Te Hapori Matihiko

Startup Weekend Ōtaki is happening this weekend from Friday, 1 November to Sunday, 3 November! This year’s theme is Impact. Learn how to think, work, and build like a startup 💡 Over the three days, you will connect with top mentors, investors, co-founders, and sponsors who will help you achieve more in less time and perhaps even start your own pakihi! Lee Timutimu will be supporting this kaupapa as a THM mentor 🙌🏾. We look forward to seeing all the great kaupapa that will emerge this weekend!🌱 📍 Te Wānanga o Raukawa, 41 Te Rauparaha Street, Ōtaki 🎟️ Tickets are $50 https://lnkd.in/gB6fsxEc 💤 Marae accommodation is available. Linen is provided, please bring with you blankets, towels and personal items. 🚗 We have space in the car for anyone needing a ride from Wellington on Friday. Send us a message! If you’re keen to go but the ticket cost is a bit much, contact: startupweekendŌtaki@twor-Ōtaki.ac.nz 💜

Host a meet-up for Māori in digitech (and awesome supporters) in your rohe & we’ll pick up the tab! 📍💜 We’re keen to see our hapori come together across the motu to reflect on 2024 and make good connections for a big 2025. So, we’re looking for hapori members keen to host a meet up in their area, we’ll pay for kai and inu! We’ll promote the event on our channels & you bring the local manaakitanga! Keen? Let us know in the form: https://lnkd.in/gxsUQ-sq *We’ll cover one meet up in each rohe, with potential for two in larger cities. Hosting locations can be bars, restaurants, offices - where ever you would like to host. Te Hapori Matihiko will cover food and drink up to $500/event.

Can you make a career in music tech? 🤔🎸🎼 Join us for our next mātauranga session: Music Tech, where we kōrero with two successful Māori musicians & producers who have done just that! 🪶 Huia Hamon (Ngāti Porou, Te-Aitanga-A-Mahaki, Ngāti Kahungunu, Uawa, Hauiti): A musician and mother, Huia runs Kog Studio, a multi-award-winning mastering and recording studio in Tāmaki Makaurau. She’s worked with artists like Six60, Shapeshifter, and Savage! As a global networker, Huia connects the world through creativity and leads HŪHĀ Music, supporting māori musicians. 🎤 Rei (Callum Rei McDougall) (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Huia, Ngāti Pākehā): A bilingual musician from Aotearoa, blending Urban and Electronic sounds with a strong Māori cultural identity. With over 10 million Spotify streams, four New Zealand Music Award nominations, and seven Waiata Māori Awards, he recently won Te Tohu Ataata Autaia for his waiata Toitū. Rei continues to innovate with his fresh music. Don’t miss the chance to hear their stories and gain insights into the music industry. Bring your pātai for these awesome kaikōrero! 📆 Wednesday, November 20 ⏰ 12:00pm - 12:45pm 📍 Zoom 💜 RSVP link: https://lnkd.in/gM4Qucgn

“Let the four winds speak…Ngāi Tahu, we must come to you.” - Kiingi Tuheitia Our Board Chair Elle Archer is representing our hapori at Te Pūnuiotaka today where the mauri of Hui-ā-Motu is carried on. The theme of the kōrero is about indigenous economics and tribal instituion-building. As we did at the start of the year, we are there to listen, connect and bring the mātauranga back to our hapori. The live stream can be watched here: https://lnkd.in/grDtvNx5 Mauri ora!

Last Thursday myself and the team at Ako Academy had the privilege of attending the first ever online kura reo held by Te Hapori Matihiko! Mīharo katoa ngā akoranga - it was awesome! The day started of with a session on the importance of te reo Māori. We learnt that by 2050, 50% of the workforce in Aotearoa will be Māori and Pasifika. What does that mean? It means that in order for the organisations in Aotearoa to attract top talent, they need to be aware, educated, and ready for the diversity coming their way. It truly is an honour to be supporting organisations in this area. Another highlight of the day was the language planning session with Dr Vincent Olsen-Reeder. Even as reo Māori educator it's important to be strategic with your use and implementation of te reo Māori outside the classroom. Quite often kaiako are busy sharing mātauranga (knowledge) with everyone else and we forget about our own kete, so I really enjoyed my day filling my kete. Nō reira, ko tēnei te mihi ki Te Hapori Matihiko i tō koutou whakarite, whakatū i tēnei kaupapa! Can't wait until the next one!

