EPIC Innovation Centre is home to Christchurch's most active AI community event — the Christchurch AI meetup, held as a regular monthly event.
If you're looking for AI events in Christchurch, this is the regular one. Free to attend, open to everyone, and consistently worth your Monday evening.
EPIC — the Enterprise Precinct and Innovation Campus — is Canterbury's hub for startups, scale-ups, and innovation-led businesses. Located at 78–100 Manchester St in the CBD, it houses dozens of tech companies and regularly hosts community events across the tech ecosystem.
For the Christchurch AI community, EPIC is home base. The central location, the right crowd already in the building, and the informal atmosphere make it the ideal venue for the kind of conversations we want to have.
The May 2026 meetup features two speakers:
In May 2026, we are also hosting an official TechWeek NZ conference event at EPIC — a full programme AI conference as part of New Zealand's largest tech festival. Speaker applications are open now.