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The great Kiwi AI uprising - Agentics Foundation NZ chapter launch

Chris Barlow & speakers28 August 2025

The Veteran Critic
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The great Kiwi AI uprising kicked off in Wellington - agentic engineering, with more flat whites than robots.

Key takeaway NZ's agentic-dev crowd now has a front door.

The inaugural Wellington event of the Agentics Foundation's New Zealand chapter - a launch focused on agentic engineering and AI-powered software development, and a first gathering point for the local agentic-dev community.

Beyond the talks, the significance is organisational: a named home for people building with AI agents in NZ. For Aotearoa, a formal chapter means a front door, a network and a regular cadence for a scene that until now has been scattered across Discords and one-off meetups.

The Veteran Critic

“The great Kiwi AI uprising - more flat whites than robots, but a proper front door at last.” — The Veteran Critic, The 6 O’Clock News

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