Kura Reo ki Hangarau (organised by Te Hapori Matihiko) made me realise that the hangarau dictionaries cant keep up with all the new phrases that are coming out. Also, some of the translations in the dictionaries sound really weird. We did this exercise with Te Mihinga Komene where we got to come up with our own translations. I created the first translation I think it was either Laughton Matthews or Asha Scott-Morris that created the second one. Can you guess what the reo Pākehā is? Do you guys have any other hangarau phrases you have created? 

Last Thursday myself and the team at Ako Academy had the privilege of attending the first ever online kura reo held by Te Hapori Matihiko! Mīharo katoa ngā akoranga - it was awesome! The day started of with a session on the importance of te reo Māori. We learnt that by 2050, 50% of the workforce in Aotearoa will be Māori and Pasifika. What does that mean? It means that in order for the organisations in Aotearoa to attract top talent, they need to be aware, educated, and ready for the diversity coming their way. It truly is an honour to be supporting organisations in this area. Another highlight of the day was the language planning session with Dr Vincent Olsen-Reeder. Even as reo Māori educator it's important to be strategic with your use and implementation of te reo Māori outside the classroom. Quite often kaiako are busy sharing mātauranga (knowledge) with everyone else and we forget about our own kete, so I really enjoyed my day filling my kete. Nō reira, ko tēnei te mihi ki Te Hapori Matihiko i tō koutou whakarite, whakatū i tēnei kaupapa! Can't wait until the next one!

Tīhei mauri ora! From beginners to fluent speakers, our hapori came together last week for our first-ever Kura Reo Hangarau! 🙌🏽 We connected online to wānanga and whakakaha our reo in a tech-focused, immersion environment. Four kaiako, four taumata reo and four rotating sessions! Here’s a quick-rundown of the day: 📝 Dr Vincent Olsen-Reeder led an insightful session on language planning, equipping us with strategies to integrate te reo into our everyday lives. 🖼️ Rosalie’s workshop brought kīwaha to life, showing us how to creatively apply these idioms through creating our own memes. 👩🏽🏫 Te Mihinga levelled up our tech puna kupu, challenging us to create kupu hou, rotarota and kīwaha for tech we use every day! He tauira: kua tio tō mata - your face is frozen 😂 🗣️ Aperahama Hurihanganui’s session took us through the tīkanga and practice of mihimihi, sharing some tools for crafting a good mihi that talks the talk. A mihi to our guest speaker Janelle, our kaiako for their guidance, and to Te Mātāwai for supporting this kaupapa. We will be sending a survey to all of our attendees - we appreciate your feedback and would love to hear your whakaaro. This won’t be the last Kura Reo Hangarau! We look forward to delivering more based on your insights. It was a much-needed wānanga, and we’ll be back next year 💜 E mihi ana ki te hapori nei i hāpai ana i te kaupapa. To everyone who joined us – we can’t wait to do it again! 💡🌐 Engaging Well Limited Katie Brown Maryanne Madden Elle Archer Beau Johns Zoë Liddell Tevan Brandt

Awesome to see our hapori speaking at this Tech Taniwha event ✨ Head along if you’re in Tāmaki Makaurau! ⬇️

Registrations have now closed 🫶🏼 NEXT WEEK! We have a few tickets left to join us for our first-ever Kura Reo Hangarau! 💻📚💜 This is for all levels of te reo, from absolute beginner to advanced - kaua e whakamā! This one-day Kura Reo is created for you to learn te reo Māori related to our mahi in tech and te ao matihiko. You’ll gain useful kōrero with sessions covering AI, kupu hangarau, waiata/karakia, and wete reo/grammar. 👩🏻💻🌐 We have FREE spaces available for rangatahi, students or those not in mahi/low income. Let us know if you’d like one of these, no questions asked. 🫶🏽 📆 Date: Thursday, 17 October ⏰ Time: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM (with breaks) 💻 Platform: Huitopa / Zoom 🎟️ Cost: $50 per person 💜 Open to members of Te Hapori Matihiko. Not a member? Join our hapori here: https://lnkd.in/gVg9yRZv 🎟️ Tickets are sold out Your support at this event will help us deliver more Kura Reo in the future! 💚