What are you doing Wellington?

Connecting, sharing and building!

What Are You Doing Wellington (WAYD) brings together young professionals working across diverse environments who are driven by fresh ideas, exciting projects and a desire to understand how others spend their workdays. It’s a chance to connect, learn and spark new collaborations.

Join us for an evening of rapid-fire presentations where speakers from engineering, landscape architecture, computer science and project leadership will offer bite-sized insights into their day-to-day work. 

🎉 Free event!
🍕 Drinks and food provided!
🤝 Open to all curious minds!

Come connect, share and build with us – and discover what Wellington’s young professionals are really up to.

About the Speakers:

Anne Khor

Anne is an Architect at Warren and Mahoney, working on projects that harness innovation for future-focused and sustainable outcomes. She is passionate about the impact our built environment has on our everyday well-being. Anne will share about her recent projects and what the wider WAM studio have been up to.

Jocelyn Zhang

Jocelyn is the Project Management Team Leader at Wellington City Council’s Transport & Infrastructure Business Unit. She leads a PM team delivering key transport infrastructure upgrades across the city – from minor safety improvements to complex intersection upgrades. With a passion for public service and collaborative delivery, Jocelyn brings people together to turn complex challenges into practical, community-focused solutions. She also mentors emerging project managers, sharing practical insights on stakeholder engagement, public communication, and navigating the complexities of transport delivery – fostering professional growth and a people-first mindset across the team.

Sam Fox

Sam has been working in general civil design for 5 years, with his expertise lying in stormwater design. Sam is currently on the construction support team for the Te Ara Tupua Alliance, providing construction oversight and design input for the Te Ara Tupua resilience project (revetments, seawalls, and cycleway) and the Tupua Horo Nuku seawall/shared path.

Thomas Hartward

Thomas is a Technical Specialist at BNZ and have worked at BNZ since 2020 where previously he was an intern at BNZ via the summer of tech program. Whilst at BNZ Thomas has had a few hats between Product Owner (briefly), dev-ops engineer, and domain facilitator for engineering, but his main role has been Technical Specialist in the Containers team at BNZ where he manages the bank's Kubernetes platforms which includes supporting over 50 different components which provide features to their internal customers. This requires a level of understanding of the entire scope of Kubernetes from infrastructure and networking to communication and troubleshooting. There is quite a large amount of complexity that comes with being a member of the team and a significant amount of understand to support their internal customers. Aside from work Thomas has in the past been involved and participated in open-source events in New Zealand and Australia which includes participating in open data and open-source hackathons and hosting the wellington govhack event. Thomas is also in the final year of his bachelor’s degree in computer science majoring in AI at Victoria University which is a lot of fun when not busy.