The Academy of Australian & New Zealand Prosthodontists holds its 2026 Biennial Scientific Meeting at QT Queenstown from 29 July to 1 August, drawing dental specialists, academics and industry partners under the theme 'Beyond the Textbook'.
The Academy of Australian & New Zealand Prosthodontists (AANZP) brings its Biennial Scientific Meeting to Queenstown from 29 July to 1 August 2026, staged at QT Queenstown on Frankton Road above Lake Wakatipu. The 2026 edition carries the theme *Beyond the Textbook: Achieving Clinical Excellence and Practice Evolution*, and the organising committee frames it as a deliberately unconventional meeting for the modern prosthodontist, moving past technical proficiency into predictable treatment planning, risk management, workflow efficiency and the business of running a specialist practice.
The meeting is convened by AANZP, which describes itself as the recognised peak body for the dental specialty of prosthodontics across Australia and New Zealand, established in 1984. The Academy's stated mission is to champion innovation, clinical excellence and ethical practice, and it works with dental boards, councils and the specialist training programmes at universities including the University of Otago.
The 2026 Scientific Committee is chaired by Dr Simon Wylie, with committee members including Dr Constance Law and Prof Sunyoung Ma. The scientific programme is published online and as a downloadable PDF, hosted on an EventsAir platform managed by professional conference organiser Conference Innovators.
According to the Academy, the meeting gathers prosthodontists, dental specialists, academics and industry partners for a scientific programme spanning contemporary clinical approaches and practice management. Moredent is confirmed as platinum sponsor. As a biennial fixture, the meeting is the profession's principal trans-Tasman scientific gathering, and its 2026 staging in New Zealand underlines the Academy's Australia-and-New Zealand remit.
QT Queenstown is the confirmed host hotel, consistent with the listing. The organiser's destination guidance notes the property sits on Frankton Road, with the Orbus Number 1 (Green line) bus running direct to the hotel; other Orbus lines stop along Frankton Road within about a 15-minute walk. The closest parking is the Lakeview and Man Street car parks.
Because the meeting falls in the depth of the Southern Hemisphere winter, the organiser also points delegates to ski-field transfers to Coronet Peak and The Remarkables, which depart Queenstown from 7:30am, alongside the town's wider sightseeing, dining and winery options. All of this is reported as delegate context around the confirmed venue rather than any endorsement of a particular transfer operator.
A biennial specialist medical-scientific congress choosing Queenstown in peak winter is a marker of the resort's year-round conference pull, and the presence of an established trans-Tasman professional body reinforces QT Queenstown's standing as a credible host for mid-sized specialist congresses drawing an Australian and New Zealand delegate base.
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