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New Zealand Symposium

The IAP2 Australasia New Zealand Symposium brings together engagement practitioners, community development practitioners, communications and marketing professionals and academics to engage, learn, share and network.

The IAP2 Australasia New Zealand Symposium brings together engagement practitioners, community development practitioners, communications and marketing professionals and academics to explore the diverse and challenging topic of community and stakeholder engagement.

We aim to present an event that is interactive, experiential, authentic and fun, while addressing the issues that matter in modern engagement practice in New Zealand.

The 2024 New Zealand Symposium will be held in Ōtautahi Christchurch.

Date: Thursday 21 – Friday 22 March 2024
Venue: Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre

Early Bird registration opens soon!

Sponsorship

Are you looking to engage with over 14,000 of Australia and New Zealand’s best and brightest engagement professionals?

Do you want to have your brand associated with best practice in community and stakeholder engagement?

As a sponsor of the NZ Symposium, you can gain access to IAP2 Australasia’s rapidly growing network of enthusiastic and committed professionals who are increasingly becoming the key influencers and decision makers in government, business and industry.

Interested in sponsorship? Contact Matthew Buxton via matthew@iap2.org.au to find out more information.

That’s a wrap – past symposium events

Read about our past symposium events.

NZ Symposium 2019 – It’s a wrap!

NZ Symposium 2019 – It’s a wrap!

It was really quite satisfying to spend a couple of days with engagement colleagues growing our collective body of knowledge (matauranga) at our recent Symposium. The Matariki theme was focused on new beginnings and particularly relevant in that Christchurch is a city that has had more than its fair share of ‘engagement’ recently. Mostly due to the huge effort to help our people recover, rebuild and regenerate after a damaging series of earthquakes.

What you had to say

2019 New Zealand Symposium

“Loved the atmosphere and hearing discussions about a topic I am passionate about. It was inspiring and through this symposium I have made connections that I didn’t before.”

2019 New Zealand Symposium

“It was my first time attending the Engagement Symposium and it was awesome! Thank you for an enjoyable time of networking and learning :)”

2019 New Zealand Symposium

“The Symposium provided a really good forum for meeting other people, sharing ideas and issues, and we heard some different (and refreshing) perspectives on engagement theory and practice.”

2019 New Zealand Symposium

“The Turanga visit was a real highlight- not just the engagement planning story but to be sitting in the outcome of their engagement and hear about the impact on relationships and lesson learnt.”

 

2019 New Zealand Symposium

“It was great, very welcoming and positive.”

 

2019 New Zealand Symposium

“This symposium was both inspiring and challenging for me. I am still processing some of the information from the two days, but come away with lots of reflections of my own professional and personal practice when engaging with others.”

 

2019 New Zealand Symposium

“Great, loved it!! Learned so much I will come next year for sure. Great people, great info, great venue!!“

 

2019 New Zealand Symposium

“Fantastic event“