The New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology and the NZ Gastroenterology Nurses College will hold their 2026 Annual Scientific Meeting in Christchurch from 18 to 20 November 2026, with Conference Innovators managing delivery. The dedicated conference site is live but still carries the 2025 programme, and the 2026 Christchurch venue is not yet publicly named.
The New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology (NZSG) and the New Zealand Gastroenterology Nurses College (NZgNC) will hold their joint Annual Scientific Meeting in Christchurch from 18 to 20 November 2026. The dates and host city are listed on the World Gastroenterology Organisation's meetings and events calendar, which names the dedicated conference website, gastroconference.co.nz, and the NZSG office (office@nzsg.org.nz) as the contact. At the time of reporting the conference website is live but still presents the 2025 edition (GASTRO25, Palmerston North, 26-28 November 2025), so the 2026 Christchurch programme and venue had not yet been published on the organiser's own site.
The meeting is the national annual congress of the New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology, run jointly with the NZ Gastroenterology Nurses College. According to the society's organiser profile, the NZSG is a professional body based in New Zealand that is a member of the World Gastroenterology Organisation, the Asia Pacific Association of Gastroenterology and the Asia Pacific Society for Digestive Endoscopy, and it maintains a close association with the gastroenterology nurses college. Conference delivery is handled by Conference Innovators, a Christchurch-based professional conference organiser, whose branding appears on the gastroconference.co.nz event site.
As an Annual Scientific Meeting, the event is a clinical and research congress serving the gastroenterology community - gastroenterologists, endoscopists, gastroenterology nurses, trainees, dietitians and researchers - and includes a call for scientific abstracts. The detailed 2026 session programme, pre-conference workshops and attendee numbers had not been released on the organiser site at the time of reporting, so specific sessions and delegate figures are not confirmed here.
No source reached during this research names the 2026 venue, so it is left unconfirmed. For context only, Christchurch's principal purpose-built congress facility is Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre in the central city, which is the city's usual host for national medical meetings of this scale; whether it is the confirmed 2026 venue has not been verified. Christchurch's convention precinct sits within walking distance of a concentrated central-city hotel cluster and the hospital and health-research precinct, and the city is served by Christchurch International Airport with direct trans-Tasman and domestic connections, which supports delegate movement for a national three-day congress. These are reported as general delegate-logistics context, not as confirmed event arrangements.
A national specialty medical congress held over three days in Christchurch is a meaningful piece of New Zealand business events activity, drawing a geographically dispersed professional and academic audience into the South Island's main centre in late November. It is the kind of recurring, organiser-managed scientific meeting that anchors the country's medical-congress calendar and underpins central-Christchurch accommodation and venue demand in that period.
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