The 2026 Combined Orthopaedic Knee Societies (COKS) meeting runs 30 October–1 November 2026 at Millbrook Resort, Queenstown, bringing together the British, South African, Australian and New Zealand Knee Societies under the theme 'Tradition, Precision, and Progress: The Future of Knee Surgery'. It is convened by orthopaedic surgeon Simon Young and managed by NZ PCO Tsquared Events.
The 2026 Combined Orthopaedic Knee Societies (COKS) meeting will run from 30 October to 1 November 2026 at the Millbrook Hotel and Resort in Queenstown, New Zealand, according to the official event site. Billed as a two-and-a-half-day scientific meeting under the theme "Tradition, Precision, and Progress: The Future of Knee Surgery," it gathers orthopaedic knee surgeons from four countries in one of the Southern Hemisphere's marquee resort settings. The New Zealand Orthopaedic Association's 2026 calendar lists the same dates and venue.
The meeting is a collaboration of four national bodies: the British, South African, Australian and New Zealand Knee Societies, as stated on both the official event site and the Australian Knee Society's own meetings page. The convenor is orthopaedic surgeon Simon Young, and the congress is managed by New Zealand professional conference organiser Tsquared Events, with Tanya Turchie listed as conference manager on the event site's contact page. The combined format pools the membership of all four societies, giving the gathering an international scientific footprint well beyond a single-country meeting.
The audience is specialist knee surgeons and allied orthopaedic colleagues drawn from the four member societies. The scientific focus, per the event site, is on advancing knee surgery through precision technology and progressive techniques while honouring established practice. A call for abstracts opened on 1 November 2025 and closes on 1 June 2026, per the Australian Knee Society, indicating a substantial peer-reviewed scientific programme across the two-and-a-half days; a dedicated agenda page is maintained on the official site.
Millbrook Resort sits in the Arrowtown–Queenstown area of Central Otago, roughly a 25–30 minute drive from Queenstown Airport, which carries trans-Tasman and domestic services that make it reachable for the Australian and New Zealand contingents and connectable for British and South African delegates. The resort combines conference facilities with on-site accommodation across its grounds, so a self-contained medical congress of this kind can house delegates, sessions and social functions in one location — a practical fit for a multi-day international meeting where delegates travel long distances. This is reported as factual venue context, not a recommendation.
A four-nation medical and scientific congress choosing a New Zealand resort over the larger convention centres of its member countries is a notable win for the regional business-events market. It demonstrates Queenstown's and Millbrook's standing as credible hosts for international association meetings in the high-value medical sector, and that an NZ-based PCO is trusted to deliver a congress spanning four national societies. For the New Zealand MICE sector, late-spring international association business of this profile reinforces the Southern Lakes region as a destination for specialist scientific meetings.
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