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=Ministry of Testing - Auckland Branch Coordinator=
I started attending the WeTest (now Ministry of Testing - Auckland) events in 2014, and started presenting about testing in 2016, and was a lead coordinator from March 2019 till May 2021. As a lead coordinator I helped to organise professional development [https://www.meetup.com/Ministry-of-Testing-Auckland/events/ events] for the Auckland testing community. Keeping a monthly schedule of evening presentations, organising host venues, food & sponsors.


I started attending the WeTest (now MoT Akl) events in 2014, started presenting about testing in 2016, and since March 2019 I have been one of three lead co-ordinators for the Auckland branch of the Ministry of Testing (formerly WeTest). As a lead co-ordinator I'm helping to organise professional development [https://www.meetup.com/Ministry-of-Testing-Auckland/events/ events] for the Auckland testing community. Keeping a monthly schedule of evening presentations, organising host venues, food & sponsors.  
A particular passion of mine has been to ramp up instructor led hands-on technology workshops.  


A particular passion of mine has been to ramp up instructor led hands-on technology [https://mot-akl-wiki.mel.cloudlets.com.au/doku.php/wiki:workshops workshops], with the aim is to grow these to regular monthly events during 2020.
Group activity has dwindled over the years, but there's still the occasional meeting about once a year.


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==Some of the talks I attended==
* [https://www.meetup.com/Ministry-of-Testing-Auckland meetup]
===2016===
* [https://mot-akl-wiki.mel.cloudlets.com.au/doku.php our wiki]
*To Boldly Go: Taking the Enterprise to Session-based Test Management by Aaron Hodder (Assurity)
* and we talk lots on [https://join.slack.com/t/wetestauckland/shared_invite/zt-5yywp052-AAlUwpdNkOURGzS2FidhJw slack]
*Minimum Viable Quality (MVQ) by Kevin Venter (Xero)
*Critical Thinking for Testers!
*WeTest Breakfast CBD - Discuss the role of requirements & automation in testing (by me)
*Test Planning - Level Up! by Kim Engel
*WeTest Breakfast CBD - Discuss the 7 Principles of Software Testing (by me)
*A practical on Visual Test Models
*How to be a part of a cross-functional team and not suck at it
*Pairing Experiment - a talk by Katrina Clokie

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