Brightstar's two-day Communications & Public Relations Conference runs 19–20 October 2026 at the Crowne Plaza Auckland, gathering New Zealand comms and PR leaders around the future of the profession, AI, change and measurement.
Brightstar's Communications & Public Relations Conference returns to Auckland on 19–20 October 2026, bringing together the country's senior communications and PR practitioners for two days at the Crowne Plaza Auckland. According to the organiser's programme, the 2026 edition is built around the future of the profession, mastering AI in comms and PR, communication change and transformation, and connecting, measuring and protecting reputation.
The conference is produced by Brightstar, a long-running New Zealand business-events and professional-development company. Brightstar's event page sets the dates, venue and speaker line-up, which spans senior in-house communicators from major NZ organisations including Haley Mortimer (General Manager, Corporate Affairs at Z Energy), Nicola Crowther (Head of Employee Communications at Fonterra) and Yannis Naumann (Global Communications Manager at Zespri International).
Brightstar lists the audience as heads of communication and PR leads, stakeholder and corporate communications professionals, corporate and regulatory affairs and government relations specialists, media relations and community engagement leads, and internal-experience and engagement managers, largely from the corporate and public sectors.
The event is held at the Crowne Plaza Auckland at 128 Albert Street in the Auckland CBD, as confirmed on the Brightstar listing. The hotel sits in the central city within walking distance of the waterfront and Queen Street, and is served by nearby public transport and a large stock of CBD accommodation, making it a practical base for a two-day national conference drawing delegates from around the country.
A recurring two-day national conference for a defined professional community, hosted at a central-Auckland hotel venue, is a reliable contributor to New Zealand's business-events calendar, drawing out-of-town delegates into the CBD and demonstrating steady demand for corporate conference programming in the comms and PR sector.
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