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Technology Breakfast at Hope Cafe

Manawatū IT People | Meetup

2026-07-09 07:30

Regular IT meetup breakfast. Come along and have a chat with some of the local IT people, from time to time we have a guest to talk on a particular topic or if you have something you would like to share please let us know. The awesome team at Hope Cafe open specially for us and ask if you could pre-order your breakfast [https://www.hopevineyard.nz/cafe](https://www.hopevineyard.nz/cafe/) this way they can start the prep. Please mark yourself as attending here on meetup.com as well as we need 4 confirmed for the cafe to open.

156 The Square

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Real time data at PNCC: David

Palmerston North Software Developers | Meetup

2026-07-23 17:30

David says: "I will cover how we created a data lake at Palmerston North City Council that has near real-time processing capabilities (ie every minute) using streaming technology (specifically Kafka via [https://www.confluent.io/](https://www.confluent.io/)). I will also emphasize how this methodology for managing data facilitates creation of agentic workflows. To wrap up I will share an example of an agentic workflow that relies on our near-real time data." Thanks to Objective for hosting and sponsoring pizza. Please RSVP so we know how much pizza to buy. We usually walk to Aquaba or Brew Union around 6:30-7pm for the social half of the meeting.

Objective Corporation – Palmerston North Office

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Technology Breakfast at Hope Cafe

Manawatū IT People | Meetup

2026-08-13 07:30

Regular IT meetup breakfast. Come along and have a chat with some of the local IT people, from time to time we have a guest to talk on a particular topic or if you have something you would like to share please let us know. The awesome team at Hope Cafe open specially for us and ask if you could pre-order your breakfast [https://www.hopevineyard.nz/cafe](https://www.hopevineyard.nz/cafe/) this way they can start the prep. Please mark yourself as attending here on meetup.com as well as we need 4 confirmed for the cafe to open.

156 The Square

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Pong on FPGA: Programming hardware with high-level languages

Palmerston North Software Developers | Meetup

2026-08-27 17:30

Julie Schwartz is doing a deeper dive after her lightning talk in April: "Everything can be done in software running on a general-purpose CPU, but when would you want to use a special-purpose chip? Or a re-configurable chip, like an FPGA? And how do you write the spec for that dedicated hardware? We'll demonstrate how the video-game Pong can be written in a few short source files in Bluespec, a high-level hardware design language (HDL), and go through the process of compiling it, loading it into the FPGA, and booting up the hardware to play!" Thanks to Objective for hosting and sponsoring pizza. Please RSVP so we know how much pizza to buy. We usually walk to Aquaba or Brew Union around 6:30-7pm for the social half of the meeting.

Objective Corporation – Palmerston North Office

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