Core Connect 2025

Where Aotearoa’s workforce leaders meet, share and innovate

Core Connect is ReadyTech’s flagship engagement event in New Zealand – a gathering designed to celebrate our Kiwi roots, showcase the future of workforce management, and bring our community of leaders together.

Built in Aotearoa and trusted by local businesses for over 20 years, our technology has evolved from payroll to end-to-end workforce management – always with people, compliance and innovation at its heart.

At this year’s event you’ll hear from:

• David Jenkins, CEO of NZPPA, as he shares the latest payroll trends shaping the New Zealand landscape
• Jonathan Morgan & Kathleen Webber, Co-Founders of LiveRem, a NZ-born solution that helps organisations confidently assess and align compensation, turnover, and pay‑gap data against the current market
• Steven Zinsli, CEO of Extraordinary, the innovator behind the extraordinary card that's offering a new way to track, manage and report all non-payroll employee costs and payments – empowering employees and freeing operational & finance teams to focus on what matters
• Peter Hooper, Chief Commercial Officer at Checkmate, the reference checking and background screening tool that’s taking the hassle out of pre-employment screening for businesses big and small.
• And more exciting speakers to be announced soon! Additionally, you'll hear first-hand from our Head of Product, Frank Feustel on ReadyTech’s AI vision and releases, and new employee experience innovations.

Core Connect is about community, connection and ideas. It’s a place for payroll and workforce leaders to share stories, swap insights, and shape the future of work in New Zealand – together.