a range of technical services that deliver quality business outcomes to its customers. Inov8 develops and supports software solutions to meet business needs. We specialise in Microsoft products, having a team with indepth expertise in .Net, VB6, SQL/Server, Sharepoint (MOSS/WSS) and Business Intelligence. We also offer web development in ASP and ASP.Net, a web hosting service and ERP support for JD Edwards. To top it all off there're two great products: a home grown integrated website content management system (WebKit) and a web enabled internal “Auction and Trading” tool (eList) that are available to our customers.

We welcome other sponsors to this important event. This is an excellent opportunity to:

Market your brand, raise your profile and promote your products and services to key stakeholders
Gain incredible exposure at one of the biggest events on the New Zealand IT industry event calendar
Enjoy extraordinary visibility in promotional material and at key Conference functions
Have your brand associated with leading edge technologies, solutions and brands
Achieve recognition as a key supporter of the Agile NZ Conference and its activities

If you would like to discuss the above sponsorship opportunities, please This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. at The Agile NZ Conference.