• 22 October 2019

    Constitution is signed

  • 28-29 June 2018

    EASE 2018 at UC (Christchurch)

    Under the coordination of Austen Rainer, SINZ sponsors the International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE).

  • 9 November 2017

    Open invite for membership

    Kelly Blincoe sent a call for memberships to Aotearoa New Zealand Software Engineering Researchers.

  • 29 June 2017

    First AGM at AUT (Auckland)

    SINZ held its first Annual General Meeting.

  • 10 February 2017

    SINZ Website Live

    The SINZ website went live for the first time.

  • 8 December 2016

    SINZ has an official name

    The founders and first unofficial members decided on the “Software Innovation New Zealand” (SINZ) name during APSEC 2016 (in Hamilton, New Zealand).

  • 25 October 2016

    First meeting of SINZ

    During the very first meeting of the founding members of SINZ, Stephen G. MacDonell proposed the name Software Innovation New Zealand” (SINZ) that will later be made official.

  • 4 July 2016

    Initial discussion to form SINZ

    Austen Rainer, after discussion with Stephen G. MacDonell, proposed to form a group of researchers in Software Engineering in Aotearoa New Zealand.