Tech Futures Lab

The Immersion Phase of the Master of Technological Futures runs for the first 20 weeks of the programme. These sessions occur onsite at Tech Futures Lab, and cover key topics including Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDT), business innovation and strategy, as well as business set-up and introductory sessions. These sessions are designed to inspire you to innovate and develop your own ideas.

Guest speakers, as well as Tech Futures Lab staff, lead all sessions. You are expected to attend all sessions during the 20 weeks. If you are unable to attend, you must inform the Tech Futures Team.

Sessions during the 20 weeks are split into different streams:

Business Disruption and Technology Sessions
Innovation Sessions
Project Sessions
Tech News Conversations

2 hour Live-online sessions per day, 4 days per week
- Monday & Tuesday - 10am-12pm
- Wednesday & Thursday - 12pm - 2pm

2 x Full day face to face workshops at the lab 9am -5pm

Earth Futures Lab

Develop knowledge of the multiple dimensions of connected environments, and evaluate how connected environments could help address problems, opportunities and challenges in your professional context. Learning will be supported by practical application and engagement with IoT technology and exploration of case studies to gain insight into technical and business dimensions of IoT systems. Explore data analysis, governance and management, ethics and privacy and sustainability.

The Mind Lab

These courses cover the first 10 weeks of the MCOR Journey, devling into topics related to technology and ethics, organisational complexity, change methodologies and resilience (MCOR8101 and MCOR8102).

A compact online course about sustainability to enable you to start actioning real, authentic and ongoing change. Throughout this online course you’ll cover a range of innovative and diverse approaches to sustainability underpinned by indigenous values. After the 8 weeks you’ll have knowledge, tools and capability to begin to make practical changes in your context that will ultimately lead to a thriving and sustainable future for all.

This six-week short course will introduce you to the key aspects of how software is created. If you have previously completed our free 2-week Sampler: Understanding Software Development Tools and Processes course, you will be familiar with some elements of the content. However, there is much more material in this Advancer course, and it will take you much further into the practical details of how software is developed.

6 weeks, 6-8 hours per week, start anytime

A 10-week micro-credential for those with a big idea, a seasoned professional wanting to get into the start-up world or for those working on an entrepreneurial project. Join us to elevate your skills and knowledge with the expert help of leading entrepreneurs.

This course will support you to critically evaluate a range of contemporary leadership models, the importance of culturally sustainable approaches to leading change, and evaluate your personal and professional capability to lead positive, sustainable change. Underpinning these evaluations, you will also analyse characteristics of change in your practice, and critically reflect on new and emerging business models committed to prioritising purpose over profit to generate authentic value for community benefit.

Join this short course to accelerate your understanding of how smart technology can be used to inform decision making and create sustainable impact.

Supercharge your Product Management skills - bring along your own product idea to refine, develop and low-fi test and hone your capabilities while you learn.

5 weeks, 8 hours per week (including 4 hour weekly online live session)

A fun, supportive and highly collaborative online micro-credential designed to equip you with 21st century skills in a digital environment. Take your digital knowledge and skills to a whole new level, and be confident in the industries and workplaces of today, and tomorrow.

Designed alongside leading experts, this micro-credential seeks to demystifying the landscape of Disruptive Technologies such as AI, Big Data, Cloud Computing, IoT, Cybersecurity, XR and Blockchain. In addition to Disrupted Industries.

Dive into the world of impact investing and expand your knowledge of impact investing and gain insight into how to position your project when seeking out or evaluating impact investment opportunities through this Advancer short course.

This course critically analyses emerging trends and issues in contemporary teaching and learning and the effectiveness, suitability, and impact of different approaches to practice in different contexts.

Join this 6 week short course to continue your journey navigating complex ideas of sustainability and how you can lead authentic change toward a more sustainable future. Dive into learning about systems thinking, the role of technology and innovation for sustainable futures, and the social impact of change.

The Postgraduate Certificate in Human Potential of the Digital Economy is offered as a part-time programme and is structured into two 16 week blocks (including 2 weeks of study break). The programme is designed by professionals, for professionals. It will help you identify how digital technologies and societal shifts are transforming business models and changing what ‘value’ means. 

Guest speakers, as well as Tech Futures Lab staff, lead all sessions. You are expected to attend all sessions during the 32 weeks. If you are unable to attend, you must inform the Tech Futures Team.

2 hour live-online sessions once a week for 32 weeks. 
   • Tuesday - 4-6pm
2 x Full day face to face workshops at the lab 9am -4:30pm

Starting 8th May 2023, 32 weeks, part time, NZQA level 8

Learn how to integrate innovative technology into a blended learning environment to engage students and transform your teaching.

This industry supported micro-credential will engage you in the sustainability challenges our world faces and support you to discover and create strategies that use the Internet of Things (IoT) as solutions to a sustainable future.

A 15 week micro-credential that gives an overview of how software is developed, including the various roles and responsibilities of people and teams, the different processes that can be used to run software projects, and an introduction to some of the tools that are used to create software systems

Dive into exploring digital skills that are needed to succeed in a digital world and reflect on personal and collective capabilities.

2 weeks, 2-3 hours per week, start anytime

Do you want to play a role in a sustainable future? Expand your knowledge and discover tools to help you lead sustainable change.

Examine the disruptive and emerging technologies accelerating digital development and discover how blockchain connects and improves ecosystem strategies and how extended reality is revolutionising technological interactions.

Explore the fundamentals of the Internet of Things (IoT), and how we can use this technology to overcome different sustainability challenges that we face today.

Improve your teaching capabilities by exploring digital and collaborative teaching practices for more future-focused education.

This two-week taster course introduces the world of software development: what it involves, what roles people take, and what types of processes they use to create software systems.